Key insights

  • Communication channels: mobile is taking off in the region with 84% of the practitioners rating it as important for strategic communication

  • Media relations: dealing with  print newspapers and magazines has slipped substantially and will lose even more relevance until 2020

  • Social media skills: practitioners are good in delivering messages, but less experienced in managing communciaties or initiating dialogues online

  • Professional development: development opportunities offered by organisations do not align with key areas of need



APCM 2017/18 Title


Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor 2017/18

The APCM 2017/18 survey is based on responses from 1,306 communication professionals from 22 countries. Detailed analyses are available for 13 countries and different typs od organisations (companies, the Asia-Pacific Association of Communication Directors (APACD), the European Public Relations Eduation and Research Association (EUPRERA), and Quadriga University of Applied Sciences, supported by PRIME Research, NTU Singapore and RFI Daylight.


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Core research team for this edition

  • Jim Macnarama, UTS University of Technology Sydney
    May O. Lwin, NTU Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    Ana Adi, Quadriga University of Applied Sciences
    Ansgar Zerfass, Leipzig University & EUPRERA

  • Research professors and national contacts APCM 2017/18

    Xianhong Chen, Huazong University of Science and Technology, China; Regina Yi-Ru Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; Jaishri Jethwaney, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi, India; Elizabeth Goenawan Ananto, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia; Junichiro Miyabe, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Minjung Sung, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea; Kiranjit Kaur, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia; Flora Hung-Baesecke, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand; Fernando Paragas, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Phillipines; Jeff Chien-Tu Lai, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan; Parichart Sthapitanonda, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.