In today's ExchangeWire news digest: global subscriptions to Disney's new streaming service soar to 50 million; news broadcaster CNN acquires content personalisation start-up Canopy as part of "NewsCo"; and HT&E buys 11 million shares in fellow media company Ooh Media.   Disney+ [...]

British Gas, working with nucleus, has become the first advertiser to utilise a new personalised video platform from A Million Ads. A Million Ads now creates personalised video ads, serving messages to viewers with a dynamic video, that speaks to [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: Vungle expands advertiser offering; premium video growing stronger as it becomes more addressable and data-driven; intelligent flighting strategies [...]

In this edition of Weekly Focus APAC: Singapore Shoppers Want Unified Retail Experiences; Indonesia Sets Up Shop on Tmall; APAC Travellers Using Corporate Cards for Personal Purchases; and Alibaba Annual Active Consumers Hit 601m. Singapore Shoppers Want Unified Retail Experiences Singapore shoppers [...]

Once seen as 'cost centres', customer call centres now play an important role in not only helping online retail brands improve customer experience, they also can help generate revenue for the business. With the resurgence of online commerce, call centres [...]

This week, online marketplace Honestbee has opened up a dining-cum-grocery store in Singapore that is closely integrated with modern technologies to offer "a multi-sensory" shopping experience. Spanning 60,000 square feet, Habitat by Honestbee is touted as a "full supermarket, speciality [...]

Retail marketers need to look out for local nuances across Asia-Pacific markets and tailor their campaigns accordingly to ensure they get the returns they want. Singapore-based online fashion retailer Zalora knows this only too well, as it too has to ensure [...]

Digital platforms are empowering brands to widen their customer reach and sales channels, but they must tap the right tools and partners to ensure they have robust logistics support, says Joseph Ng (pictured below), CEO of Skyfy Technology, a Singapore-based [...]

Lazada is banking on data to help retailers offer better a shopping experience on its e-commerce platforms and, hence, drive sales of their products. In this aspect, the Southeast Asian online marketplace already has been tapping the industry knowhow and [...]

Retailers looking to understand why customers choose not to purchase certain products should analyse in-store data to identify potential association and tap analytics to complement their own experience. Consumers today have more options and means to get what they need, so [...]