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adGeek acquires stake in CtrlShift’s, The Studio
14 Jan
Marketing solutions company adGeek now has a stake in The Studio, which is CtrlShift’s managed services entity.
As part of the new joint venture, both parties will combine resources and their expertise to meet the demands of clients across Asia Pacific.
The Studio’s managing director Syahar Khalid will report to adGeek group founder and CEO Frank Chen and will be based in Kuala Lumpur.
Services provided by The Studio currently include programmatic advertising and audience-focused marketing solutions for a range of regional and global clients, including Nespresso, Boh Plantations, Siam Makro, SKY Cable and OPPO. With this joint venture, The Studio will now expand its offerings to include technology-based consumer engagement solutions ranging from data management platforms to chatbots.
It will also become a subscriber and licensee of The Hub, CtrlShift’s core Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business and flagship enterprise programmatic advertising platform used by brands and agencies to facilitate efficient and transparent media buying at scale across multiple channels and buying ecosystems.
The Studio has a presence in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, and was spun off from CtrlShift’s SaaS business and established as an independent entity in July 2018.
AdGeek has its headquarters in Taipei and helps customers with marketing techniques and technology solutions.
AdGeek’s Chen said both companies have a shared vision of what next-eneration digital marketing can and should be for brands that need to navigate a fragmented and fickle consumer landscape.
“By partnering with The Studio, we have the scale to serve our clients across the region with best-in-class managed services and the ability to integrate and deliver marketing intelligence and automation platforms.” he added.
Reza Behnam, chairman and co-founder of CtrlShift, called the joint venture “a natural next step” for both companies. The divestment of The Studio and the associated change in leadership will enable CtrlShift to focus exclusively on The Hub.
“We remain committed to our mission of simplifying the digital media ecosystem through aggregation and automation, to make advertising truly ‘frictionless’ in this complex playing field. The synergies that The Studio and adGeek enjoy will be further enhanced with their continued use of The Hub to enable efficient, unified media buying,” Reza said.
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