Archive for June, 2006
Dubai TV, Dubai Sports and Sama Dubai parent company Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) has signed and agreement with JumpTV, an online television network, to broadcast programming from these channels on the Internet.
JumpTV already offers packages in different languages on a subscription basis, and will add an Arabic package.
Users will also be able to ‘pick & choose’ from among specific Arabic programs they would like to view.
Here’s the announcement on Jump TV’s website.
TV channel broadcast sites are now growing on the Internet and registerting millions of users.
Some of them, unlike JumpTV, provide free illegal streaming without the permission of TV stations or program owners. Expect a crack down on those soon.
Visit JumpTV.
June 27th, 2006
This one speaks for itself, doesn’t it? No need for a headline!
A Gold Winner at the Cannes Festival, entitled “The Power of Press”.
It’s an advertisement for the National Newspapers of Ireland association, promoting the effectiveness of newspaper advertising. The advertising agency is called Chemsitry, from Dublin, Ireland.
This is one of five advertisements in this impressive series. See the rest here.
June 27th, 2006
While this idea isn’t new, these people from Amsterdam have trademarked a name for it and called it “Artvertising”.
They claim that this is a “a work that sets itself on the borders between commercial art and critical art, commerce and information, private business and public space.”
All I see is an elegant building with a hundred ads on it!
Like every other fashionable or even ridiculous new media project, we’ll see it in Dubai soon.
Anyway, give Artvertising a look.
June 27th, 2006
The Cannes International Advertising Festival ended on June 24, 2006, and the winners in every category have been announced.
Apparently, BBDO Worldwide came out on top winning 41 Lions awards, including the grand prize for film (Film Grand Prix) for their “Evolution” commercial created by AMV BBDO, London for Guinness Beer.
It’s a well known advertisement, not in our part of the world, for obvious reasons 
Watch it here.
BBDO won awards in every major competition category including film, press, outdoor, radio, cyber, direct, media and promotion.
In all, 20 different BBDO agencies were awarded, led by AMV BBDO, which was named the runner-up “Advertising Agency of the Year.”
This is the Cannes Winners site with details on every winner in every category.
June 26th, 2006
Bloggers in the Arab World only talk about Flickr, as the main photo sharing site they use.
But, that’s not the case worldwide.
A study published by Hitwise shows that Flickr is actually the number six photo sharing site, with a market share of only 5.95%.
Less hyped sites like Yahoo! Photos, Webshots Community, and Kodak Gallery all rank higher than Flickr.
But here’s the surprise. The number one site with over 43% of the world’s photo-sharing traffic is PhotoBucket.com.
I must admit, up until reading this report, I had never heard of it!
In the past few months, a couple of GCC country’s governments blocked Flickr. Obviously, they hadn’t heard of PhotoBucket either.
So, maybe, we should be using it 
Visit PhotoBucket.
June 26th, 2006
They don’t take a break at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
It seems we blog about two new Google services every week!
So, here’s some information on the latest. It’s called Google Video.
Google has started testing advertisements on its video site, providing free video downloads (at the moment including old TV shows) which are supported by advertising and sponsorship.
The advertising takes the form of a banner that appears above the video, with a graphic image and a link to the advertisers’ site. At the end of the video, a 15- to 30-second commercial for the advertiser is played.
Google says it plans to run auctions whereby advertisers must place a bid to have their ads displayed on each video. The advertising revenue will be split with the video owner.
Read more here at the New York Times and visit Google Video
Netflix is among the first to advertise on Google Video, take a look here.
June 26th, 2006
The Middle East Public Relations Association (MEPRA) has published its first “PR Agency Fees and Charges Guide”
The idea is to encourage transparent dealings between public relations agencies and their clients in the region.
The rates are detailed, providing different hourly rates to different services, and highlighting exceptional cases whereby higher rates apply (such as crisis managment).
This development comes amidst a situation in which new PR companies are popping up in increasing numbers and providing limited services at low charges, thereby harming everyone else.
So, it’s a ‘regulatory’ step by the industry’s recognized body.
The question is, what happens if some public relations agencies don’t stick to it?
Here’s the announcement at MEPRA’s website, where you can also download a PDF of the rates.
June 25th, 2006
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