Tag: Advertising

Girl Interrupted: Tista Sen’s entrepreneurial venture TistaThinks conceptualizes campaign for CRY

Sharing her thoughts with a teaser for her venture's launch, Sen wrote: "Umm another agency. Nada. Another name. Nada. If this last year has taught me anything it is that you are your own brand and the people who want to work with you are the people who value you."

Back in the entrepreneurial world, Sen has started her own venture, TistaThinks, and has ended the year with a campaign for CRY called ‘Girl Interrupted’

ASCI Academy launches Hindi versions of courses on responsible advertising

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The ASCI Guide to Responsible Advertising enables advertisers, agencies, and marketers to align campaigns with ASCI’s self-regulatory framework, helping them avoid misleading claims, adhere to advertising codes, and balance creativity with responsibility.

InspiRAYtion 18 – Crystal Gazing

"Agencies are going to reorder themselves in terms of quality," further adds adman Rayomand J Patell in this week's InspiRAYtion. (Image Source: Shop LC)

In this Sunday’s InspiRAYtion, adman Rayomand J Patell shared his opinions on the new aspects one can expect to unfold or shape in the coming year.

How Pepsi’s ‘Nothing Official About It’ campaign stole the ‘thanda’ from Coca-Cola

The campaign is an example of ambush marketing, i.e., a marketing strategy where a brand associates with an event without being the official sponsor. Post its release, changes were made to the laws related to this. “For example, if a particular brand was sponsoring the World Cup, then the player couldn't do an ad for another brand. They tightened a lot of such loopholes in the law,” said JWT's former junior writer Anuja Chauhan. (Stills from the campaign)

Storyboard18 spoke to Anuja Chauhan, the copywriter who came up with the iconic tagline, about that carpe dieming slam dunk of a campaign.

Tata Power’s AI Christmas film: Sandeep Goyal says AI will take on far more film production than we believe

"AI will take on a lot more of film production than we believe," Sandeep Goyal, Managing Director at Rediffusion, predicts.

As Rediffusion achieves a ground-breaking AI-generated Christmas commercial for Tata Power, MD Sandeep Goyal reflects on how AI is reshaping creativity in advertising and the future of creative professionals.

Omnicom-IPG deal: Congress probes ad giants over links to GARM

On macroeconomic uncertainty, Omnicom executives acknowledged that trade tensions and the threat of tariffs, especially on Chinese goods are a watch point, particularly for auto and consumer packaged goods clients.

Both companies have been instructed to preserve all relevant documents and communications with the WFA and GARM and to provide them to a Congressional committee for review.

Between creativity and compliance: How influencers circumvent ad rules

ASIFA India has already received 1238 submissions, with 75% from students and 25% from professionals. Of these, 35% are from women creators, and 50% come from emerging creators

Experts agree about an urgent need for more rigorous enforcement and greater awareness of crucial guidelines in influencer marketing.

Ghost job listings in advertising: A fad or phenomenon?

72% of Indian candidates say a strong online professional brand is now critical for success, a perspective shared by 62% of hiring managers.

Is that job for real? The phrase has taken on new meaning. Storyboard18 reached out to creative heads and ad experts to understand the phenomenon of ‘ghost job listing’, its implications on the ad sector, how to evade this trap and a lot more.