White paper: Social Media in #KSA and the #UAE
A white paper conducted by Omnicom Media Group (OMG) showcases social media habits of users in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The whitepaper has some very interesting insights as to the differences in how users from the different countries use and view social networks. The results were collected after conducting face to face interviews with 600 online users per country all from different nationalities and aged between 15 – 60. To view more, download... Read More
The Internet Show Middle East Survey Report 2011
A report released by The Internet Show Middle East reveals important information about online and social marketing in the MENA region. The aim of the survey is to gain insight into how Middle Eastern businesses are currently dealing with internet business issues and the challenges they face now and in the future. The event which will take place on September 27 – 28 in Abu Dhabi will cover the major issues that the report raised. Background... Read More
Report: Online spend in the MENA region negligible
A report prepared by Pan Arab Research Center (PARC) reveals the advertising spending in the region for 2010. Growth was positive in almost all the countries except the UAE where it dipped 3% this appears to be a good indicator that the UAE will go back into the positive in 2011 after dipping 26% in 2009 due to the real estate sector being hit in the recession. Below are the main numbers published from the report, however I have to warn you that... Read More
The top broadband speed countries in the Arab World
Building a proper, reliable, futuristic, well-planned infrastructure is very important in raising the standards of living and readiness of the economy for the next generation. Consequently, empowering country’s ICT sector is vital to the formula of economy drive; Out of curiosity, we complied a report to you today on Arab World’s best performers in broadband speed (downloading in specific) Even when we are compiling a small report like... Read More
Effective Measure in the Middle East is growing like grasshopper
While our website is tagged by Effective Measure for audience measurement, I met Dinesh Arasaratnam the commercial director of the platform the other day between his busy schedule traveling across the region introducing the platform to big and small players in the web industry. I asked him about the status of the platform in the Middle East and I’ve got you some insights. Effective Measure, the Australian-based audience measurement platform is very... Read More
World Economic Forum Announces Technology Pioneers 2010
The World Economic Forum announced today the 2010 class of Technology Pioneers. The 26 companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2010 represent the most innovative start-ups from around the globe that will have a critical impact on the future of business and society. These innovators will join the wider World Economic Forum community for the first time during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 in Davos-Klosters, in January. The Technology... Read More
Communicate Monitor (Nov’09): Bing, Twitter, Virtual Vouchers, Facebook
Read in Communicate (Issue: November 2009) about interactive/digital media: Sports sites score over Twitter - Research commisioned by Super.ae, a football Web site recently launched by Abu Dhabi Media Company, has found that male Internet users in the Middle East are more than twice likely to visit a sports site as to use Twitter… Bing gains dollars and traffic - The US search advertising market is coming back, and Microsoft’s Bing is... Read More
YouGov Siraj Reports On UAE Mobile Service Movements
Findings show that 79% of the UAE consider Etisalat to be their main service provider and 57% would consider switching to another provider in the future. These are findings from a recent YouGov lifestyle poll, collected from a survey conducted between October 3rd and 8th. 984 of UAE residents were interviewed. The research addressed various topical interests which relate to consumer sentiment towards general lifestyle issues. According to the study,... Read More
Trend Micro Reports That Koobface Is Abusing Google Reader
Trend Micro TrendLabs has identified a new development in the Koobface Botnet, this time abusing the Google-owned service, Google Reader. Trend Micro threat research continues to monitor Koobface activities, including the spamming of URLs by Koobface on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Early this morning, they discovered that Google Reader URLs were being spammed by Koobface on social network sites. The attack works by... Read More
New Report: After Playing Games, iPhone Gets Serious about Books
Flurry Inc., a leading mobile application analytics provider and one of the first developers to build, deploy and market direct-to-consumer applications, like Flurry Analytics. A service that allows developers to track consumer behavior and application performance, Flurry has gathered the information in a report which is computed from a sample size of over 2,500 applications, 40 million consumers and 4 platforms: Apple (iPhone and iPod Touch), Blackberry,... Read More
Survey Findings on Usage of Social Media For Events
Champion Exposition Services today announced the findings of its survey on the use and adoption of digital tools by the association market. The research study reveals that associations are making significant inroads into integrating a variety of technologies and social media into their event strategies. Respondents disclosed that social networks Facebook (67%), Twitter (54%) and LinkedIn (48%) are the most commonly used new digital tools, and detailed... Read More
Cisco Report: Peak Internet Traffic Increases Due to Social Networks
Cisco has announced new findings from the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Usage research effort that confirms service provider networks are carrying a significant amount of visual networking traffic, with more than one-third of the average global broadband connection supporting video, social networking and collaboration applications each month. This new Cisco VNI Usage study provides quantitative insights into current activity on service provider... Read More
Social Radar Report: Top 50 Social Brands (Sept 2009)
Social Radar, a crawler that collects social content from people who are sharing thoughts, opinions, reviews, and information over billions of messages and articles 24/7 from millions of sources all over blogs and news outlets to forums and social networks, has released their Top 50 measures the brands with the most active Web presence based on overall online conversation volume. To create the Top 50 list, Social Radar analyzed millions of blog posts,... Read More
Qatar Ranked As Most Competitive Market in MENA Region
Qatar’s telecommunications sector is becoming increasingly competitive, both domestically and on the international stage. The recently released Global Competitiveness Report 2009-10, prepared by the World Economic Forum (WEF), ranked Qatar as the most competitive economy in the Middle East and North Africa region, and 22nd overall out of the 133 countries assessed. The country scored highly in the category of technological readiness, the ability... Read More
Nielsen Reports 17% of Internet Time is Devoted to Social Networks & Blogs
The Nielsen Company today reported that time spent on social network and blogging sites accounted for 17 percent of all time spent on the Internet in August 2009, nearly triple the percentage of time spent on the sector a year ago. “This growth suggests a wholesale change in the way the Internet is used,” said Jon Gibs, vice president, media and agency insights, Nielsen’s online division. “While video and text content remain central to the... Read More
Middle East Trends Affecting The Mobile Web: Report
A report by Opera team was released for month of July 2009 shows latest global as well as Middle East trends, country snapshots, and affects of Iranian elections on mobile web. Middle East Trends: The top 10 countries using Opera Mini in the Middle East are Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and Yemen. Some numbers regarding the Middle East: From July 2008 to July 2009, overall page views in the... Read More
Twitter Community in MENA Region Increased 300% Says Report
A new unique report was released about twitter, the rocketing micro-blogging platform, this time it’s MENA region centric. Spot On PR, a PR agency in Dubai, who has been active on twitter since mid-year 2008. has conducted the first regional Twitter usage survey which focuses on the Twitter habits and experiences of a sample of 216 registered Twitter users across the region. This survey started from August 8th to 14th, even if 216-surveyed... Read More
iPhone Research: 7% of Users have Free Apps Only
Appfire.com is an app discovery service that allow anyone to share instantly their iphone apps with their friends, something like recommendation app list service by people you’d trust or know their taste. Appfire.com has run a 1,200-user survey between July-August 2009 to dig more into iPhone user-behavior. Some of the findings: 1,200 users installed 15,000 apps. (meaning downloaded and installed) 65 is the average apps per device $80 is the... Read More
