The launch of SALT – The Creative Word of Mouth Agency

I’ve been learning so much through blogging here, it has also been giving me lots of joy hearing from fellow marketers from around the world through this blog. So I would like to update you all on my big career change here. I have recently resigned from my position at Ogilvy, although I enjoyed working [...]

Video: Mayan’s Marketing Strategy

I’ve seen great videos produced by boutique agencies last year in 2011, including two of my favorites both by John St.’s Catvertising and Pink Ponies. Buzzman, a French interactive agency just created an amazing piece, a case study styled video highlighting Mayans versus Egyptians as 2 competing brands and their tactics to dominate the market [...]

Sexy print ads by Grand Casino Beograd

Most of the casinos use “winning big” as the core idea for all communications, it’s interesting to see different approach in advertising. Grand Casino Beograd, a casino in Serbia recently launched a series of fun, hip, and sexy print ads, with less “winning” aspect in the visual. Using party photos of young and attractive models with [...]

315 tips to improve Productivity & Creativity

This is an extremely useful list found through one of my friend Angela Kan’s Facebook note, would love to keep this as reference to check back from time to time, and of course sharing it to everyone who might also find it useful. Great hacks from Merlin Mann of 43 Folders Talk to a monkey. Explain [...]

The trick of talking to people’s emotions

I’ve recently attended a company training about the science of communication, influence, and storytelling, one of the interesting point that’s stuck in my mind is the simple facts about human’s ability in receiving (and remembering) information, so simple and common that many brands have forgotten. The simple trick to build memorable stories After this training, [...]

Members Project by American Express

I really enjoy looking at the big ideas brands try to execute these days, Members Project by American Express is one of them, a campaign that lives on Facebook. Idea of the campaign is to “make a difference”, make very small steps to make this world a better place. Below is the full description of [...]

The .gif culture

GIF and animated GIF format has been around forever, it’s one of the earliest formats of animation being spred online. GIF got less and less popular because of the rise of video sharing, when Internet technology got faster and videos from video hosting services can be streamed smoothly. For some reasons, GIF is back! People [...]

The power of Youtube page: Le Club Perrier

Youtube is often seen as a channel for hosting videos, and what clients like to call – “viral videos”. Most brands, however, have underestimated the power of putting creativity to branded Youtube channel. Perrier’s new campaign is a perfect example of a great use of Youtube channel. Perrier has been positioning themselves as sexy, edgy, [...]

Yes, Facebook might beat Google on Online Ads

Before getting into my ridiculous thoughts on how Facebook can be able to compete directly with the big Google in the close future, let’s compare their current ad services. Google Google Adwords (and Adsense) is very powerful, ad engine crawls all content on websites, with very complex algorithm, Google can manage to serve extremely relevant [...]

Creativity means Nothing…

Remember when I was around 15, I started criticizing many marketing campaigns during those times as I thought most of them were very “inside the box”. I had the most crazy ideas and I knew they would be huge if they were executed, yes, IF THEY WERE executed.

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A Little Something About Tim:

Tim Ho

I'm a Regional Digital Strategist at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence APAC. I love web designing, data visualization, latin music, cooking, painting, inventing new drinks, and monkeys. Here is my main blog where I share social media news, ideas and insights. I also have a more personal blog called Tim Ho's Monkey!

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