In 2016, Tabish Hasan, Chief Executive of Muslim Ad Network, was featured in The Guardian as he compared the failure of established mainstream brands to tap into the Muslim market today to the same sentiment regarding the Hispanic market in the United States in the 1980s. Now those brands can’t afford not to engage with […]
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Your Halal Brand Must Stand for Something In one of our previous blog posts: “Brands for Social Justice: It’s Not All About Profit for Muslim Businesses”, we mentioned the pressure on brands to speak up for social justice coming from protestors, customers, and employees. Today, we can confidently say that purpose and standing for something […]
Most of us use Twitter for building communities, brand awareness, and showcasing brand personality. So you may wonder how your halal brand could make money on Twitter. Advanced users, however, do exactly that. They make money on Twitter! And Twitter is not holding back. In the past few months, Twitter has rolled out multiple new […]
Advertising to Muslim consumers is already tough enough due to advertising companies like Google and Facebook not allowing brands to target by religion. However, there is another degree of complexity that most advertisers come up against. This complexity is due to: levels of religiosity ethnicity and culture demographics Muslims are not one big homogeneous group […]
Targeting Muslim consumers is starting to heat up as a trend with more and more mainstream brands and companies finding ways to engage Muslims. With diversity and inclusion marketing becoming more prominent, the expectation is that targeting Muslims is going to take off even faster in the coming years. With that in mind, many mainstream […]
Whether you are an Islamic organization or a mainstream brand targeting Muslims you need to make analyzing and optimizing your display advertising a key part of your digital marketing strategy. Today’s technology gives you the ability to measure and use data to enhance the performance of display campaigns like never before. But you need to […]
Not all Muslim consumers behave the same when shopping online. We have mentioned in a previous article that a consumer buys a specific product resulting from his or her need for that particular product, which is the result of one’s perception. This perception is the end product of social norms, culture, lifestyle, and in our […]
The Global Halal Economy is Heading Towards $3 Trillion in 2023 In 2018, the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2018/19 reported that in 2017, the global Islamic economy reached $2.1 trillion and is expected to reach $3 trillion in 2023. The same report for 2020/21 defines “Islamic economy” as follows: “Sectors comprising core […]
Today I want to take you through the realities of owning a business that targets Muslim audiences. In order to validate what I am communicating, I will be quoting three business owners who I had the pleasure of interviewing around March 2020. 1) Having the Right Motivation and Intention If you are starting out on […]
Today’s article is designed to help you market to Muslim consumers in a way that doesn’t have to deal with the clutter of competitors as much as you would have to. No, it does not involve flying satellites over your audience’s homes and listening to their table conversation to know their most intimate needs. Instead, […]