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Tag: <span>Indian Advertising</span>

Pepsi: Yeh Dil Maange More
Throwback

The Psychology Behind Pepsi’s Yeh Dil Maange More

The campaign didn't sell cola—it sold the feeling of wanting more. What Pepsi's Yeh Dil Maange More still teaches marketers about Indian…

3 min read
27 million women-led homes, yet ads show the nuclear family
Consumer Behaviour

27 million women-led homes, yet ads show the nuclear family

Indian ads still default to mum, dad, son and daughter. Yet 27 million households are headed by women, and real homes are…

3 min read
Nirma Washing Powder: the psychology of the jingle
Throwback

Nirma’s Jingle: How a Budget Detergent Became Aspirational

How Nirma turned a low-cost detergent into a trusted, aspirational brand with a jingle, fluency, familiarity and price-value framing.

3 min read
ChatGPT India's first microdrama makes age the hook
Storytelling

ChatGPT India’s first microdrama makes age the hook

The Grand Return casts Revathy as an older intern, using an intergenerational setup to position ChatGPT as useful across age groups.

3 min read
Vicco Turmeric: Selling trust by refusing to be a cosmetic
Throwback

Vicco Turmeric: How the Anti-Cosmetic Jingle Built Trust

The jingle framed an Ayurvedic cream as the opposite of cosmetics and became a trust mark. Here's the behavioural science behind it.

3 min read
Bajaj Auto’s Hamara Bajaj
Throwback

Hamara Bajaj: The 1989 ad that made a scooter family

How Bajaj Auto’s 1989 Hamara Bajaj campaign used social identity, emotion and repetition to turn a scooter into middle-class pride.

3 min read
Raymond’s The Complete Man
Throwback

Raymond’s Complete Man: Selling Identity, Not Suits

How a 1963 Indian campaign turned suiting fabric into an enduring ideal of masculinity—and what modern brands can still borrow.

3 min read
Idea: What an Idea Sirji campaign
Throwback

Idea’s What an Idea Sirji Campaign: Psychology of an Ad

The psychology behind Idea's 'What an Idea Sirji' ad: how it turned a mobile network into a problem-solver and a tagline into…

3 min read
Onida: Neighbour's Envy, Owner's Pride
Throwback

Onida’s Envy Strategy: Neighbour’s Envy, Owner’s Pride

How Onida turned a green devil and neighbour envy into India’s most durable status-marketing pitch for television ownership.

3 min read
Airtel and Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai
Throwback

The Psychology Behind Airtel’s Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai

A 2014 Airtel 3G film turned a data plan into a friendship ritual by tapping FOMO and social identity. Here is why…

3 min read
The budget shift Indian marketers can't ignore
Consumer Behaviour

Influencer spend crosses ₹3,000 crore as TV growth slows

Influencer marketing has crossed ₹3,000 crore in India while TV ads grow at 4-6% and hoardings plateau. Here's the psychology behind the…

2 min read
Titan: The Times of Your Life
Throwback

Titan’s 1987 Ad That Made Watches Gifts

How Titan’s 1987 ‘Times of Your Life’ ad reframed watches as emotional gifts, using mental accounting, signalling and memory.

3 min read