Online Media

Public relations and marketing practitioners who like to catch up with the latest marketing happenings, trends, insights and ideas across the region will be pleased to read Marketing as they see the relevant, valuable and interesting content. Suffice to say, it’s on their regular reading (RR) list! What is the Marketing magazine? Launched in early 2002, Marketing magazine is highly circulated (with a print readership of more than 100,000) and is so far the longest running trade publication in the Asia-Pacific, reaching out to all marketing and advertising related professionals.…

If you are a young expat or local Singaporean girl, it is no surprise that you will come across or connect with a one of a kind digital publication and an increasingly popular website called The Honeycombers.   Who is the Honeycombers? This web based lifestyle publication is designed for women in Southeast Asia, aged 25-45, to provide hyper-local content on life in Singapore, Jakarta and also Bali. The publisher also owns a dedicated site for parents, HoneyKidsAsia and is planning to expand to Bangkok and Manila next year. The…

When talking about going digital, experts use jargon such as native advertising, ROI, KPI, value proposition, synergy, etc. However, how do we all incorporate this into a coherent, efficient, and on-point digital strategy? The problem of digitizing is not only consumer-oriented; it’s also convincing management what we all know: that digital is an investment towards the future. But you know who gets put in the corner? That kid who doesn’t explain to non-industry professionals the importance of visual viewability or the correct synergy between syndication and distribution and instead, uses…

The blending of paid content into newspapers or magazines in a way that can be difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish from independently reported stories – took a landmark step in US media this January when the New York Times greeted readers with a digital redesign and, to greater buzz, the launch of a “paid posts” feature, a variation of what is more frequently referred to as “native advertising”. While native advertising is by no means a new trend, many journalists and media watchers reacted to the Times’ move with…

Like Heraclitus said, the only constant is change. And in the digital age, change comes fast and furious, indeed. When we last left WeChat, their registration numbers for 2012 had just come out and the service was making its first forays into the West. There were over 300 million users of the free messaging service in China, and the first few million users outside of China had started signing up. Six months on from our mention, WeChat (or “WeiXin” (微信) as it’s known domestically), has boomed steadily within China and…