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Appier launches AIRIS, the next-gen AI-powered CDP leveraging first-party data to activate MarTech applications
Seamless data unification enables 360° user profile generation in one-click, while data visualization reflects user feedback in real-time
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 19 December 2022 – Shortening the time spent from data to insight and insight to action, and visualizing results from marketing campaigns remain as critical issues for most enterprises considering Customer Data Platforms (CDP). In light of this, Appier (TSE: 4180) today announces the launch of AIRIS, the next-generation AI-powered CDP to support brands and marketers to achieve the fastest time-to-insight with smarter decision-making and execution by leveraging its advanced AI and Machine Learning technologies.

This launch comes following its acquisition of Woopra in October and is a combination of AIXON’s advanced user-centric predictive AI capabilities with Woopra’s superior data analytics and intuitive data visualization to help enterprises turn data to insight, and insights to action and results. The name AIRIS is derived from the word “iris”, which strongly reflects its visualization features that will empower enterprises to identify customers precisely and generate timely predictive insights.
AIRIS meets the current pain points of shorter time-to-insights and prediction requests that enterprises need to maximize their campaign ROIs in order to better respond to market challenges. Appier completing the integration just two months after the Woopra acquisition is a strong demonstration of its position as a leading AI SaaS company. AIRIS is available across Asia Pacific in English, Japanese, Korea, and Traditional Chinese with flexible and scalable pricing packages to suit enterprises of all sizes.
“We understand that obtaining insights from data in the shortest time possible is a major pain point for enterprises and marketers. The next generation of CDP launched by Appier, combining its expertise in AI technology and digital marketing, not just meets the needs of marketers, but will also be a market-leading solution to respond to this pain point,” said Dr. Chih-Han Yu, CEO and co-founder of Appier. “AIRIS will empower enterprises to achieve seamless data integration and fastest data-to-visualization, and tailor prediction models to strengthen customer relationships and bring customer experiences to the next level.”
Fragmented and missing data are some of the key reasons driving the higher costs of personalization for brands. What enterprises care about the most is usually the hardest to predict. With the next-generation CDP AIRIS, enterprises can integrate and synchronize customer data via one-click integrations and analyze every touch point throughout the customers’ journeys to gain more insights. With its AI-powered prediction capability, enterprises can now create more campaigns that have a higher likelihood of being received well by customers, unleashing the full benefits of a CDP to maximize business value and impact.
Brands and marketers stand to benefit from AIRIS in the following five ways:
1. Increase the value of first-party data and empower data storytelling
In response to several restrictions around the use of third-party data, AIRIS can seamlessly integrate various data sources, including existing cloud databases, online and offline sales data, and user data across web, app, messenger, and more than 50 external platforms to establish user-centric and comprehensive 360-degree customer views. Brands will be able to tell stories with data by visualizing customers’ purchase intent, preferences, and decision-making tendencies. With the inferred data insights and AI extrapolations, enterprises will now be able to tailor more effective and personalized marketing strategies.
2. Grant a higher level of autonomy and flexibility for marketers
Without data science capabilities, it is hard for marketers to quickly develop marketing strategies and directions. AIRIS is equipped with several marketer-friendly features, such as defining user attributes in one-click, plug-and-play set-up, and low-code/no-code interface so that marketers can easily gain insights to make decisions and plan activities without the help of IT, data scientists, or manual data analysis. This advantage is even more crucial in the current post-Covid era, as it can solve marketers’ challenges fundamentally to help them cope with the fast-changing market environment.
3. Data visualization is like a gold mine of insights
Through built-in user-centric and intuitive analysis templates, AIRIS can visualize the impact on the user at every touchpoint, supporting marketers to analyze long-term cohort behaviors through timeframe, segment, retention, and churn rate analysis, and find out the correlations and insights. For example, marketers can analyze campaign performance and its correlations and uplift cues by browsing “how many users are repeatedly making purchases after they sign up”, observing “the changes in monthly revenue after adopting a specific coupon delivery campaign”, and analyzing “users’ revisit, interaction, and purchase behavior for several months after sign up”.
