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Marketing and Consumer Insight Tools from Google
A few useful free tools from Google that will help you understand your business, research competitors and add loads of value to your clients and prospects. Consumer Barometer The Consumer Barometer is a tool to help you understand how people use the Internet across the world. Consumer level insight data across multiple markets. Google Trends…
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Transparency and Ad Quality: Brand Safety Matters to Consumers
Following a spate of misplaced ad scandals and fake news controversies, brand safety is commonly acknowledged as one of the most pressing challenges currently facing marketers looking to reach digital audiences. But the impact on, and reaction of, consumers to issues around brand safety is less well documented. Brand responsibility According to latest research from Reuters,…
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A Duopoly of Convenience: Facebook & Google Tap New Growth in APAC
by Tom Simpson Latest data reveals that in Q1 2018, Facebook and Google ad revenue grew by 40% year-on-year across Asia Pacific (ex. China), while ‘The Rest’ – every publisher and ad tech business outside the duopoly – saw a fall in revenue of 20% over the same period. Looking at the top-line, digital advertising…
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Myanmar Digital Trends 2018
Myanmar is going through a digital transformation. AdsMy, a local marketing tech platform, have produced a trends deck covering digital marketing and consumer behaviour for Myanmar in 2018. Programmatic, mobile, video, native and digital advertising are all highlighted as growth areas. Myanmar is extremely hot with VC investment right now, built on the amazing speed of consumer…
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Peeling the Programmatic Onion
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has released new research on how marketers are conducting their programmatic media buying. The survey revealed that 85% of marketers are currently conducting programmatic initiatives, either in-house or with an agency, and that more than a third of respondents (35%) have reduced the role of their external agencies as…
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Digital Transparency: Peeling the Programmatic Onion
A new survey from the ANA looking at how marketers are conducting their programmatic media buying, revealed that 85% of marketers are currently conducting programmatic initiatives, either in-house or with an agency. However, more than a third of respondents (35%) have reduced the role of their external agencies over the past year as a result of…
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8 Mobile Trends for 2018
With Mobile quickly becoming the go to channel for brands, there is a quiet revolution happening in the world of marketing. Mobile is growing up, and getting serious as it moves front and centre. Here are our top Mobile advertising trends in APAC for the year ahead. 1. Rise of the apps App use is…
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How Google and Facebook are Eating the APAC Ad Industry
By Tom Simpson Please check out our latest overview of the Facebook and Google advertising duopoly updated with 2018 data. A quick check of their books reveals that in the first quarter of 2017, 92 cents of every new dollar spent in online advertising across Asia Pacific (ex. China) went to Facebook and Google. That’s an incredible statistic.…
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APAC Content Marketing Predictions for 2017
2016 was the year where content marketing went from a discussion point to a business imperative in Asia. But what’s next? What are the trends we expect to see in 2017? We asked the board members and guests of the Asia Content Marketing Association (ACMA) for insights. And here they are. Connecting the dots In…
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The Google Consumer Barometer: Free APAC Market Research
The Google Consumer Barometer is a fantastic new tool to help you understand how people use the internet – both mobile and online – across the Asia. It’s a rich consumer research resource available for free, based on studies done by Google and partners globally over the recent past. Curated insights are available for Singapore, Indonesia,…
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