Digital Ad Pioneer Ari Bluman Passes Away, Helped WPP Navigate Tectonic Media Changes
AdExchanger | Ari Bluman, a highly-regarded digital media exec whose passion was only rivaled by his bluntness, has passed away after a long fight with...
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Twitter eases character limits on tweets with new rules
Twitter will allow its users to say more in the 140 character limit by doing away with certain rules. In the coming months, adding videos,...
Pizza Hut Asia trials SoftBank’s robot for MasteCard payments
MasterCard unveiled the first commerce application for SoftBank Robotics’ humanoid robot Pepper. The application will be powered by MasterPass, the global digital payment service from...
JWT hires Marco Versolato as CCO for Singapore & Global Lux ECD
J. Walter Thompson has appointed Marco Versolato in the dual role of Chief Creative Officer of J. Walter Thompson Singapore and Global Executive Creative Director for...
HYFN Announces API Integration with Acxiom For New Facebook Custom Audiences
Exclusive Beta Partnership Generates 25 Percent Higher Custom Audience Match Rates Hermosa Beach, California – HYFN, a full-service digital agency and Facebook Marketing Partner, today announced...
When branding matters more
Content marketing is growing at an unprecedented pace for publishers and today, many have realised the potential, building their business and offerings to leverage this...
Desktop pre-roll remained king in Southeast Asia in Q1: Study
Desktop pre-roll continues to be the preferred ad format for advertisers in Southeast Asia, most notably in Thailand and Vietnam where it saw 90 per cent...
Dentsu Singapore wins LTA and NEA accounts
Dentsu Singapore, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, has won two public accounts of the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and National Environment Agency (NEA). LTA has...
GoBear gives media mandate to Havas Media APAC
Havas Media has been appointed as the media agency of record for comparison site GoBear in Asia Pacific following a competitive pitch. GoBear is a...
Customer Engagement Survey: Brands Failing to Meet Mobile Communication Expectations
Ahead of the weekend, tyntec — a telecom-web convergence company — issued the results of its survey conducted in partnership with Ovum, which uncovers new...
Behind IBM’s Acquisition Of Salesforce Shop Bluewolf, And Its ‘Consulting Agency’ Approach
AdExchanger | After decades of specializing in hardware and on-premise servers, IBM is emphasizing its new-wave agency IBM Interactive Experience (IBM iX), a mashup of design,...
TAG Goes Full Steam Ahead With Its Anti-Fraud Program
AdExchanger | The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) took the wraps off of its anti-fraud certification program on Monday, the culmination of more than a year...
Creating the ‘lean corporation’ and avoiding startup mistakes
Traditional businesses are struggling to find a role in this new digital economy – some are, in fact, becoming software companies, but they are in...
APAC marketers increasingly adopting programmatic: Study
About 41 per cent of senior marketing professionals in Asia Pacific have already adopted programmatic buying into their media buying processes, with Australia (48 per...
Week in Review: Singapore gets it about digital disruption
The Singapore Government’s move to allocate US$30 million to four large corporates to be used for startup funding strikes Karamjit Singh as major recognition that...
The Truth About Cross-Device Data Quality
AdExchanger | “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is...
