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Trends 2023: PJDaren – The State of Influencers China 2023
China’s influencer marketing industry is at the forefront of the global market. The advanced functionality and integration of social media, e-commerce, and mobile payments in China have allowed the country’s key opinion leader (KOL) and key opinion consumer (KOC) economy to grow rapidly. This growth has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic and related measures…
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Trends 2023: Talkwalker – Social Media Trends 2023
In 2023, brands will prioritize building trust with consumers. The past few years have been marked by numerous challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, and economic uncertainty. As a result, consumers have become more demanding and less loyal, and many brands have struggled to keep up. However, 2023 will mark a turning…
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Latest Digital in 2018 Global Report
We Are Social have just released their latest Digital in 2018 report. The new 2018 Global Digital suite of reports reveals that there are more than 4 billion people around the world using the internet. More than 3 billion people around the world use social media each month, with 9 in 10 of those users accessing…
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4 Social Media Developments to Watch
A lot has changed in the world of social media, but we think these four points deserve a special mention: The NYTimes Joins Snapchat Discover In seeing the most respected investigative publisher join Snapchat’s ad-supported channel, publishers the world over are on a hiring spree to replicate The NYT’s move to Snapchat Discover. Snapchat launched…
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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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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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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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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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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 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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