Category: china | 中國 | 중국 | 中華

  • Weiden Kennedy Tokyo + more

    Weiden Kennedy Tokyo did this great brand video for Nike Korea, they supported it with a ‘Be Heard’ campaign on KakaoTalk. Weiden Kennedy Tokyo work for Nike is consistently of a really high standard. More marketing inspiration here. One of the things that had been keeping me busy over the summer was working with Racepoint…

  • Fitbit + more things

    Fitbit becomes HIPAA compliant as it eyes more business customers | ZDNet – there are a whole range of ethical boundaries in Fitbit sharing health data with business customers Tencent Boards ‘Magic Blade’ Remake | Variety – interesting that Celestial is moving beyond back catalogue licensing to creating new content on the mainland Welcome to 1995 |…

  • Agencies in US + more things

    U.K. Marketers Will Use Fewer Agencies by 2020, Report Says | Advertising Age – focused on doing prospecting and CRM in-house. Agencies will shrink because its not that hard to media plan if you’ve decided on Google and Facebook. (Not the smartest play, but one that inhouse marketers are increasingly adopting). More marketing content here. Apple…

  • Hardkiss reissues + more things

    Hardkiss Music – love to see this stuff get reissued. Gavin and Scott Hardkiss brought something new to the table with their recordings. Scott Hardkiss’ use of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s  Fire on High for the track The Pheonix blows me away every time that I listen to it. 5ninthavenueproject – YouTube – set of VHS amateur…

  • Power consumption + more

    Power consumption Daring Fireball: Safari vs. Chrome: Power Consumption – interesting article power consumption. Power consumption has come a long way, when I got my first laptop, an old Apple PowerBook 165, it would last me a couple of hours in the university library if I wasn’t able to find a power outlet. With the first…

  • Seabasing

    In a tale of fact imitating fiction the US Navy is looking at ways to support the military in future conflicts by creating bases which allow ships to act as a combined space, which they call sea basing (or seabasing). The reason for this is in battles with the likes of China they may not…

  • Burberry turnaround + more things

    Jing Daily: Burberry’s plan to turn it around in Hong Kong – go local –  it makes sense that Burberry comes up with designs that better suit the humid subtropical climate of Hong Kong and southern China. Burberry has China as its biggest market Getting Hong Kong right is mission-critical for Burberry. More related posts here.…

  • Jason Matthews on trade craft and social engineering

    Jason Matthews is a former CIA spy who used to run agents. He retired and became a novelist with books that have made the New York Times bestseller list. The most famous of his books is Red Sparrow, which has since been made into a film as well. In his Talk at Google he talks…

  • John Markoff & more things

    John Markoff John Markoff and Steven Levy are better known to non-US audiences for their non-fiction books about the technology sector, but are actually veteran journalists who have covered the technology sector for the business press over the past three decades. I would recommend Steven Levy’s Insanely Great and What the Doormouse said by John…