TikTok's inaugural Star Camp 2025 offers top-performing agencies in Southeast Asia the chance to supercharge growth through structured learning, strategy, and serious perks.
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Agency of the Year 2024 SEA winners: Singapore and Malaysia
Check out the complete winners list from Campaign's final AOY 2024 event for Singapore and Malaysia, as well as several Southeast Asian regional awards with entrants across five markets.
Miniso's CMO on consumer-centricity in local marketing and product design
Robin Liu opens up about the brand’s marketing strategies and overseas expansion for the New York-listed Chinese retailer.
Unmasking a Covid cause of marine pollution
INSPIRATION STATION: Alibaba, WWF and F5 collaborated on highlighting the tremendous damage caused by 1.5 billion masks finding their way into the oceans.
Why marketers need to embrace ‘Mobile Moments of Truth’
Rapid digitisation has led to massive disruption in the consumer journey. InMobi’s 2020 Mobile Marketing Handbook says marketers need pay heed to ‘Mobile Moments of Truth’.
Your 2020 mobile marketing guide: Top insights from InMobi
What channels should SEA marketers invest in? Is superApps or single-service apps more popular? How are brands achieving personalisation? InMobi’s latest marketing handbook helps identify areas of opportunities in the region.
What Southeast Asian marketers can learn from North America to maximise in-app programmatic
Lack of understanding, trust and inventory perception may be holding them back.
Mobile users are cheaper in SEA, but harder to convert
Marketers can buy app installs in Southeast Asia for less than in other markets, but engagement is a different matter, according to a new report.
Wavemaker names APAC president; north/south CEOs
Media network promotes from within for all three roles.
Commerce for the next billion: Build out your mobile arsenal
Part two of our series describes two critical parts of an omnichannel experience: your mobile apps and ability to accept mobile payments.
Reebok awards social-media remit in six SEA markets
Red2 Digital will provide content creation, creative development, analytics and CRM.
SEA on par with global viewability standards: IAB
A new report shows the region holding its own against US-defined standards for desktop display advertising.
SEA e-retailers spoken about, not to, on social media
Vast majority of people taking part in social-media conversations about e-retailers in three leading Southeast Asian markets do not interact with the brands themselves, according to Digimind’s latest report.
JWT hires new Southeast Asia CEO
Jacco ter Schegget takes on Southeast Asia mandate for Mirum and JWT, as Nanda Ivens departs.
Little astronaut, young ballerina launch Lazada branding campaign
The online retailer and Leo Burnett Malaysia present two heartwarming tales of gift-giving.
Growing pains in SEA’s ecommerce market
A fragmented market and blind investments without concrete scale-up plans leave e-tailers searching niches for growth.
No, young people aren't abandoning Facebook (and other SEA stats from We Are Social)
We are Social has published a new report on digital, social and mobile usage around Southeast Asia. Here you'll find a few choice slides on trends around SEA and (in the final three slides) the world. Head to wearesocial.sg for a Slideshare of the full report, which contains a wealth of data on 11 countries around the region, plus an analysis by Simon Kemp, We Are Social's regional managing partner, who points out that millennials remain strong users of Facebook.
Batiks and Adidas: A new nationalism in Southeast Asia
A wave of national pride has young people mashing up local and global culture in a shift that has important implications for brands, writes Flamingo's Adri Reksodipoetro.
Jetstar's brand refresh shines a light on destinations, selfies and travel experiences
‘Because you can’, a rebranding campaign for Australian budget airline Jetstar, moves away from a focus on cheap tickets to highlight destinations, experiences and the obligatory travel selfies that result.
It’s game-on in China and Southeast Asia
Following China’s decision to lift the ban on consoles, it is not just mobile and PC games that are exploding—advergames by brands are catching on too.
Let’s do social in Southeast Asia. Or maybe not.
It's time for brand marketers to get beyond their desire to "do" social. They can start by reviewing the key social developments in Southeast Asia for 2104.
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.
Leo Burnett Hong Kong reports another property account win this year
HONG KONG - Leo Burnett Hong Kong reported one of its biggest account wins this year - the relaunch project of leisure complex Shekou Sea World (海上世界) by China Merchants Group, from the local property agency FlaHalo in Shenzhen. This came only after a second meeting with the client.
OPINION: OOH growth in Southeast Asia to double global average
Bala Pomaleh, CEO of Posterscope in Malaysia and Singapore, looks at common catalysts that fuel the growth of OOH in the region, and more specifically SEA where growth projections are double the global average.
Bates 141 appoints strategic planning director for SEA
SOUTHEAST ASIA - Bates 141 has appointed Pradipta Roy as strategic planning director for Southeast Asia.