Archive for the 'Advertising' Category

Very recently, Godrej has given itself a new look. The idea as I understand (more as a consumer and less as a marketing professional) is to make it look young and relate the current day’s audience.
The now colourful logo was launched during IPL. A religion which I guess is followed by every Indian consumer! The […]

Sam Balsara a.k.a God

Very recently, Sam Balsara acquired a major stake in Mediacom making him more powerful when it comes to media and advertising in India (as if he was not powerful enough!). Agencyfaqs! has now done a two-part feature on Sam. Here is part 1 and part 2 of this feature.
Honestly, I feel elated and honoured to […]

One-Show shortlist!

Check this out. How many of these campaigns have we seen in popular media? I rest my case

I had, a little while back, written about spam ads clogging bandwidth during Advertising Awards. I am led to believe that this is an issue dogging not just the Indian Advertising Industry, but the world over.
The recently concluded Goa Fest was a victim of scam ads too! The issue has been well documented by Sreekant […]

We had just completed the process of creative agency selection for our organisation Bharti AXA Investment Managers. I was interviewed by Agency Faqs and Exchange4media to announce this event. Hera are the interviews from Agencyfaqs and Exchange4media.

Read this article in agencyfaqs.
http://www.agencyfaqs.com/perl/news/index.html?sid=19875
Must read for anyone in advertising / marketing! We don’t need to look westward for marketing and advertising concepts. We have some from our own past which might prove extremely useful! If only Mr. Gandhi had the kind of communication tools available now, freedom would have been faster and would have […]

Found an interesting article which highlights the ‘tussle’ between the creative and the servicing teams in the advertising world. Unable to link it and hence have given the link below!
http://www.agencyfaqs.com/perl/news/index.html?sid=19822
Somehow, I personally think that advertising is still a ‘business’. Just as much as someone peddles a product, the advertising industry peddles its ‘creative services’. Over […]

Hope Floats

SCAM ADS - A concept invented with the invention of advertising awards! Something that has always plagued the advertising and communications industry for a very long time. Scam ads in the process of winning awards just by releasing in an obscure paper / channel in Assam / Sikkim and winning awards in Mumbai, Goa & Cannes […]

I had posted about Nike Cricket Commercial in one-word here. Here is the video!

Nike Cricket Commercial

Just one word to describe it - sexy. This is how they did it. Featuring interviews from the guys behind it!




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