Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
I have been fascinated about private label products for a very long time. They are usually pitched as lower cost alternatives to larger, well-advertised brands, but they seem so ubiquitous inside the store (which owns the brand) that you’re mighty tempted to…
I don’t recall where I first heard this story. But it is a story that I always would remember for more reason than one. The story goes… A man and a woman are married for more than 30 years. They are very…
I’m really glad to see Honor India exploring regional language advertising on Twitter. All these are promoted tweets, incidentally. I have added some user feedback too, about the effort, under some of the tweets. This is good attempt, though I do wonder…
Like I stumbled on strangers and found interesting people online, first on online chats (web 1.0), and then on Twitter (web 2.0), have a feeling the younger generation is doing the same on PUBG and Fortnite. They meet up and play together!…
A couple of weeks ago, while I was in Delhi on work, I stayed at a hotel for 6 days. During the stay, one afternoon, as I walked out of my room, a lady—a hotel staff—in the corridor saw me and enquired…
The Hindi film, Uri: The Surgical Strike, released on January 11, 2019. On Tuesday, the subsequent week (January 15, 2019), someone named Arin Mandal, from Kolkata, shared a video on his Facebook timeline. In the video he says that he tried downloading…
Spot the difference(s). Well, there’s just one. Koffee With Google Home vs. Koffee Without Google Home! Did Google (Home) drop out of Koffee With Karan after the massive fallout from the Pandya-Rahul episode where the entire country over-reacted to thoughts expressed as…