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Q: What is the Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA)?
Q: What is digital marketing?
Q: Who currently uses digital marketing?
Q: What are the benefits of joining ADMA?
Q: Why was ADMA set up?
Q: What are the main attributes of ADMA?
Q: What is the role of ADMA?
Q: Who are the founding members of ADMA?
Q: How much does it cost to join?




Q: What is the Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA)?

ADMA is an industry association representing the interests of digital marketers and promoting the benefits of digital marketing to the business community in Asia. As such, it is the "eyes, ears and voice of digital marketers in Asia."

Q: What is digital marketing?

It is the use of the internet as a channel for marketing and communications to reach consumers.

Q: Who currently uses digital marketing?

Online music companies; Amazon.com; airline and travel companies such as Cathay Pacific and winhotels.com; web portal sites; news services such as scmp.com, Reuters, Chinaonline.

Q: What are the benefits of joining ADMA?

Representation, networking and information sharing. Specifically, ADMA offers members:

  • A strong voice for our industry in the media and with potential customers
  • Committee structure to drive agendas
  • Forum for standards and best practice sharing
  • Repository of industry knowledge
  • Unified voice for the industry to promote the general use of the internet
  • Spokespeople to represent members and respond to criticism
  • Arbitration role
  • Standardisation of practices
  • Professional code of conduct
  • Industry contacts
  • Membership directory
  • Events (speaking and networking opportunities)
  • Publications
  • Newsletter
  • Training
  • Access to the Members section of the ADMA website that allows you to share information with other members and post company information, product information, news, events, case studies, research papers, showcases, news, jobs, tools and tips.

For more information on membership, please click here.

Q: Why was ADMA set up?

There was a consensus amongst a core group of companies and individuals involved with digital marketing in Asia that there was no specific, active group that represented the interests of the industry in the region. ADMA was therefore established to provide clear leadership and a voice on issues, lobbying and public relations in the region, and to proactively address criticisms of and misconceptions about digital marketing.

Q: What are the main attributes of ADMA?

  • Senior-level representation of the industry and member companies
  • Mandate truly regional in scope
  • Agenda driven by Asian concerns, not global or purely Hong Kong-focused
  • Task-orientated committee, will agree definitive industry points of view
  • Not event organizers, but rather participants in other events

Q: The role of ADMA is to:

  • Promote the ADMA's agenda in the region
  • Lobby governments and industry bodies
  • Communicate opinions/points of view via PR
  • Work with other groups and associations, such as governments, networking groups and the media
  • Provide a "higher body" for arbitration on industry issues
  • Research industry issues
  • Provide endorsement/industry standards
  • Train digital marketers
  • Provide a networking framework

Q: Who are the founding members of ADMA?

  • David Ketchum, CEO, UpstreamAsia
  • Celia Chong, GM, MSN Asia
  • Jeff Noles, Country Manager, eBay Taiwan
  • Hugh Bloch, MD, Nielsen // NetRatings
  • Paul Campbell, MD, Orbit Media
  • Michael Zung, MD Greater China, DoubleClick
  • Douglas Khoo, freelance e-consultant

Q: How much does it cost to join?

Annual charges in US dollars:
Board member (voting) $5,000
Corporate $1,500
Individual $200

 

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