Tarek Chemaly
Monday, August 18, 2025

Pikasso x AGA ADK, The Unseen Ads

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  A good initiative is a good initiative. The visibility results elude me though, but someone is trying, and the "someone" in this...

Madi - 2010-2025, wasn't broke...

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The ad above goes back to 2010. The one below 2025. Same word play. Almost. Madi means past. So the ad goes "the past is present kiddos...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Of Beirut and Dubai: We're having a heat wave (yes, this is a song)

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To those of you who have not melted, welcome. Supposedly the worst of the heatwave has passed. Well, between the temperatures soaring, the l...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Jerry Ghazal is now a l'Oreal mouthpiece - no, really

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Remember that laughable ad l'Oreal has graced us with ( here ), well apparently there was even more in the bottom drawer. Introducing Je...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Lux, or rather LuxLux - twice the woman

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When the moisturization is twice, what do you do? Your confidence, strength, and wisdom doubles, the two sides of you collide and amplify. P...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Yes, the Spinneys "Missing" campaign was an unforced error.

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I know I am late on this one relatively, as it was done before the opening of the new Spinneys in Ajaltoun. But here's the issue, all th...
Friday, August 8, 2025

Almaza - a good ad that fits no strategy

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Photo credit -  Mohamad Haidar After the atrocity that their summer campaign was ( here ) almaza had a very decent follow up for their light...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Burger King and its stacker

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This has been the summer of deals, almost everywhere, and from the whole F&B sector. So let Burger King join the fray with its "sta...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

LIU - show and tell

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How do you depict a multi-confessional university? How do you say you have campuses in regions predominantly so and so (meaning both sides o...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Ixsir, another wine, same summer

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Along with Ksara ( here ), Chateau Musar ( here ), Ixsir is joining the wine summer fray - from what I have seen, a double ad. The first goe...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Dubizzle-OLX-Dubizzle-OLX again.

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So some people enjoy playing yes-no-maybe with their name. Introducing Dubizzle which became OLX which became Dubizzle which became OLX. I m...

Chateau Musar reeks of summer

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Now that is an ad that makes sense. Summer. But make it with ice cubes straight from the freezer. You can almost taste the chilled wine - an...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Army Day - 80 years in dignity

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As someone who has, for several years, produced the Army Day (August 1rst) ad, I can assure you, it is difficult to come with different exec...

Tannour el 3asr, cheesy ad that does not sell cheese

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Interesting, a bread campaign on too many billboards. Introducing, Tannour el 3asr (for those of you who do not know tannour is a round open...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Beirut Beer - strategy overflow.

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Remember that corny Almaza ad ( here ) for the summer? Beirut Beer, for once did not seem to be answering them, but rather branching smartly...

Maliks goes Mandarin, no not the fruit

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Another of those ads which are either too smart or not too smart. Malik's goes on with its "ma7loule" streak (ma7loule means ...

Dunk in - is this even legal and doable?

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Well, it is a marketing fact - you rarely, if ever, resort to distorting your logo (some applications are permissible - lately Coca-Cola did...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Halabi goes nuts - and not very smart

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File under "advertising is getting too smart for me" - because honestly, either this is too smart or me getting too dumb. So let...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Unpopular opinion - the late Ziad Rahbani was not a good fit for Almaza

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All right, the cat is out of the bag. The late Ziad Rahbani has graced us with two ads - Almaza and Bankers Insurance . That he was a natur...

Khoury Home nails its copy

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Well, one has to give it out to Khoury Home - the copy is simply very good. First the admission "mich wa2to" - slang for "thi...
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