Category: How it Works

Does a country need to rebrand to stay relevant in modern times?

The idea behind branding has far surpassed its traditional uses and is now being used for everything. Even cities, regions and countries. Places such as countries typically have the same characteristics as any regular product or service. However, rebranding a country is a much more difficult thing to do as there are many limitations and restrictions that hinder the path. The big goal behind rebranding a country is to create awareness and curiosity about that country for investors, potential tourists, migrated workers and residents.(Representative image via Unsplash)

Rebranding of countries happens for many reasons. Culture, politics and emotional sentiments stand as the major factors.

High Pitch Drama: The pitch process in advertising is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

It took a lot for clients to lose agencies in the past, it would have to be for something so cosmic that it could not be imagined; a marketing launch botched up beyond belief with a competitor’s number as a call to action in it perhaps, highlighted veteran adman Rayomand J Patell. (Representational image: Jason Roswell via Unsplash)

Everyone agrees the pitching process is unfair practice, but knowing the next company is willing to do it, no one can make an effort to change it.

Simply Speaking: Brand Gestalt – going beyond positioning

In many ways, a brand is an illusion. It exists in our unconscious and in our feelings. But that - by itself - is powerful. These connections in the mind add real value to the products and to our lives. Wearing a fake Rolex will give us less pleasure than wearing the real thing. Take the Nike swoosh off a sneaker and it loses its magic. Why? Because value gets created in the mind. It must have emotional value to you. In this way, brands can add real value, beyond their physical product attributes. It is not water, it is Evian! (Representational image via Unsplash)

Gestalt refers to how the brain prefers to seek out the whole of something, rather than the individual parts. Brand Gestalt represents the whole of the brand – it’s the complete picture.

Instagram Reels and the small seller saga in India: How Meta’s platform is tripping up small sellers

Over the last few years, Facebook and Instagram pushed a number of features on their platforms to encourage small sellers. The tech giant even boasted of supporting 200 million businesses on Instagram, globally. (Representative image via Unsplash)

Small sellers are finding it hard to leverage Meta’s Instagram Reels and promote their products. Here’s why.

Equal Pay in Cricket: Indian men and women cricketers to get equal match fee, announces BCCI’s Jay Shah

BCCI Honorary Secretary Jay Shah tweeted, “I’m pleased to announce BCCI’s first step towards tackling discrimination. We are implementing pay equity policy for our contracted BCCI Women cricketers. The match fee for both Men and Women Cricketers will be the same as we move into a new era of gender equality in cricket.” (Image source: BCCI)

BCCI announced equal pay for men and women cricketers in a major step to end pay disparity.

Brain Matters: The one psychology principle every marketing strategist needs to know

Marketers forget the basics. And the most basic of those truths is that everything is what we think it is, and what we have propped up against it, to let our consumer compare it to. (Representational image via Unsplash)

Every business is fundamentally in the business of changing behaviour. Understanding behavioural truths of consumers is the first step to success.

The culture of creativity is under threat: Amer Jaleel

Everyone must understand the simmering discontent that is widespread over ideas being pulled out of one agency’s remit and handed over to another, writes Jaleel. (Representational image via Unsplash)

The chairman of MullenLowe Lintas Group, Amer Jaleel, speaks out on the issue of ownership and against ideas being replicated.