User time on Korea’s favorite social media YouTube soared 38 percent over the last year as the average Korean spent 23 hours per month using the online video platform.…
Retail in Asia, media partner of Accounting & Finance Show Hong Kong
Retail in Asia is a media partner for Accounting & Finance Show Hong Kong.…
China’s Weibo launches its own Instagram
China‘s microblogging website Weibo is set to launch its own version of Instagram dubbed Oasis.…
Korea’s food and beverage companies give up on TVs
Food and beverage companies in Korea have been reducing spending on TV commercials, while mobilizing resources to promote their products on YouTube to reach increasingly digital-savvy young consumers,…
WhatsApp wants to launch payments service in Indonesia
Social media messaging service WhatsApp is planning to launch a digital payment service in Indonesia, with the U.S. firm in talks with several local payment platforms, sources have revealed to Reuters…
Are luxury brands engaging their WeChat communities?
DLG (Digital Luxury Group) has just released the first part of the 2019 WeChat Luxury Index, which focuses on the engagement performance of luxury brands on WeChat.…
ZALORA launches Fashion Festival pop-up in Singapore
ZALORA puts together experiential and interactive themed rooms from favourite fashion and beauty brands.…
Ooops… they did it again!
It seems that brands are slowly learning how to handle this type of crises; however, those episodes have now become a never-ending witch hunt! Once, one is spotted, a long tail of others fall behind i…
Indonesian influencer e-commerce start-up Raena raises $1.82mn in funds
Indonesian start-up Raena has inked $1.82 million in seed funding, as the social media influencer and e-commerce platform looks to grow within Southeast Asia and beyond.…
Kobe’s Evangeline Leong’s opinion on the removal of “likes” on Instagram
How will the removal of ‘likes’ affect our Asian community? What are some of the repercussions?…