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Acorn Strategy's insights will help you ace the marketing game this Ramadan. Make the most of the upcoming Ramadan and Eid observance in the MENA region. Connect with your key audiences, build stronger relationships, and leave a lasting impression! Leverage Acorn...
Since its inception, the internet has gone on to transform the way we live, communicate, and do business. Online presence ceased to be complementary and brands that stayed offline quickly learned a hard lesson, especially once the pandemic hit. Internet penetration...
The numbers are good: strong engagement rate, steady increase in performance throughout the campaign, and sufficient pick up by target media. Yet, something isn't right. The campaign hasn't yielded the results these numbers were supposed to produce, and the media...
Ever wondered how culture is impacting your marketing success abroad? In this article, Annabel Amann our Head of Client Experience, explains how greater awareness and understanding of nuances of culture and sub-cultures can help businesses effectively engage customers...
This is the first set of emojis. Recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), they were designed by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita in 1999. Emojis were originally used to give personality to keyboard emoticons and add another level of self-expression...
A renewed Middle Eastern interest in football sponsorships? Kantar stats say that 63% of people are more likely to do business with a brand that aligns itself to something they’re passionate about, 74% feel more loyalty to a brand that is involved in sports and...
Reinventing the wheel is not always necessary when there are treasured guides to the psychology of marketing and prime examples of brands setting the tone since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Which is why ‘The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing’ by Al Ries...
Why Social Purpose is an Essential Next Step for your Brand Strategy Social purpose is the use of business principles to help make a positive impact on society in a way which generates long-term growth for the business. Unlike corporate social...
In an evolved media landscape, it isn’t enough to count outputs or simply monitor vanity metrics. It’s what you measure and whether it is making an organisational impact that counts. In almost every endeavour on earth, letting go of things that no longer work...
To translate, localise or transcreate: that is the question?! Did you know that out of the world's approximately 7.5 billion inhabitants, 1.5 billion speak English? That most of those people aren't even native English speakers? In...