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Initiative wins Plush Sofas account

April 13, 2021 | Share this article

Initiative Melbourne has won a competitive pitch for the national Plush Sofas media account. The assignment is effective immediately. Plush Sofas is a national retailer founded in Victoria more than 20 years ago with a retail network of 46 showrooms across Australia. “Initiative presented a strong proposition as our media agency partner,” says Plush CMO

To put this global trend in perspective, APAC’s consumer internet has never quite been a homogenous one. The search, social, video, and e-commerce ecosystems in APAC, have been split a number of ways for many years, as consumers are inclined to use what is locally relevant, shifting easily between global and local platforms. China started

Coronavirus prompted staggering declines and rapid rises in spend in 2020. How industry responds to the systemic changes – rises in SVOD, BVOD and growth in addressable media – will transform advertising for the better, says IPG Mediabrands CEO Mark Coad.’ The Covid shock There has been vast and significant Covid-led change to our industry:

As Chinese New Year celebrations are shifted online, brands have to figure out new ways to stand out in one of the biggest marketing events of the year. This lesson will highlight the components of an effective strategy by analysing successful campaigns of years past. Welcome back to Campaign Asia-Pacific’s Crash Course learning series, in which you

It has been estimated that APAC would be home to 1.5 billion gamers in 2020, accounting for 55% of the global gaming population, and worth over $78 billion in revenue. Suffice to say, these projections will now be easily surpassed given the pandemic’s significant impact on gaming behavior, usage and spending, as experienced and new gamers

Mediabrands have announced two key promotions within their APAC regional leadership team. Zarka Khan-Iltaf steps into the role of Chief Talent Officer and Naomi Michael to Chief Marketing & Communications Officer. Zarka Khan-Iltaf (pictured left), mentor of the year and women’s leadership program winner in Campaign Asia’s 2019 Women Leading Change Awards, has been promoted from

Initiative APAC scoops a major haul at the Festival of Media APAC Awards 2021, taking out a total of 11 wins including five GOLD and six SILVER awards. With a spread across four different markets and six different client campaign, the breadth of winning work demonstrated cultural velocity consistently driving differentiated results for brands throughout

The shifting sands of social context

March 29, 2021 | Share this article

A profound shift is underway, as users migrate away from faceless public squares and toward tighter collectives in digital settings. For marketers, this shift suggests a way through the looming problems of data privacy, writes UM’s APAC chief strategy officer. We are an industry that has been obsessed with two unhelpful polarities: either reaching all

Forward Momentum in the APAC Region: The Anyware Economy

March 25, 2021 | Share this article

Sharon Soh, Head of Integrated Strategy & Marketing at UM, APAC highlights the growth of the region in part 1 of a 4-part series. The past two decades have seen APAC’s remarkable development and rapid rise as the new center of the world, thanks to its soaring consumption and increasingly central role in global trade

Vodka brand Absolut, part of Pernod Ricard, has partnered with Pedestrian and Initiative to spread the love of Mardi Gras to regional towns. For more than 40 years Absolut has been proud supporters of the LGBTQIA+ community and to mark this meaningful milestone they set out to create a unique pride rally. As 84% of