Principal media’s growth is spurred on by budget cuts and shortening CMO tenures.
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Majority of marketers are unprepared to combat deepfakes: study
A report from Forrester highlights the risks that companies face from deepfakes, as well as the current inadequate state of preparation to combat the problem.
Ecommerce sales in APAC to hit $3.2 trillion by 2028: Forrester
TOP OF THE CHARTS: China leads the Asia Pacific region in terms of e-commerce sales and will have more than 40% online retail penetration by 2028, according to the report.
How exactly is AI used in APAC marketing? Please take our survey
Campaign Asia-Pacific is teaming up with Forrester to understand how marketers and agency professionals are applying AI in their work now and plan to in future. Answer our 10-minute survey to receive the full report.
China, India to lead global marketing-spend growth through 2025
Global marketing spend will increase by 7% annually to $4.7 trillion in 2025, with China, India and South Korea among the markets exceeding the global average, according to a new forecast from Forrester.
How China's marketing community sees the metaverse
Campaign China asked Gen Z creatives and senior marketing and branding experts to discuss how they view the present and future of the metaverse in the China market?
CMOs lag behind other leaders in heading digital transformation projects: Forrester
TOP OF THE CHARTS: New research finds marketing and technology leaders fail to work in lock step and half of IT leaders expect the CMO title to be replaced.
CMOs face uphill battle proving marketing's value to CEOs, board
Marketers must be able to link marketing activity with business impact to stay relevant, suggests Forrester survey.
Forrester CMO pushes for tighter integration of sales, marketing and product teams
Marketers need to tighten up oversight over all the touchpoints in the buying journey, which has increased from 17 to 27 on average during the pandemic, according to Shirley Macbeth.
Agencies and brands divided on impact of privacy on ad targeting
Media agencies have higher levels of concern and lower levels of confidence in their post-cookie solutions than brands and publishers, according to a comprehensive survey on privacy in APAC. Agency leaders from OMG and Mediabrands give their thoughts.
Six takeaways from Forrester's predictions for CMOs in 2021
In a time of intense flux, sweeping changes could affect everything from purpose to customer loyalty and cause an existential crisis for CMOs.
Forrester 2021 predictions: Integration of marketing and CX, cloud to skyrocket, innovation to suffer
CMOs will embrace CX, loyalty programmes will be re-emphasised and media money will shift into retention methods, the firm's annual outlook predicts.
Are we at the start of a CTV boom in APAC?
A Forrester study predicts significant ad spend growth in video over the next 12 months.
China, APAC to lead global social-media adspend
TOP OF THE CHARTS: Forrester predicts China's social ad spend will triple by 2023, leading APAC past North America globally.
CMOs need to muscle in on digital transformation, Forrester says
By taking full responsibility for the customer experience, marketers can play a more serious role in effecting change.
3 emerging tech tools restoring data control to consumers
From 'personal data lockers' to 'digital twins', we look at some future developments in the world of data privacy that will help marketers improve the customer experience.
SEA ecommerce to reach $53 billion in 2023: Forrester
TOP OF THE CHARTS: Indonesia is the largest market, but the Philippines is the fastest-growing.
Forrester's 2019 brand outlook: drop the toys and get back to work
Businesses will spend the next year getting down to the hard graft involved in digital transformation, the firm predicts, after races to invest in the latest innovations have proved less fruitful than imagined.
Investments in customer experience bear fruit across the board: Research
The good news: Experience-focused brands perform better on a wide range of metrics. The bad news: Only 29% of companies in APAC qualify.
Will the acquisitions by Forrester Research reinvent analysis firms?
The market has proven that real-time CX insights are an operational advantage.
Forrester Research acquires FeedbackNow and GlimpzIt
A combined $5 million acquisition by Forrester Research is set to help it launch its own CX Cloud, a move that may hurt its impartiality with technology-based research & ranking reports.
Online grocery: Sprinting for the last-mile race
Retailers are finding that grocery is unlike any other category when it comes to competing in rapidly shifting online and offline environments.
Emotional data is not an oxymoron: Unruly's take on engagement
The ability to mine emotional information separates winning brands from losing ones, and will be even more crucial as tech develops, according to Unruly's global insight lead.
Forrester gives full marks to only three digital agencies in China
A new report ranks agencies according to 15 services covering strategy, marketing and technology.
Context the key to effective engagement: MasterCard VP
Brands need to fully re-engineer their marketing strategies to ensure the driving factor is context ahead of just content, said MasterCard vice president Dominic Koh.
Synthesio and Brandwatch get high marks for social listening: Forrester
ASIA PACIFIC - According to Forrester's 30-criteria evaluation of enterprise social-listening platform providers, Synthesio and Brandwatch lead the pack, while Sysomos stumbles due to a lack of cohesiveness in its value proposition.
Marketer satisfaction with social media fails to match usage: Forrester
SINGAPORE - B2C marketers in Asia Pacific are becoming increasingly active in social marketing, but their level of satisfaction with various social platforms remains mixed, according to a new report by Forrester.
Programmatic-video trading matures quickly in SEA: Research
ASIA-PACIFIC - Southeast Asia is rapidly catching up with the region's most advanced programmatic market, Australia, in the amount of video ads traded programmatically and the percentage of those ads placed through RTB (real-time bidding), according to a Forrester Report that SpotXChange recently commissioned.
Facebook doesn’t work for B2B: Forrester
GLOBAL – Eighty-five per cent of B2B marketers feel that Facebook is not the social channel they can rely on to carry out their research and evaluation of the technologies and services they want to buy, according to a report by Forrester.
Brand building must be a company-wide effort: Forrester
GLOBAL – All chief marketing officers (CMOs) surveyed in Forrester Research’s latest study agree that brand building is a company-wide effort that requires employees in all departments to be brand ambassadors.