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Fastest growing nation on Facebook? China!
The world's largest social network may be blocked in the world's most populous nation but - according to the latest stats from Social Bakers - China has been the fastest growing Facebook nation over t...
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Teens now drive Indonesia’s mobile phone market
With mobile phones coming to Indonesia before everyone had landlines, Southeast Asia's most populous nation leapfrogged into the mobile era.By 2005 only a quarter of Indonesian homes had landlines, wh...
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China Social Networks: Cool Girls to Hipsters
Facebook holds sway as the default social network in many parts of the world across all Internet demographics. In China, where Facebook is blocked, a handful of homegrown social networks attract segme...
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Chinese Overtaking English as Internet Language
Chinese will soon overtake English as the largest native language of Netizens. That said, many of those Chinese are learning English, so I don't think it will spell the end of English. This infographi...
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Group Buying: Australia Loves Bargains
Group buying sites in Australia have grown from virtually nothing to a sector likely to generate more than AU $100m per year, according to a recent report in The Australian.Nielsen recently gave an ov...
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Will Egypt Kill Sina Weibo?
_Ongoing unrest in the Arab world already prompted China's government to limit news on the unrest and filter searches and Tweets.Beyond censorship, these actions now may have financial impact on China...
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Will Publishing Follow the Music Industry?
Apple's move to charge publishers 30 percent for subscriptions has raised a lot of interest around the business models for those selling content.A recent report on e-readers by Bain and Company opens ...
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Facebook and China (or Irrelevant)
Never really one to share comics, but this one touches on two key parts of my team's work: Facebook and China. According to Dilbert, that makes relevant. Being described as "relevant" by Dilbert may b...
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How To: Use Facebook to Make a Party Last
One of many that I took at the goodbye party this weekend for our friend Amy Wood, this photo helped bring home how digital photography combined with social media can extend an event well beyond the n...
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Three Kingdoms of China’s Internet
While China's Internet is already dominated by power players in a way that the US Internet is not, investment bank CLSA sees further consolidation through lose alliances.A recent report by the investm...
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What Ogilvy Clients Will Want in 2040
Apologies in advance for two postings in a row mentioning my employer! Created by members of the Ogilvy's APAC Social Media team, this video shows what clients will want from an advertising or market...
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Social Media Jobs in Asia: Groupon, Ogilvy, AFP and Bangkok
UPDATE (FEB 18):_ We now have seven spots open for our Social Media team in Australia. _To celebrate the new year, here's a few great Social Media jobs in APAC.OGILVYHiring for Social Media is almost ...
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Wikileaks: $100k Facebook Strategy for US Embassy Indonesia
Thanks to Wikileaks (via the Guardian) here's a cable from the US Embassy in Jakarta describing and justifying their US$100k investment in a Facebook and other social media ahead of Obama's visit. Int...
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Oprah: Dethroned by Chinese Tweeter (Who doesn’t use Twitter)
The Queen of Talk, Oprah Winfrey, no longer reigns supreme.She has been passed as the tenth largest tweeter on earth by Yao Chen, a Chinese actress who is the most followed person on Weibo, China's ne...
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Social Media in China: The Same, but Different
I wrote the below article for China Business Review, the magazine of the US-China Business Council. I'd be interested in feedback from the readers of this blog! Tom As Chinese consumers spend more ti...
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Infographic: Asia’s Connectivity (updated)
Pulled together two charts using stats from the World Bank to look at the relative connectivity of major markets in East Asia and their GDP level. (THE SECOND CHART IS BETTER!) In the top chart, verti...
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2010 Social Media News (in Cartoons)
Cartoonist Rob Cottingham has put together an amusing YouTube newsreel of the year in Social Media as told in his cartoons. ...
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This Blog: Now Available on Kindle
Amazon kindly informed me that I may be interested in reading this blog via Kindle at a cost of US$0.99 per month. (They use a screenshot of the old layout of this blog)Wonder where that money goes?...
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More Facebook users in Rangoon than Beijing?
