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Tag: <span>Advertising</span>

Navratna Oil and the Thanda Thanda Cool Cool jingle
Throwback

The psychology of Navratna Oil’s Thanda Thanda Cool Cool

How a repetitive jingle and exaggerated relief scenes turned a hair-oil cooling benefit into one of India's most durable brand properties.

3 min read
How super.money made 'split' impossible to forget
Branding

super.money turns Tiger Shroff’s famous splits into a payment hack

super.money's splitStore campaign uses Tiger Shroff's iconic splits to make three-part payments stick. Here's the creative mnemonic behind it.

2 min read
Bisleri’s ‘Har Paani Ki Bottel Bisleri Nahin’
Throwback

Bisleri’s classic ad: how the brand defended its own name

The psychology behind Bisleri’s classic ad: how it protected a brand name from becoming generic and made checking the label a smart…

3 min read
AdFest's folded-paper logo marks 30 years
Branding

AdFest’s 30th-anniversary logo uses paper and negative space

AdFest's 30th-anniversary logo uses a bent paper strip and negative space to unite trophy, lotus and gateway. Here's why the rebrand works.

2 min read
Ghadi Detergent Puts Madhuri Dixit to the Trust Test
Branding

Ghadi Detergent Puts Madhuri Dixit to the Trust Test

Ghadi Detergent's new campaign uses Madhuri Dixit and visible product tests to earn trust. Here is why proof beats promises in brand…

2 min read
La Trobe University’s You’ll Change campaign
Viral Ads

La Trobe’s You’ll Change Ad: Why Observers Sell the Degree

La Trobe’s new brand campaign leaves students out of frame and lets an 86-year-old matriarch, aunties and an ex describe how study…

2 min read
Cadbury Dairy Milk's Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaye
Throwback

Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaye: The Ad That Made Cadbury a Ritual

How Cadbury Dairy Milk's 2004 'Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaye' reframed chocolate as India's everyday celebration sweet.

3 min read
Nykaa Lovestruck: Love At First Swipe
Viral Ads

Nykaa Lovestruck and the psychology of Love At First Swipe

Nykaa Cosmetics turned its Lovestruck Lipstick launch into a three-film romance with Rasha Thadani and Rohit Saraf. Here is the psychology behind…

3 min read
Lifebuoy's Help a Child Reach 5
Throwback

How Lifebuoy turned handwashing into a survival ritual

The behavioural science behind Lifebuoy's Help a Child Reach 5 campaign: story, social proof and ritual that made handwashing feel personal.

2 min read
Fastrack Move On: Selling freedom through the breakup
Throwback

Fastrack Move On: The ad that sold moving on

How Fastrack's Move On film used the fresh start effect, action bias, and identity signalling to turn a break-up into a purchase…

3 min read
LIC: Zindagi ke saath bhi, Zindagi ke baad bhi
Throwback

LIC’s ad reframed death as an ongoing promise of care

How LIC’s Zindagi ke saath bhi, Zindagi ke baad bhi campaign used mortality salience, framing and emotional accounting to sell care, not…

2 min read
Standard Chartered’s Move Ahead
Viral Ads

The Psychology Behind Standard Chartered’s Move Ahead

Standard Chartered borrows Formula 1’s precision and preparation to reframe banking. Here’s the behavioural science behind the Move Ahead film.

3 min read