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Author: Karthik S

Karthik S

Honey, I shrunk the market!

Honey, I shrunk the market!

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 by Karthik S

When the Center for Science and Environment (CSE) first announced ‘Honey Fraud’ by top brands in India, it was noon of December 2, 2020. As the news of the murky honey industry in India started to gain traction, Dabur, the market leader,…

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Imagination coming alive

Imagination coming alive

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 by Karthik S

A few days ago, I had shared the list of and two of the books in the fiction list were by Blake Crouch – Run, and the Pines trilogy (that makes it 4 books!). There are 2 other books by Blake I…

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Ryan Reynolds – actor, platform, influencer, or marketing agency?

Ryan Reynolds – actor, platform, influencer, or marketing agency?

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 by Karthik S

Ryan Reynolds’ agency, Maximum Effort has released its latest effort, for the client Match. It’s both hilarious and on point for the client’s context! The idea to showcase satan as the hero of an ad to sell that product/service is audacious, but…

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Communicating with our own body

Communicating with our own body

December 8, 2020December 9, 2020 by Karthik S

My first fitness band was a Xiaomi Mi band that I bought in 2016. Till then, even though I have been clocking a 5-kilometer run every day (since 2009), I had never known the impact of that on my body. My band…

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Value additions to justify pay-per-view on streaming

Value additions to justify pay-per-view on streaming

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 by Karthik S

I have been writing a lot about the ways the movie-watching (and consequently the movie-distribution) experience since early this year. Before the pandemic hit the world, I explored the possibility of certain kinds of films reserved for the OTT/home experience and certain…

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The communication challenge around ‘buy our product less often’

The communication challenge around ‘buy our product less often’

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 by Karthik S

Quite a few clothing brands have, from time to time, spoken about responsible fashion. But in doing so, they face an extraordinary situation where they have to ask people to buy their products less often! One of the most famous and vocal…

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Online events with offline elements to boost interactivity

Online events with offline elements to boost interactivity

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 by Karthik S

I’m not a very big fan of offline events anymore. Back in my client-side and agency-side communications days at Edelman (as head of digital strategy), at Flipkart (as corporate communications head) and at Ogilvy (as head of social media), I used to…

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