Tala Samman of London/Dubai-based blog Myfashdiary.com won Best Blogger at The Middle East Fashion Awards 2015. Having graduated from London College of Fashion in Fashion Media and Communications, Tala has worked as a Fashion Editor for Style.com Arabia as well as a PR Intern for Halston and Tom Ford. She began Myfashdiary in 2009, as More Info »
Brandon Ancier, Head of Growth at TINT offers his thoughts on the ever prevalent #hashtag.
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TishTash has been appointed to handle the PR for UAE-based beauty distribution company Beauty Solutions. The marketing and communications agency will be handling all of the PR for Beauty Solution’s portfolio of 12 global beauty brands: Sacha Juan, Hershesons, Lipstick Queen, Tria, COLAB, Slendertone, Lottie, Colour Wow, Zoella, Nip & Fab, Rodial and Ciate. TishTash has More Info »
Health and hygiene company Reckitt Benckiser (RB) has appointed UM MENA as its media agency partner across the Middle East region. The partnership will see UM MENA working with RB across their stellar portfolio of brands – Dettol, Veet, Durex and Scholl among many others. UM MENA’s remit will encompass all touch points, including mainstream More Info »
Friday magazine has been redesigned and relaunched. The glossy magazine launched in 1997, is published by GN Publishing every Friday alongside Gulf News. It printed an average of 115,000 copies weekly in 2014, and according to the Target Group Index UAE, the magazine has been read by 360,000 consumers in the last seven days. The relaunch More Info »
PR and digital agency McCollins Media has won accounts with luxury, information technology, and food and beverage clientele. McCollins has acquired IT brand Trend Micro, renowned globally for its internet security and protection of virtual systems. The agency has also secured the consumer arm of food packaging solutions brand, Al Bayader International, where they will be assisting to raise More Info »
TishTash will handle all public relations, including PR, branding and brand partnerships, for Channel 4 radio presenter Eve Jaso in the Middle East for the second year in a row. Originally from the UK, Eve Jaso is an experienced music radio presenter and personality. She is a highly skilled host, MC and volunteer for causes More Info »
HELLO! Middle East has appointed Claudia de Brito as Deputy Editor. With over nine years of experience in media, Claudia previously worked for ITV and 111 Pictures in London, before moving to Dubai. In her most recent role, Claudia was Catalogues Editor within ITP’s customer publishing division, where she worked across all print publications linked to exhibitions at More Info »
Digital communications solutions company Buzzeff has exclusively launched two mobile video advertisement formats in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) as part of a strategic partnership with video ad distributor Teads. The formats – inRead Mobile and inFlow Mobile – will allow publishers to smoothly integrate video formats with their content easily, and allow for More Info »