TwitVideo: Twitter Video Service in Japan…
Twitter, in conjunction with its local Japanese partner DG Mobile looks to have launched a video service for Japanese Tweeters… TwitVideo. This service will allow users to upload and host video clips on Twitter that can be then tweeted. As per Media.Asia this is quite a departure for Twitter, and is isolated to Japan. It
IAB Singapore outlines its plans
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Singapore has outlined its future plans which include establishing working committees and hiring permanent staff. IAB plans to set up four working committees on research, training and education, events and marketing, and standards and guidelines. It hopes to be able to create guides for the industry, hold events and exhibitions,
This week in Sydney: Australian Web Week…
It’s Australian Web Week this week… with a whole host of interesting events for anyone involved in the web. From pure geeks, to entrepreneurs to startup incubators… all are invited to join a number of social and professional gatherings. Unfortunately, due to my full time job, I only have time to attend 1 evening event
Yahoo boosting brand awareness in India…
It appears that Yahoo is spending some serious money to increase brand awareness in India… The advert itself promotes the recently launched ‘Every You’ campaign, and is clearly an attempt by Yahoo! India to increase brand awareness in the English speaking marketplace. Has anyone seen this campaign being promoted in other Asian markets?
Bing starting to Zing, but Google Still Miles Ahead
Some interesting stats from Hitwise, shows an 18% increase on search traffic to Bing. Seems their advertising is working and certainly many of the curious are taking a look. The key will be keeping the curious as regular searchers. If the MSFT/Yahoo search deal goes through the combined traffic would be a reasonable 26%. While
Augmented Reality – A reality for Buuuk
I have been reading on augmented reality for a while now (guess Hichame has more experience in that). To date, most of the application have been in the US or Europe. I have yet to see any of the augmented reality apps that is specific to APAC…until today and I checked my iPhone App store
Singapore ShoppingLifestyle portal offers new ad option
Singapore – Women’s online magazine ShoppingLifestyle.com has announced a new ‘Cost per Open’ email marketing option which they hope will bring more traditional clients online (Click here to read the full article). This is definitely a departure from the business model whereby portal with huge database of end consumers “sell/lease” their customer database to client
Sprice.com goes Mobile
In my previous article “Mobile commerce is reshaping the way consumers plan, book and consume travel” about mobile apps re-shaping the way consumers plan and book travel and how most of the current apps are US-centric. Well, Sprice.com has just join the foray of travel service providers with their iPhone apps – “Sprice Hotels” –
Going to ad:tech Beijing?
Are you one of the lucky people going to ad:tech Beijing in November? Do you have any thoughts you’d like to share? If yes, we’d love to hear from you. At AsiaOnlineMarketing we are always looking for contributors to help grow our network across the Asia Pacific blogosphere. Unfortunately, none of the current members of
