TODAY'S EDITION 05/18/2026

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Global brands face a trust test in APAC: Why localisation theatre is no longer enough

As foreign brands lose trust ground across APAC, the winners are the ones giving local teams real power to shape how the brand shows up in market.

Why the Swatch x Audemars Piguet Royal Pop could be the Labubu of watches

From Singapore to Hong Kong, consumers lined up for days to buy a $400 pocket watch on a lanyard. The Royal Pop's sellout suggests Gen Z consumers are investing and splurging on highly-curated collectibles—especially when it's luxury.

Spotify changes logo for 20th anniversary and users aren't impressed

Spotify has swapped its familiar green app icon for a sparkly disco-ball design to mark its 20th anniversary, but the temporary makeover has sparked a wave of backlash.

Initiative Australia CEO moves to News Corp

Jo McAlister will head up STORYx, a new function for content integration and strategy.

Japan and EMEA lift Dentsu's Q1, APAC continues to struggle

“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.

Agency Performance Review 2026: access opens to all subscribers

Information tier subscribers can now access Campaign's most recent review of 22 APAC agency networks.

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.

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.

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.

The Information

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.

The Work


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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OPINIONS

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.


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