Lodestar UM appoints Vijayalakshmi Ramesh to drive its strategy function

Lodestar UM in their push towards strengthening the strategy function for the Southern market, onboards Vijayalakshmi Ramesh (Viji). In her new role as the Strategic Head of South, Viji will be responsible for enhancing the strategy product for existing and new clients for the South market and will be based out of Lodestar UM’s Bengaluru

UM & NSW Government Encourages Diverse Communities In New Vaccine Campaign

Media agency, Universal McCann (UM), has developed a broad reaching media strategy to support the launch of the NSW Government’s “Let’s Do This” advertising campaign. The campaign is designed to reach all audiences and targets everyone 16 years and older, encouraging them to get their COVID-19 booster shot. The multi-channel, fully-integrated ad campaign launched across

Wearables Unlock IoT Potential for APAC Consumers

The acceleration of technology over the past year has created a massive ripple effect, permanently shifting consumer lifestyles, expectations, and behaviors to a future-ready state. In response, UM APAC created the Asia-Pacific Innovation Annual – taking a deep dive into the cutting-edge advancements in entertainment, commerce, digital health, and connectivity, that are catapulting the region and providing

Augmented Reality: Renewed Optimism for AR Across the Asia-Pacific

Bringing together the physical and digital world to offer immersive visual and audio experiences unique to the user, augmented reality (AR) has been heralded as a game-changer in the personal technology field. However, despite growing accessibility in hardware and adoption of AR software across digital platforms such as Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and TikTok, AR has

Digital Health – APAC is Paving the Way for Digital Health Ecosystems

The pandemic has radically reshaped the supply and demand of healthcare services. The APAC region is in pole position to capitalize on the change, driven by shifting demographics, rising consumer expectations, technological innovation, and current supply constraints of nascent health infrastructures. Across the region, the transformation of healthcare is accelerating as delivery and management are

One to watch: APAC goes all in on social commerce

Covid-19 changed the way we purchase products and services. We have found new ways to buy our favourite brand or our groceries, not only to fulfil our basic needs but often as an antidote to boredom. During periods of lockdown, social media emerged as a key form of communication, opening an opportunity for retailers to

Retail Transformation – The Future of Retail in APAC

The acceleration of technology over the past year has created a massive ripple effect, permanently shifting consumer lifestyles, expectations, and behaviors to a future-ready state. In response, UM APAC created the Asia-Pacific Innovation Annual – taking a deep dive into the cutting-edge advancements in entertainment, commerce, digital health, and connectivity, that are catapulting the region

Influence and trust: Connecting with APAC’s fragmented social landscape

Asia is a superpower when it comes to digital consumption and the high usage of social media offers influencer marketing a fertile ground to flourish in APAC markets. In Southeast Asia alone, the number of new internet users has continued to climb, hitting 400 million in 2020 – up from 360 million in 2019 –

But WTF is the metaverse, really?

Our industry loves a shiny new paradigm. And now, I have on my screen an intimidating blank document entitled “the metaverse”. What is ‘the metaverse’? As The New York Times’ John Herrman would have it, “the biggest ideas in tech often lurch into the lexicon before they are truly coherent”. Which is a very charitable

As a Wonder Woman, Lodestar UM CEO Nandini Dias would like to eliminate “greed”

Dias talks about the incidents and moments that make her the true Wonder Woman of the 21st century One of the most exciting superhero movies of recent times, DC’s Wonder Woman 1984 narrated the story of Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman. She symbolized strength, power, forgiveness and love, and bravely fought against all odds to