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The NHL is borrowing BookTok's hockey romance buzz
Consumer Behaviour

NHL courts BookTok romance fandom with Hot for Hockey

Why the NHL's Hot for Hockey campaign is borrowing BookTok romance tropes to reach new fans, and the brand risk in joining…

3 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
Interio by Godrej turns the kitchen into a social hub
Branding

Interio by Godrej turns the kitchen into a social hub

Interio by Godrej's new steel kitchen film uses a busy Indian household to turn durability into an everyday social story, not a…

2 min read
How Friends is unshrinking the adult diaper category
Consumer Behaviour

Friends Repositions Adult Diapers as a Travel Essential

Friends adult diaper brand uses a travel story to destigmatise incontinence for an estimated 14 million middle-aged women in India.

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MTR Foods turns sweets into a shared brand language
Branding

MTR Foods turns sweets into a language

MTR Foods’ festive campaign treats sweets as a language of affection, using an illustrated book and film to own cultural rituals rather…

3 min read
Why OnePlus Made Tradition the Hero This Diwali
Branding

OnePlus India Uses Diwali to Close the Generation Gap

The brand's third #MakeItSpecial film pairs Gen Z creators, Smriti Mandhana and an elderly couple to make tradition feel like participation.

2 min read
Rahul Dravid Sells a Small Oil Swap, Not Fear
Consumer Behaviour

Freedom’s Rahul Dravid Ad Makes Cholesterol a Family Choice

Freedom Healthy Cooking Oils targets adult children with Rahul Dravid, reframing an oil switch as a way to protect parents' hearts.

2 min read
AI agents are the new shelf space
Consumer Behaviour

AI Agents Are the New Shelf Space

AI assistants are becoming a new gatekeeper. New tracking shows recommendations vary wildly, retailer citations are uneven, and AI traffic is growing.

3 min read
Campaigns don't build brands. People do.
Branding

How Washington Mutual’s Brochures Beat Its Ads

A Washington Mutual story from the early 2000s shows why unglamorous collateral, not award-winning campaigns, moved customer deposits and built the brand.

2 min read
Surf's Lalitaji: the ad that sold smart spending
Throwback

How Surf’s Lalitaji made paying more feel smart

In 1980s India, Surf's Lalitaji turned a pricier detergent into a rational purchase by reframing value around cost per wash, not cost…

3 min read
Familiar but not noticed: Cremica's shelf gambit
Branding

Cremica’s Retail Pivot: From Restaurant Sachets to Shelf Choice

Cremica Foods built two decades of familiarity through restaurant sachets. Now it wants that unnoticed equity to become active retail choice.

3 min read
Beat channel chaos with story sequencing
Storytelling

What media orchestration really means for brand storytelling

CMI Media Group's Ad Astra says ads work best as chapters in one story. Here's how sequence-based media planning makes fragmented channels…

3 min read