breaking news | July 25, 2008
| Cass Lam | Hong Kong | 4 hours 29 min agoHong Kong - SmarTone-Vodafone has today rolled out BlackBerry Bold, with a campaign to support the launch created by JWT. | FULL ARTICLE |
Woolf | Staff Writer | Singapore | 5 hours 14 min agoRegional - Text 100 has promoted its regional consultancy director Ava Lawler to the new role of global consultancy director, and has announced new appointments to its APAC management structure. | FULL ARTICLE |
Taylor | Adaline Lau | Hong Kong | 5 hours 30 min agoHong Kong - Text 100 Asia Pacific has hired Simon Taylor as the managing consultant and office lead for the Hong Kong office. | FULL ARTICLE |
HSBC campaign | Adaline Lau | Hong Kong | 5 hours 38 min agoHong Kong - Greg Sutcliff, ECD of Team HSBC, and creative director Alvin Lin are leaving JWT at the end of this month, with Lin taking a regional CD role at Hakuhodo in September. | FULL ARTICLE |
Yeung | Staff Writer | Singapore | 5 hours 57 min agoSingapore - Xilinx has appointed Fai Yeung as VP of sales to lead its extensive network of marketing and sales personnel for the APAC region. | FULL ARTICLE |
McNab | Adaline Lau | Hong Kong | 8 hours 2 min agoHong Kong - US-based integrated digital marketing solutions company Eyeblaster has established its Asia-Pacific office in Hong Kong headed by Ross McNab, sales director for APAC. | FULL ARTICLE |
Beach Ball Babes | Marcus Chhan | Singapore | 8 hours 19 min agoSingapore - The premiere of CH 8's latest series Beach Ball Babes, which included the infamous 'shop at Tiong Bahru market in your bikini' forfeit, has topped this week's charts, according to Taylor Nelson Sofres. | FULL ARTICLE |
Wong | Staff Writer | Singapore | 8 hours 48 min agoSingapore - Crush Advertising has hired ex-POAD sales and marketing director Mabel Wong as associate account director. | FULL ARTICLE |
Kodak moment | Cass Lam | Hong Kong | 10 hours 5 min agoHong Kong - Kodak has been experiencing a technology evolution since the birth of digital camera - it reports 80% of its business revenue comes from digital products such as computer software, camera, scanners and printers. | FULL ARTICLE |
Gossip Girl among the 50 | Marcus Chhan | Singapore | 10 hours 42 min agoSingapore - In what it claims is an "announcement that will shake the pay-TV market", SingTel on Wednesday revealed deals with three major US studios for its mio TV, which will give users access to TV shows within 24 hours after its US telecast. | FULL ARTICLE |
Davis | Marcus Chhan | Singapore | Jul 23, 2008Singapore - JWT president Michael Maedel has paid tribute to the agency's outgoing global CCO, Craig Davis saying he was "sorry to see him leave" and described him as a "key player in JWT's transformation." | FULL ARTICLE |
Eye-catching campaign | Marcus Chhan | Singapore | Jul 23, 2008Singapore - Local eyebrow-grooming boutique chain Browhaus has launched a TBWA\Tequila Singapore-created campaign depicting the company as being a hair salon for a person's eyebrows. | FULL ARTICLE |
| Cass Lam | Hong Kong | Jul 23, 2008Hong Kong - With close to 3 million online visitors per month, online giant Yahoo is overhauling its marketing strategies to maintain its leading position in search and mail in Hong Kong. | FULL ARTICLE |
| Matt Eaton | Hong Kong | Jul 23, 2008Hong Kong - Listed media conglomerate Tom Group has partnered with online TV service Joost to launch a Chinese version of its internet TV platform. | FULL ARTICLE |
Misra | Rayana Pandey | Singapore | Jul 23, 2008India - Pranesh Misra has ended his 28-year affair with Lowe to launch Brandscapes Worldwide Consultancy, a marketing consulting and data analytics company which will base its APAC hub in Singapore. | FULL ARTICLE |
Ang | Contributed Content | Korea | Jul 23, 2008Korea - Publicis Groupe has acquired Korean digital marketing agency, Portfolio. The agency will be part of Publicis Modem and will be rebranded as Publicis Modem Korea. | FULL ARTICLE |
| Adaline Lau | Hong Kong | Jul 23, 2008Hong Kong - Bank of China has selected Focus Media to launch its countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 through an electronic calender screen wrap creative within elevator lobbies of premium office buildings in Hong Kong. | FULL ARTICLE |
Wootton | Staff Writer | Singapore | Jul 23, 2008Regional - Vero Public Relations, which has offices in Thailand and Vietnam, is the latest member to join Waggener Edstrom (WE) Worldwide's Global Alliance program. | FULL ARTICLE |
Lazarus | Marcus Chhan | Singapore | Jul 23, 2008New York - WPP has confirmed Miles Young, chairman for Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Asia Pacific, will succeed Shelly Lazarus as worldwide CEO of The Ogilvy Group effective 1 January 2009. | FULL ARTICLE |
| Staff Writer | Singapore | Jul 22, 2008Singapore - NTUC Fairprice has divided its creative and corporate branding business, which was resigned by McCann Worldgroup, between Euro RSCG, 10AM and Bates 141. | FULL ARTICLE |
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