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Inside WPP's Hidden Restructure: What the ANZ CEO Title Means
WPP elevates Rose Herceg to ANZ CEO as the Elevate28 restructure reshapes regional leadership and holding company strategy.
Leighton Cosseboom
Founder of Mission Media. A marketing entrepreneur and veteran operator in Southeast Asia, leading corporate comms at Dunkin' Indonesia and PR & IR at DailyCo. Ex-CMO at ACV Capital, founder of C2 Media, and former Tech in Asia senior editor.
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Pixazo Consolidates AI Video and Image APIs Under Single Key
Pixazo consolidates Seedance 2.0 and GPT Image 2 under a single API key. Reduces vendor fragmentation and integration overhead for developers.
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Lebanon's Nayla Tueni Makes History on Cannes Lions Titanium Jury
Lebanese executive Nayla Tueni becomes the first marketer from Lebanon to join the Cannes Lions Titanium Jury, the most prestigious award in global advertising. Her appointment signals a shift in who sets global creative standards.
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AI's Promise vs. Reality: Why Tech Giants Are Gutting Comms Teams
Snap's AI efficiency claims mask job cuts across communications roles. As tech giants cite AI potential (not performance) to justify layoffs, regional expertise roles like Natasha Brack's are disappearing.
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The Invisible Rule Behind This Year's Most Effective Campaigns
Kantar's 2026 Advertising Effectiveness Awards reveal a fundamental shift in how campaigns work. The most effective campaign skipped TV entirely, creative and media are no longer separate, and heritage brands outperformed innovation. What CMOs miss about measurement.
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Vinyl Group Misses Profitability Target Again as Q1 Cash Burn Hits A$2.7 Million
Vinyl Group's Q1 2026 cash burn of A$2.7 million and delayed integration challenges reveal why acquisition-driven growth strategies collapse. A stress test for APAC media leaders.
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Why Cannes Lions Now Values How Brands Build Over What They Make
Cannes Lions 2026 shifts from judging individual campaigns to rewarding how brands build creative capability. A critical signal for Asian marketing leaders investing in organizational strength.
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Mocean Bets Its Future on Erasing the Line Between Entertainment and Advertising
Mocean's leadership overhaul and new See Change operating model signal an industry shift as holding companies rebundle creative and media under unified structures.
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The McDonald's Campaign That Put MENA Advertising on the World Map
FP7 McCANN MENAT became the only MENA agency to win at the 2025 International ANDY Awards — a signal that creative excellence is no longer concentrated in the West.
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Real-Time Store Visits Are Now a Programmatic Currency
InMarket and Yahoo DSP deliver daily store visit signals that optimize programmatic campaigns in real time, closing the offline attribution gap for advertisers.
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Nestlé and Lazada Embed AI Directly Into Southeast Asia Shopping Experience
Nestlé and Lazada embed AI inside shopping for the first time, using LazzieChat to answer parents' nutrition questions at the point of purchase across Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.
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Lemma Launches AI Platform to Measure OOH Advertising ROI
Lemma launches Integral platform connecting OOH advertising to measurable digital outcomes across CTV, mobile and web.