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Leading MENA Region Advertisers Back Effective Measure as the Regions Audience Measurement Standard

Effective Measure (Business Wire) - 11 October 2009

Leading MENA Region Advertisers Back Effective Measure as the Regions Audience Measurement Standard

Effective Measure logoMELBOURNE, Australia/PRNewswire/ -- Leading advertisers Kraft, Unilever, GM and Emirates along with the powerful Advertisers Business Group have thrown their support behind Effective Measure, the de facto currency for Internet Audience Measurement throughout the MENA region.

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Speaking about their support, Fadi Ghosn, Marketing Director at General Motors, said, "The fact that these details are being provided by Effective Measure, certainly gives us more confidence in the digital landscape moving forward and the growing opportunities that it presents."

Effective Measure is now measuring over 40 leading local and international websites and has over 80,000 members in its demographic sample.

This provides the MENA region with the worlds most accurate and reliable demographic data across the 1.7 billion plus page impressions it is measuring every month.

"Effective Measure's entry into the marketplace shall help create an environment whereby monitoring, accountability and hence measurement of ROI shall become the norm and probably the first of its kind in the region across media'' said Chareeka Jolly, Marketing Communications MEA-DM and GCC at Kraft.

One of the most powerful endorsements has come from the Advertisers Business Group, which represents over 50% of all of the online spend in the region.

Their chairman, Louis Hakim, commented, "Effective Measure's methodology goes beyond numbers and provides insight and data deeper than what we've seen before in this region for online media.

"We welcome this initiative as we can see great benefit in demonstrating media ROI and validating digital activation."

Speaking about the advertisers support, Brendon Ogilvy, MENA Regional Director at Effective Measure, said, "we are confident that this level of support sends a clear message to the rest of the market that it is time to come together and ensure the region's online industry benefits from this world leading, industry accepted technology."

About Effective Measure

Effective Measure is a world leading online Audience Measurement tool, headquartered in Australia, with offices in Dubai, London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore.

Lead by a team of world respected Audience Measurement professionals, Effective Measure is rapidly becoming the de facto standard in 16 countries globally.

Tasked with solving many of the internet industries existing audience measurement problems, and with a world leading focus on user privacy and market requirements, Effective Measure is quickly becoming the preferred choice of responsible advertisers, publishers and government bodies.

For more information visit http://www.effectivemeasure.com

For more information, contact:

Brendon Ogilvy

+61-404-450-668

Email: brendon.ogilvy@effectivemeasure.com

Source: Effective Measure

For more information, contact: Brendon Ogilvy, +61-404-450-668, Email: brendon.ogilvy@effectivemeasure.com

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