Sincere wishes for a happy holiday season from all of us at Campaign Asia-Pacific. Our offices will be closed starting later this afternoon until 2 January. We will resume daily bulletins on 7 January, and we have some exciting changes in store for next year.
For now, if you're stuck in your office for whatever reason, check out our list of the most popular stories and photo galleries of 2012. Then, as soon as you can, turn off the computer/mobile and get on with enjoying the holidays and some time with your loved ones. We'll see you next year.
One more thing, in the spirit of the season: If you haven't already heard about it, we're hosting a charity dinner on 6 February in Hong Kong, in association with GroupM and in conjunction with our Media360Asia event. All proceeds go to Mother's Choice.
Campaign Asia-Pacific
- Questions raised over Unilever's decision to stick with incumbent media agencies
- Agency of the Year Award winners: Australia/NZ, Japan/Korea, South Asia
- Highs and lows of 2012: Deals, pitches, campaigns, controversies and disasters
- Turner completes reorganisation, eliminates jobs across the region
- Rich Asians use Apple, fly to Paris and drive BMWs: Agility
- Asia's brand ambassadors: Celebrity endorsements in China and across the region
- Asia's Top 1000 Brands 2012
- Women to Watch in Asia-Pacific marketing
- Unilever media bid for Southeast Asia and Australasia down to three agencies
- Rethinking retail in a digital era
Campaign China
- Greater China Agency of the Year award winners revealed
- Creative Mid-Autumn Festival marketing
- McDonald’s 'experimental' black & white burgers contain unintended political undertones
- Bessie Lee promoted to newly-created role of WPP China CEO
- INFOGRAPHIC: Tencent WeChat versus Sina Weibo
- INTERVIEW: Starbucks stirs its coffee right in a nation of Chinese tea-drinkers
- Beetle's first campaign in China features 'senior rebels' trying to regain youth
- Hong Kongers split affections between Apple and Samsung in smartphone battle
- TSL crafts brand as 'Artisan of love' with unprecedented 3.5-minute TVC
- The Yin & Yang of retail during 'golden weeks' in China: WPP report
Campaign Singapore
- Agency of the Year Award winners: Southeast Asia
- Ho Kay Tat returns to The Edge
- Burger King Singapore suspends re-enactment video
- Changi Airport Group preparing to call integrated pitch
- Singapore Tourism Board launches tender for creative, media and digital agencies
- ECD Steve Elrick to leave BBH Asia-Pacific
- CASE STUDY: How Ikea built anticipation for 2013 catalogue
- Malaysia Airlines settles global media account; selects IPG Mediabrands
- John Kyriakou: Singapore must become creative heart of Asia
- Singaporean youth most stressed: Viacom
Photo galleries
- Campaign Asia-Pacific's Agency of the Year Awards 2012:
- Spikes 2012
- Asia's Top 1000 Brands
- Inside Google's Singapore office
- Red Bull brings Flugtag to Singapore
- Hall of Fame: Creative directors' get-together
- Times Square celebrates Lego's 80th anniversary with 'Lego Xmas Village'
- TBWA's DAN turns partygoers into 'Cocktail Lab Rats'
Image credit: Flickr image by Laura Taylor, used under a Creative Commons license.
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