Google’s Sounds of India
Google India has a nice activity for India’s 74th Independence Day. Go to and try it out on your phone. The idea is simple – you sing the Indian National Anthem. The system records it using the phone’s mike and converts it…
Category: creative
The most expensive word in business today
I had written about decision-makers and decision influencers recently. In most B2B communication, the decision-makers are C-level executives, so the brands that sell to the organization frame their communication to suit the needs of that C-level executive. For instance, while I was…
The 4 states of Levi’s, courtesy BBH
Levi’s is going through a rough patch now because of the pandemic. But it has a legendary brand created and nurtured in the past. One agency was behind many of these ads that created this legend – BBH (many of these were…
Eye-popping outdoor displays
A couple of outdoor displays that I was really impressed by, recently. The first one is from Seoul, South Korea. The COEX convention center in the Gangnam-gu area of Seoul is seen as Korea’s Times Square. In March 2018, worked with CJ…
An unusual decision influencer!
In marketing, advertising and sales, we have the concept of decision-makers and decision influencers. For instance, in the famous Old Spice 2010 campaign, “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” by Wieden+Kennedy, the decision-makers were men, but the decision influencers, and to…
Why Danish Sait gets branded content right
Back in 2018, I had written about former MTV VJ . His content was far removed from other influencer-led branded content mainly because it was made adhering to his brand’s familiar narrative and not the brand’s narrative. The difference is enormous –…
Square, diamond, triangle
One of the flagship cereal brands of Post Cereals, sold in Canada, the UK and New Zealand is ‘Shreddies’. In 2006, a 26-year-old advertising intern at Ogilvy Toronto, Hunter Somerville, held up one of the Shreddies, and joked “it isn’t a square,…