Motivate Media Group
Growth Score40DXBi Rank183Heat Score90The Middle East's leading multi-platform content producer
Media
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Motivate Media Group launches PublisHer Pathways internship programme with PublisHer
Motivate Media Group, Recast partner to expand sports & entertainment content access across MENA
Motivate Media Group appoints Thomas Woodgate as Group Content Director
Gulf Business Awards 2025 celebrates region's trailblazers at glittering gala in Dubai
Athar Festival 2025 co-presented by Motivate Media Group and TRACCS
Overview
Growth Score
Steady
Heat Score
Steady
Details
- Operating Status
- Active
- Company Type
- Private (founder/partner-owned)
- Headquarters
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Founded
- 1979
- Company Size
- 201-500 employees
- Website
- motivatemedia.com
Products & Services
What's On (UAE, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia editions)
Lifestyle/entertainment magazine and digital brand; the region's first English-language magazine (launched 1979).
Gulf Business
Business and economy magazine/digital title covering the GCC region; hosts the annual Gulf Business Awards.
Campaign Middle East
Marketing, advertising and media-industry trade publication and awards platform for MENA.
Emirates Woman
Women's lifestyle and fashion magazine/digital brand.
Identity
Interior design and architecture magazine.
Business Traveller Middle East
Travel magazine for business travellers, regional edition of the global Business Traveller brand.
Golf Digest Middle East
Regional edition of the golf lifestyle magazine.
Books Arabia
Book publishing division producing Middle East-focused titles, including works by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Wilfred Thesiger.
Motivate Val Morgan
Cinema advertising joint venture (with Val Morgan/Hoyts) operating across UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Motivate VAMP
Influencer marketing and social media talent representation division.
Motivate Studio
In-house content, video and production studio arm.
Dubai Lynx
International advertising and creativity festival/awards, run in partnership with Cannes Lions.
Athar Festival
Saudi Arabia's creative-marketing festival and awards (Riyadh), co-presented with TRACCS.
People
Technology
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Financials
Funding rounds
Projects
Motivate Media Group partners with Recast to expand sports & entertainment content access across MENA
Motivate Media Group announced a strategic partnership with content-payments platform Recast to distribute third-party sports and entertainment content via pay-per-view/transactional access across the MENA region, starting with PGA TOUR golf coverage (The RBC Heritage). Announced by Anthony Milne, Chief Commercial Officer of Motivate Media Group, and Andy Meikle, Founder & CEO of Recast.
Apr 16, 2026
Motivate Media Group launches PublisHer Pathways internship programme with PublisHer
Motivate Media Group became the first publishing house to partner with PublisHer (founded by HH Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi) on 'PublisHer Pathways', a four-week immersive internship for women rotating through editorial, marketing, advertising/sales and digital/product departments at Motivate's Dubai offices, with the first cohort beginning August 2026.
May 13, 2026
Athar Festival 2025 co-presented by Motivate Media Group and TRACCS
Motivate Media Group co-presented (with PR firm TRACCS) the third edition of the Athar Festival, Saudi Arabia's creative-marketing festival in Riyadh, unveiling its biggest programme to date with 30+ award categories, 150+ speakers and thousands of attendees, aligned with Saudi Vision 2030.
Sep 3, 2025
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