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I have written about brands cleverly using the newspaper classifieds section earlier. See Ogilvy Colombia’s very smart effort for their client (on LinkedIn). Closer home, here’s Zomato, the brand that’s always in the news one way or the other, using the matrimonial…
The condom brand Skyn recently entered the sexual medicine category by launching Arise, an erectile dysfunction (ED) pill. The product’s packaging was created by designer Jean-Baptiste Fastrez, through Skyn’s agency Sid Lee (Paris branch). The unique feature of the packaging is that…
Cadbury Dairy Milk’s latest campaign, for Friendship Day (4th August), is incredibly clever. The crux of the campaign is to flood the troller with purple hearts (till the trolling stops, as per the ad), but that’s not what makes it clever. Why…
Long before Patanjali went ballistic on all other brands operating out of India for not using Indian ingredients, there were quite a few brands that were ‘Indian’ even as per Patanjali’s definition and were producing really good products with Indian ingredients. Dabur…
This Ambuja Cement film came much before the Ford Figo Dilli Mohalla video I shared last week (on LinkedIn: ), but I saw it only now. The connecting thread between both films is that they have a non-living entity acting as the…
This was originally published in . Personal branding is not equal to boasting ‘Personal branding’ is generally assumed to be a dicey topic. Many equate it with ‘boasting’. This perhaps stems from the Bhagavad Gita which has the famous line, “Karmanye Vadhikaraste…
Note: IndiGo HAS NOT launched any subscription package. That is a hypothetical point, made in the context of Uber’s new monthly pass subscription package in the US. Read on! Uber’s new subscription model, but only in some cities in US, as a…