Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Sunday, April 26th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Mindshare, which is part of WPP, is a global media agency network helping clients to make collaborative and adaptive decisions across their paid, owned, and earned marketing in real-time. The team is pleased to announce that Mindshare MENA received the highest number of awards at the Festival of Media MENA 2015, as well as the prestigious titles of “Agency Network of the Year” and “Campaign of the Year.”

The agency dominated the edition of the MENA Festival of Media, which honors innovative media campaigns across the region. Several offices were recognized for their work, including Mindshare Dubai’s Nissan “Jadidha & Actionha” and Infiniti “Hosting Infiniti: From Saudis to Saudis” campaigns, Mindshare Tunisia’s Tunisie Telecom “Keep Our Beaches Clean” campaign, Mindshare Egypt’s Egyptian Energy Conservation Initiative, and Mindshare Lebanon’s “Tarboosh: Never Grow Up” Gandour campaign. Mindshare was selected for awards in a wide array of categories ranging from highest effectiveness to best use of content, receiving a total of 12 Festival of Media awards.

In addition to being named “Agency Network of the Year,” Mindshare Tunisia was also awarded the “Campaign of the Year” for a wildly popular cleanup initiative for telecommunications giant Tunisie Telecom. The creative campaign encouraged beach-goers to collect and deposit litter into a special scale device in exchange for high-speed mobile internet. The campaign’s audience was so inspired by the concept that they continued to collect garbage far beyond the minimum limit until the beach was completely clean.

“This has been an exciting awards season for Mindshare MENA,” says Mindshare MENA CEO Samir Ayoub. “It’s an honor to be recognized for our team’s innovation in campaigns across various markets in the MENA region, and we are particularly proud to be chosen as ‘Agency Network of the Year’ and ‘Campaign of the Year’ among many talented agencies. The credit for such a big achievement goes to our clients and teams who developed these outstanding campaigns”

The Festival of Media MENA was inaugurated in 2007 in order to stimulate dialogue about media, become a hub for industry networking, and showcase excellent initiatives and campaigns from create agencies across the Middle East. This year marks the first Festival of Media MENA, thanks to a joint venture between C Squared and Mediaquest, which operates across the region in Algiers, Beirut, Dubai, Jeddah, and Riyadh.

About Mindshare

Mindshare is a global media agency network with billings in excess of US$34.5 billion (source: RECMA). The network consists of more than 7,000 employees, in 116 offices across 86 countries spread throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.  Each office is dedicated to forging competitive marketing advantage for businesses and their brands based on the values of speed, teamwork and provocation. Mindshare is part of GroupM, which oversees the media investment management sector for WPP, the world’s leading communications services group.

Visit us at www.mindsharemena.com  and follow us on Twitter @Mindshare_MENA and Facebook.com/MindshareMENA

About GroupM:

GroupM is the leading global media investment management operation. It serves as the parent company to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom and Maxus, as well as Xaxis and Catalyst. Our primary purpose is to maximize the performance of WPP’s media communications agencies on behalf of our clients, our stakeholders and our people by operating as a parent and collaborator in performance-enhancing activities such as trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. The agencies that comprise GroupM are all global operations in their own right with leading market positions. The focus of GroupM is the intelligent application of physical and intellectual scale to benefit trading, innovation, and new communication services, to bring competitive advantage to our clients and our companies. Discover more about us online at www.groupm.com.

Contacts

Mouna Ajam

Regional PR Director

Mindshare Middle East North Africa

mouna.ajam@mindsharemena.com

Office: +971 4 454 7444 Ext 1150

Mob: +971 55 4714977

Fax: +971 4 454 7455

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