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The Hidden Class Barriers To Getting Into Advertising
Nobody is turned away at the door. The filtering happens earlier, in who could afford to be standing near it.
What A Media Agency Actually Does Now
How Idea Made A Phone Network Argue About India
The Brand's Own Creator Roster
The Ai ShiftPackaging Design Is The Next Thing To Go Generative
BrandsIllusion Aligners Partners With Yami Gautam Film Nayyi Navelli
PeopleShivani Pal Joins Equirus To Lead PR And Strategic Communications
NewsJio-bp And Kia India Integrate Public EV Charging Networks
NewsTIPS Music Q2 Revenue Rises 35 Per Cent To Rs 120.1 Crore
BrandsMamonde Names Nitanshi Goel As First India Brand Ambassador
NewsWarner Music India Acquires Gemini Music Catalogue In South India Push
The Hidden Class Barriers To Getting Into Advertising
Nobody is turned away at the door. The filtering happens earlier, in who could afford to be standing near it.
Why Titles Sometimes Grow Faster Than Skills
A title is cheaper than a raise and faster than training, which is precisely why so many of them arrive early.
What Happens When Every Brief Is Urgent
Urgency is a useful signal exactly once. Used on everything, it stops carrying information and starts carrying only cost.
The Industry Loves 30 Under 30. What Happens After 40?
An industry that runs on lists of the young has never been asked to explain where the people on those lists go fifteen years later.
Ramoji Rao, Who Built an Audience Before a Market
He did not extend a brand into media. He built the media first, and everything else stood on it.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Whose Customer Was Never the Public
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Kochouseph Chittilappilly, Who Sold a Fix for a Local Fault
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Girish Mathrubootham, Who Marketed Software Like a Product
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P.C. Musthafa, Who Branded Something Nobody Branded
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T.S. Kalyanaraman, Who Bought Trust With a Face
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Sridhar Vembu, Who Made Refusal the Positioning
Illusion Aligners Partners With Yami Gautam Film Nayyi Navelli
A clear aligner brand buying its way out of the dental clinic and into a film.
Mamonde Names Nitanshi Goel As First India Brand Ambassador
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KORA By NM Names Aditya Roy Kapur As Brand Face
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SUVI Names Cricketer Suryansh Shedge As Brand Ambassador
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Reva by PNGS Names Sharvari Its First Brand Ambassador
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Marzi by Primus Signs Suniel Shetty As Brand Ambassador
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Global Desi Takes Its Festive Campaign Walking Through Bombay
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How Idea Made A Phone Network Argue About India
A telecom brand with nothing distinctive to sell decided to solve caste, illiteracy and democracy instead. It should not have worked.
How Surf Excel Argued That The Stain Was The Point
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How Hutch's Pug Explained A Mobile Network To India
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How Maggi Sold A Category India Did Not Have
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How Dhara's Runaway Boy Sold Cooking Oil By Never Mentioning It
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How Tata Salt’s Desh Ka Namak Turned A Commodity Into A Claim
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How Google’s Reunion Made A Search Box Feel Like A Border Crossing
R.S. Sodhi, the Man Who Turned Amul's Trust Into Market Share
02Jessica Shoemaker Joins Netflix As Global Director Of Product Marketing
03The Bull That Bowed: Inside Alpha Bull Rum's Open Letter To Old Monk
04The Anatomy of a Great Brand Reply
05Pizza Hut India Joins Forces with MoEngage to Power Customer Engagement
06Amigos Foods Joins Hands with Orion Digital to Power Its Online Growth
Brand Builders
Episode 01 · Verghese Kurien13 min
An engineer who did not want the job, did not like milk, and built the most trusted consumer brand in the country by giving it away to the farmers who supplied it.
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Ad Tribe Awards - South
The inaugural edition, for agencies, brands and work led from South India. 12 agency awards, 20 brand awards, 22 work awards, and no category obliged to produce a winner.
Hyderabad, India
The Next 50
Fifty individuals under 30 whose work, thinking and contribution are already making India's agency industry better. Agency-led nomination, transparent scoring, no public voting.
Hyderabad, India