Category Archives: Publishing

Carrington Malin

Ten Middle East digital predictions for 2011

Communications and marketing agency Spot On’s top ten digital marketing predictions for the Middle East in 2011. Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

A particularly delicious cake

A new survey highlights that there is enthusiasm for behavioural targeting and concern over privacy issues in almost equal measure. Continue reading

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Alexander McNabb

Facebook bigger than newspapers? So what?

With Facebook hitting 15 million users in the Middle East & North Africa, more people subscribe to Facebook than get the newspaper. But what does that mean exactly? Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

Introducing social media in the Arab world

The April issue of O’Dwyer’s PR Magazine has just come out in the USA and it features a report I wrote on social media in the Middle East and North Africa. It’s a very top-level view of social media and … Continue reading

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Alexander McNabb

We’re no longer wowed…

A sea-change in consumer attitudes to technology follows a series of changes in the way in which people inform themselves of new things. The information flow, which used to take place across magazine pages or at exhibitions, now takes place online 24/7. Continue reading

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