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    Society Pass backed Thoughtful Media Group Announces New CEO and Vision to be the Leader in Digital and Social Commerce in SEA

    By Marie JonesAugust 10, 2022Updated:August 11, 2022
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    • SoPa acquires first company in Thailand and continues network expansion of its digital ecosystem throughout Southeast Asia (SEA)
    • Thoughtful Media’s social commerce-focused Multi-Platform Network (MPN) in Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and the US amplifies SoPa’s loyalty offering
    • SoPa introduced a new management team to facilitate renewed operations and announced Bien Kiat Tan as TMG CEO, Jittra Cheng as TMG Thailand Country Director and Quynh Vo as TMG Vietnam Country Manager
    • As the CEO of TMG, Bien Kiat Tan will be responsible for managing the Group’s P&L, and executing upcoming acquisitions to enlarge the SoPa ecosystem, and expand further in the SEA region
    • Thoughtful Media recorded revenues of US$5.8 million in 2021, forecasts significant revenue growth in 2022 and beyond

    Society Pass Inc (Nasdaq: SOPA) recently announced the acquisition of Thoughtful Media Group (Thoughtful Media or TMG), a social commerce-focused, premium digital video MPN headquartered in Thailand with an operating presence in the US, Vietnam, and Philippines. The acquisition of Thoughtful Media marks SoPa’s first foray into Thailand and adds to SoPa’s growing ecosystem of technology-enabled companies located in the SEA countries of Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

    Along with this latest acquisition, Bien Kiat Tan has been appointed as the CEO of TMG, along with Jittra Cheng as TMG Thailand Country Director and Quynh Vo as TMG Vietnam General Manager. The three executives will drive Thoughtful Media forward in its next stage of growth.

    TMG is a leader in digital and social commerce across Southeast Asia region. Thoughtful Media recorded revenues of US$5.8 million in 2021. Since its founding, Thoughtful Media’s data-rich MPN has uploaded over 675,000 videos with over 80 billion video views. The current network of 263 YouTube channels has onboarded over 85 million subscribers with an average monthly viewership of over 600 million views.

    Dennis Nguyen, Society Pass Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “Thoughtful Media’s social commerce-focused business model perfectly complements our future growth strategy for Society Pass as we drive consumer eyeballs and generate revenues for riveting consumer brands throughout SEA. I am proud to appoint Bien Kiat Tan as the CEO of TMG, along with Jittra Cheng as TMG Thailand Country Director and Quynh Vo as TMG Vietnam General Manager, and look forward to their expert leadership in steering our operations to greater heights. As we grow our presence across SEA, we are confident that the SoPa ecosystem will nurture and accelerate the growing portfolio of brands.”

    Originally founded in 2010, Thoughtful Media today creates and distributes digital advertising campaigns across its MPN in both SEA and the US. With its intimate knowledge of local markets, digital marketing technology tools and social commerce business focus, advertisers leverage Thoughtful Media’s wide influencer network throughout SEA to market and sell advertising inventory exclusively with specific placement and effect. As a result, Thoughtful Media’s content creator partners earn a larger share of advertising revenues from international consumer brands. And according to Accenture, the social commerce market is poised to grow to US$1.2 trillion by 2025 at a CAGR of 26%.

    Bien Kiat Tan, CEO of TMG, shares his enthusiasm saying, “Partnering with Society Pass allows Thoughtful Media to unlock strategic opportunities with influencers and advertisers as well as design cross-marketing synergies for companies in the SoPa ecosystem. Powered by these synergies, we are confident in driving tremendous revenue growth in 2022 and beyond. Focusing on the new influencer market trends, TMG is nurturing its content creators to develop Short Videos and build presence in the Social Commerce space, which is booming in Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia. TMG is creating synergies by leveraging its creators and creative talent to serve the sister platforms in the SOPA ecosystem as well as its Brands and millions of consumer base.”

    Welcoming the renewed foray, TMG Thailand Country Director, Jittra Cheng said, “Given the immense potential of the Thai market, I look forward to lead TMG to be the leader in digital and social commerce across SEA, backed by SoPa’s unique modus operandi, and take my team along in this successful journey. With an amplified focus on content creators, TMG is building additional support including infrastructure like new studios for its influencers and creators to host live streaming, and educating creators on content across multiple platforms. TMG assists its creators in effective monetisation through social commerce and earning commissions while working with brands.”

    TMG looks at doubling its current team size of 17 to over 30 people in the next couple of years, powered by the growing ubiquity of social media influencers on shaping purchase decisions and driving increasingly greater numbers of brands to shift advertising budgets to this dynamic outlet. Thoughtful Media’s digital advertising tools and expertise bolsters Society Points, SoPa’s paradigm shifting loyalty platform. SoPa’s product offering uniquely positions Thoughtful Media as a leading SEA retail marketing and advertising hub for international and regional consumer brands.

    About Society Pass
    As a loyalty and data marketing ecosystem in Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand and with offices located in Singapore, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, Angeles and Bangkok, SoPa is an acquisition-focused e-commerce holding company operating 7 interconnected verticals (loyalty, merchant software, lifestyle, F&B, telecoms, digital media, and travel), which seamlessly connects millions of consumers and thousands of merchants across multiple product and service categories throughout SEA.

    SoPa’s business model focuses on analysing user data through its Society Pass loyalty platform and circulation of its universal loyalty points or Society Points. The Society Pass loyalty platform drives customer acquisition and retention for merchants. Since its inception, SoPa has amassed over 2.1 million registered consumers and over 6,700 registered merchants/brands onto its platform. It has invested 2+ years building proprietary IT architecture with cutting edge components to effectively scale and support its consumers, merchants, and acquisitions.

    Society Pass leverages technology to tailor a more personalised experience for customers in the purchase journey and to transform the entire retail value chain in Southeast Asia. SoPa operates #HOTTAB Biz and #HOTTAB POS – a Vietnam-based POS, CRM and analytics technology solutions provider for small and medium-sized enterprises, Leflair.com, Vietnam’s leading lifestyle e-commerce platform, Pushkart.ph, a popular grocery delivery company in Philippines, Handycart.vn, a leading online restaurant delivery service based in Vietnam, Gorilla Networks, a Singapore-based, web3-enabled mobile blockchain network operator, Thoughtful Media Group, a Bangkok-based, a social commerce-focused, premium digital video multi-platform network, and Mangan, the leading local restaurant delivery service in Philippines. For more information, please check out: http://thesocietypass.com/.

    Media Contacts:
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    sopa@preciouscomms.com

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