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India Monthly Social Scorecard November 2025
How are India’s biggest brands and influencers driving social engagement each month, and what can marketers learn from them? The IAB SEA+India x Comscore

It Takes Three: How Southeast Asia and India’s Brands, Agencies and Partners Balance AI Creative with Human Strategy
Southeast Asia and India are redefining how marketing content gets created by moving faster than other regions to adopt generative AI tools and proving

The Four Types of Retail Media Network Creating Custom Growth Strategies Across Southeast Asia and India
Retail media networks across Southeast Asia and India now operate across four distinct types, each delivering different data capabilities that marketers can match to

When Ads Are Infinite But Attention Isn’t: Three AI Personas to Help You Do Things Better, Do Better Things and Create New Things Entirely
AI tools are now helping teams generate campaigns faster than audiences can absorb them, only 30% of viewable inventory captures attention. With creative volume

India Monthly Social Scorecard October 2025
How are India’s biggest brands and influencers driving social engagement each month, and what can marketers learn from them? The IAB SEA+India x Comscore

The Full Story: How Southeast Asia and India Connect Every Chapter of Retail Media Measurement
Retail media measurement in Southeast Asia and India can connect the dots from first impression to final sale and beyond. Marketers can map complete

Reading Tomorrow’s Results Today: How AI Predicts Campaign Success
Marketing teams across Southeast Asia and India now know campaign outcomes before launch. AI processes real-time behavioural signals to identify which users will convert,

No Shelf Space Needed: How Non-Endemic Brands Reach Every Retail Consumer
Non-endemic brands are rapidly adopting retail media across Southeast Asia and India, drawn by the precision of first-party shopper data. Sectors from finance to

Finding Audiences You Didn’t Expect: AI in Audience, Inventory, and Identity Planning
AI processes and connects behavioural signals to find valuable audiences, evaluates thousands of inventory sources for performance patterns and identifies which signal combinations predict

Breaking Silos to Build Consumer-First Retail Media in Southeast Asia and India
Retail media fragmentation costs brands measurable growth opportunities in Southeast Asia and India. Three proven strategies – aligning trade and media teams, extending digital

Southeast Asia & India’s AI Media Buying & Optimisation Breakthrough
Southeast Asia and India are abandoning manual media buying processes which can consume hours daily for AI systems delivering measurable efficiency gains and cost

Inside social commerce: How to build brands and feed the AI machine
WARC’s Rica Facundo explores the “democratising” effect of creators and AI in Asia’s social commerce ecosystem and the role of brand building in feeding