4. Preview and predict performance before investment to maximize ROI
AIRIS can tag onsite visitors with more than 500 predictive user attributes in real-time, allowing marketers to quickly tailor engagement and prediction models through an automated Machine Learning platform to create more campaigns that are received well by customers. With AIRIS, marketers can also predict before investment by reviewing the correlations between marketing activity and sales growth, as well as getting to know why a customer stopped its journey on a specific channel. By predicting users who have higher chances to purchase or with a higher chance to churn, marketers can retarget high-value customers and customize product recommendations or coupon delivery to further enhance campaign performance and optimize their return on investment.
5. Responding to data privacy regulations to ensure user data security
Growing concerns about data privacy from customers and regulations regarding data privacy have set up a higher compliance standard for enterprises. Enterprises are now being requested to review and delete user data when users ask for the “Right to be forgotten (RTBF)”. Adopting AIRIS can enable enterprises to manage users’ cookie consent easily and maximize the value of data while respecting users’ data privacy for further analysis and campaign usage. Appier has always been committed to protecting every client’s and their customer’s data and has also been transparent in how data is being collected, utilized, and shared. Ensuring user data security while fulfilling the needs of data processing for enterprises of all sizes is of the utmost importance for Appier.
AIRIS’s powerful and highly customizable features can simplify routine marketing tasks. Coupled with Appier’s strong AI-powered prediction and analytics capability, AIRIS can further enrich data or bridge gaps in marketing campaigns. Marketers can now focus on tasks that matter the most and stay aligned with the organization’s strategic goals while paying close attention to their customer’s needs and experiences to truly empower first-party data-centric solutions and activate the power of MarTech applications.
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About Appier
Appier (TSE: 4180) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and US, and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Visit
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Infobip appoints Vice President of Marketing and Growth to support ambitious targets
By combining the marketing and growth teams, Infobip puts its customers front and center to build global brand awareness
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 19 December 2022 – Global cloud communications platform Infobip has appointed Ben Lewis as Vice President of Marketing and Growth. Ben will lead Infobip’s global marketing and growth function and is responsible for increasing the firm’s market share and brand awareness to meet its ambitious growth targets. Taking a customer-centric approach, he will ensure Infobip is positioned as the full-stack omnichannel communications platform for every platform.

His immediate priorities include launching Infobip’s One Communications Platform brand positioning across all audiences and channels to drive awareness. He will also enhance Infobip’s customer marketing and growth capabilities by, for instance, introducing new initiatives such as account-based marketing. In addition, by bringing together the firm’s marketing and growth teams globally, Ben will align all regions behind the same objective.
In the medium term, Ben will build Infobip’s brand equity globally and drive greater engagement with its critical tier-one platform business customers. He will also ensure greater visibility for Infobip’s self-service offer.
Ivan Ostojić, Chief Business Officer at Infobip, said: “Infobip is focused on profitable growth, and the marketing and growth team is critical to our success. But to achieve that success, every team worldwide must be aligned and focused on the same objective. Combining the marketing and growth teams under Ben’s new leadership unifies our end-to-end go-to-market functions from strategy to campaigns. Now everyone is focused on how they can help our customers succeed and, by doing so, how we can achieve ambitious profitable growth.
“Ben is an exceptional marketing leader with vast industry experience. What’s more, having been with the firm for some time in understands our business inside out. At Infobip, we’re committed to developing our people, helping them perform at their best and make the step up, which Ben exemplifies with this new appointment.”
Overseeing a global team, Ben has significant experience in global omnichannel communications. He was previously VP of Strategic Commercial Innovation at Infobip. Before Infobip, Ben was Director of Revenue Operations at U.S. messaging heavyweight OpenMarket. Acquired by Infobip in 2020, Ben joined OpenMarket from a tech start-up in 2016. Following the acquisition of OpenMarket, Ben managed the transition of the sales and accounts teams, working closely with Infobip’s executive team.
