CMA Asia October 2025: Key Takeaways from AI marketing
Experts at CMA Asia reveal why brands must adopt Generative Engine Optimization and performance branding to thrive in an AI-driven marketing era.
Experts at CMA Asia reveal why brands must adopt Generative Engine Optimization and performance branding to thrive in an AI-driven marketing era.
🚨 Big News from World News Day 2025! 🚨26 September 2025, Friday - We officially launched BackgroundBriefing.news. A platform designed to help journalists and communicators thrive in the AI era.
During our panel discussion, industry leaders tackled the big question:“Can journalism survive AI disruption?”
Key takeaways from the session:✅ AI is changing how news is consumed—click-through rates
We’re excited to share that Hong Bao Media will be co-hosting the AAJA Youth Camp with the Asian American Journalists Association on Saturday, 13 September 2025, from 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM at our Integrated Communication Centre.
Podcasts have emerged as the platform for corporate storytelling, but they demand a distinct approach. We have held four workshops for podcasting skills, and these are five key points we hammer down.
I’m thrilled to be announcing the launch of my book "Play to your Strengths when Presenting".
Published by Marshall Cavendish, it is an essential part of all our coaching and training workshops booked from this month.
This book is a culmination of my almost five years as a Gallup-certified Advanced CliftonStrengths® coach, which has proved such an important part of our workshops.
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The HBM studio recently hosted an event with Asia-Pacific Association of Communication Directors (APACD) titled "Deepfake: A Comms Person's Friend or Foe?".
My staff sheepishly forwarded me this video clip from the ABC-TV series "Utopia", but I wasn't offended at all. In fact, this clip highlights many things that are wrong with the traditional way of media training.
Media entrepreneur Ted Turner famously said, “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.” Personal brand building takes more time and effort than most busy professionals have. The problem for many subject matter experts is they can’t pursue it without some limitation. But how can you overcome these obstacles? READ more
If you are worried about losing your job to AI there is only one way you can come out on top: Be the best human you can. Rapidly advancing AI technology has already proven that its development is unstoppable. So we humans have two choices.
The changes in the workplace were on full display in Omaha/Nebraska, the venue for the Gallup@Work 2023 conference. I wondered where all the people were. My Uber driver explained many people were still working from home. But how do you do that when staff are not physically in the workplace? How do you engage them when they’re not around?
A strong corporate culture is probably more easily attained than you think. But unsurprisingly, communication is often what stands in the way. Insights from the Gallup@Work 2023 conference in Omaha/Nebraska last week.
Communications Directors are looking for new resources and new approaches to avoid being hit by embarrassing allegations of greenwashing, according to panellists and participants at the APACD event at the Hong Bao Media studio on Thursday May 11.