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Author: Karthik S

Karthik S

Being left behind

Being left behind

July 27, 2021 by Karthik S

If you sit in a public place (pre-pandemic, of course) and simply gaze at nothing in particular out there and not look at your smartphone, you may be presumed to be all sorts of wrong – creep, shady, crazy, odd, etc. If…

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Dyson vs. Kent – cordless, gendered

Dyson vs. Kent – cordless, gendered

July 26, 2021 by Karthik S

When the mega lockdown was announced in March 2020, it started an increased interest and demand for devices and gadgets that can help us do household work. So, more interest and demand for dishwashers, automatic vacuum cleaners, washing machines, better mops, etc….

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Flite breaks the category marketing code wonderfully

Flite breaks the category marketing code wonderfully

July 23, 2021 by Karthik S

I have always looked at ads from chappal brands with a lot of interest. I say ‘chappal’ because I don’t want to call it ‘footwear’ and include all kinds of footwear. Chappal is a category, based on pricing and socio-economic target audience…

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Elephant conservation, via PR and advertising

Elephant conservation, via PR and advertising

July 22, 2021 by Karthik S

Last month, an elephant that smashed through a kitchen wall at a home in Thailand made news globally. While it was funny to see countless memes around it (including one that made me laugh out loud; it had the elephant’s pic along…

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User-generated ‘slow down’

User-generated ‘slow down’

July 21, 2021 by Karthik S

Back in 2018, the Indian Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) released a new set of rules for automobile manufacturers in India. Apart from new rules regarding seat belt reminders and airbags, there was one more important rule: speed alert warning…

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Cadbury India’s mass auto-response, 6 years after Maggi crisis

Cadbury India’s mass auto-response, 6 years after Maggi crisis

July 20, 2021 by Karthik S

Back in 2015, Nestle’s Maggi faced online what we can, in hindsight, call the first big social media storm of India. Armed with the news that Maggi contained MSG, assorted people took to social media to question a brand that they all…

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Positioning: inside-out vs. outside-in

Positioning: inside-out vs. outside-in

July 19, 2021 by Karthik S

Sony co-founder Akio Morita, in his iconic book ‘Made in Japan’, adds a lot of background details on how and why the Walkman was invented. Besides the more obvious reasons that we can intuitively guess now—portability, personal content consumption (of music), and…

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