Which toothpaste did you use last night?
Have you wondered why none of the major toothpaste brands in the world have a separate variant for night brushing?
Category: communication
GenAI in advertising, done right!
The clear buzzword of 2024 was AI. And going by the way things are moving, AI may be dominating 2025 too. Besides all the use-cases of AI, one specific use-case that was also very visible was using Generative AI in advertising. We…
The 10 best Indian ads of 2024
I started compiling the 10 best Indian advertisements since 2021 and share the list on the first Monday of every year. 2025’s first Monday gave me a lot of time to work on my compilation since it falls on the 6th of…
The Madam who cried wolf
Yet another so-called ‘viral marketing’ campaign that uses a blatant lie as its main, cost-free tool. Yes, the latest YesMadam campaign follows the spectacular misfire by the agency Schbang and Poonam Pandey earlier this year. I had written about why that campaign…
The art of ‘showing up’ to build your personal brand
A couple of months ago, I got a WhatsApp forward titled ‘Permanent Address’. It had the ‘Forwarded many times’ tag, implying that it had truly gone places. It’s a poignant exploration of our relentless interest in building a home at great cost…
How should we react to the use of AI?
So much has been said and written about how we could use AI in assorted tasks. But let me turn that focus away from using and towards reacting. How should we react to AI when we come across its usage? Allow me…
Nike asks, “Am I a bad person?”
The new Nike ad (“Winning isn’t for everyone”, made by the agency Wieden+Kennedy) seems to stir a lot of reactions in anyone who sees it once. The full text of the voice-over in the video:“Am I a bad person?Tell me. Am I?I’m…