Friday May 17th

Office workers in SEA are among the most receptive to AI, and use technology to overcome challenges to productivity and efficiency
Adobe released new research revealing that almost 50 percent of office workers in Southeast Asia (SEA) rate access to technology above perks like food and slick office design. "The Future of Work: APAC Study" engaged close to 5,000 office workers from 10 countries across the Asia Pacific (APAC) ...
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Qualtrics and Kantar TNS join forces to form global CX powerhouse
Qualtrics, the leader in experience management, announced a global partnership with Kantar TNS, one of the world’s largest research agencies, to help organizations put customers at the heart of their business.
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53% of Singaporean shoppers are seeking the help of chatbots for holiday shopping
Bot-powered commerce is on a tipping point in Singapore according to the new SAP Hybris Singapore Christmas Shopper Survey 2017.
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Influence Chain
Influence economy sparkles with blockchain technologyInfluence Chain, founded in 2017, created a token-based ecosystem that exploits the advantages of private blockchain by building up a token exchange, where influential power (individualized intellectual property) can be monetized into digital asse ...
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Technology trends that no retailer should neglect
How to deal with Amazon Dash, customized content, cross-device user experience, and convergence of sales channels? In a retail business world that’s clearly characterized and dominated by rising customer expectations, decreasing brand loyalty, reduced margins and an array of options for custom ...
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In 2018, the digital world must adapt to new developments
Kantar Millward Brown recently analyzed the world's most important digital media trends of the new year. According to the market research and consulting firm, a new distribution of advertising budgets can be expected, as well as consumer innovations in areas such as Walled Gardens, Branded Entertain ...
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Adoption of IoT platforms will be the Top IT trend in 2018
Smart object storage, analytics and AI, as well as the extension of agile methodologies across the enterprise, will all play key roles during the coming year in the Asia Pacific region.
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Marketing teams must evolve in 2018 to get their act together
When talking about technology, a lot has changed in the marketing industry in recent years, but structures and teams have largely remained the same. Hence, it is believed that 2018 is the year in which the internal organization gets adapted to external technologies, simply because a renewed disrupti ...
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Commerce marketing ecosystem important to deliver seamless shopping experiences
Criteo unveiled findings from two third-party studies, which highlight the pressing need for retailers and brands to organize and apply data at scale to understand shoppers, reach them, and inspire them to buy.
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Getty Images’ Visual Trends 2018 reveal newfound optimism and a vision of change in storytelling
According to Getty Images’ 2018 Visual Trends predictions, brands and the media will redefine modern masculinity this year. The expert in visual communications identified ‘Masculinity Undone’, ‘Second Renaissance’ and ‘Conceptual Realism’ as the trends socie ...
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Retargeting to right where your customer’s holiday trip really begins
In today’s world, there is no place on Earth too far away to visit. While everyone is busy planning their year-end travels, there is often one very important consideration – wanting to get the best value in travel prices.
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E-commerce trends that will impact 2018 with a vengeance
E-commerce is one of the world's largest growth markets that is growing every year by more than 20%. By 2020, sales are expected to flourish to over US$4 trillion, nearly doubling the status quo. Who wants to get a share of the pie, should therefore keep an eye on upcoming trends, such as:
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CtrlShift and iPinYou join forces to provide global brands access to Chinese audiences
CtrlShift, a Singapore-based audience solutions company, and iPinYou, China’s largest automated media buying technology platform, are joining forces to provide international brands and agencies access to Chinese audiences. This will be done via an integration of iPinYou’s automated media ...
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MicroStrategy unveils holistic map for organizations to build an ‘Intelligent Enterprise’
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, unveiled a map for the Intelligent Enterprise at its annual user conference, MicroStrategy World™ 2018. The map serves as a playbook that offers a collection of technologies and techniques t ...
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Online-to-offline Integration key focus of Singles’ Day 2017
China's Singles' Day has grown beyond a Chinese online sales campaign into an international, omni-channel, retail-as-entertainment festival.
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The most important mobile marketing trends for 2018
Mobile has come to stay and has already moved past the desktop in many areas. This development will for sure continue in the next few years, which is why digital marketers need to find new ways to attract mobile users.
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Delayed payment options will give not only online conversion a boost
With an increasing number of clothing & footwear retailers offering delayed payment options in an attempt to drive conversion, retailers who offer ‘try before you buy’ options - and are well placed to cope with processing returned goods - will be most likely to make the service a suc ...
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Dynamic Spectrum Alliance published new model rules for TV White Space technology to bridge the digital divide and support the IoT
The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) has announced the publication of new model rules for TV White Space (TVWS) technology. The new model rules will provide governments, policy makers and regulators with the tools necessary to enable the quick and efficient deployment of TVWS networks to help bridge ...
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Appointments & Announcements
  Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced new appointments to its global leadership team: Mark Ablett has been named senior vice president of global go-to-market (GTM) strategy and Daniel Chong has been named senior vice president of Asia Pacific (APAC). Both w ...
Golden rules for your social media communication
Businesses often struggle to build a successful social media strategy, but the following ten golden rules might help to ease the task when considering at least the most basic requirements. For instance, many social media setbacks happen by perceiving social media as something completely different fr ...
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Data science is a jack-of-all-trades
Artificial intelligence (AI) has found its way into our living rooms, as seen with Siri, Alexa, or Cortana, pointing out that the demand for real-time data analysis tools will heavily increase. Most IT applications will be supplemented by AI and self-learning, machine-learning (ML) -driven intellige ...
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Eight words to watch in 2018
Professor Jeremy Myerson provided us with his predictions for the key words and themes to watch this year, which are:
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4 Digital Advertising Trends marketers should be looking out for in 2018
In the advertising world, 2017 can be seen as a transitional year for publishers and platforms.
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Launch of IoT protocol for Tmall Genie-controlled Smart Home Ecosystem
Alibaba A.I. Labs, which leads the development of Alibaba's consumer artificial intelligent (AI) products, and MediaTek, a global fabless semiconductor company, announced a strategic collaboration in Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives, including smart home protocols, customized IoT chips and AI sm ...
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China incessantly surveils Internet communication
The Chinese government is continuously trying to centralize the domestic and international digital communication and to take over VPNs meant for multinational corporations.
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Tableau’s Hyper data engine technology brings analytical performance to the next level
Tableau Software, the leader in visual analytics, announced the roll out of Hyper, the new data engine technology included within Tableau 10.5. With Hyper's ability to slice and dice massive volumes of data in seconds, customers will see up to 5X faster query speed and up to 3X faster extract creati ...
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IDC’s datacenter predictions for the Asia Pacific region
IDC just revealed its datacenter predictions for the Asia Pacific region as well as its view on how datacenter modernization and automation, edge datacenters, consumption-based procurement and software-defined datacenters will impact organizations in the region in the next three years. The research ...
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Seize the opportunity of Application-to-Person (A2P) Rich Communication Service (RCS) messaging
CLX Communications, a leading Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider, announced the launch of the first global Rich Communications Service (RCS) messaging API with SMS fall-back.
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The ‘Art of Integration’ requires holistic monitoring of ad reactions across all channels
The variety of channels available to marketers has increased exponentially, we know from Kantar Millward Brown’s recent study AdReaction: The Art of Integration, and that ineffective multichannel strategies are jeopardizing the success of campaigns. More than 14,000 16-65-year-old have been su ...
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Digitization brings more automation, more personalization, legal barriers and new monetization channels in 2018
The digitalization of marketing keeps its status of being a megatrend in 2018 and continues to breed new developments with the help of technology. In fact, the following trends can be expected this year:
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