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Singapore Intensifies Focus on Data and AI Tech
SGInnovate this week presented ARISE, an Artificial Intelligence-themed event at innovfest unbound 2017 as part of a long term investment in AI and data driven technology. The anchor event of the Smart Nation Innovations Week, innovfest unbound is Asia’s largest innovation festival with more than 8,000 attendees. ARISE is planned to provide a platform for researchers, academia and industry leaders…
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MediaMath Launches Brand-safe Curated Publisher Market
MediaMath has announced the launch of a curated publisher marketplace product to deliver premium, high quality media. With the brand safety questions around social media and UGC environments right now, this is a timely move. The Curated Market will employ a stringent set of brand safety standards and protocols: Focus on large scale, high quality publishers…
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iKorea: Media Reps – Past, Present, and Future
iKorea is a new column by Soyoon Bach, a Digital Marketing professional in Seoul, covering developments in the Korean digital ecosystem. If you work in advertising in Korea, you will most definitely have heard of the term “rep sa.” “Rep” is short for “representative” and “sa” in Korean means “company.” This is a shortened phrase…
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From IOP to IOT: Consumers, Marketers and the Connected Future
Aparna Krishnan, Associate Director of Strategic Planning, Mindshare, Malaysia From the Internet of People (IOP) to Internet of Things (IOT): we are at the cynosure of behavioural change and technology. Asia Pacific known for its heterogeneity is a motley of sub-cultures and mind-sets, yet consumers in the region are unvaryingly relinquishing control and giving authority…
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Unilever Launch new Singapore Innovation Hub
Unilever Foundry and Padang & Co this week launched LEVEL3, a co-working space that pushes the boundaries of collaboration and corporate innovation. Redefining the traditional concept of workspaces, LEVEL3 brings together Unilever, startups, and entrepreneurs to encourage innovation and create new partnerships that deliver real and meaningful business impact. “LEVEL3 stems from our mission to make…
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New Technology and Partnership Opportunities in the UK
The UK recently kicked off its largest ever international trade and investment marketing campaign. Aimed at international businesses and governments the campaign plans to showcase the UK’s trade and investment opportunities to a global marketplace, including the EU and beyond. The comprehensive, multi-channel campaign will display a series of new images showcasing the UK’s world-leading products…
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Interaction 2017: Group M Global Digital Forecasts
Each year GroupM publishes its overview and speculations on the state of digital marketing and its implications for advertisers. This year’s report – Interaction 2017 predicts that in 2017 digital’s share of ad investment in the developing world will at last have caught up with the developed world, to around 33%. 10 countries have already…
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5 Steps to Capture the Valentine’s Day Dollar
With Valentine’s Day hot on the heels of Chinese New Year – itself coming about a month after Christmas – there have been and will be great opportunities for retailers to capture the gift-giving market. Yet, it’s been well publicized that the retail industry is flagging, with data showing that the average vacancy rate of…
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4 Social Media Developments to Watch
A lot has changed in the world of social media, but we think these four points deserve a special mention: The NYTimes Joins Snapchat Discover In seeing the most respected investigative publisher join Snapchat’s ad-supported channel, publishers the world over are on a hiring spree to replicate The NYT’s move to Snapchat Discover. Snapchat launched…
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The New Digital Advertising Ecosystem Part 7: Programmatic Direct and Private Marketplaces
Private Marketplaces, also known as PMPs, are places where publishers offer their ad inventory to a selected group of advertisers. You may also hear buying in Private Marketplaces referred to as: Programmatic Premium Programmatic Direct Programmatic Guaranteed Programmatic Reserved Preferred Deals Private Auctions Don’t worry, these are all basically the same thing – just different…
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