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A Quick Guide to Social Media in China
China’s social media landscape has proven a fast moving target. Ogilvy have just released the latest in their guides to the market highlighting the (mostly) differences but sometimes surprising similarities to global platforms. The big story is the continued rise of WeChat, with the Tencent owned platform taking on the role of multiple Western platforms…
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Market Overview: The Rise of Asia’s Mobile Messaging Apps
The emergence of mobile messaging apps has been one of the big tech – in fact any news category – stories of recent years. Both globally and in Asia. Disrupting everyone from Telcos wedded to SMS revenue, to established social networks such as Facebook, to the Chinese government, apps have been a big hit with…
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Facebook announces new mobile targeting to help advertisers reach rural consumers
Consumers in Asia are coming online at a staggering rate, with the majority accessing the Internet via mobile networks. The flip side of this rapid change is that network speeds can vary and infrastructure is constantly changing.
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10 Things People Who Don’t Get Digital Say or Do
Everyone knows someone who works in marketing, advertising or media, but doesn’t get Digital. It could be a manager, client, or colleague. At best they’re incompetent, but the worst culprits are the reason big businesses struggle, or even fail. We asked brands, agencies and publishers across Asia to tell us about the most common problems they…
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Perfecting The Fundamentals of eCommerce with eTail Asia
The rise of eCommerce in Asia is a hot topic, as we have covered in previous articles, with online sales expected to reach $388bn across the region by the end of 2013, and forecasts from Forrester Research estimating a 30% uplift year on year for 2014. Parallel to this, advertising and technology spend from retailers…
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The Rise of the Social Media Hashtag
In just a few years the hashtag has gone from a humble and obscure symbol, also known as the pound sign, to a powerful online tool. The # initially gained prominence on Twitter, but has spread to use across a plethora of other online social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram.
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Focus on… Vietnam’s Digital Landscape
Please check out our latest digital trends and consumer landscape overview for Vietnam updated for 2018. In the third of our series covering individual Asian market Digital landscapes, we take a look at Vietnam. With a population in excess of 90 million and internet penetration of 35.6%, Vietnam represents a huge opportunity for brands. 52% of Vietnamese…
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Ecommerce in Emerging Asia
Ecommerce is very much in the news at the moment, with Rocket Internet launching their month long online promotion across Lazada, Zalora and Foodpanda, ebay launching in Indonesia, and mobile ecommerce projected to hit $2.4bn revenue in Singapore by 2015.
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Focus on… Thailand’s Digital Landscape
In the second of our series focusing on individual market Digital landscapes, we look at Thailand. With consistent long term economic growth, Thailand is now one of the key countries contributing to the emerging global middle class. This rise in wealth puts Thailand ahead of other South East Asian markets in some ways in terms…
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Focus on… Indonesia’s Digital Landscape
Indonesia is one of the most exciting markets in Asia due to the sheer size of it’s 250m population. With 73m people online by end of 2013, Indonesia is Facebook’s second largest market globally, and Jakarta is the Twitter capital of the world. This is driven in part by a rapidly increasing smartphone penetration –…
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