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How to Reach Asian Consumers During Ramadan

There are 240 million Muslims in Southeast Asia and 600 million Muslims in South Asia, representing a $2.2 trillion dollar market, and with Ramadan just around the corner, brands are racing to stand out in the busiest season of the year. Digital platform ADA have put together some useful research covering how marketers can reach…
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What’s On The Line For Malaysia With Telecoms DNS Security

Digital transformation is expected to have the single biggest impact on Malaysia’s economy in the near future, contributing at least 20% to the country’s GDP by 2020. But what does this mean for Malaysia’s telecom industry – and its consumers? Thanks to the government’s sustained investment in telecommunications infrastructure over the last 20 years, Malaysians…
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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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New platform offers real time performance buying for Digital OOH

New digital advertising firm Rodeo have created Malaysia’s first interactive in car advertising platform, which provides advertisers with a captive audience on a programmatic buying platform. Clients already signed up to the service include Lenovo, Li TV, Sling Apps, Zepto, Rainfilms, and eBizu. The innovative concept works by installing 10.1inch HD tablets on the back of…
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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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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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Consumer Electronics Path to Purchase in Asia Pacific

Two in every three Asian shoppers has already researched and made a decision regarding which brand of consumer electronics product they will buy before they approach point-of-sale, online or offline, according to Text100’s Digital Index: APAC Consumer Electronics Study. The research looks at how different information sources vary in importance at each stage of the…
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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.


