What would a Twitter acquisition mean for marketers?
If a deal does finally materialize, Twitter’s future could be very different than the one it currently faces as an independent entity. Here are some...
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Focus on customer experience, not sales
Focusing on the customer experience rather than fretting solely about sales shouldn’t be a novel idea, but more often than not, the numbers take precedence...
Maxus APAC names new chief client officer & chief planning officer
Maxus Asia-Pacific has announced two major promotions in the regional team. Rose Huskey is now Chief Client Officer for APAC while Dick Laurie becomes Chief...
Ignite wins Acer Malaysia’s social mandate
Ignite SDN BHD recently won another chunk of creative duty for Acer Malaysia; this time it was social media. Ignite has been the primary agency in...
Wunderman International promotes Alexandra Beneville to MD
Wunderman has promoted Alexandra Beneville to Managing Director of Wunderman International Tokyo. Ms Beneville previously serviced as Senior Vice President, Account Services, for the agency. In her...
MWG Japan hires new Chief Client Officer
McCann Worldgroup Japan has appointed Antony (Tony) Cundy as chief client officer, effective immediately. Previously the CEO of Wunderman Japan, he reports to Charles Cadell, representative...
Barclays’ Elinor Bateman to lead WFA’s new Insight forum
Elinor Bateman has been named as the first-ever chair of the World Federation of Advertisers’ INSIGHT FORUM, ahead of two meetings in London. Ms Bateman,...
Outbrain bolster APAC leadership team with two senior hires
Outbrain has strengthened its leadership team in Asia Pacific with the appointment of two industry veterans – Fionn Hyndman as Commercial Director, APAC and Daniel...
Adknowledge Asia & metaps+ partner on social mktg campaigns in Korea
Social and video advertising technology company Adknowledge Asia has partnered with metaps+, a South Korean big data-based mobile marketing solution provider, to support local and international...
Dentsu elevates Ruth Stubbs to iProspect’s Global President
Dentsu Aegis Network has promoted Ruth Stubbs to Global President of iProspect, effective immediately, joining the global Brand Board and assuming responsibility for the iProspect network...
10 top-notch marketing stats from this week
So without further ado… Nearly half of digital marketers in the UK feel overworked Research from Greenlight Digital has revealed how digital marketers in the...
Budweiser India picks GolinOpinion for PR mandate
Budweiser, the global beer brand from Anheuser-Busch InBev, has appointed GolinOpinion to handle its India PR mandate. GolinOpinion, is the PR division of the MullenLowe Lintas...
Bloomberg Media to provide news on Japan’s LINE
Bloomberg Media has launched an official account on LINE, providing daily news content on one of Japan’s largest messenger platforms. It will include a selection...
#sowhoknew: Living with Amazon’s Alexa
Amazon launched their new voice activated home assistant Alexa unit called Echo in the UK today and I have got my grubby mitts on one....
Should marketers be more concerned about Facebook’s video metrics faux pas?
By some estimates, Facebook and its arch rival Google now account for upwards of 80% of every dollar spent on digital ads. On Friday, David...
All the digital news stories you missed this week
Facebook overestimated video view metric for two years The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook has misreported the average time users spent watching videos for...