A great graphic representation of friendship around the world produced earlier this month by Facebook show's the website's gaping void of connections to China. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in Chi...
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Yes, Virginia, It is Christmas
A very Virginia-style scene of choosing a Christmas tree from the woods. (Photo credit to Thuy-Tien Crampton) That blob in the lower left corner being looked at by the horses is me carrying a cedar tr...
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Facebook’s Vietnam War
UPDATE: This week (Jan 12, 2011) the government of Vietnam appears to be blocking Facebook more comprehensively. I wonder if FB ever managed to hire the person in the adjoining ad. One skillset they r...
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China’s Social Network Personalities
The Social Media team for Ogilvy Beijing created this great graphic to explain the personality differences between social networks in China. Unlike other parts of the world, where Facebook or other so...
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Using Social Networks for Business
These slides are from a webinar I presented this morning with my colleague John Stauffer on how companies can work with social networks. It is part of an ongoing series of webinars done in an associat...
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Job: Social Media Strategy in Malaysia
As ever, our APAC social media team is in perpetual recruitment mode for great people. In particular, our Malaysia office is now looking for a great manager-level person for social media. Details belo...
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What Clients Want (in 2040)
thomascrampton.com Created by members of the Ogilvy APAC Social Media team, this video shows what clients will want from a PR agency in 2040. Led by Tem Hansen, the team won a global Ogilvy Profession...
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Debate Research: The Internet is Making Us Stupid
The Internet, I recently argued, is making us stupid. This may seem a strange stance for someone who blogs and runs a social media team, but I put forward this point of view in a debate organized by I...
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Sachin Duggal: Host Your Desktop in the Cloud
thomascrampton.com Founder and CEO of Nivio, Sachin Duggal, introduces a new business model for laptops and software providers The Nivio Cloud PC - a computer hosted in the cloud!...
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Isaac Mao on the Concept of Sharism
thomascrampton.com In this video, Isaac Mao discusses the concept of sharism and how it may develop into offline practices as well....
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ArabCrunch on Tech Startups in the Arab World
thomascrampton.com Editor of ArabCrunch, Gaith Sager reveals the most interesting Arab technology startups at the moment....
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Chinese About.com: Young and Specialized
thomascrampton.com Matt Roberts of about.com reveals the differences in crowds and content on the Chinese version of the site....
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Chinese Chess: The Key to Business in China?
thomascrampton.com Feng Jun, Founder of Aigo, argues that Chinese chess is very relevant if you want to understand the culture and business opportunities in China....
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Eric Charas: More information, more engagement
thomascrampton.com Through an experiment, Eric Charas proves that media exposure will lead to behavioral changes on many different levels....
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Trip Adler on Social Publishing
thomascrampton.com Trip Adler, founder and CEO of Scribd, explains why he believes his platform can transform the nature of publishing....
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Tudou Founder on the Future of Online Video
thomascrampton.com Tudou founder Gary Wang explains why he believes online video is going mobile....
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Layar: The Augmented Reality Browser
thomascrampton.com In this video, Maarten Lens-FitzGerald shows off some the new augmented reality application produced by his company Layar....
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Deborah Fallows on Dreaming in Chinese
thomascrampton.com In this video, Deborah Fallows shares her insights into Chinese language learning. What makes it so different from Western languages? And is it really so hard to learn?...
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist on Inspiration and Heroes
thomascrampton.com In this video, Hans-Ulrich Obrist talks about the importance of inspiration. He thus explains how meeting his own inspirational hero had a transformative effect....
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist on The Interview Project
thomascrampton.com In this video, Hans-Ulrich Obrist explains how and why he conducts his interviews with artists around the world. My interview is actually done while Mr. Obrist interviews a local Ho...
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist on the Future of Maps
thomascrampton.com In this video, Hans-Ulrich Obrist talks about the future of mapping and why digital maps is one of the biggest stories of the internet....
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David Liu: WoZai, a China friendly Twitter clone?
thomascrampton.com Founder and CEO of Wozai, David Liu, explains what his twitter-esque platform is all about and how it might break out of the pack of already existing Twitter clones in mainland Chin...
