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Australia – Telecommunications company Superloop has launched its latest ad campaign in collaboration with Leo Burnett Australia and Zenith Australia, promoting its high-speed internet by cleverly aligning ad timings with famous sporting record speeds.

The ad campaign, titled ‘Ads at Record Speeds,’ deviates from the traditional 30- and 15-second spots by timing specific messages to the exact hundredth of a second to match famous sporting record speeds.

In conjunction with the world’s biggest sporting event, where speed is a crucial factor, the campaign has drawn inspiration from sport records such as the men’s 100m at 9.58 seconds, the women’s 50m freestyle at 22.93 seconds, and the women’s 200m cycling at 10.15 seconds. It also features a 2-hour and 35-second YouTube skippable ad celebrating the men’s marathon record.

‘Ads at Record Speeds’ is Leo Burnett Australia and Zenith Australia’s first work as an integrated offering for the Superloop brand. The spots, featuring Australian comedians Broden Kelly and Madeleine Stewart, will launch across TV, BVOD, social media, YouTube, and OOH platforms in Australia.

Ben Colman, chief marketing officer at Superloop, said, “Superloop is all about record-breaking internet speed at outstanding value. We’re on the internet, so we’re just joining the conversation at an opportune moment in the calendar. We like to play, so we’re always going to be a bit cheeky when we enter the chat.”

“This work is also another demonstration of the game-changing connected platform we’ve got at Publicis Groupe. It’s speed meets speed, with Leo Burnett and Zenith working together to build exceptional, streamlined solutions,” added Colman.

James Beswick and Rowan Foxcroft, associate creative directors at Leo Burnett Australia, also said, “Seeing as some people in Paris are attempting to do things at record speeds, we thought we’d challenge Broden and Madeleine to talk about Superloop’s incredible speeds at record speeds, too. Unfortunately for Broden, that involved him running a literal marathon whilst doing so.”

Singapore – Online used car platform Carro celebrates its 8th anniversary with drama, launching 3 digital shorts that portray typical drama and film cliches, with some not so typical endings.  

Audiences can look forward to a K-drama style about a son’s true love and his unaccepting mother, then switch it up with a classic Thai horror tale that will unravel the horror of what’s truly hiding in plain sight in the garage, and lastly, finish it off with a Hong Kong love triangle that has you wondering if the female lead will end up choosing what’s really best for her.

Carro’s 3 digital shorts are the result of a multinational effort, fully shot on location in Malaysia, with teams from Singapore and Malaysia working on it, made authentic with a native cast and crew who flew in from Thailand and South Korea.

Katherine Teo, regional manager at Carro, said, “By tapping into our audience’s love for drama, we disguised our ads as genre films to let them know that any drama you get from our brand is strictly advertorial. For quality used cars that are fuss-free (and drama-free!) and As Good As New, Carro is the number one choice.”

Reflecting on 8 years of progress, Aaron Tan, group co-founder and CEO at Carro, commented, “I take great pride in what Carro has achieved and I am thankful for our dedicated employees, loyal customers, as well as our investors and collaborative partners who have taken us to these milestones. I look forward to many more good years as we contribute to even more sustainable, safe and accessible mobility solutions for all.”

Additionally, Carro will also be celebrating by throwing big promotions for customers around the region, specifically in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Continuing its tradition of creating provocative festive campaigns, Malaysian biscuit brand Julie’s has launched its latest short film called Kisah Raya P.E.R.I.T (A Raya Story of P.E.R.I.T), a part of the brand’s annual Hari Raya campaign and ongoing efforts to break down stereotypes that people often face during the festive season.

‘Kisah Raya P.E.R.I.T’ is produced in collaboration with GOVT Singapore, the creative agency that helped create Julie’s multiple thought-provoking festive campaigns.

This year’s short film features Timah and her daughter Farah, bringing the audience on a journey through their ‘balik kampung’ drive to attend Hari Raya celebrations throughout the years. The film brings to attention the challenges that Timah faced as a single parent such as the typical, yet critical judgements usually dished out to single parents, especially during the festive season.

