Flip Media acquired by Publicis Groupe
It appears that Flip Media, a leading digital media agency in the MENA has been acquired by Publicis Groupe. The agency setup in 2003 by Martin Diessner and Dinesh Lalvani in Dubai will be folded into Leo Burnett Wordwide but will keep its name. Both founders will act as non-executive directors and Yousef Tuqan will remain the CEO reporting to Leo Burnett’s Middle East North Africa CEO, Raja Trad. Flip has an impressive track record and very strong... Read More
MediaWeek ME Monitor (Jan 24): Entrepreneurship, Apple, Flip Media
Read in Media Week Middle East (Jan 24, 2010) about interactive/digital media: Who’s got the X Factor? – The year ahead could be a battle between monolithic media and those with a few tricks up their sleeves, according to industry heavyweights. “[In the Middle East] the truth is that the chance for entrepreneurial businesses to surpass “consolidated corporate” businesses is highly unlikely – advertisers are too... Read More
IBAG Announces The First Inaugural Conference for Arab Internet Business
IBAG, International Business Alliance Group has announced today the launch of the inaugural conference that will be held in Beirut on March 25th and 26th, 2010 about the trends and opportunities in internet business in the Arab World. ArabNet 2010 is high anticipated to be the first event that brings together internet community to learn from keynote speakers of regional and international experience like Google, Yahoo, AdMob, Intel Capital, Flip Media... Read More
Communicate Monitor (Jan’10): Flip Media, Eye of Dubai, Qardi.com
Read in Communicate (Issue: January 2010) about interactive/digital media: Very Briefs: Flip Media provides Du’s new website; Eye of Dubai wins best UAE internet website; Saudi first website for laon camparisons, Qardi.com, up and running…. Destination unknown - Marketing a destination can demand a different way of thinking. Visit London is the organized charged with marketing the city of London to the world… The new media is a landscape... Read More
Finance House Abu Dhabi Launches New Online Destination
Finance House Abu Dhabi launches an online destination that contains all the information any investor or customer would be interested to know about Finance House. This corporate website representing the dynamic yet strait-laced Finance House brand online and serving as a two way channel of communication between Finance House as an organization with the general public. The online feedback and job application forms add a dash of basic but essential... Read More
Flip Media Takes Top Honours in Inaugural GCC Webranking Survey
Flip Media, one of the largest interactive agencies in the Middle East, announced that four of its clients’ websites have been named the best in the Gulf region by independent Swedish consultancy Hallvarsson and Halvarsson’s (H&H). The inaugural GCC Webranking Survey saw real estate giant and Flip Media client EMAAR take top position, ranking first in the survey of publicly traded companies. Abu Dhabi-based Sorouh’s website,... Read More
Al Aali Shopping Complex in Bahrain Establishes Online Presence
Al Aali Shopping Complex is a shopping mall located in Bahrain in the prime business and shopping district. It has an array of world renowned brands and products, and offers customers a luxury and modern chic shopping experience. It also has a unique outdoor Restaurant Walk area, offering a range of fine dining and multi cuisine restaurants. The Shopping complex is owned and financed by the Haji Hassan Group, one of Bahrain’s leading private... Read More
Top Corporate Websites in GCC: H&H Webranking Report
EMAAR, the real estate giant of UAE takes the top position, second place goes to Abu Dhabi National Energy Company and third place ZAIN rounding up the top three best web performers as reported by H&H Webranking, an established international Yardstick for companies that want to benchmark their website performance in relation to other companies or competitors. H&H Webranking benchmark survey has included GCC region in the 1st time ever after... Read More
Flip Media Launched MyDubaiMetro.com
On 9/9/2009 the date of the launch of the Dubai Metro, Dubai’s biggest infrastructure project, Flip Media unveiled Mydubaimetro.com, a non profit portal designed and developed to provide residents of Dubai with a practical and usable guide to all things related to the Metro. The one stop shop website offers key information and helpful tools such as a journey planner and fare calculator, information about each station stop as well as downloadable... Read More
Flip Media Launches Kirichef.com for Middle East
Since the 70′s, Kiri Squares have always added flavour to everyone’s enjoyment. Fromageries Bel was looking to diversify their communication strategy, which has historically been mainly focused on TV and outdoor campaigns, with their Middle Eastern target market. The “Cooking with Kiri” website provides Bel with a communications platform to share recipes and meal suggestions, as well as an oveview of the product range and their most... Read More
Breaking: The Unofficial Dubai Metro Website is Now Live (@dubaimetro)
Along with the launch of Dubai Metro today, Dubai’s biggest infrastructure project, Flip Media unveiled Mydubaimetro.com, a non profit portal designed and developed to provide residents of Dubai with a practical and usable guide to all things related to the Metro. This community portal offers key information and helpful tools such as a journey planner and fare calculator, information about each station stop as well as downloadable pocket maps.... Read More
FREE TRAINING ON LINUX: 1st of JUNE in DUBAI
After the 1st meet-up on May 18th for UAELUG, United Arab Emirates Linux User group, everyone in the room felt the enthusiasm to keep organizing it and move forward towards the objective which was confirmed today to meet on June 1st. In my interview the Imthiaz, group’s co-founder, he has mentioned that training session will be organized soon and they meant it. Today, the group decided to have two training sessions of different level agendas: Training... Read More
First UAE Linux Meet-up: Linux is not Scary System
I had a live interview with Imthiaz Rafiq co-founder of the first United Arab Emirates Linux Meetup Group that had it’s first meet-up on May 18th. The interview was conducted instantly after the event to get to know about everything; and my first question went out about: Why Linux Meet-up in UAE? Imthiaz: There is no such gathering that tries to help Linux existing users, educate new people about this great system, and provide training at different... Read More
Flip Media Offers Free Seminar on Digital Marketing
Businesses and consumers in the Middle East have increasingly embraced the Internet, however advertising budgets online have failed tokeep up with the shift away from traditional media. “In a year of reduced advertising budgets, and a time when RoI is on the mind of every regional marketer, digital marketing should be at the top of their shopping list, but many companies are still hesitant to embrace it.” said Yousef Tuqan Tuqan, CEO of Flip Media,... Read More
