Mobile ad spend in India is set to rise by 75% in 2018, accounting for more than half of all digital spend, even though spend on television still holds top spot. This is according to a report by eMarketer, which also adds that India will see more than a quarter (337 million) of India’s population […]
Alibaba and Valentino have teamed up to launch a 3D online virtual store on the e-commerce giant’s luxury shopping experience, Tmall Luxury Pavilion. The online virtual store will mirror a physical Valentino pop-up store hosted in Beijing’s fashionable Sanlitun District. The experience aims to integrate the online and offline brand experience to create a unique […]
Alcheme, a rising player in the skincare scene, recently closed a round of seed funding, led by DSG Consumer Partners, an investment company based in Singapore that focuses on consumer businesses in Southeast Asia and India, as well as private investor Kenneth Bishop. With the funding, Alcheme will focus on product and market development, as […]
MullenLowe Group has collaborated with Shazam to roll out the ‘Unmute Daniel’ campaign, in a bid to raise awareness around the issue of cyberbullying in Singapore. ‘Unmute Daniel’ is a digital campaign that utilises technology to communicate with their target audience of youths and their parents. The campaign mascot, Daniel, represents every child who […]
Five months after launching in the US, Bloomberg’s TicToc is ready for advertisers in the APAC region. With over 1 million daily active readers and seven founding advertisers, the platform aims to marry the real-time nature of Twitter with the quality journalism of Bloomberg. Over 2,000 journalists from Bloomberg supply journalism to the platform in […]
USA-based Sojern has released an Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Travel Report with Google, using data from 350 million traveller profiles. The report takes an in-depth view of how local, regional and international travellers search, compare and book travel. Chris Greenwood, Sojern regional sales director said travellers now use multiple devices, channels and platforms to […]
Mobile advertising firm InMobi has signed an exclusive monetization partnership with Airtel TV. This partnership comes nearly seven months after InMobi had announced a similar deal with Airtel’s music streaming app Wynk Music. InMobi said this partnership will enable brands to get access to premium ad inventory on the Airtel TV mobile app that offers […]
Traveloka, one of Asia’s leading booking apps for flights and hotels, has proved that the festive guilt trip is something we can all relate to. Working in collaboration with Y&R Indochina, the travel giant launched its first campaign for Tết (Vietnamese Lunar New Year), playing on the well-known stereotype of parents guilt-tripping their children […]
Latest figures by the Department of Statistics Malaysia indicate the digital economy has contributed 18.2% to the Malaysia’s GDP, amounting as much as RM290.9b in 2016. Since then, eCommerce has continued to grow at a rapid rate as both government and private sectors continued to heavily invest into the digital industry. To keep track of […]
Bolstered by the growing demand for digital video content from millennials, digital ad spending is set to overtake TV ad spending in Japan in 2020, according to eMarketer. The report further states that TV will account for a 32.4% share, which is $13.4bn, while digital will account for 29.8%. By the end of 2020, eMarketer […]