Tag: Advertising

Department of Consumer Affairs and ASCI crackdown on “Dark Patterns” in advertising

Majority of the violative ads were from the Home Care sector, where products claimed to be eco-friendly/ environment friendly, without adequate support data

The Department of Consumer Affairs and ASCI agree that there is a need for a framework that could regulate the industry in order to prevent dark patterns. Read on.

White Rivers Media launches Gen Z research lab Capital Z

Accounting for about 27 percent of India’s total population, Gen Z is one of the dominant drivers of the digital economy. (Representative Image: imgix via Unsplash)

Capital Z and its bouquet of primary and secondary research services aim to strengthen impact across multiple sectors including media/entertainment, banking, insurance and finance, real estate, sports and fitness, and D2C.

NCSC serves notice to Zomato, Deepinder Goyal, for “casteist” ad; launches an investigation

The Zomato ad’s “main” character is Kachra, which has references to the critically acclaimed Bollywood film Lagaan. Aditya Lakhia who is depicted as a member of an oppressed and marginalized ‘untouchable’ community personifies Kachra.

Zomato faced backlash for releasing a World Environment Day ad that was criticised for being “tone deaf” and “castesist”.

New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino sends her first email to employees; unveils vision for Twitter 2.0

Yaccarino asserts that the success of Twitter 2.0 is a shared responsibility. She calls for thinking big and transforming the platform together. The CEO advocates for questioning assumptions and starting from first principles to build a new future. (Images sourced via Forbes and Twitter)

Yaccarino outlines the goal to transform the “Global Town Square” and make it the ‘world’s most accurate real-time information source’ in her first company letter as CEO

Bang In The Middle’s Prathap Suthan: When we Cannes, we must

June is a month when the Oscar's of advertising is held. In this fun piece, Prathap Suthan, CCO, Bang In The Middle, takes our readers through what really happens in agencies across the world. (Representative image:  Park Troopers via Unsplash)

Here’s a cheeky take on the month of June, when the global advertising industry unveils its benevolence, by Prathap Suthan, CCO, Bang In The Middle.