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Axe Anarchy: advertising, digital or experience campaign?

by bhatnaturally on January 16, 2012

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Unilever is launching a new fragrance of Axe and its for women. Yes, the brand pitched squarely at men and promising to transform all men into ‘chic magnets’ is now introducing Anarchy – a fragrance for ‘him and her’. The launch involves, not just conventional advertising but a graphic novel whose plot can be shaped [...]

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Is Facebook the new brand website?

by bhatnaturally on January 12, 2012

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There was a clear pattern to online activities of Indian brands a little while ago: create brand website, drive traffic to it through web banners in mass or niche portals. The content on these brand websites too followed a pattern: information about brands or the current campaign, videos of ads and the mandatory wallpapers for [...]

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Philippine Tourism: it’s more fun in social media

January 11, 2012
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There’s no telling what goes viral in social media nowadays. A recent slogan for Philippine Tourism, ‘It’s more fun in the Philippines‘ has caught the fancy of consumers in social media. Agency: BBDO Guerrero As far as tourism slogans go the line follows the trend of describing the feeling of visiting a country, creating an [...]

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Tanishq Missing Diamonds: worth finding

September 18, 2011
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There was a time when a 360-degree campaign was wrongly interpreted by creative teams as (a) creating a TV commercial (b) taking a static image or a screen grab from the film and plaster it on static media. Thankfully we’ve come a long way since then. The last Tanishq ad featuring Amitabh Bachchan was quite [...]

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Volkswagen Jetta: anything for a community

August 29, 2011
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And so Volkswagen India continues with the strategy of a print driven blitzkrieg to launch another model in India. This morning’s Times of India came with a ‘wrap around’ printed in glossy art paper (card?). I almost missed it as my wife had carefully separated the main paper from the ad. The fact that it [...]

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IKEA, YouTube and Facebook: Happy to Bed

August 28, 2011
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I remember seeing the new IKEA ad for the UK market (created by Mother) over at some ad blog. According to Campaign Live: The integrated campaign, by Mother, aims to widen bedtime beyond brushing your teeth, taking off any makeup and putting on pyjamas and enacourge people to celebrate bedrooms and make them a “happy [...]

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Seen and noted: Tata Steel

July 28, 2011
Seen and noted: Tata Steel

‘We also make steel‘ was an iconic campaign during my growing years in advertising. A 2003 article said that the company rode high on the effect of that commercial. And now comes a campaign that positions Tata Steel as a company built on strong values, captured nicely in the base line: ‘Values Stronger Than Steel’. [...]

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