This is not a radio ad, but only marginally less annoying. This is Cynthia Dreamy Whingy Breathy Voice. Come to extravagant opulenc...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The #UAEPR hashtag on Twitter was started by @theregos back in the days of yore, as he and I were swapp...

Now here's a thing you don't often see me sharing on the blog - a piece of video. I happen to like this video very much for a ...

Mars (chocolate bar) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) What? Have I sold out? What's going on? Adwords on Fake Plastic Souks? What kind ...

The Interview (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I am never at my best in job interviews. I’m a disastrous candidate (I was once stopped in t...

English: The first Qatar Airways Cargo Boeing 777F (A7-BFA) in Frankfurt (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The is the definite article. It i...

Image via Wikipedia For some reason, the people at Dubai-based document imaging company Xeratek think using the sound of an ECG flatlin...

Image by bunky's pickle via Flickr I'm not sure what made the marketing team over at the UAE's National Bonds corpor...

This is the front cover of today's Gulf News Paper Edition. You may notice that instead of the expected devastation captioned above, we...

Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) via Flickr I have always been fascinated by the Situationists, the revolutionary cr...

Image via Wikipedia It’s always a delight when a new radio advertisement appears that stands out in the awful sea of half-baked drivel that ...

Image via Wikipedia I was drafted in to run the panel session on the effectiveness of online advertising at the excellent Digimedia conferen...

Image by Sam Cockman via Flickr The post I put up on Tuesday was at least partially influenced by a chat I was having with Dubai-based pers...

Image via Wikipedia One of the most annoying radio ads currently is the awful Pull! Pull! Ad. You know the one: Pull! Pull! Arrrghhh! Co...

Image via Wikipedia Yet another mindless radio ad has joined the throng of blithering blipverts, this time from the Meydan Hotel. We’re to...

Image via Wikipedia I occasionally appear as a guest lecturer at EMDI, the Insititute for Media and Communication. This gives me the chance ...

Image by Esparta via Flickr I almost managed a week without posting, thanks to Phillipa, but now I'm blowing it. Twitter has been a-twe...

Image by Fenchurch! via Flickr A wee while ago I posted a grumpy response to the campaign being run by the UAE’s second favourite telco, D...

Not enough bloggers in region to drive campaign, says Ford Do they, indeed? The excellent Dima Hmadi in today's Emirates Business 24x7 ...

The excellent AdNation website carries the story, based in parts on quotes surfaced by Gulf News on Friday, that now another client is dis...