Northwestern university in Qatar published the findings of a survey about media use in the Arab world. It was conducted with around 10,000 respondents from Lebanon, Qatar, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. You can check all the information about this survey, its methodology and the text documents on http://menamediasurvey.northwestern.edu. You may […]

Wezank is a new project created by two Lebanese people: Maya Zankoul and Toni Yammine. It is a great way to visually explain your ideas through simple and fun animation videos. Wezank: Website – Facebook – Twitter – YouTube How It Works? The process consist of six steps that can be found on Wezank.com. Ideation: […]

UPDATE: The title of this article was changed from the present tense to the past following a discussion with the General Manager of Virgin Radio Lebanon in the comment section of this post. The radio management took in consideration those three points and offered some additional insights. I invite you all to check this discussion […]

Ipsos MENA released lately interesting statistics about the internet usage and consumption habits in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The numbers were presented at the ArabNet Beirut Conference 2013 by the regional president Elie Aoun. I gathered the most important numbers concerning Lebanon in an Infographic that you will find below. You […]

In a session entitled Research And Case Studies in Social Media, ArabNet brought together representatives from four different regional social media agencies to present case studies resulting from their works with their clients. Here is what we have to keep in mind from those presentations: . Fadi Khater (Netizency) and Fadi Malas (Just Falafel) In […]

Elias Ghanem, MENA general manager of PayPal, announced at the ArabNet 2013 Conference in Beirut that the famous online payment service will soon be available in Lebanon. And this is most probably happening this year. I had the chance to discuss with Mr. Ghanem (in company of Blog Baladi and Gino’s Blog) after his public […]

It all started with Heinken (Italy) in October 2009, when the famous beer company teamed with many girlfriends, bosses and professors to push their boyfriends, employees and students to watch a classic music concert on the night of the Champions League game opposing Real Madrid and AC Milan. It is only 15 minutes after the […]

The 7th edition of Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya (Cinema Days of Beirut), a film festival happening every two years, is taking place in 2013 from March 15th to 24th. Beirut DC, organizers of the event, offered The JR Express a press festival pass and thus the opportunity to know more about the 49 films being […]

Few days ago, Nissan Lebanon launched its latest campaign entitled “Suggest An Arrest”. On March 2nd 2013, the “Nissan Police” squad raided Uruguay street popular for its bars and nightlife activity to bust suspected drunk drivers. They randomly spotted suspects in bars, made them go through funny drinking tests (Dancing Gangnam style following a straight […]

“Missed Calls” have so many uses within the Lebanese community, and it is still used today on a smaller scale thanks to the availability of free instant messaging applications like Whatsapp, BBM and iMessage. In the latest Touch Lebanon campaign, the Lebanese telecom operator officially position “Missed Calls” as outdated by associating it with 192os […]