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Latest Social Media Stats from Asia
thomascrampton.com Asia is a very diverse continent when it comes to digital ecosystems. This video pulls together the latest stats on Social Media from across APAC. The video was created for sharing ...
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Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at the WEF Asia
thomascrampton A keynote panel with Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at the World Economic Forum's Asia Summit....
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A Tour of Hong Kong’s Latest Gadgets
thomascrampton.com Join Thomas Crampton, Andrea Fenn and Tem Hansen for a tour around Wanchai Computer Centre in Hong Kong....
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Facebook Effect: David Kirkpatrick
thomascrampton.com David talks about his upcoming book....
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Ai Weiwei on the Power of Social Media
thomascrampton.com In this video, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei talks about the power of social media in China, and how this new form of communication has created new possibilities for humans around the gl...
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The Gaming Communities in China
thomascrampton.com In this video from Shanghai, PhD Candidate Marcella Szablewicz introduces some of the trends in the Chinese gaming communities. Based out of Shanghai, Marcella has gathered qualitat...
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Shanghai Blogger Gathering
thomascrampton.com In this video from a blogger gathering up in Shanghai, each person introduces themselves and their engagement in blogging and social media in China....
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Tweetup in Tokyo
thomascrampton.com At a Tweetup in Tokyo, hosted by President of Ogilvy PR Japan, Orlando Camargo, everyone introduced their social networking profiles and tried to describe something unique about soc...
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Blogger Gathering in Taipei
thomascrampton.com At this blogger gathering in Taipei, people introduced their blogs and social networking profiles....
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Journalism vs Social Media in Singapore
thomascrampton.com A shootout between bloggers and journalists at an open-room sports bar in Singapore....
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Hugh Pope on Dining with Al-Qaeda
thomascrampton.com In this video, Hugh Pope presents the thoughts behind his new book "Dining with Al-Qaeda"....
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Gulay Ozkan: Why Social Media is so big in Turkey
thomascrampton.com In this video from Istanbul, Internet entrepreneur Gulay Ozkan explains why social media is so big in Istanbul....
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Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop on the Asian Art Trends
thomascrampton.com In this video from Singapore, freelance writer and art specialist, Sonia Kolesnikov introduces the trends of the moment on the Asian art scene....
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Habib Haddad: The Problem of Typing Arabic
thomascrampton.com Co-founder and CEO of yamli.com, Habib Haddad, describes in this video the problem of typing Arab characters online - and how to solve it....
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Infographic: Social Media Equivalents in Korea
Please enjoy this chart of Social Media Equivalents for South Korea, produced by our team in Seoul. I have already publishedthe Social Media equivalents charts we produced about: Vietnam, Japan and Ch...
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Gary Wang of Tudou: China’s Video Future is Mobile
In a recent conversation with Gary Wang, founder of Tudou one of China's YouTube-like video sites, he spoke about recent trends in online video. The future will rely highly on mobile and tablet device...
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Job: Social Media strategist for TILE in New York
Amy Butte, a friend who launched a very successful financial web service for young people, is looking to hire a social media strategist on staff in New York. Looks like a great job (and she would be g...
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ZDNet: Digital marketing not up to speed in Asia
I recently spoke with Jamie Yap from ZDNet Asia about the state of digital marketing in Asia. In her article "Digital Marketing Not Up To Speed in Asia", a number of issues were highlighted, including...
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Infographic: Social Media Equivalents in Hungary
My Hungarian is not very good, so I cannot read the text, but our Asia team's bull-eye system of identifying social media equivalents has inspired Koronics Krisztián to create a Hungarian equivalent!...
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Trip Adler: Scribd and the Socialization of Reading
An online platform on which anyone can publish their writing, Scribd transforms almost any form of digital written text into HTML5, a programming language that allows easy display in a browser window....
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Visualization of Twitter in Singapore
JamiQ, one of the social media listening tools that our Social Media team at Ogilvy uses, recently put out this video showing a nice visualization of conversations taking place in Singapore on Twitter...
