TikTok's Chew Wee Ng & PubMatic's Jason Barnes on the growth of mobile in-app

In this episode, Chew Wee Ng, head of business marketing, South East Asia at TikTok, shares stories about the meteoric rise of the app and why advertising is so key to its future development.

During each episode, PubMatic chief revenue officer, APAC, Jason Barnes will give a need-to-know account of the topic.

Barnes says mobile is seeing huge growth and has been boosted by behaviour change during the pandemic, making certain apps really important to people’s lives.

“What is driving this, I think it's very much the mobilization of businesses, all these great new apps that are arriving. That combined with a really aggressive data plan. So it's cheap to watch the content and the better coverage that the telcos are providing means that the consumers have moved very heavily into mobile and in-app. As we know where the consumers move, that is where the advertisers go as well,” he says.

Likewise, Ng says advertising has always been so intrinsic to the TikTok experience that users actually welcome brands.

“Brands have always been a key part of the TikTok community. I would say it is perhaps the only platform that you can see right now where users actually expect to see brands and want to see a brand while they consume content, she explains.

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