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Adidas turns Messi's farewell into a masterclass in not selling
Storytelling

Adidas turns Messi’s farewell into a masterclass in not selling

Adidas skips stats and trophies to let Lionel Messi narrate his own farewell. Here's why restraint can be the strongest brand strategy…

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Borosil’s Designed for a Better You campaign
Viral Ads

The Psychology Behind Borosil’s Everyday Hassles Ad

Borosil’s ‘Designed for a Better You’ campaign skips feature lists to sell organisation and juicing as relief. The psychology behind why it…

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Vodafone ZooZoo: The Silent White Character That Sold Telecom
Throwback

The Psychology of Vodafone’s ZooZoo Ads

Vodafone India's ZooZoo campaign proved a silent white character could make telecom features unforgettable. A look at the behavioural science behind the…

3 min read
Mercury: Little to Big
New Ads

Mercury’s Little to Big ad turns patient stories into brand proof

Mercury's Little to Big campaign follows former Starship patients into adulthood, using real survival stories, a 25-year milestone and a matching ask.

3 min read
65% of U.S. Consumers Avoid Ads
Consumer Behaviour

65% of Consumers Avoid Ads. Marketers Can Fix That.

Omnicom's 1,136-person study finds 65% avoid ads—but avoidance is a spectrum of behaviours, and there are four ways to make ads feel…

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Pepsodent’s Dishoom Dishoom
Throwback

The Psychology of Pepsodent’s Dishoom Dishoom

The throwback ad that turned tooth-brushing into a daily battle kids wanted to win—and the behavioural levers that made Pepsodent stick.

3 min read
Havells Shock Lagaa? and the RCCB fear sell
Throwback

Havells Shock Lagaa? and the psychology of fear

How Havells' 'Shock Lagaa?' campaign used fear appeal, availability and naming to make RCCBs a category Indians ask for by name.

3 min read
Godrej HIT’s New Anti Roach Gel Film with Shefali Shah
New Ads

HIT’s New Shefali Shah Film: Roach Control as War Room

Godrej HIT’s new Shefali Shah film reframes roach control as a war-room mission—using authority, framing, and a visible nest-kill chain.

3 min read
California Milk Processor Board: Got Milk?
Throwback

Got Milk? and the Psychology of Selling Absence

How Got Milk? turned a missing glass of milk into a lesson in loss aversion—and built a campaign that changed beverage advertising.

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Vicks Touch of Care: the campaign that redefined family
Throwback

Vicks Touch of Care: The ad that made care a brand moat

How Vicks used narrative transportation, identity signalling and an emotional halo to make a vapour rub part of India’s conversation on care.

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Mastercard's 'Priceless' campaign
Throwback

Mastercard Priceless: The Psychology Behind the Ad

How Mastercard's 1997 'Priceless' ad used anchoring and mental accounting to reframe small card spending as emotional value.

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Cadbury 5 Star's Ramesh and Suresh
Throwback

Cadbury 5 Star and the Ad That Sold Getting Lost

How Ramesh and Suresh turned a chocolate bar's distraction into a durable brand asset using absorption, incongruity and repetition.

3 min read