A new brand-safety product from Integral Ad Science is off to a less than ideal start after the company promoted the tool’s technical chops through an open demo on its website last week. The product, dubbed Context Control, is critical to IAS’s long term future, but its launch went south after IAS rival Check My
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Fortnite – for many, we wouldn’t need to say anything else. Equally regarded as the joy and despair of kids and parents all around the world, Fortnite has risen up the charts in recent years and it looks like it’s there to stay – at least until something like Fall Guys makes it falter. But what happens when
Sobeys is making child and youth mental health its biggest cause effort to date by partnering with 13 children’s hospital foundations, an effort buttressed by a mass ad campaign. Through the “A Family of Support” initiative, Sobeys and the Sobey Foundation have committed to donating and raising “millions” of dollars to supporting mental health programs being
Ensemble Worldwide Malaysia and Universal McCann have released this campaign for Ikano Centres, part of IKEA Southeast Asia, which sheds light on the diversity and uniqueness of Malaysia this Merdeka and Malaysia Day. The film was produced by Directors ThinkTank and directed by Sling Ng. The #KitaDLL campaign for Ikano Centres, which includes IPC Shopping
On this special episode of Floor 9, we bring you a thought-provoking and important conversation with the legendary Nikole Hannah Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for covering civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the 1619 project. Conducted as part of the 2020 UM Impact Day, this
Chad Stoller, Richard Yao/August 2020/Emerging Technology,Retail Since 2006, global media agency UM’s IPG Media Lab division has been helping retail brands break down the barriers to innovation. With today’s retail landscape fraught with uncertainty, many brands are unsure how to proceed. Here, Chad Stoller, UM’s global chief innovation officer and managing partner of IPG Media
Music video platform Vevo has partnered with MAGNA and IPG Media Lab, to reveal significant findings around the nuances of multicultural audiences’ video viewing behaviour. The Anatomy of a Video Experience: A Multicultural Study explores how audiences consume content across multiple devices and their motivations around viewing habits. Understanding these subtleties is key for advertisers and
TikTok is stepping up efforts to counter the spread of hate speech on its platform. But it’s still playing catch-up with other social-media companies, including ones that have been criticized for their handling of the issue. The company announced Thursday that it’s improving its hate-speech policies, providing more transparency and investing in partnerships to help
SINGAPORE – UM, the global media agency network of Mediabrands, today announced that it has been named Media Agency of Record for Lazada Group, Southeast Asia’s leading eCommerce platform and regional flagship of the Alibaba Group. UM’s remit which covers Southeast Asia markets Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand; will encompass all media duties including strategy, planning, buying, research,
IPG Mediabrands agency UM will handle strategy, planning, buying, research, and data and analytics for Lazada Group across Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand. The agency-of-record win follows a pitch that began in March. The company had previously worked with Dentsu Aegis Network agency Vizeum in these markets, starting in 2019. UM starts work immiediately