Ben Lewis, Vice President of Marketing and Growth at Infobip, said: “Having worked with Infobip and its executive team since its acquisition of OpenMarket, I’ve seen first-hand the breadth and depth of its people. Infobip has been hugely successful to date, and it has strong relationships with customers such as Microsoft and Adobe and partners like CRM platform HubSpot and workflow platform ServiceNow.
“With a more agile and collaborative approach, we can enhance that success and ensure Infobip achieves ambitious profitable growth. I’m looking forward to working with colleagues to ensure customers understand how our full stack communications infrastructure is so powerful that other providers run their platforms on it.”
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About Infobip
Infobip is a global cloud communications platform that enables businesses to build connected experiences across all stages of the customer journey. Accessed through a single platform, Infobip’s omnichannel engagement, identity, user authentication and contact centre solutions help businesses and partners overcome the complexity of consumer communications to grow business and increase loyalty. With over a decade of industry experience, Infobip has expanded to 70+ offices globally. It offers natively built technology with the capacity to reach over seven billion mobile devices and ‘things’ in 6 continents connected directly to over 700 telecom networks. Infobip was established in 2006 and is led by its co-founders, CEO Silvio Kutić, Roberto Kutić and Izabel Jelenić.
Recent award wins include:
- Infobip named a leader in the CCaaS Leaderboard, Juniper Research (Aug 2022)
- Omdia Ranks Infobip as Leader in CPaaS Universe Report (May 2022)
- Ranked the leading service provider in CPaaS by Juniper Research in its new Competitor Leaderboard CPaaS Vendors (October 2021)
- Infobip named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) 2021 Vendor Assessment (doc #US46746221, May 2021)
- Best A2P SMS provider for the fourth year running by mobile operators and enterprises in ROCCO’s annual Messaging Vendor Benchmarking Report
- Best CPaaS Provider of the Year, Best RCS Provider of the Year, and Mover & Shaker in Telco Innovation at the 2021 Juniper Digital Awards
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Amazon Singapore delivers smiles to children, ramping up support for the local community
Amazon Singapore built a Christmas tree from its iconic delivery boxes to showcase the volume and impact of donations from Singaporeans via the Amazon x Shop for Good wishlist initiative
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 December 2022 – Bringing cheer to the local community this holiday season, Amazon Singapore (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been ramping up its support for underprivileged children in Singapore – making one of its biggest donations to date.
This December, Amazon Singapore has donated a total of S$100,000 to non-profit organisations (NPOs) including Arc Children’s Centre, Beyond Social Services, SHINE Children and Youth Services, and Singapore Children’s Society – as part of growing the impact of the Amazon x Shop for Good wishlist initiative in Singapore. The donations aim to help over 31,000 children in Singapore, aged between three and 21 years, to give them opportunities for better and more enrichment activities, meals and medical care, among other needs. Additionally, for the holiday festivities and season of giving, Amazon Singapore is showcasing the impact that donations from the public can have on beneficiaries by building a Christmas tree from Amazon boxes. This tree will be on exhibition at the Suntec Outdoor Area near to the Esplanade MRT exit till 26 December 2022.
Amazon Singapore’s increased support for the wishlist initiative – an ongoing campaign that allows NPOs to share directly and in real-time what they need – comes alongside a recent survey with YouGov that found that transparency is key in online donations. 46% of Singaporeans surveyed said that the biggest barrier to donating online is the uncertainty of whether their donation will reach the beneficiaries. More than half (54%) said they would be interested to donate to NPOs through an online wishlist based on what they need.
“We are proud to have grown the wishlist initiative in Singapore since 2020 so local NPOs can directly share with donors what and how much they need, as well as who they help,” said Leo Laforgia, Country Manager, Amazon Singapore. “We also want to increase transparency and the ease with which online donations are made so that Singaporeans can continue to give to their preferred causes – just as conveniently as they shop on Amazon.sg and regardless of their budget. I am humbled to see the generosity of Singaporeans so far who continue to give and help underprivileged children and families live better. At Amazon, we will continue to make giving a part of everyday experiences, taking care of deliveries and safe payments, and offering a wide selection at great prices for NPOs and donors to choose from.”
