Author Archives: Hock Chuan Ong

Being named finalist in the SABRE Asia-Pacific Nominations

2011 is proving to be an interesting year for Maverick where awards are concerned.
Back in March Maverick was named a finalist in the Holmes Report’s Southeast Asian Consultancy of the Year Award…. But, whether it was because we

Celebrating our ninth birthday

Nine years ago today, we set up shop as Maverick with six staff members, borrowed folding tables and chairs and yahoo.com… email addresses. It was a rush job because one of our clients insisted we meet the June deadline as

How Blitz Megaplex won over critics of who gets to see Clash of the Titans

Note: @ifahmi tells me after I posted this that the movie he was talking about was Frozen and not Clash of the Titans. Apologies all round. Me bad but the points made here are still valid.…
Clients often ask us

Are digital influencers selling out to Mammon?

I checked my Facebook account today and found that I had some invites from several prominent online presences (read: Twitterers and bloggers who are quite well known and therefore potentially influential).
Many of them are good friends or at least

When passion, altruism and good PR combine

At Maverick we usually tell our people from the outset that ultimately they do not work for us, not the partners, not their supervisors, their teams or even their clients. They ultimately work for themselves. We are here merely to…