Author Archives: alwi Suleiman

Muslim Brands Must Be at the Forefront of Disability-Inclusive Marketing

The definition of disability under the UK Equality Act 2010: You’re disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. People with disabilities are the largest and most diverse minority globally. Disabilities are represented […]

Catering to Enhanced Muslim Consumer Groups in a Post-Pandemic World

New Attitudes, New Personas At Muslim Ad Network we have been informing our readers and advising them about the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic and how to cope with it as a business. Experts have spoken about how the pandemic has changed consumer behavior drastically and permanently. Now a study by Microsoft Advertising reveals new […]

Should Muslim Brands Advertise on Retail Media Networks?

Our team at Muslim Ad Network continually endeavors to bring you insights into the latest marketing and advertising trends that you can use to target Muslim consumers. Last time around we looked at whether Muslim brands should be active on the metaverse. Today, we look at whether Muslim brands should advertise on retail media networks. […]

Muslim Social Media Marketing with the Power of the Hashtag

An understanding of the behavior of Muslim consumers on social media platforms is vital to successfully market your brand or business. However, success is also dependent on a marketeer’s understanding of the tools that make social media marketing more efficient and effective. In the article “How to Leverage Muslim Consumer Behavior Online with Social Media […]

Catering to Black Muslim Consumers: What Every Business Ought to Know

Why Businesses Must Stop Ignoring Black Muslim Consumers In 2020, the Black Lives Matter protests around the world instigated a commitment among many individuals and organizations to educate themselves about Black history, heritage, and culture – not only to understand racism but to stand in solidarity against it.  As Black History Month is commemorated in […]

Hispanic American Muslim Consumers – What You Need to Know

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 […]

Purpose Will Make or Break Your Halal Brand

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 […]

5 Tips for Your Halal Brand to Make Money on Twitter

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 […]

The Complexity of Advertising to Muslim Consumers Simplified

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 […]

Is the Metaverse the New Online Frontier for Halal Brands?

The internet has kept on evolving from the day it came into our lives. We’ve gone from email being the best thing that ever happened. Then we moved on to social media, mobile, virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. All these iterations of the internet, however, may not have been as big as the […]