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On July 8, 2020, Supriya Sahu IAS, currently posted as Principal Secretary and Managing Director of The Tamil Nadu Small Tea Growers’ Industrial Cooperative Tea Factories’ Federation Limited in Coonoor, tweeted a piece of news citing the Tamil daily Dinamalar, and The…
In marketing, advertising and sales, we have the concept of decision-makers and decision influencers. For instance, in the famous Old Spice 2010 campaign, “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” by Wieden+Kennedy, the decision-makers were men, but the decision influencers, and to…
Director Rian Johnson, known for the science-fiction thriller Looper (2012), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and the murder-mystery Knives Out (2019), made a startling revelation oh-so-casually earlier this year during an interactive feature he was doing for Vanity Fair magazine. He…
Imagine: You try to enter a departmental store. Before you enter, they tell you, right at the gate, that to enter the shampoo section even to window shop and check out the options and prices, you’d need to give your phone number…
Yesterday’s Times of India has a pan-India front-page advertising campaign by Hero. The Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai editions of the ad has the headline “Bold ka naya andaaz” on the front-page, and “The icon reimagined” as the headline in page 2. The…
Back in 2018, I had written about former MTV VJ José Covaco’s content produced on behalf of brands. His content was far removed from other influencer-led branded content mainly because it was made adhering to his brand’s familiar narrative and not the…
When Flipkart first launched the now-popular kids-as-adult ad films, the year was 2011! The first ad came on the back of a fairly unsuccessful debut ad campaign that was indulgently shot in South Africa. More on the storied history of this campaign…