Chinese travellers use of mobile payments abroad has overtaken cash for the first time with 32% of transactions paid for digitally, according to new research. A joint report by Nielsen and Alipay, the Alibaba affiliated financial services company, found Chinese tourists were spending more money when travelling with more tourists using mobile payment while overseas. […]
With the growing penetration of mobile phones across the world and the steady decline in the cost of accessing the Internet, companies are fast realising the importance of investing in digital advertising. London-based media and digital marketing communications company Dentsu Aegis Network’s latest advertising spend forecast, which analysed data from 59 markets, suggests that global growth […]
AdColony, the mobile performance marketplace, is excited to announce a partnership with Lifesight, the premier consumer intelligence provider in Asia-Pacific. Through the partnership, advertising will be able to combine AdColony’s award-winning creative and behavioural targeting expertise with Lifesight’s top-of-the-line retail footfall data. The companies predict this will result in significant advantages for advertisers within the […]
Total APAC mobile ad fraud is expected to cost advertisers US$56 billion by 2022, up from $19 billion this year, according to a new study by ad fraud specialist TrafficGuard. This was outlined in a new white paper titled “Addressing Ad Fraud through Multipoint Analysis & Machine Learning” which delved into the complexities of ad […]
Google has today rolled out its ‘Smart campaigns’, designed for small-to-medium businesses (SMB) looking to get started with online advertising, across the Asia Pacific. According to the tech giant, the ‘Smart campaigns’ will save SMB’s time when they set up a campaign and drives results like calls, actions on their website and visits to their […]
While mobile applications’ immense growth in traffic and purchase volume has eclipsed that of desktops in the eCommerce space in the Asia Pacific, the latter remains relevant in the region, especially for larger transactions. A large part of desktops’ relevancy can be traced to innovations like browser extensions because it adds convenience to users’ shopping journey. Consumers […]
China leads the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region for mobile payment adoption, where 96% of Chinese consumers have used a mobile payment app in the past six months. Research from Kantar found 85% of Chinese select mobile payment as the most preferred mobile payment method. China is well ahead of India at 38% and Hong Kong at […]
Smartphone brand Vivo has announced a global strategic content partnership with Taboola News to drive engagement and monetisation across Asia. As part of the partnership, Taboola will power news on its ‘swipe right’ screen to help expand the audience for the content publishers in Asia. When users swipe right on the home screen, Taboola will […]
IX Reach, the leading global provider of carrier services and connectivity solutions, has further improved its APAC connectivity by upgrading its Hong Kong network infrastructure enabling the carrier to provide its own in-region IP BGP Transit services. Whilst IX Reach has been providing SDN cloud connectivity, IX remote peering and high-speed point-to-point/multipoint ethernet services in AsiaPac since […]
90% of children between the ages of 4 and 12 in Asia Pacific have claimed they are using platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. The findings, from a survey by digital media company TotallyAwesome, reveal the social media habits of children in the APAC region as well as highlighting the safety concerns held by […]