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Opraah's OPay Promises Exclusive Creators Payment In 48 Hours
A creator management company puts a number on something the industry has left vague for years: how long a creator waits to be paid.

The Rise Of The In-House Agency In India

What Brands Should Do In The First Hour Of A Social Crisis
The Story of Arun Nanda, the Adman Who Built Rediffusion
Work LifeWhy Agency Culture Breaks During Pitches
The Ai ShiftInfinite References: Is AI Making Creatives Less Curious?
The Ai ShiftWhat Happens When Clients Benchmark Your Work Against AI
Work LifeAgency Vs Brand Side: Where Do Creative Careers Grow Differently?
Social FirstCulture Moves at Gen Z Speed, Can Brands Keep Up?
Creative RoomHow Campaigns Get Their Names
Campaigns That Built IndiaHow Liril’s Waterfall Changed What Indian Advertising Could Show

Why Agency Culture Breaks During Pitches
Everything an agency says about how it treats people is written for ordinary weeks. Pitches are not ordinary weeks.
Agency Vs Brand Side: Where Do Creative Careers Grow Differently?
One gives you range and no follow-through. The other gives you follow-through and one brand. Both are real.
Why The Next Great Ad May Not Look Like An Ad
The most effective thing a brand made this year may not be recognisable as advertising to the people who judge advertising.
Why Feedback Is The Most Underrated Skill In Advertising
The difference between a note that improves the work and one that just moves it is a skill. It is almost never taught.

Aman Gupta, Who Made the Founder the Advertisement
The company had already won the category. What Shark Tank added was a founder whose face did the work an ambassador is usually paid for.

Kunal Shah, Who Made Exclusivity the Product
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Nikhil Kamath, the Other Half of the Zerodha Argument
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Nithin Kamath, Who Built India’s Largest Broker Without Advertising
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Harsh Mariwala, the Man Who Put Coconut Oil in a Bottle
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Ashwath Swaminathan, Growth Marketing Under a Stopwatch
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Rohit Kapoor, the CEO Running Swiggy's Food Delivery Business

Vijay Sales Signs Rahul Dravid To Sell Apnapan
A retailer built on advice rather than price picks the least flashy cricketer available, which is the whole idea.

Guess Watches Names Tamannaah Bhatia Its India Brand Ambassador
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Quickeee Puts Clothes On A Sixty Minute Clock In Mumbai
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Reliance Starts An Ice Cream Brand Called Bombay Creamery
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Ranveer Singh Becomes The Face Of Pune Developer Jhamtani
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InsuranceDekho And RenewBuy Merge Into One Distribution Platform
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Ricky Ponting Buys Into The Company He Is Fronting
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How Liril’s Waterfall Changed What Indian Advertising Could Show
The insight was not about soap. It was that a housewife’s bath was the only ten minutes of the day nobody else had a claim on.

How Happydent's Palace Lit a Kingdom With Teeth
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How Thanda Matlab Coca-Cola Annexed a Hindi Word
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How SBI Life's Main Se Hum Made Insurance Sound Like Growing Up
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How MakeMyTrip's Dil Toh Roaming Hai Sold the Wish Before the Ticket
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How Tanishq's Remarriage Film Changed What an Indian Bride Could Look Like
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