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The advertising world has a history of using as a narrative device characters that cannot speak and are forced to talk like normal/adult humans. For instance, animals are given the power to communicate with humans in their own language (with subtitles in…
UPDATE: September 24, 2020: Airtel has released another ad in this series, once again, in The Telegraph. Like the previous ad, the tone is interesting for the way the story accepts that Airtel’s network is poor inside the home (homes!), but that…
In communications, we could use ‘easter eggs’ as a way to convey a second, almost hidden-in-plain-sight level something else besides the crux. Puns are one example – the sentence could read in a normal way but the puns add a second context…
I’m just very surprised no Indian brand has replicated this excellent activation idea in India. The idea – print one page in a newspaper using soap paper! During a pandemic where hand-wash using soap is the rage, this is so very topical!…
Back in my agency days, one of my larger clients was a car brand. One of their models was to complete a certain milestone (in terms of the number of cars sold in India) and we were brainstorming on ideas for a…
Back in March this year, I had written about BBDO (the ad agency network) using LinkedIn to announce how each employee’s home was now essentially a new branch office for BBDO. It was smart, very-agency’ish creativity of announcing that they are all…
How many ways can a brand of mosquito repellant advertise itself? We have had the cream variety like Odomos for a few decades now. Then the coil variety, pioneered by Tortoise. The electric, smoke-free gadget with a ‘mat’ was launched in the…