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Nile Radio Productions’ Ex-Digital Marketing Guru Omar Shoeb Joins Kijamii
The man behind Nile Radio Productions’ digital transformation, Omar Shoeb, has joined leading Digital Creative Content and Production Agency Kijamii as their Head of Accounts and Creative Content.
The new role comes as part of Kijamii’s latest regional restructure, where Shoeb will spearhead an integrated regional team that combines Account Management and Creatives, to work with the agency’s growing list of high value and blue-chip clients in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
“I’m thrilled to join Kijamii’s ever-expanding vision for growth in Egypt and the MENA region, with a central strategy to deliver quality natively-digital creative content and productions in to Egypt and the MENA region,” Shoeb said.
Elaborating on his role, Omar added: “Marketing leaders are increasingly recognizing the value of quality digital content as a strategic tool that helps deliver new outstanding experiences for their audiences and customers, which in turn helps them meet their business goals efficiently.”
“My role balances between strategic business understanding and creativity. I’ll be focusing on connecting them together to create perfectly aligned solutions. It will be very challenging, and fun,” he said.
In its eight years, Kijamii grew from a simple social media agency to a leading regional digital creative production powerhouse, offering fully-fledged services including Media Buying and Planning, Tech services, and creative productions.
“Since we started operations in 2011, we have experienced exceptional growth as a result of large international and local businesses selecting us as their digital partner. I always joke that when we started, we didn’t have a clear direction as to where we are taking the agency, but we only knew that we need to build great successes with our partners and enjoy something we have always been passionate about,” Kijamii CEO Bassem El-Hady said.
“Today, I would confidently say the vision is clear. Brands have realized the importance of content with the rapid growth of digital solutions, and they are expecting someone who can understand their voice and communicate it on whatever medium in the most agile and efficient way. We’ve built a clear understanding of these needs and adjusted our machine to focus on digital content, campaigns, media solutions and technology. What we are more excited about are the solutions that can get out of marrying those services together,” El-Hady added.
“We believe Omar’s diverse experience in the online/offline media and marketing fields will be central to our next phase, in which we invest more in our content offering to our partners and more importantly the solutions than we get out of creative, tech and media. We strongly believe that agility and efficiency here are the key differentiators to any offering and in Kijamii, we take this very seriously.” El-Hady added.
Shoeb’s dynamic 15-year career spans various media and marketing disciplines including online journalism, television production, writing and directing, digital marketing, digital brand management, digital music distribution, and digital product strategy.
His seven-year digital disruption legacy at NRP includes creating class-leading digital platforms for NRP’s MENA market-leading radio and entertainment brands NogoumFM and NileFM, their music production labels Nogoum Records, NRP Music, their TV station Nogoum FM TV, and their production studios NRP Recording Studios.
After the success of the previously shared overall analysis of Sherine’s new album “Ana Keter” and her social media presence, we decided to fulfill your requests with more details and additional insights.
The report is from Jan 15 through Jan 31, 2014; however, starting Feb, we noticed that Sherine’s team has enhanced and developed how they engage with fans on Facebook.
Still, there’s more to do; please review the slides below to know what exactly they are missing with recommendations.
Check out the report:
Key take-outs in 15 days after the launch:
- Album gained 11 million views in 2 weeks on YouTube
- YouTube Channel subscribers boosted by 90K subscribers in 15 days out of 127K total subscribers overtime
- Buzz reached 15K tweets/RTs since the launch on Twitter
- How do people talk about the album/Sherine on Twitter?
- People are sharing songs from YouTube & SoundCloud
- +90% positive sentiment on Twitter
- Sherine’s Twitter account is excellent at spreading the news about the album’s success.
- People are tweeting the song’s lyrics.
- Sarcastic tweets about Sherine & few songs (regular) - Almost zero negativity about the album
- Album teasers on Facebook created credibility for Sherine’s page, reflected in the page results after the album’s launch in the next 15 days with 92K Interactions & 312K New Likes.