Between January and December 2022, 16 participating NPOs collectively received more than 1,150 items worth over S$18,700 in value, helping over 1,900 Singaporeans in need. These NPOs include Arc Children’s Centre, Beyond Social Services, Blessings in a Bag, Children’s Wishing Well, Club Rainbow (Singapore), Engineering Good, Fei Yue, Glyph Community, New Hope Community Services, Singapore Red Cross, SHINE Children and Youth Services, Singapore Children’s Society, The Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf), SOSD, The Food Bank Singapore, and Willing Hearts.
Amazon Singapore’s latest efforts underpin its commitment to increasing opportunities and support available to vulnerable youths and children in Singapore.
Delivering Smiles to underprivileged children and youths in Singapore
Started locally in 2020 during the pandemic, Amazon’s wishlist initiative aims to inculcate giving back to the local community as a routine for people in Singapore. While shopping on Amazon.sg for holiday gifts or daily necessities, people can view the items requested by NPOs on their respective wishlists, click to purchase them per their budget, and directly support the causes they are most passionate about.
Each NPO’s wishlist comprises a depository of items that their beneficiaries currently need most, and their quantity, to inform customers on Amazon.sg what to give. Items purchased for donation will be delivered directly to the NPOs’ preferred address, at no cost to the charities. This ensures NPOs get the help they need, while customers continue to enjoy the same convenient shopping experience and great prices they have come to expect from Amazon.sg to donate transparently and easily.
“This December is yet another fun-filled season for the children at Arc and their siblings, with activities ranging from Christmas crafts, ginger bread baking and play! We are grateful for your support via our Amazon.sg wishlist, giving the children the opportunity to spread Christmas joy by making decorative crafts and ornaments for the home of the elderly as well as donors and corporates who have supported Arc through the years,” said Geralding Wong, Assistant Centre Head, Arc Children’s Centre.
“The Amazon.sg wishlist items of milk and diapers are most handy as a source of comfort for families living on a tight budget. Redistribution of goodwill from the wider Singapore community is an important aspect of our work that the donation from Amazon will facilitate. The funds will help us enable and sustain a network of resident volunteers who ensure that food and other household essential reach their neighbors who need them most,” said Gerald Ee, Executive Director, Beyond Social Services.
Customers can join Amazon in its season of giving by shopping for an NPO’s wishlist via amazon.sg/shopforgood.
Appendix: List of non-profit organizations that Amazon has donated S$100,000 (in total) to:
Arc Children’s Centre
Arc Children’s Centre is an independent charity day centre that supports children with cancer and other life-threatening conditions and their siblings between the ages of 3-18 years. Founded in 2011, the centre’s vision is to provide a sanctuary for the children’s continuing education, development, and bonding.
Beyond Social Services
Beyond Social Services is a Community Development Agency that adopts an asset-based community development approach and aims to provide support and resources that enable families and communities to care for themselves and each other. Beyond believes that every member has strengths and with some support, will be able to overcome their problems and take ownership of their lives. By being in the service of people’s efforts, Beyond, with the support of the wider community, aims to nurture change agents, strengthen community competence to address challenges and facilitate empowered communities that encourages initiative, self-created solutions, mutual help and solidarity, where people live powerful, satisfying and hopeful lives.
SHINE Children and Youth Services
SHINE Children and Youth Services is a registered charity and a member of the National Council of Social Service. It has been empowering children, youth, and their families in Singapore since 1976 and remain committed to enabling them to maximize their potential. SHINE serves around 5,000 students, aged 5-21 years old, each year.
Singapore Children’s Society
Singapore Children’s Society protects and nurtures children and youth of all races and religions. Established in 1952, its services have evolved to meet the changing needs of children. Today, Singapore Children’s Society operates more than 10 service centres islandwide, offering services in the four categories of: Vulnerable Children and Youth, Children and Youth Services, Family Services, and Research and Advocacy. In 2021, the Society reached out to 19,973 children, youth and families in need.
