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Monday, 12 July 2010 17:52 |
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Shannon (the secretary) has lost her cat and has asked David (the graphic designer) to help with a lost poster. This is their email correspondence…
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Friday, 09 July 2010 23:12 |
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This video on Social Media in APAC created for a recent internal meeting of our regional Digital Influence team. Enjoy!
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Fastcompany: Facebook-MOL Partnership Brings Virtual Credits to Real Stores |
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Friday, 09 July 2010 15:37 |
Facebook is partnering with MOL Global to deliver a new way to buy Facebook credits--in person at a MOL-connected store. It's a strange real world/virtual world crossover, and definitely a sign of the way future digital finances will work.
MOL is a hot-topic Internet financial company, though if you haven't heard about it it's not surprising--while it operates in 75 countries, mainly its operations are centered in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, India, Australia, and New Zealand. According to its press data, the company handles "over 60 million transactions" annually, leveraging "a network of more than 540,000 physical payment collection points" that connect to 88 banks in nine different countries. It's also a name you may have heard of in relation to Friendster, since it acquired the social network back in December 2009.
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FastCompany: Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine |
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 16:32 |
According to cofounder Biz Stone, who spoke yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Twitter now reaches some 800 million search queries per day. That's over 24 billion searches per month, more than Bing (4.1 billion) and Yahoo (9.4 billion) combined.
While Stone's company is still a long way off from Google, which supports around 88 billion search queries per month, Twitter is quickly catching up. Since last April, Twitter searches are up 33%. To put that in perspective, a study by Nielsen last year concluded that Bing was the fastest-growing search engine in the U.S. after it ballooned over 22%. Now it seems Twitter has taken the title.
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MSNBC.com: World Cup fever idles workplaces worldwide |
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Tuesday, 06 July 2010 19:44 |
BERLIN - Told they couldn't watch the World Cup on the job, Italian auto workers went on strike — conveniently, a half hour before game time. German companies set up office viewing areas to keep employees from defecting on game days.
And Brazil? Brazil basically shuts down when its team plays, with businesses and schools closed and elective surgery put off so people can be in front of a TV.
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Guardian.co.uk: Sir Martin Sorrell: advertising man who made the industry's biggest pitch |
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Monday, 05 July 2010 17:34 |
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When Sir Martin Sorrell got himself a puppy, a red setter, he named it Savage. As our car crawls through central London, from WPP's Mayfair head office to Millbank, where Sorrell is to sit on a panel, the dog sits placidly in the back, lolling its head in the sun. The name couldn't seem less apt. When Sorrell gets out, he offers a firm handshake and urges me to be nice to the mutt. "I called him Savage, because he isn't," he says.
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FastCompany.com: Insiders Dish on What's Ahead for Crispin, Porter + Bogusky Without Alex Bogusky |
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Monday, 05 July 2010 12:47 |
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The so-called Ad Jesus announced yesterday that he'd quit the biz he so heavily influenced. What's that mean for the powerhouse "ad agency of the decade" that traded on his name?
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TheStar: Universal McCann’s recipe to victory |
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Saturday, 03 July 2010 09:49 |
MEDIA specialist Universal McCann (UM), by clinching the Agency of the Year title at the Malaysian Media Awards (MMA) last Friday, proves that one doesn’t have to be the biggest to be the best in the industry, says chief executive officer Prashant Kumar.
He says the victory shows that even small agencies can be named as the Agency of the Year if they do a good job.
“We are extremely happy and proud with our achievement in the MMA. Our people are very excited as they have put in their heart and soul to do their work and be recognised by the industry,” he tells StarBizWeek in an interview.
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BrandRepulic.com: Diesel's lauded 'Stupid' ads banned by ASA |
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:58 |
The ads received 33 complaints objecting to the ads on three key points: They were unsuitable to be seen by children; they were offensive; and that they encouraged behaviour that was anti-social.
The ads, part of Diesel's 'Be Stupid' campaign, were created by Anomaly and ran in June of last year.
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Campaignasia: Agencies boycott Reckitt Benckiser media pitch in India |
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:34 |
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NEW DELHI - A bitter fight has erupted between Reckitt and the advertising industry in India over the past month, after the consumer goods company's decision to impose a pitch fee for its media buying business.
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