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Why integrated marketing needs to evolve for the post-2025 consumer

MKY Communications' Mahmoud Youssef explains why the future of marketing belongs to those who can integrate across culture, not just channels; across emotion, not just design; across logic, not just language.

Mahmoud K. Youssef, Managing Director, MKY CommunicationsMahmoud K. Youssef, Managing Director, MKY Communications

Integrated marketing has long promised a unified experience across touchpoints. In theory, it’s a seamless orchestration of creative, messaging, and media that meets the consumer wherever they are. In practice — especially in the evolving markets of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) — that promise is rarely kept.

Today’s MENA consumer is digitally native, culturally layered, and chronically fatigued by content. And yet, the traditional Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) playbook often fails to adapt. Campaigns are integrated in format, not in meaning. Visuals align, hashtags repeat, platforms sync—but the message fragments. The result? Repetition without resonance.


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.