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Category: <span>Marketing Psychology</span>

Relevance, not emotional tricks, is what sells
Marketing Psychology

The Pavlovian myth: relevance beats emotion in ads

Watson brought Pavlov's conditioning to ads and the industry followed. Modern search experiments suggest usefulness, not emotion, drives sales.

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Giving away billions is the new reputation play
Marketing Psychology

The generosity boom is really reputation marketing

Anthropic pledges 5% of its value to a public fund, Musk promises SpaceX shares for kids, and Washington mails $500 checks—but the…

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Jio's 2016 Welcome Offer reset India's data expectations.
Marketing Psychology

Jio Story: The Welcome Offer That Reset Data’s Baseline

How Jio's 2016 Welcome Offer reset India's reference point for mobile data—and the behavioural lesson marketers still use.

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Why a first video call home became a shared memory
Marketing Psychology

When Jio’s Data Reset Became Collective Memory

Why the 2016 data reset and the first video call home became collective nostalgia, and what that shared memory can teach brand…

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What the 2016 Welcome Offer taught marketers about resetting expectations
Marketing Psychology

How the Welcome Offer Rewired India’s Data Psychology

In 2016, the Welcome Offer turned data from a scarce metered resource into an everyday default. Here is the psychology marketers can…

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The Diwali film that puts humans under the table
Marketing Psychology

Why Supertails put a family under the table this Diwali

Supertails’ #NoBangDiwali film swaps humans and pets, using humour to make viewers feel how fireworks change Diwali for animals.

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Why FMCG brands stall between ₹100 and ₹400 crore
Marketing Psychology

Why FMCG brands stall between ₹100 and ₹400 crore

FMCG veteran Suresh Ramachandran's new book gives founders a four-step SURE framework for scaling beyond the ₹100–400 crore stage.

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The Welcome Offer reset India's data reference point
Marketing Psychology

Jio Story: The Welcome Offer Reset India’s Reference Point

Jio's 2016 Welcome Offer did more than give away data. It reset India's mental benchmark for what data should feel like—and left…

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Why customer quality beats lead volume in BFSI
Marketing Psychology

Why 750M daily transactions make customer quality critical

YES Bank CMO Nipun Kaushal on why acquiring the right customer, responsible data use and human trust matter more than just leads.

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A normal day now runs on quiet data
Marketing Psychology

When Data Stopped Being the Story

The 2016 Welcome Offer reset pricing, but the deeper shift was behavioural: data became a quiet daily utility, from chai-stall UPI to…

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Saif’s ghee moment became lasting brand recall
Marketing Psychology

Saif Ali Khan’s Ghee Prize Is Now a Brand Memory

How an unscripted KBC reaction over a two-year ghee supply became a meme, followed Saif Ali Khan to Instagram and resurfaced on…

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Why 'my first video call home' still does the selling
Marketing Psychology

Jio Story: The Nostalgia in a First Video Call

How a 2016 data moment became a shared memory of first video calls home—and why collective nostalgia is a strategic layer brands…

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