Offline meeting and handwriting
Before March 2020, I had Skype on my Mac, but hardly ever used it. I used to use Zoom for work calls between 2016/17 and 2018 because one of my clients at Ogilvy (IBM) used to have conference calls via Zoom. I…
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A slice of Indian history on a board game!
I stumbled upon the ‘Bharata 600 BC’ board game through an article in the Hindu Metroplus day-before-yesterday. The game is pricey, at Rs. 3,800, but beyond the price I was astounded by the detailing and design of the game! The first thing…
Personal branding = what goes in + what comes out
One of the focus areas in my corporate workshops on personal branding is content consumption. Most people mistake personal branding to be only about content sharing, but content consumption is even more important than sharing. Let me explain this with a simple…
The sound of advertising
When we talk about sound in advertising, it is usually associated with and thought to be about music. The kind of music, no doubt, plays a big role in shaping our perceptions and guide us towards feeling a particular emotion. If you…
Value additions to justify pay-per-view on streaming
I have been writing a lot about the ways the movie-watching (and consequently the movie-distribution) experience since early this year. Before the pandemic hit the world, I explored the possibility of certain kinds of films reserved for the OTT/home experience and certain…
Online events with offline elements to boost interactivity
I’m not a very big fan of offline events anymore. Back in my client-side and agency-side communications days at Edelman (as head of digital strategy), at Flipkart (as corporate communications head) and at Ogilvy (as head of social media), I used to…
Netflix’s incidental success as an advertising platform
The New York Times, on the November 24th issue, reported that sales of chess sets have dramatically increased in recent times. The timing of the increase in sales was earlier due to the pandemic-induced stay-at-home rules. But in recent times, it was…