All Ears On You

Life at Spotify is keeping me busy. From our “Creativity You Can’t See” digital audio narrative to our audio creativity inspiration sessions for the creative class, from building the Creative Strategy team to support the Ads Business in Southeast Asia, Japan, India, Australia to keeping […]

First-to-Market Digital Dynamic Audio

Dynamic Audio is an innovative tool that gives advertisers the ability to customize each ad for each listener in real time, based on Pandora’s listener data. By stitching together elements of an audio ad as it’s served, the technology creates seamless, personalized messages for every […]

Showcase of Best-in-Class Audio

Turner Entertainment NCAA March Madness Pandora collaborated with Turner Entertainment Group to create a bespoke campaign that consisted of :45 audio ads featuring fresh updates and results Round 1 of the 2018 NCAA March Madness. Day 2, Spot 10 Day 1, Spot 5 Day 1, […]

The Power of Audio

Whether to a room of two clients or speaking at an event of eighty, I share our Power of Audio narrative, which I helped craft and continue to evolve. The Power of Audio today is pretty undeniable. The science of sound explains the deep connection […]

Ideas That Won

Some work I’ve done that has picked up Lions, Spikes, and other metals along the way. WOMAD Awards: Cannes Bronze Lion 2004, Adfest Bronze, Spikes Asia Finalist Copywriter: Vanessa Goh, Dylan Kidson Art Director: Ng SweeLing, Joachim Haug Executive Creative Director: Petter Gulli Agency: Bates […]

Alka-Seltzer Plus

Alka-Seltzer Plus was an underdog brand in the category of Cold & Flu remedies. Then the brand team found an edge over the competition, and tasked us to create hard-hitting work that would pit Alka-Seltzer Plus’s David against the category leader’s Goliath. The creative was […]

Heineken

I was in Newark airport rushing down the concourse to catch a flight when something caught my eye and stopped me in my tracks. A Heineken poster, familiar because I had written the headline a couple of years ago at a desk in Singapore. Working […]

Nokia Worldwide

I cut my creative teeth here in the pre-iPhone days when Nokia leader of the mobile market. At first, devices competed on size and weight. Then colored screens. And cameras. And, wow, video. Even games. Then touch became the shiny new tech. Things have come […]

Writing & Other Work (Archive)

COVER LETTER This is parody. I do not own The Onion. Please don’t sue. MGS 120TH ANNIVERSARY SCENESHANG.COM Writing about my love for local Singapore heritage while flexing my craft for SceneShang.com PETRONAS Director: Rajay Singh, Directors Think Tank Producer: TekNam Heng Ghost Writer: Vanessa […]