With many “old economy” brands now starting their “digital marketing” journey, here are a few things I learnt – that your digital agency may have missed telling you.
Of Marketing, brands etc.
The Kingdom of Poyais and the ‘new normal’.
All this talk of the ‘new normal’ reminds me of the Kingdom of Poyais from circa 1822
Waiting for ‘Aal Izz Well’
Immediately after that fateful November in 2008, security and police vigilance were visibly stepped up across the country. Bombay’s famed night life was put on hold, multilayered security in public places reminded you of the attack; now called 26/11. Fear… Read More ›
Going Viral
Simon Weckert, an artist, borrowed phones from friends, until he had 99 devices, these he piled onto a little red wagon. Over the course of a day, he walked up and down a random street, towing his smartphone-packed wagon behind… Read More ›
Lessons in Consumer Behavior from a Rajni film.
The crowd was growing impatient, waiting for the doors to open. The hands seemed to be plodding wearily across the clock face. Finally, the usher throws open the doors, and people hurry to their seats. Soon, the theatre is full,… Read More ›
Eighteenth Century FOMO
In eighteenth-century Europe, potatoes were considered a leprosy inducing invention of the devil and this belief was particularly pernicious in France, so no one ate them. The humble tuber might not have attained its preeminent status in European cuisine, if… Read More ›
The perils of the Piyush Pandey we think is hidden inside us.
Harry Baals – and, yes, it is pronounced as “Balls”, remember this, it is important to the story – was the mayor of Fort Wayne from 1932 to 1947 and again from 1951 until his demise in 1954. During his… Read More ›
Onoda’s War
Walking into the office get-together, you scan your eyes around the room, wave to a colleague standing by the bar, return a smile to another smoking in a corner. You pick up a beer and walk across to a bunch… Read More ›
Connected Cars may be today’s VCR players.
Understanding human attitudes to technology is probably as important as all the technical efforts made for connected cars.
‘Gupt Rog’ of modern day marketers
What ails modern marketers
