PR and marketing

Next Digital has relaunched their brand to reflect their growth as one of the Asia Pacific’s largest full service digital agencies.

As a once traditional digital solution based agency, the rebrand represents Next Digital’s focus on customer and social media engagement through ideas based digital campaigns.

Along with their original target market they will also be focusing on those clients that wish to use digital as a key channel in their overall strategies.

Creative Director, Hayden Peters said, “This rebranding of Next Digital encompasses our expansion into Asia and aligns itself with our focus on becoming a creative leader in Australia and the wider region.”

In accompaniment of the social led nature of their recent expansion into South East Asia, Next Digital has relaunched its brand to provide a direct view of the key services provided: creative, marketing, strategy and technology.

“Our traditional brand was not reflecting where Next Digital is, and what we provide, as a company. We needed to externally showcase what we can offer as a strategic and marketing led agency,” Mr Peters said.

“When we deconstructed the original brand, we had a look at what digital was in regards to what we offer and then looked at other agencies and how they reflect and engage. We found many agencies to be quite insular in how they communicate and we wanted to be different,” said Mr Peters.

Next Digital has created a global voice including a platform for their employees to discuss, in all honesty, their opinions about their brand.

“Next Digital’s voice is the voice of a global collection of people speaking through the brand. We even have a mascot – MicroChip – a little robot that represents the fun persona of the brand,” said Mr Peters.

The success of the relaunch will be measured through online analytics including the amount of engagement Next Digital receives from their Facebook campaign ‘Love digital like us’.

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For further information or interviews please contact:
Lauren Milne
CP Communications
Phone: 02 9460 9200 


About Next Digital
Next Digital is a leader in creating successful digital strategies for clients throughout the Asia Pacific region. They combine exceptional marketing thinking, regional understanding and technical firepower to develop and deliver broad digital programs.

Their love for all things digital has been going strong for more than 16 years. That journey has helped them hone their delivery and engagement approach, and has shaped how they innovate and keep in front of a fast changing digital space.

Next Digital is a true full service digital agency with over 170 talented digital specialists working throughout offices in Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. www.nextdigital.com

In a competitive market for website development, Next Digital has identified that there are customers looking to partner with experienced agencies who can help them take their existing Sitecore website to the next level. In response to this, Next Digital have launched the ’Next Digital Sitecore Service Package’.

Next Digital Solution Architect and Sitecore MVP, Alistair Deneys, said, “Through our experience with Sitecore, we began to see a niche that was yet to be filled. We found, through developing this package, we could help add value to Sitecore clients who either had no further support by their website developer or no ongoing support program from their current provider.”

The Next Digital Sitecore Service Package consists of two parts. The first is an audit to assess the code base and configuration of an existing Sitecore website, the second is an ongoing ‘Maintenance Package’, which provides access to a dedicated team of certified Sitecore developers.

The audit is designed to assess the health, stability and performance of an existing Sitecore website. With over eight years experience and more than 100 Sitecore websites under their belt, Next Digital believes they are in a unique position to provide this service to the market. As part of the audit, Next Digital provides a report which details the audit findings and recommendations to achieve optimum performance.

“This package allows our Sitecore technical team to sit with the client and discuss issues and ideas around building on their current system. This will be of great value to clients who have an issue and don’t know how to fix it or just aren’t getting enough support from their current provider,” said Mr Deneys.

The ongoing ‘Maintenance Package’ provides the client with access to a dedicated team of certified Sitecore developers, capable of providing assistance and support for the long term.

“We aren’t just targeting clients who want to redevelop their website, we are also providing assistance and support to those Sitecore users who are looking to grow their business through this system and build a long term relationship with a trusted partner.” said Mr Deneys.

Next Digital has been a Sitecore partner since 2004 and within that time has helped build over 100 Sitecore websites for more than 30 clients. Next Digital’s Solution Architect, Alistair Deneys, is the only Sitecore MVP that has been awarded twice in Australia and is one of only 57 worldwide.

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For further information or interviews please contact:
Lauren Milne
CP Communications
Phone: 02 9460 9200
Email: lauren@cpcommunications.com.au

About Next Digital
Next Digital is a leader in creating successful digital strategies for clients throughout the Asia Pacific region. They combine exceptional marketing thinking, regional understanding and technical firepower to develop and deliver broad digital programs.

Their love for all things digital has been going strong for more than 16 years. That journey has helped them hone their delivery and engagement approach, and has shaped how they innovate and keep in front of a fast changing digital space.

