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Back in January 2020, KFC launched an ad in Australia for the Zinger Popcorn box. The 15-second ad features a young woman checking her reflection on a parked car’s tinted window, not realizing that there is someone inside the vehicle. As the…
What comes to your mind when you hear, “Mann mein laddoo phutaa”? Motichur laddoos in your mouth? Or does your mind remind you of a specific brand/product – Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate Shots? Chances are, the phrase may remind you of the…
Recently, an ambitious idea called pOrtal ‘connected’ Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius and the city of Lublin in Poland. What was the connection? This! This is not a new idea, though. There have been many earlier attempts at ‘connecting’ 2 different cities like this….
Before you write and share something on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, do you notice what the prompt in each of those platforms’ status update boxes are? Here they are, if you don’t recall, or didn’t care to observe. Twitter’s prompt fits the…
Given that ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) is the hottest metric for global companies to go after, both Samsung and Sony have been trying specific things out of their cardboard packaging. While Samsung’s fun efforts put the onus on the users,…
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess joined Twitter in December 2020. His first tweet was posted on January 20, 2021. And he tagged Elon Musk in his very first tweet! I wrote about his opening Twitter gambit earlier this year. Now, in an article…
I first remember reading about Indian-born writer Amitava Kumar‘s rules for his students in his 2015 book, ‘Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World’. He repeats the same set of rules in his 2020 book, ‘Every Day I Write the…