Advertising/marketing

Ad giant Omnicom to cut over 4,000 jobs, fold legacy brands after IPG takeover

After the job cuts, roughly 85% of the roles will be client-focused, while 15% will be administrative, the company says

At its core, SEO has always been about driving traffic. With GEO, success is measured by a hybrid of placement and authority.

Why SEO isn’t enough: GEO is how brands get seen today

While we used to focus on writing for humans, we must now package content for AI too

Jeffrey Seah (centre) has sat on Hepmil’s board of directors as vice-chairman since 2017.

Angels to pocket over 20 times returns from sale of Singapore’s Hepmil

The Singapore media company is not a stranger to the M&A road

From left: Hepmil co-founder Karl Mak; vice-chairman, Jeffrey Seah; and co-founder Adrian Ang. Seah says media companies need to find their niche to succeed.

‘Thoroughbred over unicorns’: How SGAG parent Hepmil went from seed to sale

Advertising and public relations giant Publicis Groupe is acquiring the company for an undisclosed sum

Founded by junior college friends Karl Mak (left) and Adrian Ang, Hepmil Media currently employs more than 300 people.

SGAG parent company Hepmil sold to French Publicis Groupe for undisclosed sum

Established in 2015, Hepmil has a network of over 3,000 creators

Pop Mart has also captured grown-ups – fashionistas playfully pairing Labubus with their designer handbags and working mothers gifting to appease their overworked school children.

Sorry, Pop Mart, Labubu is just not Lego or Pokemon

The continued reliance on scarcity to sell its products could turn consumers off

Consumers dislike egregious attempts to manipulate them into buying things.
THE BROAD VIEW

Why bosses need to wake up to dark patterns

Of roach motels and countdown clocks

Meta's move to pick Google’s AI over its own in-house models underscores the issues the company has had with scaling AI technology, despite the billions of dollars it has spent on research, infrastructure and talent.

Meta in talks to use Google’s Gemini to improve ad business, The Information reports

META staffers have had discussions with Alphabet’s Google Cloud about the possibility of using its Gemini models to improve the Facebook parent’s ad business, The Information reported on Thursday.

San Francisco 49ers middle linebacker Fred Warner. Netflix's growing push into live sports has given the platform new opportunities to attract sponsorship and advertising from global brands seeking large viewership.

Netflix signs co-marketing deal with AB InBev to promote TV shows and beer

NETFLIX and Anheuser-Busch InBev have signed a global co-marketing deal to promote the streaming platform’s most-watched titles and the brewer’s beers, the companies said on Monday (Sep 22).

US President Donald Trump has previously used so-called 301 probes to target imports from Brazil over its prosecution of former president Jair Bolsonaro.

Trump threatens trade actions after EU fines Google over ads

The fine ranks among Brussels’ toughest sanctions and is the second highest by the European Union against the company for alleged abuses of dominance