Yahoo unveiled its latest ad solution, Video Lite, in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) that intends to help brands enhance their video assets for a stronger storytelling experience. Video Lite is Yahoo’s newest feature, available for private marketplace (PMP) campaigns via Yahoo Exchange, that allows advertisers to optimize existing video creatives for digital media placements through the addition of end cards or branded frames, CTA buttons and messages.

As adesso said right at the beginning of the Corona crisis, the stability of long-term forecasts has been completely turned upside down since the pandemic and has led to high volatility in forecasting trends and planning uncertainty for companies.

The impact of the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is far-reaching and will impact Asia Pacific in the short and possibly long-term in a recently published impact analysis: IDC reiterates that sanctions, commodity shortages, and higher prices for oil and gas as well as other essential goods will further fuel inflationary pressures and damage ICT supply chains that support the regional consumer electronics and semiconductor manufacturing as well as distribution industries.

Discovery Commerce paves the way for one of the most difficult tasks in e-commerce, namely product discovery. Because it is harder than it seems to get a potential buyer to find the product they are looking for in an online store or marketplace as customers easily get confused or impatient when browsing (sub)categories on a website.

Images and videos dominate in communication among young people, making clear that the Internet is becoming more visual with each new generation. In fact, nothing has accelerated the already rapid growth of visual content more than the pandemic. Consequently, in this increasingly visual world of communication, marketers need visual literacy to keep up with developments.

Classic keyword campaigns will lose relevance in the future. Advertisers must finally establish alternative solutions to third-party cookies and encourage the user to accept consent management with good content. In addition, diversity is becoming more and more popular in advertising and social networks. The digital marketing world will continue to be dynamic in the coming year and advertisers should keep an eye on the most important trends for 2022.

Communication and collaboration solutions have become an integral part of everyday professional life. In the future, they will prevail across all industries and company sizes.

IBM just announced a multi-million-dollar investment in its resources to help businesses prepare for and manage the growing threat of cyberattacks in Asia Pacific.

The goal of content scoring is to place the right topics in the right place at the right time to achieve maximum impact which requires content and the associated requirements being strategically well planned and prioritized accordingly.

Whether it be marketing materials, website content, pitch decks or contracts, for the majority of employees, creating content is a daily to-do and for some even the most important component of their job. However, many of them fear errors in released documents, and thus risks for their own brand, as well as negative effects on sales, resulting in, among other things, a loss of customer confidence.

Yahoo announced the launch of Next-Gen Solutions for web, an advanced contextual targeting solution that uses machine learning and real-time data signals to provide omnichannel targeting and buying across non-addressable inventory in the Yahoo DSP.

IBM just announced its acquisition of Envizi, a leading data and analytics software provider for environmental performance management that builds on IBM's growing investments in AI-powered software, including IBM Maximo asset management solutions, IBM Sterling supply chain solutions and IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite, to help organizations create more resilient and sustainable operations and supply chains. Financial details were not disclosed.

GBC.AI, provider of cutting-edge proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) smart-blockchain technology, has announced its new Web3 security product, Wallet Guardian.

One thing is for sure, if your social media posts are to be found and generate reach, the use of hashtags is a must. But in your day-to-day work, you might still have some questions unanswered, like “Which hashtags fit and make sense? Where do I place them in the post? And how many should be there anyway?”. Well, I’d like to bring some clarity: