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Author: Karthik S

Karthik S

Movie-watching: from a group experience to home/mobile experience

Movie-watching: from a group experience to home/mobile experience

January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 by Karthik S

Recently, I have seen several Malayalam films on OTT channels like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Zee5. While watching the Malayalam film Android Kunjappan Ver.5.25 on Prime Video recently, a thought struck me. The film was running in theaters in Bengaluru recently…

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Swiggy’s What The Falooda, a creative gimmick with middling execution

Swiggy’s What The Falooda, a creative gimmick with middling execution

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 by Karthik S

Swiggy’s latest gimmick is definitely worth noticing! It’s called ‘What The Falooda’ after all 🙂 The idea is clever – Swiggy links their service-related failures to a possibility of things going haywire at the user’s end and Swiggy being at the receiving…

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Flags in a flag

Flags in a flag

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 by Karthik S

When you first stumble on the idea of using one country’s flag to find flags of other countries, it blows your mind with a ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’. It first started as a puzzle/online observation, and then ad agencies started…

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Fake opinions – what should brands do when they are in a Durex-DelhiPolice mess?

Fake opinions – what should brands do when they are in a Durex-DelhiPolice mess?

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 by Karthik S

Does Durex offer better ‘protection’ than Delhi Police? That’s what the very, very viral meme claims and it went viral for a reason. It is topical, makes a point (whether you agree with it or not is a different topic) and makes…

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Packaging design as USP

Packaging design as USP

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020 by Karthik S

I recently stumbled on a couple of eye-catchy packaging designs. Here’s the package design for Happy Plugs. And for Trident gum. The connecting thread between both is that the packaging creativity is intrinsic to the product’s category – earplugs are associated with…

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Apple’s Chinese New Year film, 2020

Apple’s Chinese New Year film, 2020

January 14, 2020January 18, 2020 by Karthik S

Apple’s 2020 Chinese New Year film is 7-and-a-half minutes long! The length of the film first dissuaded me from even starting the video, but I persisted. I’m glad I did! It’s a simple, lovely film about 3 generations of women in a…

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Bajaj Pulsar – Definitely Male! In 2020?

Bajaj Pulsar – Definitely Male! In 2020?

January 13, 2020July 22, 2024 by Karthik S

Bajaj Pulsar’s ‘Definitely Male’ line was first used in 2001, as far as I remember. Coined by Ogilvy, the positioning has endured all these years. Bajaj and Ogilvy celebrated 18 years of their partnership, in 2020, . How did the line originate?…

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