What the lead singer of the British rock band Queen once screamed to his audience is demanded from consumers nonstop from marketers, namely immediate gratification, and quick solutions.

The catchy song written by Brian May and performed by the charismatic Freddy, repeats “I want it all, and I want it now!” again and again in the song from 1989. Maybe it is not a coincidence that the same year the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, who knows. But what is for sure is that we came a long way since then considering technological advances.

In the digital age, nobody wants to be overwhelmed with unspecified floods of offers anymore, rather everyone expects to be addressed individually with solutions that are perfectly tailored to their needs. Hence, the motto “a lot helps a lot” no longer applies for marketing activities today. While mass marketing has led to enormous wastage for decades, a new approach is now experiencing an upswing.

Tier One Entertainment, Southeast Asia's leading Esports and Gaming Entertainment Company, announced a collaboration with Admazing Co., the world's leading in-game advertising channel that has a reach of 2.6 billion unique users around the globe.

Tier One Entertainment is seeded by one of the biggest esports venture capital groups in the world, with an accumulative reach of 100.9 million on Facebook, 23.5 million on YouTube, 11.8 million on Instagram, & 9.1 million on TikTok. The collaboration includes exclusive privilege for Tier One Entertainment to offer the Admazing Co. in-game ads platform to its local brand-partners in the Philippines. Tier One Entertainment also earned the right to cater Admazing Co. within Southeast Asia.

According to the global technology research and advisory company Technavio, the in-game advertising market is expected to grow by USD 11 billion in 2024. This growth is driven by the increasing popularity of mobile gaming, the growing adoption of smartphones, and the increasing availability of high-speed internet. Hence, adding in-game advertising to its core advertising services is essential for Tier One Entertainment to strengthen its gaming ecosystem as well as push further its dominance in the mobile gaming industry with its esports team, Blacklist International.

"This partnership with Admazing Co. enables Tier One Entertainment to close the loop in terms of serving the advertising needs of brands. Our ultimate goal is to provide our clients with the solutions to efficiently penetrate the hard-to-reach Millennials and Gen Z audiences. Admazing Co. is a superior platform because it is the only one that has direct connection to game developers; hence, providing premium inventory. We are fortunate and glad to have a truly top tier partner like Admazing Co.," Joanne Llavore, Chief Commercial Officer, Tier One Entertainment said.

Indeed, the world's highest-performing mobile games curator, Admazing Co., has the highest games inventory penetrating Gen Z and millennial audiences in the region which Tier One Entertainment is aiming to cover for its brand-partners. According to Admazing Co., partnership with Tier One Entertainment in Southeast Asia is a major path they are thrilled to take.

"We recognized Tier One's expertise in the gaming industry and I am especially proud of this collaboration because it highlights how we are working together to change the advertising era through mobile game advertising and help build the next generation audience experience in a brand-safe environment. This partnership also represents a major milestone in the growth of Mobile Gaming as an effective territory in the region," Edward Castillo, Managing Director, Admazing Co. said.

Without doubts, in-game advertising allows marketers to interact with their consumers in a highly intuitive way by delivering high-impact creatives to a very engaged audience.

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HypeAuditor surveyed almost 1,000 of their influencers and agencies to take a deeper look into influencer behavior during the pandemic asking the following questions:

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Influencer’s end-to-end influencer marketing platform offers brands and agencies full data transparency around their influencer marketing campaigns, achieved through real-time campaign data and insights, dynamic creator tracking, approval functionality, and proof of success.

The importance of communities is growing steadily, which is why more and more brands are trying to activate their power, and have an impact on our view of influencer marketing: In future, decision-makers should no longer ask themselves: "Which person is the right one for me", but rather "In which community do I want to take place and which person can help me?"

With the future of work being now and being digital, businesses need to build an intelligent workplace – one where employees can develop and communicate content internally and with customers in a highly automated and responsive way. This enables business growth, improves employee experience, and facilitates business continuity.

While the trend of remote working continues, Forrester Consulting, together with Adobe, have researched on the common challenges facing organizations and how they can accelerate their transition towards becoming intelligent digital workplaces.

Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech to text (STT). It incorporates knowledge and research in the computer science, linguistics, and computer engineering fields.

Influencers open new channels and opportunities for marketers to advertise products and they get paid for their service at a lucrative rate. Currently, for instance, the advertising market for influencers is growing and estimated to reach more than $15 billion dollars this year.

The spread of voice assistants, such as Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, heralds a new evolutionary stage for user interfaces.

Global advertising spend is on course for 12.6% growth this year to reach US$665bn, an upgrade from 6.7% initially projected, as the global ad market rebounds strongly from the COVID-19 downturn of last year, finds WARC, the international intelligence service. Further growth, of 8.2%, is forecast for 2022, by when the global advertising market will be worth more than US$700bn.

Building a brand is hard work and costs money, making parasite strategies like brand hijacking even more annoying. It is simply shameful to steal the attention, followers, or potential customers without much investment at the expense of brands, I think, which is why I want to look into forms of brand hijacking and provide some ideas on how to protect yourself from it happening.

There are millions of apps that have been downloaded several hundred billion times in total in the app stores of Apple, Google, and Amazon. After all, there is a suitable app for everything, which can be installed on the smartphone with just a few clicks. Certainly, that influences media usage behavior: already today, many people spend more time per day on the mobile phone display than in front of the TV.

The global 5G rollout is entering the third year and in the leading 5G markets, such as South Korea and China, subscribers and traffic volume have been growing significantly.