Times Internet, India’s largest digital products company, has launched its interactive live gaming and entertainment show – ‘BrainBaazi‘. The show follows on the heels of Times Internet’s digital strategy and reimagines live video entertainment. Audience participation is facilitated through a downloadable app, currently made available on the Play Store for android devices. “At Times Internet, […]
Championing the Filipino peoples’ love of basketball, Sydney-based post house Heckler has recently collaborated on a global project with BBH Singapore to bring an inventive online/offline campaign for Nike in partnership with Google to young basketball players in the country’s capital city of Manila. With the aim to improve the skills of the nation’s young […]
WhatsApp has begun testing a new payments feature in India that will allow people to send money to other WhatsApp users, excluding merchant accounts. The feature is currently in beta, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans, but hasn’t been publicly announced because it’s not widely available at this time. The company has been […]
Ensemble Worldwide has created a touching brand film for Samsung as part of Samsung’s ‘Do What You Can’t’ campaign. The short feature entitled “Julian and His Magical Skates” is a special tribute to the rising star Julian Yee – Malaysia’s first national figure skater and first Winter Olympian, in view of his participation in […]
For a while, it seemed like the Chinese smartphone market was an infinite growth machine. Companies would have rough patches, but the overall field would always be on the up and up. Well, those days are over. IDC estimates that Chinese smartphone shipments declined 4.9 percent in 2017 — the first drop since 2009. The […]
Grab and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today announced a partnership to raise additional funds for supporting vulnerable communities, including those affected by disasters. The collaboration between the world’s largest humanitarian network and Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform will enable Grab users to convert their […]
A group of eight Chinese travellers have concluded a cashless journey to Finland, with all transactions, from booking flights, making local retail purchases in Helsinki and dining out throughout their trip, made with their Alipay accounts. This has made Finland the first country outside China where Alipay users can make all payments with their smartphones […]
Times Internet has released a study titled ‘The Changing Lingual Face of Digital India’, highlighting the rapid shift of digital users towards regional content consumption. With this study, Times Internet has successfully validated the rising trend of online content consumption across the eight most widely consumed regional languages in the country. To map the magnitude […]
Ensemble Worldwide Malaysia and Maxis have teamed up on yet another ground-breaking campaign, this time, for the Chinese New Year festive season. The ‘HuatAR‘ campaign is a world’s first, devised by the team to bring blessings (‘Huat’ in Hokkien) and make the culturally significant lion dance more accessible to masses through the use of augmented […]
Uber and Canon have teamed up to launch a new campaign celebrating the hidden gems of some of Southeast Asia’s most populous cities. The #HiddenCities campaign documents the most off-the-grid places in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City. The locations were found from analysing Uber drop-off points in each city and […]