Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
Grofers’ founder Albinder Dhindsa recently took to social media to ‘chime in about the hate’ they were getting ‘for delivering groceries in 10 minutes’. A large part of the ‘chime’ seemed factual enough – long story short:– we deliver from a store…
(Try singing the title to the tune of the ghazal, ‘Hungama hai kyon, Barpa?’) By now, most people, who are reasonably online, know what happened to Myntra a week ago. For those who were living under a digital rock, a short recap….
Have you ever wondered about the brand positioning of a cat and a dog? Not cat food and dog food – actual cat and dog, as pets. No? Here you go – let me think aloud 🙂 When considering the brand positioning…
I don’t recall Ather or Hero Electric launching their electric scooters/bikes with live streaming fanfare, but both Revolt and Ola have quite a few things in common. Both have well-known founders – Rahul ‘Micromax’ Sharma and Bhavish Aggarwal. Both companies are primarily…
A recent ad for Airtel Nigeria, by the agency Noah’s Ark (Nigeria), made me ponder quite a bit. When I saw the ad for the first time, I loved the idea and thought that it was a fantastic way to showcase how…
There is one crucial element of social media that is worth remembering constantly, but most people don’t particularly remember or bother about it. Hold on to that thought – I’ll come back to it. Before social media platforms entered our lives—which would…
Signal, the messaging platform that pitches its privacy-first nature as the USP, recently took aim at Facebook with a very interesting idea. We all know that Facebook collects a treasure-trove of data about every user across its many online properties. Facebook sells…