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Tag: <span>consumer psychology</span>

Guinness Surfer and the science of the wait
Throwback

Guinness Surfer: The Psychology of the Wait

Inside the 1999 Guinness Surfer film: the behavioural psychology that turned anticipation into desire and a pint into an earned reward.

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Why $7.6B in deposits is a buying signal
Consumer Behaviour

Carnival’s $7.6B deposits show uncertainty sells cabins

Carnival is already half booked for 2027 and holding $7.6B in deposits. The driver isn't discounts—it's how anxiety reshapes buying behaviour.

2 min read
Amul: Utterly Butterly Delicious
Throwback

The Amul Girl: 60 Years of Utterly Butterly Delicious

In 1966, Amul made butter personal with a girl, a jingle and a tagline. The psychology behind six decades of recall.

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Slice Aamsutra: selling mango as desire
Throwback

Slice Aamsutra: How a Mango Drink Sold Desire

The psychology behind Slice's Aamsutra campaign: how sensory cues, a taboo-adjacent name and adult desire repositioned a mango drink.

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.

3 min read
Mamaearth's 187 ASCI flags are a scaling lesson
Branding

What Mamaearth’s 187 ASCI Flags Teach D2C Marketers

Mamaearth's rise to a ₹1,920 crore house of brands came with 187 ASCI-flagged ads in FY24. Here's why influencer-led growth turns compliance…

3 min read
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.

3 min read
Apple's 75.4% Services Margin Is the Real Pricing Power
Pricing Psychology

Apple’s 75.4% Services Margin Is the Real Pricing Story

Apple's pricing power isn't about cheap iPhones. A 75.4% Services margin reveals how anchoring, tiers, EMI and trade-ins make premium feel justified.

3 min read
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.

3 min read
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
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
Colgate and the Salt Toothpaste Question
Throwback

The Psychology of Colgate’s Namak Toothpaste Ad

How a simple question about salt in toothpaste turned a household ingredient into a reason to switch—and a masterclass in consumer psychology.

3 min read