“We focus on growing clients’ businesses and brands, not just delivering marketing services,” said global CEO Takeshi Sano, as the network reported modest Q1 growth.
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Lenovo CMO: 'Bring the consumer's voice to the table and you'll be irreplaceable'
The CMO's MO: For Bhaskar Choudhuri, the real shift in tech marketing is moving beyond one-off product launches to word-of-mouth, global campaigns, and after-sales engagement as core brand levers.
FIFA's biggest Asian sponsors can't watch the World Cup they're funding
With World Cup broadcast rights still unresolved in India and China, up to 2.8 billion fans could miss coverage—making the ROI for Asia’s FIFA sponsors harder than ever.
Calbee goes black-and-white as Middle East conflict disrupts ink supply chains
The Japanese snack major will strip colour from 14 of its best-known products from May 25.
Creative Minds: RJ Espartinez wore a wire in a stolen phone market—and lived to write about it
Jayme Headquarters' RJ Espartinez never planned to be in advertising. But between the undercover stings, the K-pop-named fish and the global awards, it's hard to imagine him anywhere else.
Netflix expands ads tier to 15 new markets, including Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand
The streaming giant is launching the rollout in 2027.
CMO Bernard Cheng exits PepsiCo for Netflix
Exclusive: After more than two decades shaping FMCG branding, he moves to entertainment to become Netflix's senior director of marketing for SEA and Greater China.
Takeshi Sano on why Dentsu is ready to win
New global CEO talks to Campaign about his plans to reboot the underperforming international business and how the key to success is to focus on client growth, not on pitch opponents.
A recap of this week's moves and wins
With latest talent moves and pitch wins across Dentsu, Hakuhodo International, Tim Hortons, Initiative Australia, PHD China, WPP Media and more.
'We've put lipstick on a Ferrari': Chocolate Finance's Walter de Oude on why product comes first
“Put lipstick on a pig, and it’s still a pig,” says de Oude. In a wide-ranging interview, the founder-CEO reflects on the withdrawal crisis that shook the fintech in 2025, the lessons he took from it, and why Hong Kong expansion is the first stop on a very long road.
Elmwood: Your packaging is talking. But is it saying the right things?
With unboxing culture and AI-powered shopping on the rise, packaging speaks before brands do—and increasingly, it’s the only pitch that matters, per an Elmwood report.
Wardah redesigns smarter hearing aid for women in hijab
Conventional hearing aids are not designed for hijab-wearing women. Wardah and Dentsu Indonesia are changing that for millions around the world.
Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo appoints new CCO and president: 'This is the moment for independent creative companies'
In an exclusive sit-down with Campaign Asia, the incoming leadership makes the case for independent creativity in a holdco-dominated market and explains why the AI era is wind in their sails.
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Telstra turns up the volume on e-waste
In a world producing 7kg of e-waste per person, Telstra promises to give every second device a second life by 2030.
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Effectiveness at the Highest Level: Eos and Mischief @ No Fixed Address win back-to-back Iridium Effies
Setting a new benchmark for marketing effectiveness, the "Women’s Shave" campaign defies category norms to claim the industry’s top honour for the second year running.
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To all the men in advertising: please start showing up
You can’t be a male ally if you’re not in the room.
Livestreaming commerce is booming, but who's watching the claims?
It's become a performance goldmine, but live commerce is also a compliance minefield. As the channel scales and regulation catches up, who actually owns compliance risk?
AI is abundant now but judgment is such a luxury
After a Chinese court ruled that AI-driven layoffs and pay cuts are unlawful and tech adoption is a choice. Ramakrishnan Raja says the responsibility for that choice sits squarely with the CMO.
3 marketing lessons from the Coachella 2026 post-mortem
Why ‘method branding’ and fan service defined the festival’s most-searched year yet.
Can culture be decoded, or does it have to be felt?
Publicis’ Rish Gopal has spent eight years in Japan watching brands get culture wrong. He says the problem isn’t data but a lack of patience, and that the long game is the only one that works.
If you want your campaign to go to market quickly, the best thing you can do is slow down
Rushing the brief doesn’t save time; it just moves it to the most expensive part of the process, says Pieter-Paul von Weiler, co-founder of BetterBriefs.
The Publicis-Microsoft partnership and the rise of a closed-loop economy
In a closed-loop economy, the stakes are higher and the margin for error thinner. Microsoft’s choice of Publicis challenges the idea that tech will make agencies obsolete.
Culture isn’t a campaign anymore and brands can’t just be guests
Audiences aren’t waiting to be told stories; they’re busy reshaping them. Brands now need to give them something to do, writes Virtue's Huiwen Tow.