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Harnessing the Power of Video Marketing in the Online Environment
Marketing Matters is a monthly column covering how marketers today can use Digital to drive innovation and results Today, video is an exceptionally important marketing tool for most businesses. Video is so powerful largely because it can tell a story in a complete visual way. Over the past decade, online video has exploded into importance – quickly becoming…
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Digital Advertising Calculations Infographic
No matter how much we may want to avoid it, maths (or math to our American friends) is a big part of Digital advertising. In order to measure and optimise marketing we have to be comfortable with CPA, CPC, Conversion Rates and many more metrics and KPIs. Almost everyone knows how to use total cost and…
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Digital Savvy but Shy: How Vietnam’s Generation Z is making brands work harder
We’ve heard plenty about Millenials (or Generation Y), those born between 1976 and 1994. But as this generation continues to age, marketers are starting to shift their attention to the next wave – Generation Z, those born in 1995 or later. A new report from market research company Epinion and OMD looks at GenZ (Generation Z) in…
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The 70/20/10 Rule for Marketing Innovation
Too often people see innovation as a flash of lightning, striking at random. And too many businesses are afraid to try new things, creating a huge barrier to success. Clearly inspiration is core to innovation, and new things are scary. But, as strange as it might sound, you can actually plan to be innovative – and protect…
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The New Digital Advertising Ecosystem Part V: Programmatic goes Global
The programmatic revolution knows no borders. The same transformation that North American and European ad markets have seen recently is now showing up in markets around the world – including Asia – as global marketers embrace programmatic. In fact 55% of brands and agencies already have a global programmatic strategy in place according to recent studies.…
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Asian Brands must be more Innovative than those in the West
According to a recent Razorfish digital marketing report, Asian Marketers must be more innovative and forward-thinking than their western counterparts, to meet the technology-driven expectations of consumers in our region. Asian consumers are not only reporting higher ownership and usage of technology, they also hold higher expectations of brands and technology overall. We talk to Joanna Kalenska, Managing Director…
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Half of APAC Smartphone Users Now Shopping on their Device
The latest MasterCard Mobile Shopping Survey covering Asia Pacific finds consumers embracing the convenience of mobile shopping. Almost half of consumers – around 45% in total – made a purchase using their smartphone in the three months preceding the survey. Exactly 50% of respondents across Asia Pacific cited convenience as the most compelling reason for shopping on their…
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Mobile Viewability: The final frontier
Mobile is a hot topic. Viewability is perhaps even hotter. Bring the two together and you have some sort of digital marketing nuclear volcano. Well maybe. Mobile viewability is a subset of the overall “has my ad been seen and by who” issue, but a particularly tricky one. The lack of a unique user ID is the clearest…
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Data and Automation will Drive Programmatic in APAC
Programmatic advertising seems to be taking over the world in 2015, and it’s importance is growing across Asian markets. In fact recent studies show that 3 out of 4 APAC brands to increase investment in data driven buying over the year ahead, in line with global trends. We talk to Matt Ware, Commercial Director APAC, at MediaMath about…
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Latest Research Shows Viewability “Just Works”
Viewability was one of the hottest topics in Digital over 2014, but the buzz has eased off slightly since the release of the IAB standards. Concerns around fraud rumble on, with a feeling that current regulation does quite not go far enough. Getting measurement right is a key component of successful advertising delivery, especially in the…
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