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Britain’s ITV, a TV network that competes with BBC, has been running a mental wellness campaign called ‘Britain Get Talking’ since October 2019. The launch was quite dramatic, to put it mildly! Conceived by ITV’s agency, Uncommon, they literally paused live TV…
Ever since our species was forced to stay at home, we have been using up video calls a lot more. Companies like Zoom have become as mainstream as Google all of a sudden (for both good and terrible reasons, involving privacy breach…
Amul is on a nostalgia trip! But I loved the fact that it wasn’t for no reason, but for a specific context! And across media formats! The context is this: since Ramayana is on our TVs again, Amul dug up and shared…
The United Nations recently floated an open pitch for anyone who cares. The pitch invited people to come forward with creative ideas to convey 6 topics:– Personal Hygiene– Physical Distancing– Know the symptoms– Kindness contagion– Myth-busting– Do more, donate I believe this…
Our only world is under lockdown. What can a (any) country’s tourism department even dream of communicating at such a time? Here is Portugal’s tourism campaign, ‘Visit Portugal’ showing you how! The ad film is produced by Partners, a Lisbon-based advertising, design…
The Film Employees Federation of Kerala, or FEFKA, has joined hands with IAM () and released a series of short films to raise awareness about assorted topics around the coronavirus pandemic. The films are in Malayalam, with English subtitles (except for the…
This work-from-home situation seems to be the new normal. In the advertising world, the reaction to it has been mixed. There’s famous inside joke about the advertising industry (and to some extent PR industry too) that if you do not smoke, you…