Cannes Lions 2025: Asia Pacific adds 2 more Grand Prix on Day 2
Telstra triumphs in Film Craft as its partnership with Bear Meets Eagle on Fire ...
Telstra triumphs in Film Craft as its partnership with Bear Meets Eagle on Fire bears a Grand Prix, two Gold, a Silver and Bronze.
If you need a Cannes conversation starter, bring up AI—everyone’s tried it, everyone’s got an opinion, no one is shy about it. I’ll be criss-crossing the Croisette all week; keep an eye out for more dispatches.
For the first time, WhatsApp will display ads and offer paid subscriptions for exclusive content in its Updates tab, expanding its revenue streams while keeping personal messages ad-free.
Guang Cui, CEO of Dentsu China, will oversee media agencies, as Dephin Lim joins from WPP and Derek Huang transitions from Merkle to lead Dentsu X.
Publicis CEO gave exclusive interview at Campaign House on first day of Cannes Lions.
Five of Campaign's global editors spoke on a panel at Campaign House in Cannes.
“Go make something wonderful,” Apple's Tor Myhren tells the creative industry as he bets on the irreplaceable power of human minds.
Enkhbayasgalan Tungalag reminds the industry that world-class ideas can be born in yurt camps as easily as Madison Avenue; it’s time the global stage paid attention.
The winning work from Ogilvy Shanghai answered the question of how to promote Viagra in a country where pharma ads are banned and intimacy is considered a taboo subject.
The campaign from Ogilvy Singapore aimed to test the hacks in the Vaseline labs and “verify” the ones that actually work.
The work came from Finch in Sydney and Motion Sickness in Auckland, New Zealand.
Names Yoshinobu Ise new global head of the division and expands anime business to China, SEA and North America.
De Wolf, former CCO of BMF, exited the agency and has returned to Clemenger BBDO.
Magna’s new global ad forecast reveals that APAC’s ad revenues rose nearly 8% in 2024, but predicts growth will slow to 4.6% in 2025.
These brands saw jumps in advertising awareness in Australia in May onYouGov's BrandIndex, led by Budget Direct and its 'Balloons' campaign.
OMD APAC kept competitors on their toes with major account wins, standout campaigns, and a clean sweep of top industry awards. But with the incoming complexities of the Omnicom-IPG merger, questions remain about its next phase of growth—and how integration could reshape its market edge.
Ogilvy APAC celebrated a strong creative year in 2024, clinching top regional honours at Cannes Lions. Yet operational headwinds, particularly in China, tested its resilience and reshaped its growth strategy.
In 2024, MullenLowe weathered the loss of significant Unilever business by securing new clients, yet still faces challenges in regional cohesion, despite pockets of creative success.
Mindshare faced significant setbacks in APAC in 2024, losing nearly a billion dollars in client business and falling out of Campaign's top 20 rankings, highlighting the need for strategic renewal.
Campaign understands that both Mindshare and EssenceMediacom’s China chiefs are stepping down; WPP Media pushes regional restructuring post rebrand.
Employees being informed this week about roles at risk of redundancy.
The visceral response to the latest restructuring has been a lament for the way the holding company has moved too slowly and downgraded its agency brands over many years.
Staffing cuts across Asia have begun as GroupM transitions to a “single operating model” under the soon-to-be-rebranded WPP Media banner.
Apple’s new Japan campaign tells the real-life story of a heavy metal fan whose Apple Watch alerts help detect a life-threatening heart condition just in time.
An effort by DDB Melbourne.
Activation features two games based on the history of the LGBTQ+ movement.
BuktuPup is a new microsite that helps travellers in rural Indonesia find clean, private restrooms hosted by locals—even in remote tourist spots.
The campaign by Tourism Tasmania brings to life 10 winter experiences, each designed to challenge perceptions of winter to travellers.
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According to the World Federation of Advertising, nine out of 10 marketers do not believe their current agency model will fit future needs. They foresee greater demands for simplification, specialisation and integration from agencies.
The first Southeast Asia YouTube Works Awards celebrates the most effective and creative advertising on the platform, where winners don’t just represent the best of their market, but the whole region.
Relationships with the community grows in parallel as businesses begin to expand. Meta facilitates this growth by helping people and businesses intersect, connect and grow together across its platforms. In this series, Campaign Asia-Pacific partners with Meta to explore innovative solutions, including AI integration, Reels ads, Business Messaging, measurement and performance in order to optimise the consumer journey and help brands grow.
‘Pioneers’ is a thought leadership series, brought to you by Campaign and Facebook, exploring emerging trends and cutting-edge insights on the changes that will shape the future of the marketing and advertising industry for years to come.
Campaign360 returns on 27-28 May 2025 in Singapore! The event will cover engaging discussions led by Asia's leading brand marketers, focusing on navigating budget challenges, collaboration between the entire C-suite and CMOs, and differentiating your brand in a competitive market.
Campaign Asia-Pacific's Women Leading Change Awards Asia-Pacific continue to celebrate the outstanding women who challenge, innovate, and lead across our industry.
As Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary, its advertising arm is quietly becoming a force in gen AI - offering brands a trusted, innovative partner in a noisy, hype-driven market. VP at Microsoft Advertising, Nick Seckold, weighs in on the tech giant’s legacy and its AI-driven future.
Campaign sat down exclusively with John Harris, CEO of Worldwide Partners, Inc.(WPI), the world’s most collaborative agency network, and Humphrey Ho, president of Helios Worldwide and Asia Pacific board director at WPI, for an in-depth discussion on how the role of the CMO is evolving within today’s rapidly shifting marketing landscape.
In a fast-evolving AI landscape, marketers from Yahoo, Geox and UNI China share where they push forward—and where they push back.
Harbin Beer flipped retail conventions by embracing the coldest, most overlooked corner of the fridge and proved that insight beats visibility.