Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
Note: This is an updated version of my earlier post from 2018. Imagine a busy town square. There are a LOT of people. Many are talking, many listening. Some are influential people who talk from a podium. There are people from all…
It was 2012. I was at Flipkart, heading communications. And because I was in Flipkart, I was hyper-clued into the e-commerce sector in India (I still am, though). In July 2012, I had ordered a pair of shoes from another e-commerce site…
I found a very good read from the latest issue of HBR (May-June 2020), on a fairly new corporate role/designation that a lot of people still don’t exactly know what it entails. The role of Chief of Staff, associated more with Governments…
This is influencer marketing done really, really well! Yesterday was Karan Johar’s birthday. And he posted 2 Instagram posts for it – one was an adorable candle-blowing video of his birthday celebration with his kids and mother, and the other was a…
Between Airbnb and Zomato’s announcement of layoffs, there’s a lot to compare and learn. I’d, in fact, say that (May 15th) took some inspiration from the widely appreciated (May 5th). For starters, Chesky framed his letter as ‘A more focused business’. Zomato’s…
Xiaomi launched a fun campaign yesterday that the brand’s mighty vocal (but not for local, as the many replies remind him) India CEO announced on Twitter. It’s a nice idea, actually. Mi launched a ‘magazine’ (at a time when the media industry…
The news of 7 new, relatively-big upcoming Indian films going directly to OTT (Amazon Prime Video) was first spoken about on May 14th (Saturday). This was online news, primarily. The next day, the same news made it to most print publications and…