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Usually, product/service owners use reviews they get as a way to further market the product to more people. This is most common in products like books and movies. Authors/publishers and movie producers show their content/products to a select audience (usually from the…
Two ads. Both from France. Both from October 2020! The connecting thread?Questions! First off, Mustela, a skin-care brand meant for babies, children, and pregnant women. Their ad film, by the French agency Fanfare, uses questions as a narrative device to propel the…
This new ad film for Elder, a UK-based care agency, is by the UK-based agency Love or Fear. Watch the film first: From a purely aesthetic sense, the idea of using stop motion animation using wool, felt (a textile material that is…
UPDATE – July 14, 2022: Closure! UPDATE – January 19, 2021: The Court has ruled that Sebamed can continue to name Lux, Dove, Pears and Santoor, and just remove the comparison with Rin! That means the other 4 bathing soap brands cannot…
All the 3 big Cola brands in India—Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Thums Up—released new TVCs in December 2020. Pepsi – December 17, 2020, by Wunderman Thompson. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pepsi India (@pepsiindia) Coca-Cola – December 24, 2020,…
Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the few billionaire industrialists in India who is yet to join any social media platform officially. He doesn’t even have a LinkedIn profile (not that he needs one anyway), so forget Twitter or Instagram. But his…
This post contains some spoilers about certain films like Knives Out, Vikram Vedha, Petta, Dhoom, etc. Back in July 2020, I had written about brands’ attempt to control how their products are showcased in movies, TV shows, and pop culture, in general….