- The album received tremendous engagement on the launching date of Jan 15. However, no posts for four days after the launch negatively affected the interactions.
Recommendations:
Sherine Abdel Wahab’s Facebook page would have received double or maybe triple new likes and interactions if the improved posts’ quality; please find below the points taken:
- Long updates with no extra value-added will lead to losing your fans’ interest
- The text-only format isn’t preferred, as it is well-known that they generate less reach than other content (Facebook announcement)
- A call to action is essential to generate leads & increase engagement
- Each post has to have its visual, audio, or video so you can attract/engage your audiences
- Understand the situation and act upon it, always be relevant to the time and avoid posting irrelevant content at the wrong time.
- Revise the tone of voice in future activities.
To recap - Overall performance is average to good - Enhance your content formatting - Improve the tone of voice on all networks - Be creative to engage your fans better - Be Consistent - Start your SoundCloud account.
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Putin, Obama war on social media starts with unfriend on Facebook
New stage of the cold war, is it?
The Social media war between Putin and Obama started with UnFriend, this is the action taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Facebook diplomacy with American president Barack Obama.
The unfriending comes after an official White House update about the possibility of a US-Syrian war. President Putin revealed that Obama’s updates about the Congressional debate on a possible war with Syria have annoyed him.
After unfriending, President Putin update status on profile “Something I should have done a long time ago”
Also, He said to Russia’s Pravda News Service “President Assad and I, we are the Facebook friends. We like the same pages, we share pictures of cute women and all that. Obama needs to lighten up on there, it’s not for serious stuff,”
President Obama’s latest posts about the possibility of the war in Syria have been reported by someone and he received a warning from Facebook that he will be prevented from posting on his profile for 24 hours.
He has also commented “Really, Putin needs to grow up. If he didn’t like that [post], he could have just hid it from his news feed instead of creating all this Facebook drama,”
JOE BIDEN “Vice President of the United States” announced to reports that President Obama has signed into his Twitter account to unfollow Putin.
The turmoil generated between Putin and Obama over their dispute on the Syrian crisis. Expanded to reach the social networks
Putin and Obama on social Networks
The question now is, are we witnessing a new stage of the cold war between the two countries, will they continue the war online instead of the military tactics and old spy war?
It’s obvious that social media is really changing the game in everything, and now it’s taking over on a very high level.
Keep an eye on Digital Boom and we will keep you posted with more news and updates on the cold war and even more…
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Amr Diab Gets Hacked on Twitter
Amr Diab’s Facebook page has announced that his twitter account has been hijacked by anonymous and now tweeting political.
Update: Amr Diab’s Facebook Page announced that “Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been restored successfully and you can follow Amr’s tweets normally now”
Amr Diab got hacked on Twitter
On Thursday 9th of Jan, Amr Diab’s Facebook page announced that Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been hacked by anonymous and now tweeting politics!
Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (born 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of pop music. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle East Artist, three times: 1998 for the album “Nour El Ain”, 2002 for the album “Aktrr Wahid Byhbak 2001” and 2007 for the album “El Lillady”. Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.
He is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music He has created his own style which is often termed “Mediterranean Music” or “Mediterranean Sound”, a blend of Western and Egyptian rhythms.
In The Mediterranean in Music, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as “the new breed of Mediterranean music”.According to author Michael Frishkopf, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, “Nour El Ain”.
In his analysis of The Very Best of Amr Diab album, Victor W. Valdivia of All music said: “His music melded traditional Arabic sounds and textures with Western rhythms and instruments. The mesh was dubbed Mediterranean music, and The Very Best of Amr Diab displays Diab’s superb skill in creating it.”
In 1997, he won three awards at the Annual Arabic Festival: one for Best Video, for Best Song, and for Best Artist of the Year. Diab received a Triple Platinum Award for the sales of Nour El Ain and a World Music Award in Monaco.
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