Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
India’s love for films is well-known. We love some of our film stars with all heart and more than our lives and such a display of affection is most visible when the star’s film releases and the star actually makes his first…
Glossophobia (or speech anxiety) is simply the fear of public speaking. It is considered the number 1 phobia (in the US and in the world) and ranks alongside fear of flying (aerophobia) and fear of heights (acrophobia). The Wikipedia page on Glossophobia…
I had earlier written about ad-supported/ad-subsidized films in a theater. Reading all this hoopla about mobile number portability and the ensuing high-decibel promotion of each brand of service provider, I was wondering if the ad-supported model could bring in more transparency and…
That sentence had me reading and re-reading it in complete disbelief! First, some background. Ed Yong, (an award-winning British science writer. His work has appeared in New Scientist, the Times, WIRED, the Guardian, Nature, the Daily Telegraph, the Economist) also has a…
You like a brand…I mean, in real life. Then you search for them on Facebook and ‘like’ them there too. Normal occurrence, but is there any responsibility for you, beyond that, as a fan/follower? Two recent blog posts that I came across…
Groupon’s communication misstep (alleged…more about this later) continues to fascinate me. Here’s a darling start-up that media loves and if you go by their press page, media seems to be going completely ga-ga over them. And what do they do? They create…
This week’s Ascent (career…nay, jobs supplement of The Times of India) had a large’ish ad. by Capgemini India. The ad. is standard stuff – we grow, you grow, multicultural blah, broader exposure and more blah. As is the new trend (See previous…