Category Archives: Advertising and Marketing

China Businesscast: Chinese Word of Mouth with Sam Flemming

Flemming talks of net stars and other commercial trends in the Chinese web How do you sort through the massive noise of millions of messages posted daily on Chinese web forums, aka BBS sites? Sam Flemming, CEO of CIC Data, … Continue reading →

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Incest, beauty standards, and manipulating public opinion

A Jiang Wenli ad for Maxam cosmetics has a son saying he’d like to marry his mother. Debate has raged in the Chinese media; feminist commentator Lu Pin says that this is missing the point.

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China Businesscast: Interview with Ogilvy

In this episode, I interview Debby Cheung and Johan Vakidis of the Shanghai office of Ogilvy, the international marketing, advertising, and public relations firm. Having just interviewed Vanessa Seow of PR company Weber Shandwick, this interview sheds more light on … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: China PR Expert Vanessa Seow

Vanessa Seow works in technology PR at the Beijing HQ of the multinational PR agency Weber Shandwick. She gives insight into what makes the Chinese PR industry different from PR anywhere else in the world. Listen Suscribe to China Businesscast … Continue reading →

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Hunan TV’s new publicity stunt

Hunan TV has naked girls with eggs, Beijing gets a safety makeover, Olympic rowing looks to reality TV for a coxswain, Ogilvy acquires Black Arc real estate advertising, and Hu Jintao gets a weepy caricature.

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The return of Sexy Beijing

The third episode of Sexy Beijing is nearing completion. Here’s a taste.

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Hot Chinese Brands

On August 30, Interbrand (a company that specializes in brand creation and management) in cooperation with Business Week China released the first annual ranking of the Best Chinese Brands by brand value. Frank Chen, the CEO of Interbrand China so … Continue reading →

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A medical scam’s willing participants

From Oriental Outlook, a personal account by a doctor of patients shilling for bad medicine. Also, a Legal Report episode on how commercials are faked.

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News magazines: Sister Hibiscus gets her head shrunk and New Weekly turns 10

A rundown of the major Chinese newsmagazines for the week of 25 August.

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Kelly Chen and Toto

Washing her privates in public Kelly Chen (陈慧琳), a Hong Kong actress and pop singer who went to high school in Japan, has since the beginning of last year been a celebrity spokeswoman for Toto, a brand of toilets and … Continue reading →

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