by Sparkle Insights | Sep 11, 2018 | Asian American, Multicultural Marketing
Launched in 2011 by Tencent, WeChat has evolved from a social media app to an ecosystem, an indispensable part of most Chinese consumers’ daily life. WeChat hit 1 billion monthly active user in the first quarter of 2018. According to according to Kimberly Lee,...
by Sparkle Insights | Sep 7, 2018 | Multicultural Marketing
The Total Market debate has been going on for a while so much so that it spawned an organization to tackle the issue – Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing (AIMM) under Association of National Advertisers. There are different names for...
by Sparkle Insights | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog, Multicultural Marketing, Popular Culture
The marketing industry has been dominated by the idea of Total Market in the past few years. While the definition of Total Market is still being debated, the gist of the argument goes like this: With the changing demographics (minority consumers becoming the majority...
by Sparkle Insights | Dec 3, 2017 | Asian American, Blog, Multicultural Marketing
News coverage of this November elections has focused on how Democrats fared in the first tests of Trump’s impact. Something else close to home also caught my attention. Hongbin Gu, a UNC associate professor and immigrant from China, was elected as a Chapel Hill...
by Sparkle Insights | Nov 17, 2017 | Asian American, Blog, Multicultural Marketing
I recently had the opportunity to attend a media roundtable discussion hosted by the Asian American Advertising Federation and sponsored by AARP at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Nov. 2, 2017. Going into the roundtable discussion with the news...
