Publicis Groupe Singapore just announced the launch of Publicis Digital Lab to expand the agency’s digital business transformation capability. The fully-integrated digital lab combines machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to develop the tools of tomorrow and provide world-class solutions to the industry.

Ernest & Young (EY) and Microsoft launched a blockchain solution for content rights and royalties’ management that aims to streamline costly and time-consuming processes significantly involved. Their solution has been designed to serve any industry where intellectual property or assets are licensed to other parties and where the creators are paid royalties based on royalty agreements.

Almost a decade in the making since the inception of Bitcoin, and with a current market-cap hovering around half a trillion dollars USD, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain have become common to the tech savvy. While most people don’t understand how they work, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are not only hot topic buzzwords, but they’ve created thousands of multi-millionaires. Even so, most people in the mainstream have no interest or intent to embrace Bitcoin and, as such, it still has veritably no bearing on everyday life as one still can’t even pay for a cup of coffee with any cryptocurrency.

By 2022, there will be 280 million 5G subscriptions in Asia Pacific, with 5G service revenue reaching US$4.5 billion. Compared to previous generations of networks, 5G’s significance lies in its capability to offer real time end-to-end service offerings. Alongside the emergence of technologies such as the IoT, drones, smart devices and with increased mobile phone uptake, 5G has been seen as a key enabler of all these by providing the infrastructure to carry large amounts of data, creating a smarter and more connected world and also driving the digital economy.

RTB House has adapted its multi-layer brand safety mechanisms to tailor itself for each brand’s policies.

Reaching the desired audience has always been a challenge not to be sneezed at for advertisers and it can be assumed that it will be even more difficult in future to place advertising messages in a targeted manner. This is because the ePrivacy Regulation (ePVO) will prohibit collecting data to create detailed user profiles without explicit permission of the user. This makes it much harder to play personalized advertising across channels.

Appier a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced the launch of AIQUA, a proactive marketing automation platform that helps marketers harness the power of AI to preemptively understand and segment their audience, and to engage users with AI-based messages across channels.

Word has spread that in the increasingly digital world the importance of customers continues to grow explosively and there is general agreement on the importance of customer relations for the creation of value for a company’s success.

But why do customers then feel so little about all this and still not have the status they deserve?

Videos are said to be strong traffic and engagement guarantors in online marketing, especially when used in social media, since posting live videos and short clips is explicitly encouraged and promoted by networks like Facebook where visual content gets a lot of attention.

A year ago, MediaMath Founder and CEO Joe Zawadzki and IBM Chief Digital Officer Bob Lord partnered and laid out their vision of how to help unlocking the full potential of brand engagement to deliver marketing that customers would truly love. Both companies were committed to join forces to reshape the advertising industry by connecting paid and owned media into a single view of the end-to-end customer journey using AI-powered marketing technology and they just presented the result – the IBM Media Optimizer, powered by MediaMath.

According to emarketer.com, the digital marketing and media industries are looking closely at whether blockchain can help solve some serious challenges with transparency, fraud and privacy, pointing out that it is still too early to come to a decision. Anyway, 2018 is expected to be a year of testing and learning.

The cost of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors has decreased remarkably over the past decade, heralding new possibilities of a renewed push for smart cities. With worldwide spending on IoT predicted to surpass the USD$1 trillion mark by 2020, this has increasingly attracted attention within the various sectors.

At ConnecTechAsia, the new mega technology event in Singapore, Irdeto just launched its Android TV security solution named “Irdeto Armor”, which has been designed to protect the device, data and services built on Android TV.

In the wake of the recent Facebook scandal, Fysical, that provides a protocol for the transparent and compliant exchange of physical world data on the blockchain, is partnering with the blockchain-backed data platform Streamr to put consumers back in control of their data.