Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
In my 4 decades of existence on this planet, the very first time I came across the instruction that ‘one should never rinse the mouth with water immediately after brushing the teeth’ was 2 weeks ago! I stumbled on a tweet from…
The office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education last week issued a statement addressing the recent mass shooting at Michigan State University where a 43-year-old gunman shot students at random that killed three students and injured…
Update: Tata Sky did the same back in 2015, in a series of 13 interconnected ad films based on the same story, plot, and protagonists. Agency: Ogilvy. Playlist at the end of this post. — HDFC Life’s new campaign titled ‘The Missing…
Mivi’s new campaign was long in the making and feels eventual. We have gone through ‘Made in Germany’ and ‘Made in Japan’ TVs. ‘Made in the USA’ has long been an aspirational idea in India. But with recent geopolitical changes and the…
Here we go, exactly one year later! 🙂 Last year, in February, I had written about the use of anthropomorphism as a creative device in advertising. Simply put, anthropomorphism is giving human form to things/objects. This works very well in advertising since…
I have written about regionalization and localization in advertising very often, particularly in the context of the use of local languages when it comes to local media and locally targeted advertising. A significant part of localization is also about understanding local nuances…
I wouldn’t really care to buy Murukku from Haldiram’s considering the plethora of brands available in Bengaluru (including Coimbatore’s own A1 Chips brand murukku, among others like A2B, etc.) but when I stumbled onto a pack online recently by chance, my first…