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Levi’s is going through a rough patch now because of the pandemic. But it has a legendary brand created and nurtured in the past. One agency was behind many of these ads that created this legend – BBH (many of these were…
A couple of outdoor displays that I was really impressed by, recently. The first one is from Seoul, South Korea. The COEX convention center in the Gangnam-gu area of Seoul is seen as Korea’s Times Square. In March 2018, worked with CJ…
On July 8, 2020, Supriya Sahu IAS, currently posted as Principal Secretary and Managing Director of The Tamil Nadu Small Tea Growers’ Industrial Cooperative Tea Factories’ Federation Limited in Coonoor, tweeted a piece of news citing the Tamil daily Dinamalar, and The…
In marketing, advertising and sales, we have the concept of decision-makers and decision influencers. For instance, in the famous Old Spice 2010 campaign, “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” by Wieden+Kennedy, the decision-makers were men, but the decision influencers, and to…
Director Rian Johnson, known for the science-fiction thriller Looper (2012), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and the murder-mystery Knives Out (2019), made a startling revelation oh-so-casually earlier this year during an interactive feature he was doing for Vanity Fair magazine. He…
Imagine: You try to enter a departmental store. Before you enter, they tell you, right at the gate, that to enter the shampoo section even to window shop and check out the options and prices, you’d need to give your phone number…
Yesterday’s Times of India has a pan-India front-page advertising campaign by Hero. The Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai editions of the ad has the headline “Bold ka naya andaaz” on the front-page, and “The icon reimagined” as the headline in page 2. The…