Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
I recall seeing quite a few tweets on how Olacabs works when you use their GPS-based map service. In short, you look up the map on your GPS-enabled phone, identify an Olacabs car close to your location and click on one to…
This is a 4 year old post of mine in a now-abandoned blog! I’m reviving it with minor edits only because I had a lovely Gandhigiri-style fracas this morning and I simply used one of the tactics mentioned below to change that…
We share our personal interests online, with our friends and the world. We tweet, update many social and professional networks, online – again, to show and display our likes, dislikes and opinions. At a more musical level, there are ways in which…
I had earlier written about ad-supported/ad-subsidized films in a theater. Reading all this hoopla about mobile number portability and the ensuing high-decibel promotion of each brand of service provider, I was wondering if the ad-supported model could bring in more transparency and…
Ad-supported this…ad-supported that…why not have an ad-supported cinema show at the theater? Consider this: We already have ads before the film starts and some during the intermission (an Indian concept, I suppose!). So, why not have ads during the film too? I…
Whenever I take an early morning flight, I call a Meru/Easycabs cab. My home, in Bangalore, is about 50 kilometers away from the Bengaluru International Airport (BIAL). Average cab fare is about Rs. 800. I see hundreds (if not more) of cabs…
I’ve been spending a lot more time flying…ever since I joined Edelman – nope, I’m not complaining…I actually like it. I like it when Sandeep Chowta or A R Rahman or Mika (not the Punjabi singer – the Brit, I mean) or…