Affected by the challenges faced during Hari Raya, this single mother goes out of her way to delay her trip every year to ensure that she spends less time with family members. The film done in both comedic and sentimental fashion shows how the single mother as part of this secret society called P.E.R.I.T (Persatuan Rahsia Ibu Tunggal) looks to end Hari Raya celebrations in 2023.

“We have always used our creative short films to showcase stories of empowerment. This year, Kisah Raya P.E.R.I.T features the trials and tribulations of a single parent celebrating Hari Raya. We hope this will inspire people to be more understanding towards each other,” said Tzy Horng Sai, director of Julie’s Biscuits.

Sai also added that through the short film, the brand invites viewers to practise forgiveness, embrace the diversity that exists within families and appreciate family members for who they are.

Joy Sng, business director at GOVT also commented, “With a brand like Julie’s Biscuits, that believes in building a more open and inclusive world, each year, we aspire for our Raya films to challenge conventions and address uncomfortable topics that people tend to avoid or ignore.”

She added, “Taking insights and stories from conversations we’ve had with various single parents, our film this year aims to shine a light on the stigmas and challenges of single parenthood, told through a love letter between a mother and daughter.”

Kisah Raya P.E.R.I.T is now available for viewing on their official YouTube channel. The campaign follows Julie’s Hari Raya campaign last year titled ‘Ini Iklan Raya Baru, Tau?’, which was targeted at debunking traditional stereotypes about gender roles.

Thailand – Tops, Thailand’s largest supermarket chain, has released its new Christmas advertisement that shows the value of gift-giving even with the most unassuming supermarket items.

The campaign was made in collaboration with global brand experience agency VMLY&R. The short film titled ‘The Underrated Gift’, portrays how people have the tendency to overthink the gifts they give during the holidays.

The story revolved around a woman worrying over her gift search. In the film, she overcame this worry as she discovered how simple supermarket items such as zip-lock bags, canned wild salmon, and a pack of salami can delight her loved ones.

“At Tops, we have always believed in providing premium products at affordable prices. With our motto #EveryDayDISCOVERY, we want to emphasize that the best gifts are the ones that receivers can enjoy and that value and happiness can be found from even the most underrated items,” said Chakkit Chatupanyachotikul, head of marketing, public relations and CSV at Central Food Retail Group (CFG).

Anuwat Nitipanont, chief creative officer at VMLY&R Thailand, further commented, “Joyful experiences should not be limited to expensive, one-of-a-kind gifts. We want to encourage everyone to see the value of seemingly ordinary things and become free from their own limitation of choices.”

He also added that the film showcases how these’‘underrated gifts’ triumph this holiday season and will get people to rethink their holiday shopping lists.

VMLY&R Thailand also previously collaborated with Thai home improvement retailer Boonthavorn for the latter’s rebranding campaign with the short film ‘Ummm..’

Thailand – Thai home improvement retailer Boonthavorn is launching a new rebranding campaign that aims to show the importance of ‘living your way’. The campaign is made in collaboration with global brand experience agency VMLY&R. 

‘Live Your Way’ features a humorous short film titled “‘Ummm..”, which highlights the consequences of not making the right decisions for yourself. 

The campaign aims to make deeper connections with discerning Gen Z and Gen Y consumers while highlighting Boonthavorn’s ability to meet the needs of the individual. It also encourages the consumers to embrace their own style and eccentricities instead of just ‘settling’ and accepting whatever is available.

Sittichai Tayanuwat, managing director at Boonthavorn, said, “As a specialty store, Boonthavorn crafts the best solutions to meet the needs of the younger generation, who value distinctiveness, appreciate design and have the freedom to be themselves. Each component and detail is carefully considered so that customers can be inspired and choose a way of life that fulfills them uniquely.”

