Will advertisers pay you to keep you annoyed?

I love advertising. I not a fan of American football but I watch Super Bowl only for the ads. I enjoy watching TV ads purely because of it’s form of art and creativity. So I would believe that I’m not a person who get easily influenced by an ad.

A recent research conducted by Synovate shows [...]


HK: Local Social Media Success – Ease House Cafe

Most of the social media projects I deal with at Ogilvy are for global brands, it’s interesting to learn from local successful cases like this one. It’s a cafe in Mong Kok with a wide range of comic book collections called Ease House Cafe, where they target mainly to young comic lovers.
As a small cafe [...]


Yahoo Mail Beats Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and more in Sharing

Although more and more people use private messaging or instant messaging on social networks these days, it is not a surprise that email is STILL the most popular channel for sharing information online.
A recent research conducted by SocialTwist (creator of the social media sharing widget Tell-a-Friend) shows that Yahoo Mail is still the big winner [...]


We are on Wall Street Journal Today!

Our full page colour ad is on page 30 of Wall Street Journal Asia today! My teammates and I are very excited about it. We are hosting the third webinar in our “Executive Guide to Social Media” series.
We will have John Bell, Global Managing Director for Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence and Jamie Moeller to talk [...]


Asians are the true fans of iPhone

Apple iPhone was designed in the US, started in the US, and most of the great features and apps are based around the US. But apparently people in Asia love iPhone more than any other countries.

Source: Google Trends Insight
For a digital product like iPhone, it makes sense to approximately calculate popularity of the product by [...]


Latest: S. Korea still has the highest percentage of Internet users

Google just announced that 17 World Development Indicators can now be searched in Google search.
Therefore you will see this in Google search result if you look for Internet users of a country:

I’ve always been paying attention to World Bank as they have good amount of high quality data visualization and very useful data.
With Google’s power, [...]


Introducing: Tim Ho’s Monkey (15 Google Wave invites inside)

I always have things to share online, so much information gets at me each and every day, but sometimes things are just too small or too personal for this blog, and too big for a tweet. Other than that, I just got an iPhone 3Gs and I just have too much data usage to spare.
So [...]


Twitter: Winner in “Instant Messaging”

Although I don’t count Twitter as an Instant Messaging service, it’s interesting to see this statistic published by Palo Alto Network few days ago.

In the report, they put Twitter together with other popular IMer like msn, facebook chat, google chat and meebo. Surprisingly, they all went up since Spring this year, and even more surprising [...]


A 5 minute online chat that worth US$200

It’s hard to gain new customers, but it’s even harder to keep existing ones. I was about to switch to another hosting company this morning, but a 5-minute online chat stopped me from making this decision.
If you own a website/blog, you should know that the customer lifetime value in web hosting industry is very high, [...]


Playstreet VS Google Street View

This entry is also featured as one of the “It’s Delicious” series postings on Asia Digital Map.
In online content creation, Korea has been the biggest in the world. They have the highest portion of Internet users who enjoy publishing web content, more than 55% of the Internet users have uploaded articles, photos, music, videosand other [...]

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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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