By UM’s Sharon Soh Social media has redefined the boundaries of connection and community, and with more than 1.73 billion people in APAC using social networks in 2019 as reported by eMarketer, the meaning of social interactions for young people in this region has been stretched, segmented and reinvented. In this new world of infinite
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Zulu Alpha Kilo has created a COVID-19 awareness campaign with a simple, two-word message: “Stay Home.” “What [we’re] asking the industry to do is: let’s all come together, let’s all pool resources to do what we can do, which is spread the message, not the virus,” says Zak Mroueh, the agency’s founder and CCO. Like
From the moment officials rushed in to disrupt the March 11 tip-off between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Utah Jazz, everything changed. Not just for basketball, but for every professional sports league. Within days of the NBA season being suspended, the NHL, MLB, MLS and leagues around the world began to topple like dominos.
By UM’s Sharon Soh One of the biggest platform phenomena to emerge from APAC in recent years has to be the super app. What is a super app? It is many apps within an umbrella app, or perhaps it is actually not really an app as much as an operating system for smartphones. Now, mention
Even as traffic to news websites has surged of late because of the constant demand for updates on the COVID-19 pandemic, publishers are downsizing their staff and cutting pay due to slumping ad revenue. One problem the sites are facing is that advertisers are working with ad-tech companies that, in trying to prevent those brands from appearing on particular
While the coronavirus pandemic caused the recent postponement of the Cannes Film Festival and the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, another healthcare crisis story–in the form of a branded content documentary–made its mark at both those Cannes events nearly a year ago. The breakthrough film was 5B which debuted at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival as
Powerful storytelling was the theme among the finalists for the 2020 Digiday Content Marketing Awards. Best Branded Podcast finalists include standouts from Dell Technologies, Mental Floss, PrettyLittleThing, Rogers & Cowan, Stack Overflow and Weber Shandwick, each using audio for unique messages. Rogers & Cowan in particular worked with Granity Studios to produce The Punies, a
Female entrepreneurs can find opportunities for growth through mentoring and networking By: Christina Adranly There’s never been a better time to be a woman in business. This Women’s History Month, we are celebrating the explosion in the ways women have to connect with each other. A new crop of female-only social networking apps like Bumble Bizz, Ellevate
Maryland lawmakers quietly approved HB 732 late last week, which imposes a 10 percent tax for every digital ad sold by companies such as Google and Facebook. The legislation also applies to smaller companies, but at a lower tax rate based on annual global gross revenues. Businesses with $100 million or more in revenue are taxed at 2.5 percent;
Amobee and Universal McCann are spurring an initiative to buy digital ad space to fill units with public service announcements around coronavirus. The companies have come together to serve public service announcements as publishers are being hit by rampant keyword blocking around the virus and other terms associated with it. “The group of us are coming together to make