October 2008

iPod as a corporate gift: rocked by recession

by bhatnaturally on October 31, 2008

When the economic sentiment is gloomy, marketing efforts to package the iPod as an ideal corporate gift will not be music to one’s ears. This year too, Apple India has attempted to push the iPod as a corporate gift. Aside from print ads, there is even a dedicated website. Curiously, a search for ‘ipod corporate [...]

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Video billboards on a bus: a moving experience

by bhatnaturally on October 31, 2008

AdAge reports that New York City is experimenting with 12-foot wide LED screens on the sides of buses. The ads served on these buses will be networked into a central computer, allowing for customization of messages. The messages can be tweaked to target consumers in different ways: the morning route can have messages from say [...]

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Dell urges you to take your own path

October 30, 2008

The ad blogs’ favourite whipping boy Enfatico used to get panned for every reason under the sun, especially for not releasing any major creative work for Dell since their inception (Enfatico’s inception, that is). Now that they have finally released a campaign for India, they continue to get panned. Read more about it in AdAge, Business [...]

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Airtel’s Voice SMS: so many celebrities, it hurts

October 30, 2008

The new TVC for Airtel’s Voice SMS is likely to be a popular one. Judging by the comments over at YouTube, everyone seems to lap it up. While the idea of ‘faking’ an emotion to win over a girl is interesting, I thought the idea could have been pushed further. Did they need celebrities at [...]

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Tata Sky Plus: it all adds up

October 30, 2008

From a product strategy point of view I liked the move from Tata Sky to launch their premium DTH service: Tata Sky Plus. Essentially it converts your DTH set top box into a personal video recorder, allowing you to pause, record and rewind live TV. It immediately sets them apart from the competitive DTH space [...]

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The Economist: delivered in a pizza box

October 29, 2008

Talk about catching them young. A campaign for The Economist (doing the rounds of almost all the ad blogs) caught my eye. Aimed at students of the Greater Philadelphia area, it involved supplying pizzerias with Economist-branded pizza boxes. The cover of the box reinforces the ‘Get a world view’ platform with a pie chart that [...]

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Sixt Rent-a-Car guerilla marketing: using the airwaves for advertising, literally

October 25, 2008

Came across a cute little guerilla marketing idea, implemented by Sixt Rent-a-Car at the Hamburg Airport. The problem: several leading car rental brands and others were already present in every nook & corner of the airport through signage and billboards. Sixt literally used the airwaves to break the clutter. Here’s how: they set up powerful [...]

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