Asia Specials

Brands spend a lot of time and resources creating news and branded content, surprisingly some of these news-worthy content are just sitting on their websites. Of course not all news are suitable for wider distribution, that is why you have to plan and strategize what goes further than your owned channels, and what doesn’t. That’s a topic for another blog post, but if you do want to distribute your news, what should you be considering? 1. Surfacing content in a sea of information With a growing number of social media…

How do you get the most out of your news release distribution with social media reach? I recently attended an event from the Interactive Advertising Bureau Singapore, and got a chance to learn some of the new development from Twitter especially for this region after its IPO. Hosted by Ken Mandel, Managing Director of Hootsuite APAC and Shailesh Rao, VP – Asia Pacific, Latin America & Emerging Markets Twitter, they shared some great tips for marketers and PR professionals on how to better utilize social networks, and integrate them to the…

I have been looking for insights for a session that I will be hosting at the SES Singapore Conference, I want to prepare myself with one particular question I usually get at industry events and client meetings: Can you name a few Asian brands who have promoted themselves well? It is a difficult question to answer – not that I want to be diplomatic, but because some Asian brands are doing better in one area than the other in terms of communications, marketing, branding and more; and because of the heterogeneous media landscape and market…

An Interview with Ben Veechai  (Regional Director, International Marketing, UBM Asia) As marketers, we strive to learn more all the time – learn more about the customers, the latest technology, our competitors, the macro-economy, our business & new products, and so much more. One of the things I enjoy as the marketer for PR Newswire is that I get to know and meet communications professionals from all types of industries, and I thought it would be useful if I can ask them to share their secret source of marketing, so we…

Earlier this month, PR Newswire was invited to speak at the KL Social Media Event which was held at Marche, The Curve Damansara, Malaysia on 21st September. Yitung Liw, our Business Development Manager was the first speaker, his presentation on “Global Content Marketing’ caught much attention during and after his session. [caption id="attachment_1233" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Yitung Liw from PR Newswire’s Malaysia office, speaking at KL Social Media event.[/caption] Yitung talked about how brands leveraged PR Newswire’s global network of media and influencers, citing client examples including Porsche, LG, Pandora, Wynn, Johnnie Walker…