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About Amazon x Shop for Good Wishlist campaign
The Amazon x Shop for Good Wishlist campaign is a joint effort by Amazon Singapore and the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) to encourage shoppers to donate to non-profit organisations (NPOs) by purchasing items listed on their Amazon.sg wishlists. Visit:
amazon.sg/shopforgood.
About Amazon in the Community
Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, have the resources and skills they need to build their best future. Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact programs that leverage Amazon’s unique assets and culture.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer, and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit Amazon.sg.
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Toyota Asia’s Multiple Pathways towards Carbon Neutrality
Toyota believes that ‘carbon is the enemy’, and hence Toyota believes in a Multiple Pathway approach by offering customers the choice of various vehicle powertrain technologies, including HEV, PHEV, BEV, FCEV, HiCEV, or even bio-fuel vehicles. This allows every customer to select cleaner and greener mobility options that are suitable for their economic circumstances, energy source, charging infrastructure readiness, industrial policies and usage needs. This multiple pathways approach allows decarbonization to start immediately, without waiting for the maturity of all the enablers such as infrastructure and affordability, and hence can gain scale through accessibility. This is in line with Toyota’s “Mobility for All” objective, and allows everyone to participate in the decarbonization journey. Toyota believes that the impact of clean technology can be felt only with its wide adoption across global markets. Beyond new vehicles, Toyota also believes in appropriate life-cycle action to truly decarbonize mobility and its ecosystem, and earnestly tackle climate change from cradle to grave.
Toyota has carefully considered the best way to move to mass and accessible electrification in each market, through a ‘3 Lens’ approach that allow the company to best understand the enablers to accelerate carbon neutrality and electrification. These are 1) Emission Reduction, through well to wheel and lifecycle actions, 2) Economic Impact, including for the customer, government and industry, and most importantly 3) Customer Acceptance.
Specifically, for Emission Reduction, the consideration is to evaluate the total emissions, including tailpipe (tank-to-wheel) power generation (well-to-tank; e.g. fuel, electricity, etc.) and life cycle emission (from manufacturing and life-time usage).
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Stunning Waterfall in Khammouane to Open for Public in 2023
Khammouane will open the Tad Sieng Lue waterfall in the Bualapa district for the public to attract more tourists next year. This would be done after access and service facilities have been constructed in the surrounding area.
PureDew Officially Launches Their e-Store On Lazada And Shopee
Among the first batch of products to launch on the new marketplace are the SnowDrop Hydrogen and SnowDrop Spoon water dispensers/purifiers. Both of these models provide industry-leading filtering systems, making purified drinking water easily accessible and available in every household. The SnowDrop Hydrogen is also able to generate hydrogen water, which is scientifically proven to reduce inflammation and body recovery time.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a major shift in customer purchasing behaviour. E-commerce shopping platforms like Lazada and Shopee have seen a significant increase in regular users in recent years. Thus, PureDew has decided to utilise these platforms to shift their focus from commercial settings to providing homeowners with a water purifier for their home. Not only would multiple payment options, discounts and vouchers be available on these platforms, but instalment plans will also be an option for buyers.
PureDew is a reputable supplier that anyone looking for a water dispenser in Singapore can count on. The company has had a strong foothold in the commercial industry for years, with its drinking water fountains being utilised in various venues such as Gardens By The Bay, Changi Airport Terminals and more. Moving forward, customers can look forward to attractive promotions, and a variety of new models with different designs and features being brought in.
With the launch of their e-Store on Lazada and Shopee, PureDew strives to continue providing their range of affordable yet high-quality water dispensers for users across the country.
For more information, please visit puredew.com.sg.
To visit PureDew’s eStore at Lazada and Shopee, please use the following links:
Lazada: www.lazada.sg/shop/pure-dew-international-pte-ltd
Shopee: shopee.sg/puredewinternational
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