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Snap launches SPECS Intelligence, an AI that acts before you ask
Snap's new anticipatory AI service builds context from the apps you connect and surfaces things before you ask.
Oct 13, 2026 · Snap Inc. Newsroom
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Meta gives 1,000 AI glasses to Singapore's disability community
Ray-Ban Meta glasses go to four Singapore organisations, with US$30,000 for accessibility training.
Oct 13, 2026 · Meta Newsroom
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TikTok pitches creator-picked Halloween getaways and claims one in three users plan trips from its videos
TikTok's Halloween travel push ties creator picks to its TikTok GO booking feature.
Oct 13, 2026 · Social Media Today
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Snap pitches Spend Smarter, asking marketers to move budget to Snapchat
Snap is launching a performance platform built on the argument that audiences have moved and media plans should follow.
Oct 13, 2026 · Snap Inc. Newsroom
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HalaPop updates its bilingual logo after people misread the name
The UAE soda brand changed one thing: the logo. Some readers saw only "Pop" in the name, so it now carries "Hala" in English as well.
Oct 12, 2026 · Campaign Middle East
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Attention is dead. Long live the 90-second soap opera.
Short vertical serial videos with cliffhangers are becoming a real format for branded content, and AI makes them cheaper to test.
Oct 12, 2026 · Campaign Middle East
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Four new communications leaders in Saudi Arabia
Appointments at the Real Estate Registry, Kinza, Mobily and the Ministry of Justice, as tracked by Balaconah.
Oct 12, 2026 · Balaconah
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MENA Power List 2026: Dubai Media's Mohamed Sulaiman AlMulla
Dubai Media's CEO argues that Arab media should own and export its own intellectual property instead of remaining mainly a market for global IP.
Oct 9, 2026 · Campaign Middle East
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AI in Film Production: Amira Sherif on What's Next
Kino Films' Amira Sherif on why production houses must act as business partners, and why AI speeds up the work without replacing the people doing it.
Oct 9, 2026 · Campaign Middle East
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AI is thriving. Are we?
Accenture Song's Anusha Azees argues that Middle East marketing teams are adopting AI fast, and that the human cost of that pace is being ignored.
Oct 9, 2026 · Campaign Middle East
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Industry Snapshot: How Iraq is emerging as a global production destination
Frame Vision's Dhafir Ayad on why international directors now ask what they can shoot in Iraq, and why he expects the country to start exporting productions.
Oct 9, 2026 · Campaign Middle East
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Experiences have to be taken part in, not just watched
Saudi Tourism Authority's Sarah Abumelha on why brands need experiences that invite participation, and how destinations can use them to sell a visit.
Oct 9, 2026 · Campaign Middle East
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We have built the stages. Now we need to build the rooms.
Laila Essa argues that Saudi Arabia's creative industry has plenty of stages but needs small communities where professionals can share hard-won knowledge.
Oct 9, 2026 · Campaign Middle East
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Why brand is back on the founder agenda
After years of performance-only thinking, founders are reinvesting in brand. Here is what the evidence says, and where the split is uncertain.
Oct 8, 2026 · Brief & Butter
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National Day ads all look the same. Here's the test.
Saad Al-Ruwaili asks whether brands lose their own voice when they try to sound patriotic.
Oct 7, 2026 · Balaconah
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Cannes Lions 2026: fewer entrants, a louder AI debate, and a small Saudi haul
Entries fell by a quarter and the debate moved from whether to use AI to how. Saudi entries came home with three Lions.
Sep 20, 2026 · Balaconah
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Marketing budgets are tightening. Agencies now have to show what the money changed.
Balaconah's team argues Saudi communication is moving from big budgets to proof of impact, and that AI is changing what agencies sell.
Sep 17, 2026 · Balaconah
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When logistics speaks the language of people: DHL's pitch for a village
DHL treated a missing football pitch as a logistics problem in northern Thailand. The author explains why that works.
Sep 12, 2026 · Balaconah