“Working with VMLY&R we’ve been able to differentiate ourselves from other homestores by launching this advertising campaign to encourage everyone to ‘Live Your Way’,” Tayanuwat added.

“At VMLY&R it’s our mission to build connected brands that resonate with target audiences in ways that are authentic and relevant. Boonthavorn’s rebrand is all about highlighting the brand’s depth of product, services and expertise – which goes way beyond other home improvement and decoration brands in Thailand,” VMLY&R Thailand’s Chief Creative Officer Anuwat Nitipanont commented.

He added, “Our strategic insight shows that this is what consumers want, however, it’s not what most brands are able or willing to deliver – and this is where Boonthavorn comes in.”

This campaign follows VMLY&R’s collaboration with used car sales platform Carsome Thailand last year titled “Mr. Handsome”.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – PepsiCo in Malaysia has appointed advertising agency FCB Malaysia to manage a major ‘festive’ campaign for its Quaker Oats brand, which is set to run later this year.

The advertising agency secured the appointment after a competitive pitch that saw a number of agencies take part in. The appointment will see FCB Malaysia working on an integrated campaign for Quaker Oats, handling its advertising, social media, and content creation, as well as bringing Go Communications on board as a specialist partner to handle the public relations duties.

“2020 wasn’t the best of years but thanks to the entire team putting in the hard yards, we still made it a profitable one and even achieved YOY growth. Winning a storied brand like Quaker Oats allows us the opportunity to flex our FMCG prowess and importantly, keeps the momentum going,” commented Shaun Tay, the co-owner and CEO of FCB Malaysia. 

Sharing on how the company landed the decision, Melinda Ong, marketing manager of PepsiCo Malaysia, said, “FCB’s idea truly stood out with its sharp, insightful strategy that enabled us to deliver a clear, structured on-brand message via engaging content that’s contextual to the needs of our intended audience.”

Islamabad, Pakistan – Short video platform SnackVideo has announced that it is entering an exclusive partnership agreement with two of Pakistan’s known cricket teams namely Islamabad United and Multan Sultans.

Through the agreement, Islamabad United is bound to endorse SnackVideo as one of its partners during the sixth season of the Pakistan Super League this year, while Multan Sultans are set to endorse the app through its member players across fans of said cricket team.

“Partners like SnackVideo form an essential part of the sporting scene here in Pakistan, and we are happy to support partners who invest and develop our business and sporting industries together,” said Mohammad Rizwan, captain of Multan Sultans.

Through the exclusive sponsorship agreement, SnackVideo will be featured across ad slots in the nation’s print, television and radio spaces.

Shadab Khan, captain of Islamabad United also announced that part of the exclusive sponsorship agreement is that fans get the chance to win signed team merchandise via SnackVideo.

“Islamabad United is proud to align ourselves with a rising platform such as SnackVideo. SnackVideo aims to give a voice to every person so that they can express themselves, which is what our team has done for our fans in the league.’ Fans of both teams are not going to leave empty-handed as well,” Khan said.

Singapore – App marketing platform Adjust joins the TikTok Marketing Partner Program in order to optimize advertising visibility for advertisers in the short video-sharing platform.

The partnership includes integration of Adjust’s ‘Audience Builder’, enabling clients to export first-party data, such as audience groups, directly to TikTok from the Adjust dashboard. Adjust’s ‘Audience Builder’ helps advertisers retarget their campaigns based on focus groups such as age groups. As advertisers are armed with this data from audience segregation, marketers can run highly personalized campaigns to boost user engagement and loyalty, all while protecting their users’ data privacy.

The TikTok Marketing Partner Program is part of the TikTok for Business platform, and aims to provide marketing solutions designed to give brands and marketers the tools to be creative storytellers and be able to meaningfully engage with the TikTok community.

As a mobile measurement partner, Adjust enables advertisers create, optimize, target, and measure their ad campaigns on TikTok. To simplify campaign optimization, clients can link their TikTok account to view and edit TikTok campaign data directly in the Adjust Automate dashboard, another Adjust feature that allows advertisers to automate their mobile marketing campaigns. From there, advertisers can generate cross-app, cross-partner, and cross-network reports. 

