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Read deeper advertising industry analysis covering culture, money, regulation, business shifts, marketing trends and the forces changing advertising.

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Why Indian Brands Still Buy Cricket

Every year somebody argues the price has finally outrun the value. Every year the inventory sells.

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How Outdoor Advertising Survived The Digital Decade

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Where Television’s Advertising Money Actually Went

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Why Some Of India’s Biggest Brands Were Built Without Advertising

How Influencer Regulation Changed The Advertising Business

How D2C Changed What A Brand Launch Looks Like

Why Indian Advertising Stopped Making Mascots

The Rise Of The In-House Agency In India

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What UPI Did To Indian Advertising

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What Quick Commerce Did To The FMCG Media Plan

Why the Next Great Indian Brand May Not Come From a Metro

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How AI Is Changing the Creative Process Inside Agencies

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How India's Food Brands Use Memory, Family and Comfort

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How Social Media Changed the Role of the Copywriter

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The Fall of Jingles and the Loss of Sonic Memory

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How IPL Changed Indian Advertising Forever

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The Rise of Moment Marketing and the Fall of Originality

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The Creator Economy and the End of Polished Advertising

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How Advertising Changed After India Became a Startup Nation

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How Indian Brands Are Using Culture as a Media Plan

The Business Problem Behind Every Creative Problem

Why Nostalgia Has Become India's Most Powerful Brand Strategy

How Regional Creators Became the New Media Agencies

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