Marketing Strategy

It’s not only customer experience that has become the core of business strategies but customers themselves. With shoppable user-generated content (UGC) as the current marketing trend, brands anchor their loyal customers to fuel their business strategies. A recent DemandGen report revealed that over 90 per cent of buyers prefer interactive and visual content over traditional […]

Onbe, a payments partner for few global leading brands, released a new study identifying the factors that drive millennials and Gen Z consumers’ purchase decisions. The study, although is focussed and based on the feedback of 1,000 Americans, holds true for many regions across the globe. For example, the Middle East, where social commerce is […]

Bambuser announced the launch of social media multistreaming, a new capability that empowers retailers to broadcast Live Video Shopping events across popular social channels. The feature will amplify the impact of retailers’ interactive shopping implementations, enabling them to capture large, highly engaged audiences on third-party sites and drive them to owned e-commerce properties for engagement […]

Uber announced the appointment of Saad Pall as the new General Manager for Uber across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan. The role covers Uber’s business in 36 cities across eight countries in the region.  Saad will lead the next phase of growth for Uber’s ride-sharing business across the region, bringing 15 years of […]

Versatile and engaging, video content is easy to share across multiple platforms.  Marketers are well aware of the power of words. But written content and images alone are not enough. Of late, brands are realising the value of video and investing in its creation and distribution. It is a vital communication tool that can be […]

Do brands understand the mechanisms of emotional marketing? From strategies, data analytics to emotional ethics, some critics raise their eyebrows Don’t walk like a girl. Don’t throw like a girl. Don’t talk like a girl.  These stereotypical insults were taken on-screen with the hopes of shattering the derivative statement “Like a Girl.” With over 90 […]

As marketers continue leaning into new tools and technologies to prepare for a world without third-party cookies, much of the conversation about adaptation has focused on planning and targeting. These are obviously critical aspects of any marketing strategy, but it’s important to not exclude the need for accurate measurement as changes in the digital media […]

While emotional marketing gets more popular every year, technology and social media have amplified customer impact  A day without Whopper. It’s not often you see a competitor go out of their way to support their rival company. During every McHappy Day, $2 from each Big Mac supports children with cancer. Showing solidarity, Burger King once […]

To those marketers who do not give B2B gamification a fair chance It was 2011. Popular marketers Gabe Zichermann and Sebastian Detarding were having a public debate on Gamification.  Their argument was not about the importance or the future of gamification marketing. Instead, it was about the syntax of game design. While Gabe believed that […]

Taking a page out of the B2C marketing strategies guide, several brands have been using gamification successfully You are in a virtual arena. Putting on your detective cap, you are tasked with uncovering the mysteries hidden inside the data. No doubt, data analysts would enjoy such challenges, so SAP launched this gamified marketing campaign to […]