LONDON, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Strategic communications and marketing agency IDX has expanded its global operational footprint and increased overall headcount by over 20% since January following a wave of new client wins this year.

To support this growth, the business has enhanced the leadership team with the appointment of Clare Donald as Chief Production Officer, while Danny Russell has joined as Chief Customer Officer, and Paul Knight as Senior VP Customer Success. A soon-to-be announced Chief Creative Officer will join shortly. 

This workforce expansion reflects rapid commercial momentum, as highlighted by the new geographic footprint IDX has created to support global clients, with new launches into Geneva, Chicago, Cincinnati, Lisbon and Abu Dhabi in 2026. In addition to new business growth, IDX has also entered into new partnerships with major global financial exchanges including the Toronto Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse, Vienna Stock Exchange, SIX, and Bahrain Bourse, keeping IDX connected to the markets and developments shaping the listed organisations that operate within them, and giving its teams the proximity and insight to support clients through increasingly complex environments.

To support this growing client base and deepen its analytical offering and evidence-based communications solutions, IDX opened a new Data & Insights Centre of Excellence in Geneva earlier this year to align with the core expertise and career-long passion of IDX’s new CEO, who has built a reputation on driving data-led transformation. The expansion of the agency’s research function also directly reinforces its ConnectedContent model, integrating data with performance marketing, corporate communications and investor relations.

Alongside its physical expansion, IDX has broadened its technical capabilities with the launch of new products, including SchemaWrite, a proprietary tool designed to optimise digital content architecture for search and stakeholder communications, and Eclipse, an always-on branded backup site, ensuring client websites never go dark. As AI continues to take centre stage, IDX has also started offering complementary AEO audits, keeping client websites visible as search shifts from SEO to AI-driven discovery.

Crispin Beale, Worldwide CEO of IDX, commented: “Our new ‘Customers First’ strategy is resonating strongly with clients as we focus on using evidence to multiply the levers that drive their commercial performance. In particular, we are seeing increased demand from brands for integrated, data-led communications that directly impact performance. By continually enhancing our operational footprint, technical tools and senior expertise, we ensure our clients have access to the deep insight and international scale required to drive their business forward across the globe.”

That growth has been matched by increased recognition of IDX both as a business and an employer. The organisation was named Best Large Agency at the National Digital Awards and recognised as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, highlighting its commitment to strong business performance and a positive workplace culture. With this momentum, IDX is now preparing to take the next step in its international growth, with plans to significantly expand its new presence across the Middle East, add further European locations, and add a total of 250 new employees globally.

ABOUT IDX
IDX is a global strategic communications and marketing agency, headquartered in London with offices around the world including New York, Phoenix, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Geneva, and Vadodara, India. Working with more than 1,600 clients across sectors, IDX combines deep industry knowledge with a data-first mindset to help ambitious brands thrive in complex, fast-moving markets. The firm specialises in performance marketing, investor relations, and stakeholder engagement, delivering integrated campaigns that drive meaningful business outcomes.

Visit www.idx.inc to learn more.

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SINGAPORE, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global testing, inspection and certification (TIC) leader TÜV SÜD has launched its new Global Decarbonisation Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Singapore, strengthening the infrastructure needed to advance carbon market integrity and digital carbon verification. The CoE reinforces Singapore’s role as a regional hub for carbon services, providing a trusted platform from which to scale critical climate solutions across Southeast Asia and beyond.

Supported by EDB, the CoE represents more than USD 24 million in investment to develop a pioneering end-to-end dMRV ecosystem that can help unlock verification-ready, high-integrity carbon data from Singapore for the region.

Estimates suggest that carbon markets in ASEAN could generate up to USD 3 trillion in cumulative opportunity by 2050. Yet fragmented regulation, inconsistent methodologies, and challenges in monitoring and verification continue to undermine investor confidence and market participation. Powered by advanced digital technologies and TÜV SÜD’s independent assurance expertise, the CoE will provide the trusted infrastructure needed to transform carbon data into credible, verification-ready climate action.

“At a time of growing complexity in climate action, progress depends on trust that can be verified. Singapore’s position as a trusted, impartial and internationally connected hub makes it uniquely placed to raise standards for carbon integrity and the clean energy transition across the region. Through this Centre, TÜV SÜD brings independent assurance and digital MRV capabilities together to help turn regional climate ambition into credible, measurable impact,” said Ishan Palit, Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board, TÜV SÜD AG.

The launch of the CoE coincides with TÜV SÜD PSB’s 20th year in Singapore, a period that has seen the 160-year-old global TIC organisation – operating in more than 50 countries – support Singapore’s ambitious sustainability, innovation and industrial transformation agenda.

“TÜV SÜD’s 20th Anniversary in Singapore is a significant milestone that reflects a longstanding partnership between TÜV SÜD and Singapore. In the last 20 years, TÜV SÜD has been an important partner supporting Singapore’s economic development. This Global Decarbonisation CoE marks a valuable addition to Singapore’s carbon services and trading ecosystem, offering deep technical capabilities to help companies in their decarbonisation efforts, while creating good opportunities for our local workforce,” said Png Cheong Boon, Chairman, EDB.

“The establishment of the Global Decarbonisation Centre of Excellence reflects the long-standing partnership TÜV SÜD has built with the Government of Singapore. This latest investment underscores our confidence in Singapore’s vision and our commitment to helping bring that vision to life – advancing an economy of trust and contributing to high-integrity carbon markets across ASEAN,” added Palit.