Next Digital is a true full service digital agency with over 170 talented digital specialists working throughout offices in Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney.
www.nextdigital.com  

Public relations & social media agency, CP Communications, has won three new accounts: digital marketing agency Next Digital; marketing and advertising agency Pulse Marketing and leadership assessment company The Leadership Circle.

CP Communications will be responsible for managing strategic and creative public relations for Next Digital, Pulse Marketing and The Leadership Circle.

Director of CP Communications, Catriona Pollard said “We are excited to expand our client base and to work with these innovative and dynamic companies.”
“Our new account wins provide us with the opportunity to grow our business and to continue achieving outstanding results for all of our clients,” said Ms Pollard.

CP Communications will tailor PR strategies and tactics to achieve each client’s strategic objectives.

These three new companies will join CP Communications’ diverse range of clients, which include Hilton Worldwide and Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics.

About CP Communications
Established in 2001, CP Communications provides strategic and creative PR and social media solutions across B2B and B2C sectors. CP Communications specialises in developing PR and social media programs that link to business objectives and outcomes. As the pioneers in social media, CP Communications’ Director, Catriona Pollard has been listed as one of the top 100 PR people worldwide worth following on Twitter and as one of the 22 Inspirational Australian Female Entrepreneurs. www.cpcommunications.com.au/

Next Digital
Next Digital is a leader in creating successful digital strategies for clients throughout the Asia Pacific region. They combine exceptional marketing thinking, regional understanding and technical firepower to develop and deliver broad digital programs. www.nextdigital.com/

Pulse Marketing
Pulse Marketing is a full service marketing and advertising agency motivated by their passion for making brands famous and businesses grow. www.pulsemarketing.com.au/

The Leadership Circle
The Leadership Circle is a cutting-edge leadership assessment company that believes that business leadership will set the agenda for the planet’s future. Their leadership and development system is the first to offer assessment and development tools, workshops, training, research and support technologies that provide a pathway to evolved leadership. www.theleadershipcircle.com

One of Australia’s leading digital marketing agencies, Next Digital, has successfully acquired South East Asian digital marketing agency, FutureLab Asia.  With an ideas led approach and focus on social media, FutureLab Asia was identified as a natural fit for Next Digital to continue its growth strategy in Asia.

FutureLab Asia’s social media strategy skills will be integrated into Next Digital’s service offering across its three Australian offices and its three Asian offices in Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and Singapore.  

The acquisition will strengthen Next Digital’s ability to create sophisticated social strategies for its clients in addition to the core digital strategy, creative, web, ecommerce, mobile and digital marketing services it offers.

“Next Digital undertook extensive research into digital marketing businesses in the ASEAN region and found FutureLab Asia to be a great business, with world class talent and services that really complement what we already offer,” says Andrew Burke, Chief Executive Officer for Next Digital.

“This acquisition will enable Next Digital to improve the way we deliver on the social media needs of our clients, and reinforces our focus on becoming a creative leader in Australia and the wider region.”

FutureLab Asia has a comprehensive portfolio of clients including well known brands such as Maxis, Johnson & Johnson, AirAsia and 7-Eleven.

“Their idea processes, creative thinking and ability to execute amazing and award-winning campaigns will add that extra level of firepower to Next Digital,” explains Mr Burke. “Acquiring FutureLab Asia is a key step in our growth strategy and follows our continued strong growth in China.”

The founders of FutureLab Asia, Janet Teo and Vic Sithasanan, will be joining Next Digital, and heading up two separate locations in South East Asia: Janet Teo is CEO of Next Digital Kuala Lumpur and Vic Sithasanan is CEO of Next Digital Singapore.

“We are exceptionally proud to have these two talented and passionate professionals driving the Next Digital business in the ASEAN region,” states Mr Burke.

With over 15 years experience with global brands they will be the driving force behind Next Digital in South East Asia.

“Next Digital is developing a strong network across the region, has great talent across its offices and focuses on developing exceptional work. We are all really excited to be part of this vibrant company and feel a close kinship because we share similar values,” adds Mr Sithasanan.

“Being part of Next Digital brings huge benefits to our current clients as we expand our digital offering in the Asian market, and provides us with the scale to compete with global agencies.”   

Effective today, FutureLab Asia will be rebranded as Next Digital.

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About Next Digital
Next Digital is a leader in creating successful digital strategies for clients throughout the Asia Pacific region.  They combine exceptional marketing thinking, regional understanding and technical firepower to develop and deliver broad digital programs.

Their love for all things digital has been going strong for more than 16 years. That journey has helped them hone their delivery and engagement approach, and has shaped how they innovate and keep in front of a fast changing digital space.

Next Digital is a true full service digital agency with over 170 talented digital specialists working throughout offices in Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. www.nextdigital.com