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RAAS LAB Boosts Leadership for 2026 Growth Surge

RAAS LAB announced two executive appointments as it positions for growth in 2026: Shane Smith will become VP of Relevance and Tom Warden will join as Sales Director. Smith comes from Incubeta, where he led smart studio and scalable creative optimisation for clients such as L’Oréal, Samsonite, HelloFresh, Delivery Hero, and Google, focusing on AI-driven relevance. Warden previously served as group account director at Teads, overseeing partnerships with agency holdcos including Havas, Publicis, and WPP, driving UK and international revenue and building teams. The appointments, the first in a series of hires, aim to strengthen RAAS LAB’s technology and commercial operations ahead of 2026. Co-founder Thomas Ives notes the hires advance the company’s plan to redefine relevance in digital advertising and accelerate momentum across open web campaigns.

Adzymic Boosts Omnichannel Ad Tech with Hong Kong Office

Adzymic expands its footprint with a new entity in Hong Kong to deepen its omnichannel ad-tech capabilities in Greater China. Active since 2021, Adzymic provides dynamic creative optimisation (DCO) and an AI-powered Creative Management Platform within the APX 36One ecosystem. The Hong Kong office aims to accelerate growth, strengthen local partnerships, and serve clients across display, CTV, DOOH, and beyond. Notable brands mentioned as customers include Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airways, DBS Bank, Foodpanda, Miele, MasterCard, Oppo, and American Express. Leadership quotes from co-founder Kenniess Wong and Cathay Pacific’s Karen Cheung underscore Hong Kong’s innovative market and the goal to deliver personalised experiences at scale.

OpenAI Unveils GPT-4o; Singapore Writers Challenge AI Training Plan

OpenAI has launched GPT-4o, a multimodal model described as omni, capable of processing text, speech, and video with improved real-time responsiveness and better interactive handling such as mid-answer interruptions and voice nuance detection. The company also announced a desktop service and advances in voice assistance. In Singapore, the National Multimodal LLM Programme aims to train a local large language model on domestically produced material to better reference Singaporean history and culture, but writers oppose the plan due to unclear data usage and compensation terms. Separately, Uber agreed to acquire Delivery Hero’s foodpanda business for $1.2 billion, acquiring a 3% stake in Delivery Hero and expanding foodpanda’s presence in Taiwan. Uber’s APAC region accounted for slightly under a quarter of its 2023 revenue.