Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
Zurich, the UK-based insurance company recently announced that they more than doubled the number of male and female applicants for recently advertised openings because they added six words to those ads. The press release by Zurich, on November 17th, is mildly infuriating…
The French animal rights foundation ’30 Millions D’Amis’ (30 million friends) has been relentless in communicating and sensitizing people about animal abuse and abandonment for a very long time. It started as a TV program, by the French journalist Jean-Pierre Hutin, in…
LinkedIn India’s Top Voices 2020 list was announced yesterday (here’s the post by Abhigyan Chand) and I’m glad to find a spot in the list. But, instead of simply sharing it as a badge of honor, allow me to make it contextually…
The ‘Mouth Spray’ category in India has traditionally been very small. The kind of brands that occupy the space seem small and lesser-known, or unknown. This is mostly because none of the brands that have a larger play in the oral care…
I always thought Avis’s iconic 1962 “We’re No.2” (and “We Try Harder”) campaign (by the agency Doyle Dane Bernbach) was intended as a salvo against market leader Hertz! After all, when they say that they are No. 2, our attention automatically heads…
Ringa Ringa RosesPocket Full of PosesAsshhaa BusshhaaAll Fall Down. If you were able to relate to this nursery rhyme, at what point in your life did you find out that you may have been singing it completely wrong? Me? In my late…
In the past 2 days, I got alerts about 5 of my phone contacts joining Telegram. That’s a very tiny anecdotal signal (pun unintended) that there is some interest in looking at alternatives to WhatsApp even in India, a WhatsApp-stronghold. A front-page…