Promotions and positions gained for this month.
McCann Worldgroup Australia acquires SMART
McCann announced the acquisition of SMART, an award-winning advertising agency.
Spikes Asia 2011: Grand Prixes and parties
Context, Community, Commerce and Creativity. According to Todd Sampson, CEO of Leo Burnett Australia in his presentation to the audience at Spikes Asia, these are essential elements of an advertising campaign. These principles could equally be applied…
Ad man with stamina of the Year
Part of my job is to attend and report on conferences related to the advertising and related industries. It often takes me around the region from to Japan to Bangladesh and I even get invites to shows in the Middle East, France, UK and USA…
Briq, Bodyshop and Butterflies
The Body Shop has launched an iPhone app as part of a Singapore campaign initiated by local agency Briq.
Industry Face-Off: Awards Make the Difference
An awards ceremony is a special occasion, a night of glitz and glamour, where members of the industry get to rub shoulders with luminaries and feel… (Contributed by Rohit Dadwal, Managing Director, Mobile Marketing Association Asia Pacific Limited)
September 2011
New clients or projects gained this month.
Laurie Coots on the gamification of marketing
Allein Moore catches up with Laurie Coots, CMO at TBWA Worldwide at Spikes 2011. She talks about gamification, a theory revolving around the elements that make play, such as a sense of losing time, an invitation to participate, a sense of challenge and mastery. She feels the digital age has made us too obsessed in writing games instead of making our brand proposition more interesting and more fun.
Getting into the minds of pre-family men
Microsoft Advertising and MEC have published the results of a commissioned survey in Asia designed to gather insights into men’s online behaviour.
Jump in mobile Internet usage points to change in tracking
With the growing popularity of Internet-enabled devices such as the smartphones and tablets, researchers and clients need to track where web traffic originates. Nielsen’s figures show personal computers…