Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
I could argue that Coca-Cola, that over-sweetened, carbonated water that spends gazillions of money in advertising globally and is a dominant cause of obesity (along with other junk, fast-food brands), but I fully understand if you want to counter-argue that it is…
Ever since our species was forced to stay at home, we have been using up video calls a lot more. Companies like Zoom have become as mainstream as Google all of a sudden (for both good and terrible reasons, involving privacy breach…
There are so many digital services that have offered their product completely free as a response to the global coronavirus pandemic. I cannot even begin to make a list of such services, but some of the ones that caught my attention include…
US-based local business search and reviews website Yelp had released two kinds of communication last week. When looked side-by-side, they warrant an interesting observation. To start with, both communications were released on the same day – April 9, 2020. The first one…
With regard to brands trying various kinds of content in Stage 3 of this pandemic (), my favorite right now is Steak-umm, a brand of thin-sliced frozen steaks. As a content format for social media, this is a brilliant subversion of the…
Amul is on a nostalgia trip! But I loved the fact that it wasn’t for no reason, but for a specific context! And across media formats! The context is this: since Ramayana is on our TVs again, Amul dug up and shared…
Besides our homes, where we are cooped up now, which other places do we have a lot of fun very, very frequently? My own experience, and response, would be… our favorite restaurants. My daughter has been persistently and sadly telling me that…