AdBlogArabia launches MediaSouq.com - the place to be for Middle East creatives!

Found this in my RSS feeds now!

Do take a look around! Looks promising. http://www.mediasouq.com

From their blog:

"...It is a project I’ve been working on for several months; and is a first-of-its-kind platform for advertising and media professionals in the Middle East to present their work, opinions and themselves to a wide regional and international community.

It’s all Do-It-Yourself, presented in a Web 2.0 format and quite simple...."

Everyone can help preserve the environment - Interesting campaign!

Came across this very interesting campaign in my RSS feeds through Digg.com. Though it is non-UAE, it communicates a urgent message that is universal. By a strange coincidence, for the past week or so, we had also started a practice of ensuring all switches at home and work were off when not in use. Enjoy the ads!

More November print ads

Home Centre

Kt, 14 Nov 06

Moschino


McDonalds

KT-Weekend mag, 10 Nov 06

Emirates Post - Universal Postal Union Strategy Conference

KT, 11 Nov 06

Dusit Dubai - My Bar

KT, 14 Nov 06

Rowena - Brush Activ

KT-Weekend mag, 10 Nov 06

Some interesting November ads

HITACHI Cyclone - Vacuum Cleaner

KT, 7 Nov 06

Dubai Racing Club

CME (Campaign Middle East), 5 Nov 06

The Dubai Desert Challenge Rally Championship

7 Days, 2 Nov 06

Borders Bookshop

7 Days, 5 Nov 06

Al Habtoor Motors

KT, 8 Nov 06

Aer Lingus - Irish Airways

7 Days, 8 Nov 06

IKEA

KT, 1 Nov 06

DHL Express - Export made easy - Print campaign

DHL uses media space creatively to get its point of 'Export made easy' across.


7 Days, 7 Nov 06


7 Days, 7 Nov 06


7 Days, 7 Nov 06


7 Days, 7 Nov 06

Emirates Post - Direct2Door - Print Campaign

Here's a print campaign targeted at sub-continentals in the UAE (this campaign was run only in the Emirates Evening Post) - a paper read mostly by South Asians (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka) :


EEP, 15 Oct 06


EEP, 4 Nov 06


EEP, 7 Nov 06

Mashreq Bank - Let's talk Business - Print Campaign

KT, 8 Nov 06


KT, 8 Nov 06


KT, 8 Nov 06

Air Arabia celebrates 3rd birthday with even lower fares - Print Campaign

7 Days, 2 Nov 06


7 Days, 3 Nov 06


7 Days, 13 Nov 06

AXA Insurance - Be Life Confident - Print Campaign

KT, 2 Nov 06


KT, 4 Nov 06


7 Days, 13 Nov 06

YOU DECIDE! - Dubai Traffic Safety - Print ad

Dubai Police cracks down on road trolls, speed demons and 'death wish' drivers. Way to go!

ET, 8 Nov 06

Campaign Media Awards 2006 - What emotion will you experience on the night? - Print Campaign

Campaign Middle East weekly mag (CME), 29 Oct 06


CME, 29 Oct 06

CME, 5 Nov 06

Cirque Du Soleil in Dubai! - Print campaign

ET, 2 Nov 06


ET, 2 Nov 06

Campaign Media Planning Awards 2006

The Campaign Media Planning Awards 2006 has now closed for entries.
Click here to view the shortlist of nominees.

Upside down - do readers frown?

David Ogilvy on Advertising" contains section with a lot of donts on the use of twisted and upside down elements in an ad. Ogilvy frowned upon anything that would require a reader to do any additional task in trying to comprehend an ad. The ones below for example feature upside down visuals. The topsy-turvy visuals in the Microsoft Flight Simulator ad goes well with the idea. But does the HSBC visual work?


7 Days, 19 Oct 06



KT, 1 Nov 06

Dubai Autodrome - Print Campaign

7 Days, 18 Oct 06


7 Days, 4 Oct 06


7 Days, 5 Oct 06

National Bank of Abu Dhabi - Winner Account - Print Campaign

It's a good thing that banks are maintaining a brand identity in their advertising (though I wish the same could be said about their service) - banks such as HSBC, CBI (ads published elsewhere in this blog) maintain a good brand presence apart from NBAD (National Bank of Abu Dhabi) in print.

(Apologise for the poor quality of these images...am working out a way of capturing better quality pictures soon.)


ET, 3 Oct 06


GN, 1 Oct 06


KT, 25 Sep 06


KT, 4 Sep 06

BTL - 'ONE' (Dubai TV Channel ) Program Guide - Insert in Emirates Today

ET, 9 Oct 06