By The Malketeer In Malaysia, we like to believe multiculturalism is baked into our DNA — sambal next to kimchi next to chutney next to soy sauce, all on the same table. But cultural celebration without cultural understanding? That’s where even well-intentioned brands can tip from “Malaysia Truly Asia” into
By The Malketeer Malaysians don’t simply “do” 11.11 anymore. We turn it into sport. One eye on vouchers. One thumb on livestreams. One ear on influencers shouting “lagi murah!” And somehow, the brain still remembers to check out before the timer runs out. But this year’s 11.11 showdown wasn’t just
By The Malketeer Six seconds. That’s all STING needed to energise Southeast Asia — and, frankly, that’s all most of us get now before people scroll on. Forget brand monologues. Forget sentimental epics for every campaign. STING’s six-second blitz 18 rapid-fire video campaign with Leo Thailand isn’t just a creative
By The Malketeer Every so often, the Booker Prize reminds us of something the marketing industry forgets in its chase for “thumb-stopping content”: real stories don’t need polish. They need truth. This year, that truth came from David Szalay, the British-Hungarian writer who picked up the 2025 Booker Prize for
By The Malketeer There are policy decisions that rattle industries. Then there are those that quietly shift habits, culture, and marketing behaviour — often with deeper ripples than first assumed. Thailand’s new enforcement on afternoon alcohol restrictions sits firmly in the second category. Under updated rules, anyone caught drinking —
By The Malketeer PETRONAS has named Arni Laily Anwarrudin as its senior general manager of strategic communications, effective 1 November 2025 — signalling a sharpened, more integrated communications agenda as Malaysia’s national energy company steps deeper into its PETRONAS 2.0 transformation era. In her expanded remit, Arni now oversees enterprise-wide
By The Malketeer 2025 felt like an entire decade packed into twelve frenetic months. AI sprinted faster than anyone planned. Budgets tightened. Brands became more cautious than creative. And yet — audiences evolved faster than both. If 2024 was the year we “experimented with AI,” then 2025 was the year
By The Malketeer When a legacy media brand decides to rewind and relaunch, it usually means one thing: the audience has moved, and the brand needs to catch up. This week, Media Prima Audio did exactly that by bringing back Kool FM — not as a nostalgia act, but as
By The Malketeer If someone told you a decade ago that digital advertising fraud would one day rival the global drug trade, you would’ve laughed. Yet here we are. Ad fraud has quietly become one of the world’s most profitable organised crimes. Bot networks, fake traffic farms, spoofed websites, invisible
By The Malketeer If you feel the world has become noisier but not wiser, you’re not imagining it. We scroll faster, judge quicker, and copy trends before questioning them. In marketing rooms once fuelled by curiosity, we now see more dashboards than debates and more instant opinions than original thinking.