“Finding and retaining the right users is critical, as many drop off after the first days of installing the app and competition for users’ eyeballs is fierce. That is why it is imperative for mobile advertisers to push the right messaging to the right audience at the right point in the marketing funnel,” said Andrey Kazakov, vice president of partnerships at Adjust. 

“We are excited to partner with TikTok to give marketers a simpler, more seamless way to segment their desired audiences, automate their campaigns, measure ad spend, and grow their apps,” Kazakov added.

In November last year, Adjust also joined Adobe’s Exchange Partner Program to boost its customer experience (CX) analytics.

Manila, Philippines – Two of Philippines’ telco giants Globe and Smart have been continuously tapping Korean superstars for the past year, and this time the rival has just been taken up a notch. 

On Monday, Smart Communications shocked Filipino fans by unveiling its new ambassador, K-pop group and global superstars BTS across its social media platforms. This comes shortly after telco Globe revealed K-pop girl group Blackpink as its new endorser. 

BTS will be headlining Smart’s campaign this year, ‘Live Smarter, Live with Purpose’.

Smart has been aggressive in the past months roping in Korean entertainment stars as part of their expanding network of brand ambassadors, including 2020 K-drama “Crash Landing On You” stars Hyun Bin and Son Ye-Jin in May and August last year respectively and Korean actor Park Seo-Joon in October last year as well.

Considered to be one of the most influential groups in the K-pop scene, BTS has been known for sending a timely message of comfort and hope to fans everywhere through their music.

Formed in 2010, BTS is composed of an all-boys ensemble Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, and are best known for their hit songs ‘Mic Drop’, ‘Fake Love’, ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’ and their English single ‘Dynamite’.

“Aside from their remarkable talent, BTS emerged as the biggest band in the world because of their meaningful and uplifting music that brings hope and encouragement to fans especially in the bleakest of times. It is, therefore, a big honor to welcome BTS to the Smart family so we may inspire more Filipinos to find purpose in everything they do and ultimately live Smarter for a Better World,” said Alfredo S. Panlilio, Smart president and CEO.

“Just like BTS who are able to inspire millions of young people all over the world through their music, Smart Prepaid aims to bring about amazing experiences to the Filipino youth through technology to make life easy, fast, and simple. This way, the young generation is empowered to immerse in their interests and succeed with their pursuits,” said Jane J. Basas, SVP and consumer wireless business head at Smart.

BTS’ campaign with smart is set to be released by the first quarter of the year, centered around the theme of ‘passion with purpose’.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Superapp Grab and electronics company Panasonic have partnered to launch a marketing campaign for in-car air quality that provides overall in-car experience enhancement.

The marketing campaign will combine both offline and online advertising solutions, as Grab will turn 5,500 GrabCar Premium vehicles across four countries into mini-showrooms for Panasonic’s nanoe™ X generators. The promoted product is an air-purifying unit which cleans the air, and improves air circulation. Ads will also grace the Grab app. 

“Our partnership with Panasonic reflects our belief that advertising is not a one-sided relationship, but one where there is a value exchange between brands and customers. It also marks a milestone for our fast-growing GrabAds business that is increasingly becoming the advertising platform of choice for brands within and outside of our ecosystem to better connect and engage with the everyday Southeast Asian consumer,” said Ken Mandel, regional managing director for GrabAds, the advertising arm of Grab.

“We will continue to take a collaborative approach in working with brands and agencies to ideate and launch impactful campaigns in Southeast Asia,” added Mandel.

The campaign will also provide additional income opportunities for Grab driver-partners who will earn a monthly product placement fee throughout the campaign period, as well as  5,500 air purifiers to participating drivers at no cost.

The Grab x Panasonic collaboration will span across Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta for a period of two months, starting this January.