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Vietnam’s Social Media Equivalents
Similar to the earlier charts we did on China and Japan, here is a bulls-eye of equivalents for Vietnam. One of Asia's fastest growing economies and youngest populations, Vietnam is a fascinating Asia...
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Chinese Mobile Phones and Fashion
Of those living in China's first tier cities, one third replace their phones because they feel they are not trendy anymore.A few minutes on the streets of Beijing or Shanghai confirms the affection Ch...
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Simon Daglish: How MySpace UK differs from the US
With today's reports about potential massive layoffs at MySpace, it bears noting the different characteristics that have driven the site globally. For example, while they may share the same name, MySp...
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iPhone Augmented Reality App Demo: Layar
Augmented reality is more than a nifty iPhone toy, according to Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald, it will soon be a new media. For those unaware of the trend, Augmented Reality new style of application that ex...
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China: Social Media and User Content Now Dominate
I ran into Dr Gang Lu of Mobinode last week at the Social Media World Forum where he shared two interesting graphs published in June by DCCI. The first shows that the dominant activity online in China...
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Stanford Conference in Beijing: China 2.0
In several weeks I will join what is an impressive roster of China's digital elite gathered in Beijing by Stanford University for China 2.0. Co-chaired by Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA, the event take...
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The Internet Is Making Us Stupid
In late October I debate against the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, arguing that the Internet is making us stupid. My other adversary is Kaiser Kuo, now working for Baidu, while Jeremy O'Grady of ...
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AFP: “Asians muscling into social media world”
Last week at the Social Media World Forum in Singapore, Philip Lim of Agence France-Presse did a series of interviews, including one with me, about Social Media in Asia.The original AFP article, picke...
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Online Reviewers: Chinese Criticize, Koreans Praise
I have long been obsessed with differences between online cultures, so was very interested by a study from Nielsen that aims to quantify negativity of online reviewers across Asia.Their conclusion, th...
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Asia Accounts for 37% of World’s Tweets
Japan is one of the world's top Twitter nations, but Asia more broadly accounts for a huge share of global Tweets.Statistics are hard to chase down, but a company in Paris, Semiocast, did a study in w...
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Deborah Fallows: The Pains and Pleasures of Learning Chinese
Deborah Fallows recently published "Dreaming in Chinese" about studying Chinese. An impressive linguist, Deborah has studied languages all her life, most recently Chinese while living in Shanghai and ...
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The $100 iPad: China’s Android-based ePad
Forget Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy, the future is cut-rate Android products! I recently purchased this Android-based ePad from China for 800RMB (roughly US$100). The main upside is the price and...
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China Online Video is Actually Internet TV
While attending the World Economic Forum in Tianjin last week, I took part many great discussions, including several about online video and Social Media in China. Among others, I spoke with the founde...
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Mondays at 5pm: Australians Go Online
Nielsen recently released their latest look at the Internet in Australia.Interestingly, Australian online engagement peaks on Mondays and the peak time (all days) is 5pm. While the trough of engagemen...
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Interview: VOA on Zhongnanhai’s New Blog
Kate Woodsome of Voice of America called me while she was reporting a radio piece about the Chinese leaderships' new official blog "Direct Line from Zhongnanhai".Already inspiring tens of thousands of...
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Interview: Social Media in Vietnam
Viet Nam News recently got in touch to interview me for an article about the development of Social Media in Vietnam and what it means for the country. A few extracts:HOW HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS DEV...
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Infographic: Japanese Social Media Equivalents
Here's a recent infographic pulled together by our team on Japanese Social Media Equivalents. Suggested additions (or corrections) are most welcome! See also: Infographic on Chinese Social Media Equiv...
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Breaking Into Ad Age Power 150
Flattered to notice that my blog has made it into the Power 150, a ranking run by Ad Age of the best marketing blogs on the web. They use a range of metrics to determine the rankings....
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Needed: “An Inconvenient Truth” for Water
Watch out Al Gore! I heard a fascinating presentation from the Chairman of Nestlé, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, on the global water crisis.Not since seeing Gore present an early version of the presentatio...
