Three Hong Kong, the mobile network operator’s arm in the East Asian autonomous territory, has completed the ‘first’ live outdoor broadcast via a 5G network within Hong Kong. The CK Hutchison-owned company ran outdoor network trials in both the 3.5GHz and 28GHz spectrum bands, carrying out the live outdoor broadcast using the former. The 5G […]
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 […]
SmarTone has launched a programmatic out-of-home campaign in train stations (MTR) in Hong Kong through local free-to-air broadcaster Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)’s OTT platform, myTV Super. According to the Hong Kong-based telecom, this campaign is the first of its kind in the country to tap into myTV Super’s data management platform, which allow brands to […]
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 […]
Social media giant Twitter has announced nine new premium video sports content partnerships to enhance its offering in the Asia-Pacific region. Twitter has signed agreements with golf’s Asian Tour, pay-TV broadcaster Astro Malaysia, online soccer platform BallBall, global sports network Eleven Sports, cable network Fox Sports Asia, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), Indonesian broadcaster […]
For International Women’s Day Uber has launched a campaign film to celebrate its female drivers, while at the same time battle unfair stereotypes of women behind the wheel. The campaign is dedicated “To all the women who challenge the status quo and press for progress everyday.” Developed by Uber’s in-house creative team, CreativeX, the campaign […]
New Worldpay research reveals India is global capital of mobile apps Indian consumers lead the world when it comes to their affinity for apps, with 82 per cent preferring this method to mobile browsers when shopping on their smartphones. This is far ahead of the global average of 71 per cent. Consumers are also seeking […]
Online advertising, including interactive and mobile, accounted for 55% of advertising budgets in Hong Kong in 2017, according to a new survey which suggests online channels will continue to drive ad spend growth in 2018. The Advertising Spending Projections 2018 survey, conducted by research firm Nielsen on behalf of the Hong Kong Advertisers Association, also revealed that […]
BuzzFeed has signed a licensing deal with China’s Bytedance Technology Co, which will help the American publisher circumvent the country’s firewall and enter the Chinese market. The Chinese publisher owns Toutiao, a news and videos aggregator platform, and Xigua, which focuses on short video clips. It currently has about 200 million daily active users around […]
Singapore telco Singtel continues in its strategy of promoting how it can help bring families together, with an emotional Chinese New Year reunion story. For those not well-versed in Chinese New Year traditions, the reunion dinner is one of the most important parts of one of the biggest celebrations in the Chinese calendar. For […]