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Between October 2018 and August 2021, nothing much seems to have changed. Prithvi Shaw | Sindhu PVBaseline VenturesThe Economic Times – Gaurav Laghate 🙂 At the core is a question that was initiated in October 2018, probably for the first time this…
”, besides being a 1965 song by Tim Hardin that was later covered by artists like The Carpenters and Rod Stewart, is something of a mantra in advertising agencies. The agencies call it RTB. The RTB is simply the reason why the…
It all started when the chief minister of Mizoram, Zoramthanga, tweeted this at 1:50 pm and 2:53 pm on July 26th. He had tagged India’s home minister, the home minister’s office’s handle, the prime minister’s office’s handle, the chief minister of Assam,…
I have always looked at ads from chappal brands with a lot of interest. I say ‘chappal’ because I don’t want to call it ‘footwear’ and include all kinds of footwear. Chappal is a category, based on pricing and socio-economic target audience…
Last month, an elephant that smashed through a kitchen wall at a home in Thailand made news globally. While it was funny to see countless memes around it (including one that made me laugh out loud; it had the elephant’s pic along…
Back in 2015, Nestle’s Maggi faced online what we can, in hindsight, call the first big social media storm of India. Armed with the news that Maggi contained MSG, assorted people took to social media to question a brand that they all…
Sony co-founder Akio Morita, in his iconic book ‘Made in Japan’, adds a lot of background details on how and why the Walkman was invented. Besides the more obvious reasons that we can intuitively guess now—portability, personal content consumption (of music), and…