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DHL, Fedex, UPS to the IRS for Overseas US Taxpayers
Having struggled through the lengthy US tax forms once again this year, I faced an odd problem at the end: To what address do I send the forms via courier services like FedEx, DHL or UPS.Most IRS addr...
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Traditional Hong Kong Dai Pai Dong, RIP
Dai Pai Dong from Tem Hansen on Vimeo. A video tribute to one of the last Dai Pai Dongs to fall victim to Hong Kong's gentrification. It was knocked down three weeks ago. Hong Kong's Dai Pai Dong are...
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Award For Social Media Journalism in Asia
The World Association of Newspapers has launched a set of digital media awards for Asian publishers that includes a category for Social Media. Deadline is September 30.To enter, you must be a publishe...
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Mobile: China’s Women Start Surfing
China's mobile Internet users may be overwhelmingly male (89.1%), but research from Analysys shows that the number of women browsing on their phones has jumped from 5.1% of mobile phone surfers in 200...
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Seedcamp Comes to Singapore
Seedcamp, a UK-based event/fund intended to encourage and support very early stage startup ventures, will come to Singapore on October 5.Launched by Saul Klein, Seedcamp is a micro-seed fund that inve...
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China’s Netizens: More Numerous, More Engaged
China's lead in transforming the world's Internet is highlighted by a new report from the Boston Consulting Group entitled “The Internet’s New Billion”. Not only are China's Netizens more numer...
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Social Media’s Silent Giants: Naspers and DST
Naspers and DST are not household names, but they have long fascinated me for their huge level of ownership and influence over Social Media globally. If the global evolution of Social Media interests ...
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Speech in Tokyo at Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan
In Tokyo for a week and speaking at the FCC of Japan on Monday. Please join! Details below and on the FCCJ website. Planning to discuss the below topic, but make it highly interactive, based on what p...
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Infographic of Social Media Equivalents in China
Our China Social Media team put together this infographic to explain some of China's Social Media equivalents. Any major categories or companies missing? Put your suggestions below in comments....
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In China: $184 for a Virtual Dragon
In China, if you spend US$184 on your credit card you can now get a virtual dragon. For US$147, you get a virtual horse. In what may be the first of its kind, a social network has linked up with a ban...
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Foursquare for Business: A Strategic Framework
This slide was created for our training about how to use Foursquare for Business, done in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and GoToWebinar....
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Ogilvy On: Foursquare for Business (The Slides)
OGILVY ON: HOW TO USE FOURSQUARE FOR BUSINESS View more presentations from 360 Digital Influence, Ogilvy PR Worldwide. Here are the slides from the latest presentation by our team at Ogilvy, pres...
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Google Publishes Censorship Status in China
Google now shows which Google services are blocked in China. Updated daily, status is assessed by geographically diverse servers that are used to monitor connection capability. As mentioned in another...
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WoZai: China Twitter Clone, Built 1 Celebrity At A Time
Twitter clones are all the rage these days in China, but operating a Social Media platform can be tough in the country that blocks Twitter along with YouTube, Facebook, Slideshare and others. David L...
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Foursquare China Clone: Jie Pang
Like many other foreign Social Media platforms, Foursquare is blocked in China. (Check out Herdict to see what is blocked.)The result is that people visiting with a non-China phone, such as me, can ea...
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Social Media: Chinese Love To Engage
OGILVYONE CONNECTED View more presentations from Ogilvy China. My colleagues in OgilvyOne China recently released OgilvyOne Connected, a report that may surprise those not aware of the incredible...
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How To: Use Foursquare for Business
OGILVY ON: HOW TO USE FOURSQUARE FOR BUSINESS View more presentations from 360 Digital Influence, Ogilvy PR Worldwide. Here are the slides from the latest presentation by our team at Ogilvy, pres...
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iPhone4 Launch Schedule for Asia-Pacific
Can't stand the wait? Here's a guide for the iPhone rollout for much of the Asia-Pacific region. Sorry Laos, no plans for a launch yet! Click on the "more" link below to get maps showing the operators...
Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
