Category: How it Works

Indian marketers have found a brigade of new brand ambassadors

Using employees in advertisements for marketing products and services is a cost-effective and smart way for a brand to develop a personal relationship with its target customers. Consumers are able to relate with the employee featured in the ad and form a trustful relationship.

Watch brand films from Swiggy, Marico, TCS, HDFC Bank, Trivago, The Whole Truth, Shaadi.com, that feature their in-house brand ambassadors – employees and founders.

Twitter’s chief marketing officer Leslie Berland logs out

Currently, marketers across the globe, are concerned about how the new leadership will pan out for advertising on the platform. 90 percent of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising. A day before the acquisition, Musk had told Twitter advertisers in a note that he aspires for the microblogging site to be the most respected advertising platform in the world. (Representational image via Unsplash)

Berland is the latest executive to leave the social network, just after Elon Musk’s takeover.

Are startup founders altering the way brands are built?

Startups have emerged as one of the key spenders in the advertising expenditure (AdEx) second only to big players such as FMCG and auto. (Representational image via Unsplash)

Startup marketers have been often blamed for employing “earn and burn” strategy over long-term brand building when it comes to advertising.

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover raises concerns among marketers

Elon Musk, who earlier this year had dropped the plan to acquire Twitter citing a high number of fake accounts on the platform, had said that advertisers would not be able reach the customers they intended if Twitter was flooded with bogus accounts. According to Musk’s statements earlier this year, 10% of the platform’s daily active users who see ads are inauthentic accounts (Representative Image via Unsplash)

General Motors suspended its paid advertising on Twitter after Musk’s takeover, saying that the platform will change now and that it wants to understand the direction Twitter will take.

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.