China

Chinese Women’s Football: The First of Many Defaults for LeSports?

May 4, 2017

LeSports (a subsidiary of China's conglomerate LeEco) is in hot water, reportedly owing US$1.4m in sponsorship fees to the Chinese Women’s Super League (CWSL).

PHD Gets Inventive With AI For Lux Campaign In China

May 3, 2017

PHD China - the Omnicom Media Group agency - is banking on artificial intelligence (AI) to enable the integration of content consistently across multiple online video channels.

Popular Baijiu Brand Targets Affluents Via Chinese MMA

April 25, 2017

Kunlun Fight, one of the most recognised combat sports start-ups in China, has secured an official alcohol sponsorship deal with the Moutai Group.

Will H&M Spend Big In India’s Sponsorship Market?

April 6, 2017

India is one of the hottest growth markets for Swedish fast fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), which plans to open stores in smaller towns nationwide.

Football Clubs Propel eSports Growth

April 3, 2017

European football clubs are actively moving into the eSports landscape and have signed professional gamers to represent them in both domestic and international gaming competitions.

City Football Group Eyes Asian Expansion

March 28, 2017

City Football Group (CFG), the owners of EPL nouveau riche Manchester City FC, has eyes on adding Chinese and Indian football clubs into its stable.

French Tennis Sponsors TV Star... But The Sport Softened In 2016

March 16, 2017

The French Tennis Federation will plunge into the celebrity endorsement world as it popularises the French Open in China.

Report: Western Luxury Brands Slow To Embrace Digital In China

March 9, 2017

Chinese luxury shoppers are the possibly the most tech-savvy consumers in the world.

Report: How To Impress China’s Mass Affluent Males

February 20, 2017

Whichever way you look at China, it's big. Population, TV ratings, the size of the Sponsorship market and so on. But every large mass can always be broken…