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2015 in Review: Top 5 Digital in Asia Content
2015 was another exciting year for digital and programmatic in Asia, South East Asia especially. There is a definite sense that individual markets are outgrowing Singapore as a regional hub – evidenced by rapidly increasing spends at individual market level, and a resurgence in agencies, both local and global, doing outstanding digital work in local markets. In…
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Digital in South East Asia Q4 2015 Report
We Are Social Singapore have just released their latest report, with all the numbers you need to understand the state of the digital landscape in Southeast Asia in Q4 2015. With total internet users up 12% since March it’s been a busy few months regionally. Much of this growth is attributable to increasing smartphone access, which is also…
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How to do Compelling Social Video Content
Touching video content from Unilever. 6 million children die before they reach the age of 5 due to infections like Diarrhea and Pneumonia. 44% of these deaths occur in the first 28 days of birth. This experiment taught Sangrahi how the simple habit of handwashing with soap, during this span, can be life-saving for her baby.…
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State of Global Mobile Advertising 2015
Latest report from Opera Mediaworks covering Mobile advertising in 2015. Interesting to see Australia leads the world when it comes to use of video advertising on mobile. Opera Mediaworks State of Mobile Advertising Q3 2015 A few other highlights: Games is no. 1 for revenue. Games publishers accounted for 23.7% of revenue on the mobile ad…
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Selling Beer in Vietnam, a Digital Challenge
Over the last five years Vietnam has seen its beer sales climb at more the double the rate of its GDP, making it South-East Asia’s largest consumer of beer. In fact, in 2012 a staggering 3 billion litres of beer were consumed in Vietnam meaning there should be huge opportunities for local and international bands…
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Seamless Omni-Channel Starts with a Holistic View
Marketing Matters is a monthly column covering how marketers today can use Digital to drive innovation and results When you strip away the complexity of the outer shell, omni-channel marketing is essentially thinking holistically about the customer: their experiences, your interactions with them and the messaging you want to transmit to them. In our new mobile-centric world, there…
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The New Digital Advertising Ecosystem Part VI: Agency Trading Desks
In the latest in our series on programmatic we take a look at Agency Trading Desks (ATDs), the independent units within media agencies that specialise in programmatic buying. In Asia we often hear ATDs referred to as Internal Ad Networks, or just as “the Programmatic team”. Agency Trading Desks have been set up by the large…
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Chinese consumers want innovation, but suspicious of big business
Chinese consumers say concerns about personal privacy, the environment and their security will stop them from purchasing new products, according to a new study from Edelman. Raised in a high growth, fast changing society, a vast majority (94%) of Chinese consumers now view innovation itself as an essential component of society’s progress. And more than…
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Profiling the Anonymous Customer: Fully Understanding the Consumer Journey
Stephen McNulty, Managing Director Asia-Pacific and Japan at Progress, discusses the importance of gaining a comprehensive view of each customer’s journey and following a targeted approach based on the insights. There are many challenges facing today’s marketers: pressure for growth, ever-growing marketplace competition and ‘always-on’ expectations from both customers and employers. According to a Forrester…
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Retail S-Commerce: Moving to Mobile and Beyond
Marketing Matters is a monthly column covering how marketers today can use Digital to drive innovation and results Social commerce, or S-commerce, is one of the newer kids on the E-commerce block. Of course, it is also a very broad subject. Some would also include Taobao and travel websites like Tripadvisor and Airbnb in the S-commerce sphere. For today’s discussion, we will only…
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