{"id":1687,"date":"2016-02-05T18:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/05\/singapore-bank-ad-features-veteran-asian-actors-and-a-true-story\/"},"modified":"2016-02-05T18:25:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:25:04","slug":"singapore-bank-ad-features-veteran-asian-actors-and-a-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/05\/singapore-bank-ad-features-veteran-asian-actors-and-a-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore bank ad features veteran Asian actors and a true story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Adrianpang\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAyLzA1LzEzL2FkcmlhbnBhbmcuNjY5MDEucG5nCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/783cb2cc\/327\/adrianpang.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Singapore+bank+ad+features+veteran+Asian+actors+and+a+true+story&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F05%2Fdbs-sparks-series%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F05%2Fdbs-sparks-series%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>SINGAPORE \u2014 It looks like DBS&#8217; marketing budget is bigger than you thought.<\/p>\n<p>The Singaporean multinational bank just put out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbs.com\/spark\/index\/en_sg\/sparks-miniseries.html\">mini drama series on its website<\/a> called &#8220;Sparks.&#8221; It portrays the lives of fictional bank employees who (naturally) work for DBS. The bank claims that the plot of its high-production series was inspired by a true story<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/25\/the-d-ad-campaign-fail\/\">Awkward health ad encourages everyone to &#8216;do the D&#8217;, has no idea what that means<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brands pull out glitzy campaigns all the time, but what&#8217;s impressive about this project is that it managed to rope in several veteran Asian actors, such as Singaporean theatre star Adrian Pang and Hong Kong comedian Richard Ng <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/05\/dbs-sparks-series\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/singapore\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Singapore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/bank\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Bank<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/advertising\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Advertising<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/marketing\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Marketing<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/lo5HKWOFbzI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2014 It looks like DBS&#8217; marketing budget is bigger than you thought. The Singaporean multinational bank just put out a mini drama series on its website called &#8220;Sparks.&#8221; It portrays the lives of fictional bank employees who (naturally) work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/05\/singapore-bank-ad-features-veteran-asian-actors-and-a-true-story\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[798,1311,768,922,1105],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-advertising","tag-bank","tag-business","tag-marketing","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}