Why I would love to work with HUL! – Updated

One more time, one more occasion, one more killer activity!
Just a few days back, Proctor & Gamble (P&G) started a teaser campaign for its leading Shampoo brand Pantene. Dubbed ‘the mystery shampoo’, it claimed that 80% of women preferred this mystery shampoo over any other shampoo according to some study. Here is the Mystery Shampoo [...]

MTV changed the world? Eat this!

It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You’re paralyzed
‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one’s gonna save [...]

How to evaluate a creative?

One of the biggest problems that most marketers on the ‘other’ side of the Advertising table face is this!

How do you evaluate a creative piece that comes to your table?

It has been a learning experience for me to get on to the other side of the table and here are a few tips in gauging [...]

Marketing by the Retail shops in T Nagar

I am not sure how many of you have visited Madras and T Nagar especially. At least the ones that have visited Madras from the north of Vindhyas always talk about visiting Nalli every time they do make it there. It is great for a brand that seldom advertises and has handful of outlets outside [...]

Traditional Marketing is dead. Long live traditional marketing!

This article is on a related note to my earlier post.
My father used to tour a lot as part of his work and for time periods like 15 days at a stretch. Those were days when having a phone was a ‘luxury’ and the favourite mode of communication always used to be India Post.
If I [...]

Online presence – an oxymoron. Look for the written word

Many marketers still suffer from the ‘I want a web presence’ syndrome. They believe that having presence as a website and by advertising in online they have done good to their marketing plans. Alas! Web 2.0 as internet marketers prefer to call it, has a mind of its own. Did I hear “Jabulani”?
Web 2.0 is [...]

Hamara Bajaj – not any more!

The mother brand Bajaj may cease to exist. It looks like a season to retire iconic elements from the Bajaj family.
Earlier this year, there was an announcement that Bajaj Auto would be ‘retiring’ the famed Scooter. Many our age would remember that the scooter was once a prized possession and people would wait for even [...]

Lack of will to accept new ideas?

Here’s the ad in SET MAX for IPL 3.0. View the ad by clicking this link.
Just check this Coca-cola ad for Beijing Olympics 2009 here.
What do we lack in India? Creativity? Or the will to accept new ideas? This is something which has always been eating my head since my advertising days and now on [...]

Tu Tu Mein Mein of Detergent brands

The whole world has talked about it already. Yet another occassion, where I delayed in relaying my comments. Could find at least three significant pieces. Here, here and here. Here are my views:
Showing competition is always a relative issue. Unless there is a clear demarcation on why a product is better than another or issued in [...]

Advertising Agencies – A series to understand their functioning

Most graduates getting out of premium B-Schools in India would have done a million case studies while in campus, but seldom do they get the knowledge of how an advertising agency operates. Management graduates specializing in Marketing and opting for a career in Advertising almost always find themselves chasing artworks for the first couple of [...]