http://now.iamdirk.com Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:22:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oh joy oh glory. We did the unimaginable and won the Digital Agency of the Year award Asia Pacific, at last night's Media Magazine show in Singapore. 2 years of airports and hotels have paid off kind of. Tribal DDB established itself in Asia in 2007, with the appointment of strategic ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=88 My friends Oak and Martin from ThisCityArt had the great idea to open a Christmas Pop-Up store in Beijing. Its basically impossible to find (hint: Maizidian) but once you there they wont let you down (nor leave). Both put on some of their best works, Oak's series of photos from ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=84 Living in Asia you are used to find yourself amongst big crowds of people. In supermarkets, in airports, in restaurants, on the street. Everywhere loads and loads of people. I was a bit taken by surprise though when I learned that the Philippine Ad Congress is the biggest of its ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=79 Had a great day out last weekend visiting the Songzhuang Art festival. The entire village was packed with artists and art spectators, and almost no white person there! In contrary to 798. Our friend Damao produced this cool set of lucky clouds made of plastic cups, took her 5 days ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=48 Right at Yugong Yishan's 5th birthday party we had the chance to see about 400 tanks cruising past right outside the club's door. They were just coming back from their 60th year anniversary dress rehearsal when the lights turned red and they backed up for a few kilometers. But of course ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=54 Woo, long day. First day. Digital, Promo and Direct jury. All guys, all nice. Saw 150 pieces of work today, half in Direct and Promo, the rest was digital work. Direct and Promo is a much better category in my opinion as you actually get to walk around the room ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=40 SQ803 from Beijing to Singapore, seat 51G. No sign of Economic Crisis here, the plane is packed with Chinese couples, probably all on a shopping trip. No-one looks like a creative or media type. I haven’t checked the other juries, but on the Direct, Promotion and Digital Jury I seem ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=38 When I moved to China in March 2001, the numbers were intriguing. There were a total of 18 million internet users in China and this seemed like an outrageously high number at the time. Eight years later, there are 250 million Chinese consumers online, making them the world’s largest internet ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=13 15 million unique visitors, 8.5 minutes on the website and a click through rate of over 4 percent! Those are numbers that I hear frequently when I judge a Chinese campaign in a regional or international creative award show. These shows are an interesting mirror of both, what is going ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=9 Do you use some software to block the ads on websites when you surfing? Good question! No I don’t use a blocker but if surfed more on Chinese sites then I certainly would. My daily news and email websites are yahoo.com, iht.com and spiegel.de. Yahoo is an expensive international media buy ... http://now.iamdirk.com/?p=11