Helping Entrepreneurs Win aims to help SMEs make smarter digital decisions (register now)
As we prepare to step into 2021, most business budgets are under pressure and investment strategies are under stark review. Following Malaysian Tech Month 2020 (MTM 2020), MDEC in collaboration with MARKETING Magazine is hosting a three-part webinar series titled ‘Helping Entrepreneurs Win’ aimed at providing local SMEs with valuable insights and encouraging them to […]
Youths to dominate digital jobs, lead Malaysia into IR 4.0
By Faye Kwan Young Malaysians will play the biggest role in advancing the country’s digital economy and will be responsible for the country’s transition into the fourth industrial revolution (IR4.0), according to the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). Citing a World Economic Forum report, MDEC CEO Surina Shukri said 65% of students now in primary […]
Media Prima posts 14% revenue increase for Q3
Media Prima Berhad proudly announced a 14% revenue increase yesterday for the first nine months of 2020 (9MFY20), which brings its revenue to RM60.6 million against RM53.2 million in the corresponding period. According to the group, its on-going business transformation initiatives involved revising revenue models, reducing cost inefficiencies, and consolidation of assets to solidify the […]
Stephen Douglas rejoins Directors Think Tank as Executive Director
Directors Think Tank Group (DTT) just announced that Stephen Douglas will be rejoining the team as Executive Director, a newly created position in the production house. ‘We’re extremely delighted to have Stephen rejoining our team during this exciting phase of growth and development as bringing someone of his caliber back into the DTT fold increases […]
REBMECED
There’ll be no December in December. Everything is upside down. The December we will experience is the one we have known all these years, but backwards. And we will try our best to reverse engineer everything so the sum of all parts will resemble what we’ve come to expect from December. The truth is this […]
Content experts took over MMC Tuesdays this week
This week’s session of MMC Tuesdays aired on 17 November and featured a line-up of content experts. The session consisted of two parts, a speaker presentation and a Power Hour presentation and panel discussion with 5 panelists. Last Tuesday’s session was kicked-off by Chief Strategy Officer of Omnia, Christopher Wee who had an intriguing presentation […]
SMS Fraud: Ex-telco Chief Marketing Officer, Company Director remanded
A former telecommunications company chief marketing officer and a company director have been remanded for five days beginning today to assist investigations into a corruption case involving a short messaging system (SMS) fraud syndicate. The remand order till Nov 21 was issued by magistrate Siti Roslizawati Mohd Zanin after the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) submitted the […]
MDEC makes key management changes, charts direction towards Malaysia 5.0
Major changes are taking place at the country’s digital transformation agency, MDEC with a new chairman and the recent appointment of four board of directors from various backgrounds, is once again making strategic internal changes to its operation structure to better serve its mandate. Focused in delivering the nations aspiration on becoming the ASEAN digital […]
Nielsen thinks twice
Contrary to the bullshit we were sold about online advertising, measuring online media has turned out to be a nightmare. One of the biggest problems is the reliability and veracity of audience measurement. Audience measurement has always been a pseudo-science in the ad business. But online advertising has achieved spectacular heights of unreliability. Sadly the […]
Geometry joins VMLY&R unveiling WPP’s new end-to-end creative commerce company
Beth Ann Kaminkow who is currently Global CEO of Geometry, will lead VMLY&R COMMERCE as Global Chief Executive Officer. WPP announced today the launch of VMLY&R COMMERCE, a new end-to-end “Creative Commerce Company” which combines the expertise and scale of both global offerings. VMLY&R COMMERCE will operate as a distinct company within the VMLY&R global […]
