There’s a line buried deep in a Reuters report that should make every marketer, regulator and CEO sit up straight: Meta reportedly made RM75.8 billion from scam ads in 2024. Not from premium placements. Not from brand safety compliance. But from scam ads — fake investment schemes, fraudulent online stores,
There’s a curious irony in India’s latest tech controversy: a government-built cyber safety app meant to inspire trust ended up triggering a nationwide trust deficit. The plan was simple on paper. All new smartphones would come preloaded with Sanchar Saathi, a state-run cyber safety app that helps users verify handset
There are policy changes. And then there are marketing signals disguised as policy changes. Thailand’s decision to temporarily lift its decades-old afternoon alcohol sales ban — a rule that puzzled tourists almost as much as currency exchange counters with no small notes — is more than a regulatory tweak. It
There’s a moment in every tech story when the surface news — a memo, a delay, a headline — belies a deeper shift beneath it. OpenAI’s newly declared “code red” isn’t just Silicon Valley drama. It’s an early signal of how 2026’s AI race will shape the tools, platforms and
There’s a moment in every brand’s life when it stops apologising for being local. When it looks the world in the eye, clears its throat, and says: “Watch this.” Perodua has just had that moment. No fireworks. No stadium launch. No Silicon Valley cosplay. Just a quiet RM80,000 electric vehicle
An App Built for Emergencies. A Lesson Built for Marketers. If you’ve travelled recently, you’d know the modern Malaysian tourist packs two essentials: a passport and a phone. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs now wants to add a third — MyWorld Alert, an app designed to keep Malaysians safer abroad.
Luxury has always traded on a single, priceless commodity: human touch. The wink of a seamstress, the intuition of a creative director, the imperfections that make craft feel alive. So when Valentino — a house synonymous with Roman couture and old-world romance — unveiled an AI-generated campaign for its new
There’s a moment in Etiqa’s latest brand film, Born here with you. Always here for you, where no one is selling anything. No policy. No premium breakdown. No “learn more” button screaming for attention. Just a Pakcik sliding a plate across the counter and saying, “Makan dulu, bayar kemudian.” (Eat
Malaysia’s electric vehicle story has been largely urban — sedans gliding silently through Bangsar traffic, compact SUVs posing in Mont Kiara basements, fast chargers popping up next to latte counters. Then iCaur turned up with a boxy, unapologetic off-road EV and basically said: What if an EV wasn’t just for
For the last three years, artificial intelligence has felt like a warehouse rave funded by venture capital and powered by H100 chips. Loud. Relentless. Blinding. Every agency pitch, every CMO townhall, every conference panel had the same soundtrack: AI will save us, scale us, replace us, or turn us into
