Market Report

Advertising Spend (Part 2/5)-Watch & Jewellery Sector Analysis – 2012 AGCC, Levant*, Pan Arab & Arasian Media Markets.

Advertising Expenditure for top Products (000 US$) Y2010-2012(Jan – Dec)

In the year 2012 Watches-Clocks advertising expenditure stood at US$ 142,685 million representing an 78% Share of the total advertising spend, compared to US$ 138,504 million for the same period in the year 2011 an increase of 3%; Whereas the Jewellery and Accessories advertising expenditure stood at US$ 39,333 million representing an 22% Share of the total advertising spend, compared to US$ 33,266 million for the same period in the year 2011 an increase of 18%.

Monthly Spend Analysis (Millions US$) Y2010-2012

The highest monthly advertisement spend was in December 2012 to the tune of US$ 23 millions, followed by in the month of October 2012 at US$ 20 million. 

Overall Media Split Analysis (000 US$)

Once again Magazines accounted for the lion’s share (51 %) of advertising revenues, further consolidating it’s spending by posting a robust 12% gain (over 2011) for the same period.

Advertising Spend for Top Brands (000 US$)

Swarovski ranked as the top spending brand in the Television segment. It is followed by Cartier, Majorica, Taiba, and Omega in order of their spending.

Break down (Media wise) - Advertising Spend for Top Brands (000 US$)

Rolex ranked as the top spending brand in the Newspaper segment, followed by Swatch, Cartier, Patek Philippe and Omega as the top 5 spenders.

Once again Rolex ranked as the top spending brand in the Magazines segment, followed by Cartier, Patek Philippe, Omega and Mouawad as the top 5 spenders.

Key considerations:
• Over 250 top, premium, international watch & jewellery brands were surveyed in this extensive report.
• Media: Magazines / Newspapers / Television / Outdoor / Radio & Cinema.
• Currency : All figures are in USD $ 000s
• GCC: Gulf Co-operation Council comprising the Arabian Gulf States of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE .
• Pan Arab: Mix of Print Media / TV and Radio stations across the Pan Arab world.
• Levant: Primarily Lebanon, Jordan.
• For the purpose of this survey, advertising costs have been computed from the respective rate cards of individual publications. Barters, discounts and other considerations have not featured in this study.
• In this series, PARC has examined the media expenditure for specific brands as well as for principals / franchisees / retailers in the watches, jewellery and accessories both collectively and singularly for the Middle East region.
• The media has also been classified into Pan Arab Media which includes cross border TV stations such as MBC, LBC Sat, Future International (Al Mushtaqbal), Al Jazeera (Qatar) and Al Arabiya (UAE) to name a few; trans-national print media (publications with multi-country circulations) & regional radio stations.
Note to readers:

Cautionary & Acknowledgment:
All accompanying published data, numerical input, tabulated charts, statistical information, pie charts, histograms & graphics have been analyzed and provided by Pan Arab Research Agency (PARC) & Advertising Monitoring Services.
Readers are advised to note that the figures provided reflect advertising expenditure based on published rates of the various media involved. Not accounted for are the discounts provided, special rates applicable, barter deals, other bilateral considerations nor the commissions accrued to advertising agencies. Whilst the discounts would factor in the arithmetic and computation, MPP-ME believes it will not significantly alter the overall perspective and emerging indicators of this very protracted and exhaustive PARC study.
As in previous years and with previous analyses, the MPP-ME & www.mpp-me.com research team acknowledges with appreciation and gratitude the tremendous input, hard work and co-operation of the entire team at Pan Arab Research Centre, PARC, for access to all published data. Specifically, we would like to thank Mr. Sami Raffoul - General Manager, Mr. M Shaharyar Umar - Marketing Director and his dedicated team for their unstinted co-operation and support to this project.

Disclaimer: Spend is calculated in the published rate card and do not account for incentives or discounts that advertisers may avail from media owners.

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