Top 20 stories: What marketers were reading in 2016
For the marketing and advertising industry, mobile, data and digital transformation were the most important topics this year. With digital media poised to outgrow TV spends...
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IPG Mediabrands Malaysia rebrands its social agency to Society
IPG Mediabrands has rebranded its social media agency Rally Worldwide, to Society, in Malaysia. With digital content consumption at a 20 per cent growth year-on-year in...
Bigger Isn’t Always Better: See Brands’ 5 Most Engaging Twitter Posts of 2016
As video marketing continues its march on social media, it’s no suprise that four of the five most engaging posts on Twitter this year are...
Why Brands Are Getting It All Wrong on Instagram
Instagram is one of the fastest growing social media platforms, with more than 500 million active users. And, according to recent research by eMarketer, the...
‘2017’s going to be a bloodbath’: Confessions of a beleaguered independent publisher
Surviving as a digital publisher is hard enough, but it’s even more so for independent, pure-play digital media companies that don’t have massive scale or other...
How Hotel Indigo used Twitter’s video ads to attract travellers
InterContinental Hotels Group’s lifestyle brands Hotel Indigo had opened a new hotel in Katong, Singapore, a neighbourhood that’s well known for its rich Peranakan heritage and...
Enhanced customer-first approach will drive businesses in 2017
Customer engagement has changed substantially over the past few years. There is an interesting convergence taking place; one that will have massive implications in the...
#sowhoknew: Forget Information Age! Welcome to the Immersive Age
Genesis for the Immersive Age was with early video games where players became engrossed in virtual worlds for hours on end. Or, if you were...
Why Facebook’s fake news measures won’t stamp out imposter publishers
Bowing to mounting public pressure, Facebook announced it was taking steps to crack down on hoaxes and fake news on the platform. Misleading or bogus...
Brands do well by doing ‘good’
It’s the festive season and as we spread happiness, love and gifts all around, what better time to think about whether our brands can achieve...
How CRM and a DMP can combine to give a 360-degree view of the customer
Of course, there is a clearer dividing line between marketing tech and ad tech: personally identifiable information, or PII. Marketers today have two different types...
WPP launches purchase mktg brand The Store in Aus & NZ
WPP AUNZ has unveiled WPP’s Global Retail Practice called The Store in Australia/NZ. The Store coordinates all of WPP AUNZ’s holistic path to purchase marketing...
Opera and Mirum show Indonesians that time is opportunity
Weary residents of Jakarta are used to waiting for everything – for traffic to clear, for queues to move, for websites to load. Often, they...
Best of the week: Twitter’s woes and Snapchat Live Stories doubts
To get you ready for the weekend, we’ve rounded up some of our best stories this week. The theme here is platforms — who’s up,...
‘Social Care Strategy’ Often Fills Marketing Teams with Dread: Q&A with Leo Ryan, VP, Spredfast
Social media is slowly starting to become a key element of a brand’s communication strategy and, of course, this means they need to take customer...
Vision Australia unveils new brand identity
Vision Australia, Australia’s provider of disability services to people who are blind or have low vision, has launched its new brand to demonstrate the organisation’s...
