The past year has been a sink or swim moment for many streaming services in Asia-Pacific. But it isn’t just the arrival of the House of Mouse that has shaken things up. Chinese giants are aggressively pursuing Southeast Asian viewers. India has become a key battleground for international services, causing local players to boost their…

Giving three existing executives new roles, McCann Worldgroup has made changes that put new leaders in place in North America, Asia-Pacific and Japan. Chris Macdonald, chairman and CEO of McCann, has been looking after North America since Devika Bulchandani left the North America president role to join Ogilvy in November. In Japan, Watson replaces Antony…

Publicis Groupe has created a new Groupe-level CEO role in Taiwan and promoted Irene Chang, formerly CEO of Publicis Media Taiwan, to fill it. She will report to Jane Lin-Baden, managing partner of Publicis Groupe Asia Pacific and CEO of Publicis Groupe North Asia.

S4 Capital is adding Salesforce specialist Destined to its data and digital media practice in Asia Pacific. The merger will make the Salesforce specialist and its more than 85 certified professionals part of MightyHive. Destined “significantly expands” the capabilities of the company’s data and digital-media practice in Asia Pacific and augments its global Salesforce capabilities,…

As a fat woman in India, I’ve never really seen where the ‘therapy’ in ‘retail therapy’ was supposed to kick in (unless it’s the kind of session where you sob copiously, maybe?). A clothes shopping expedition was a constant reminder of how you needed to be a certain size to find apparel that made you…

This is part of a video series for the Power List 2021, created in partnership with Twitter as part of their global #LeadersforGood initiative.  As SVP, ads solution and marketing, of one of SEA’s fastest-growing unicorns, Kevin Mintaraga knows a thing or two about agility and innovation. In the past 18 months, he spear-headed efforts…

M&C Saatchi announced that Tanuj Philip, Anthony Khoo, Toh Han Ming, Sangram Sengupta, Katherine Teo and Nicholas Leow have decided to exit the agency in order to take over ownership and operation of Dayre.

IPG posted strong Q2 results on Wednesday, following Omnicom yesterday in demonstrating that the advertising industry is on the rebound after a difficult 12 months.  Organic revenue grew 19.8% year-over-year in Q2, with net revenues clocking in at US$2.27 billion. Despite the backdrop of a 9.9% dip in Q2 2020, IPG’s worst performing quarter during the pandemic,…

Aston Martin has celebrated its return to Grand Prix racing for the first time in more than 60 years with the launch of a fan and partner engagement platform at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Channel 4’s two multi-award-winning Paralympic Games films were always going to be a hard act to follow. Now credited as the benchmark for the way all other broadcasters cover the event, the channel faced a “mammoth” task in creating its third campaign, for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.