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How many times, and how many different ways can the same creative idea be used… or re-used? That would perhaps depend on how many different client-centric interpretations the respective ad agencies can tweak the idea into! Here is a demonstration of the…
Having worked on quite a few corporate employee advocacy programs, and having trained over 1,000 employees across large organizations on how to handle employee advocacy content on social media, I have given the topic a lot of thought over the last 10+…
They say that history repeats itself. It’s meant to help us learn from our past. But can we use the past as a visible, obvious reference to say something about the present? In advertising, that’s a pretty entertaining template! The basic narrative…
Much water has passed under the Coinbase Super Bowl ad bridge already. The post-ad drama—in hindsight—perhaps seemed more interesting than the ad itself, which itself was extraordinarily unique. A quick recap of the post-ad drama: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong claimed that no…
This is the second part of the curation of advertising that uses the split-screen technique as a creative device. . When it comes to using the split-screen technique as a creative device in video/TV advertising, one of the most common reasons they…
Part 2 of this series: . A famous dialog in the film Contact (1997; based on the book by Carl Sagan) went, “First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?”. How does that…
A recent Pepsi 7UP ad (by DDB Mudra) showed a man seated in the ladies’ seat on a public bus. A young woman wanted that seat, and just as she arrived near that seat, the man feigned to be asleep (even as…