Best of 2014: The year's most-read stories

Campaign Asia-Pacific has been presenting a new top-5 list every day since December 3, spotlighting the best campaigns, most perplexing ads, top pitches and worst PR disasters, among many other categories. We had fun pulling this annual review together, and we hope you've enjoyed reliving the year with us.

This, the final post in the series, lists your choices for the most important stories of 2014, as decided by website traffic. 

And with that, we're off for the holidays. Our offices will be closed for much of the next couple weeks, and we'll resume normal daily publication and bulletins on the 5th of January.

Happy holidays, and thank you for reading in 2014. See you next year!

 

MOST-READ ARTICLES OF 2014

NEWS AND SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Exclusive: F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone on his billion-dollar brand
• 20 women to watch in Asia-Pacific marketing
• Panasonic Malaysia ignores social's top beauty choice, incurs wrath
• 40 Under 40: Unsung heroes pushing the boundaries of advertising and media
• Coca-Cola expresses gratitude to migrant workers in Singapore
• Chow Tai Fook faces fallout from deputy PR head's Occupy Central comments
• Media360Asia: Sorrell says media is the industry's engine of growth
• Facebook launches in-house agency in four APAC markets
• Draftfcb simplifies agency name to FCB in global change
• It's official: Publicis and Omnicom call off merger

PHOTO GALLERIES:

• Malaysians get hilariously creative for Ikea lookalike contest
• 2014 Agency/Network of the Year Awards in Singapore
• 2014 Agency of the Year Awards, Greater China
• BBDO Bangkok staffers create dream workspaces
• DAN & MassiveMusic's #Kosumosu party
• Leo Burnett's Spikes Asia afterparty
• Report details mobile, social use across 30 APAC nations
• Media360Asia 2014
• Edelman HK's spooky fun 2014 Halloween party
• 2014 AMES Awards

VIDEOS:

• Coca-Cola expresses gratitude to migrant workers in Singapore
• Tourism authority outed as producer of 'I hate Thailand' video
• Schick titillates men with 'virile' video campaign
• Will Coke's song-lyric bottles outdo last summer's nicknames?
• P&G Malaysia targets moms with skippable crying kids
• CASE STUDY: How Oreo turned animated emoji into sales growth
• Eric Kwok turns superhero as Tai Hing’s first brand ambassador for 25th anniversary campaign
• Unilever extends 'Comfort' to moms in new global ad made in Singapore
• Innored interprets 'Never stop exploring' for North Face Korea as social experiment
• Period pain got you down? Take an AR selfie with your sanitary pad

CONTRIBUTED OPINIONS:

• Cultural blunders: Brands gone wrong
• 10 easy ways to lose a pitch
• Shocking fashion ads: Too scandalous to be viewed?
• 5 lessons from life in a startup
• What Facebook's Whatsapp acquisition means for marketers
• When planners go bad (or sad)
• When planners go bad (or sad), continued
• Does your agency presentation suck?
• Is this really the new Linkin Park & Eminem album?
• 3 keys to powerful advertising in Singapore