What makes Harbin Beer so smooth? The Chinese brewery reveals its secrets in its latest campaign, ‘Cloud Catcher’ which it teamed up with BBH Shanghai, A New Life Films and Fin Design + Effects to create. In the ambitious campaign, the film features a complex CG sequence featuring a polar bear and chimp as […]
Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announcecd it would invest $2.87 billion for a major stake in China’s top hypermart operator, Sun Art Retail Group Ltd, part of a wider push into offline retail. As part of an alliance with Auchan Retail S.A. and Ruentex Group, Alibaba would buy the stake from Ruentex while Auchan Retail […]
China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]
Vera Yu, Head of Strategy at Serviceplan China, Beijing, gave a speech at the International Roadshow 2017: China Insights to German enterprises in Munich with the title ‘The Future is Now’. She shared some current social and economic happenings in China that are influencing the future, including consumption upgrade, sharing economy, live stream, and cash-free […]
Reinforcing the organization’s commitment to leadership in digital, data and technology, Publicis Groupe launched a partnership with Alibaba bringing benefit to the clients of Publicis Media, Publicis Communications and Publicis.Sapient. Alibaba’s Uni Marketing framework is a complete product portfolio powered by data that enables brands to have control of brand building across the Alibaba ecosystem in […]
Publicis Communications has announced that Cathryn Chen, current General Manager of Saatchi & Saatchi Guangzhou, will head all creative agencies under Publicis Communications in Guangzhou, including Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis Worldwide, and Leo Burnett. In her new role, Chen will enable the access of creative agencies (Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis Worldwide and Leo Burnett) to […]
Bacardi Limited, the world’s largest privately held spirits company, announces the creation of a new dual role and immediate appointment of Mr. Adam Zhu, 50, as Non-Executive Chairman of Greater China for Bacardi and Special Advisor to Bacardi Limited Chief Executive Officer Michael Dolan. n these roles, Mr. Zhu will utilize his considerable expertise to […]
The latest report in We Are Social’s series of studies into Digital, Social & Mobile use around the world shows that the pace of digital adoption in China shows few signs of slowing. Internet in China The research shows that roughly 100,000 people in China started using the internet every day over the past year […]
To promote its latest ‘Free Flyknit’ shoes in Shanghai, Nike—together with Wieden + Kennedy Shanghai—put together a live ‘knitting session’ on a giant billboard. With the help of three workers, they ‘knitted’ strips of neon green thread together on the billboard to form a Free Flyknit shoe around a foot—emphasizing the sock-like quality of the […]
Automobile manufacturer BMW recently used the power of social media to invent a new holiday in China. Leveraging the reach of several prominent bloggers on China’s microblogging platform Weibo, BMW were able to get more than 300,000 users to reveal their deepest regrets in 140 characters or less in celebration of “Ctrl Z Day”. Users […]