When you first stumble on the idea of using one country’s flag to find flags of other countries, it blows your mind with a ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’. It first started as a puzzle/online observation, and then ad agencies started…

I recently stumbled on a couple of eye-catchy packaging designs. Here’s the package design for Happy Plugs. And for Trident gum. The connecting thread between both is that the packaging creativity is intrinsic to the product’s category – earplugs are associated with…

Apple’s 2020 Chinese New Year film is 7-and-a-half minutes long! The length of the film first dissuaded me from even starting the video, but I persisted. I’m glad I did! It’s a simple, lovely film about 3 generations of women in a…

In 2014, Volkswagen released the “Made for real life, not the movies” series, made by the agency Adam & Eve/DDB and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (of Resident Evil fame). The 3 films use a typical Hollywood movie template, one that we…

The BJP Govt. launched a toll-free number last week, for people to call and show their support to CAA. I have no answer to why people should support something that has already been passed as a law; if someone disagrees with the…

I had written about earlier. More than mainstream media, social media enables sequentiality mighty well because brands do not need to pay for each ‘episode’ – they can share it in their own platforms (on social channels or website). The strength of…

Even as advertising is considered an extension of movies, in a make-believe way, when using real people (well-known celebrities, for instance), brands and agencies are extra careful given the public’s familiarity with the celebrities. So, when Dhoni is being called ‘Chachu’ by…