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Back in 2018, a tweet on bedspreads/bedsheets went massively viral. The contention was that millennials do not use a bed spread on top of their mattress! The second interpretation was that it referred to the sheet under the comforter as against the…
A celebrity launching a new label is not news at all. So when I noticed a new label’s half-page advertisement in The Times of India yesterday featuring Ekta Kapoor, my only thought, at first, was that the ad had a very-Asian Paints…
Over the last few years, there has been a tremendous clamor to own and utilize Black Friday in India. Considering most Indians don’t even know what Black Friday is, or why it has been anointed as a shopping extravaganza, it is mighty…
In my corporate personal branding workshops, I actively encourage the participants to share their perspectives online without worrying about how others would react to them. This is, of course, after helping them define their own personal brand narrative and contours and sticking…
There is a lot of interest around Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) recently. If you read about it, you’d realize that it is nothing new at all – in simple terms, this is an ‘installment option’ usually offered by a bank or…
As the internet goes about transforming multiple industries, the last two decades have seen several legacies overturned. One such legacy is the hold that a few people had on content creation meant for widespread consumption. Prior to the internet, the written word,…
Back in May 2019, I had written about a surreptitious digital campaign against glass, called ‘Glass Hurts’. I just checked the Twitter handle of that campaign now – it looks like the campaign has been stopped since the last tweet is from…