As countries seek to operationalise Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, the need for trusted, interoperable carbon market infrastructure is becoming increasingly global. By combining digital innovation with independent validation and verification expertise, the CoE will help support the implementation of Article 6.

The CoE will support five strategic areas:

Article 6 implementation and international carbon market regulation;Carbon markets and climate assurance including through dMRV;Energy transition, security and alternative fuels;Supply chain integrity and industrial decarbonisation;Capacity building and ecosystem development for governments and industry.

The CoE will also support the development of methodologies for nature-based solutions and blue economy projects, helping address an estimated USD 2.1 trillion financing gap through 2030 for the regional blue economy.

“The challenge now is not only setting climate targets, but creating the systems that make progress measurable, verifiable and credible. The Centre is designed to bridge that gap by combining technical expertise, digital tools and deep sector knowledge across energy, industry and carbon markets to support partners from project development through to verification and certification. By bringing these capabilities together in Singapore, we aim to help accelerate the transition from climate commitment to credible, measurable action and implementation,” said Dr Céline Bilolo, Chief Sustainability Officer, TÜV SÜD AG.

Learn more: TÜV SÜD’s services in Decarbonisation; SustainCERT.

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The festival marks the first public showcase of the group’s physical AI entertainment business and the extension of its proprietary Q-Gen and Q-Sense engines from brand marketing scenarios to paid consumer experiences.

SHANGHAI, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hong Kong-listed Qunabox Group Limited (0917.HK) opened its “99 Quna Festival” here on Sept. 9, putting its consumer-facing physical AI entertainment business in the spotlight for the first time.

Unlike earlier editions, which centered on the group’s AI marketing services for brands, this year’s festival showcased a range of products incubated by the group: naked-eye 3D interactive installations, devices that generate digital humans in real time and motion-sensing game equipment that requires no wearable gear. Qunabox said the lineup marks the expansion of its proprietary Q-Gen Generative Spatial Narrative Engine and Q-Sense Omni-sensory Multimodal Interaction Engine from B2B marketing scenarios that serve brand clients into paid, consumer-facing experience scenarios.

The products on display are built on what Qunabox calls its self-developed “1+1+2” physical AI technology matrix. Their core capabilities were not developed from scratch, the company said, but assembled through a scenario-based reconfiguration of technologies accumulated over years of serving B2B brand customers.

Q-Gen enables real-time digital human generation and AI content creation. A consumer can take a single photo and get a personalized 3D digital avatar quickly, then generate personalized short videos and virtual runway looks with one tap — output is dozens of times faster than traditional approaches. Q-Sense integrates naked-eye 3D display, wearable-free motion capture and multi-sensory interaction technologies, allowing consumers to interact with naked-eye 3D imagery in real time through body movements alone, with nothing worn on their bodies. The group described the approach as an attempt to remove the hardware constraints of traditional offline entertainment.

The technology base has already been validated at commercial scale in B2B marketing, which remains the group’s core business. Running thousands of AI interactive terminals across 20+ Chinese cities, Qunabox combines computer vision, motion capture, voice interaction and smart fragrance release so that its terminals engage sight, hearing, smell and touch at once — moving beyond traditional offline advertising, which reaches consumers through visual exposure alone.

The momentum is showing up in the group’s accounts. In the first half of 2026, revenue from AI interactive marketing services jumped 101.9 percent year over year to 131.6 million yuan (about $18 million), with a gross margin of 93.3 percent. The group serves 332 brand customers across fast-moving consumer goods, cosmetics and new-energy vehicles. As growth in online traffic cools and demand for richer offline experiences rises, multi-sensory interactive marketing is emerging as a new option for brand spending on offline placements, and Qunabox is one of the segment’s representative players.

The move of B2B technology into consumer entertainment carries low marginal research and development costs, it means content can be produced in batches, hardware can be replicated in modules, and a proven single-venue model can then be scaled up quickly. Its first-generation products, Qunabox said, have already taken “Game Reality” from an industry vision into reality — consumers can interact in real time with virtual imagery in physical space, wearing no equipment at all, for an immersive gaming experience.

Game Reality, in turn, opens wider room for industrial cooperation. Its underlying capabilities — wearable-free motion capture, real-time digital human generation and naked-eye 3D interaction — are natural interfaces for content industries. With intellectual property partners in animation, film, television, or designer toys, the technology can convert characters into offline immersive experiences: rather than watching an IP figure passively, consumers can interact with it in real time and complete story missions together. In gaming, the group could co-develop physical, location-based projects with game developers, transplanting online gameplay and worldviews into offline venues in a closed loop of “online traffic, offline monetization,” while giving game publishers a new channel to reach players. In culture and entertainment, music festivals, concerts and themed exhibitions could plug into the same physical AI interaction capabilities, offering audiences a participatory, differentiated experience rather than a one-way viewing session.

The potential is broad, but whether IP partnerships and gaming tie-ups turn into sustainable revenue will still depend on the group’s ability to build a content ecosystem and the pace of cross-industry cooperation.

On the ground, Qunabox said in its latest results announcement that it has obtained a business license in Singapore, where the physical AI entertainment space project is advancing, and that Dubai, Australia and other high-value overseas markets are also included in its strategic deployment.

The debut, the company said, validates the cross-scenario reusability of its technology base and opens a long-term growth story. Huayuan Securities assigned a “Buy” rating when it initiated coverage of the group, arguing that its physical AI technology carries a differentiated competitive advantage, its B2B base business is solid and its consumer-facing second growth curve has ample room to expand.

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