Every week I attempt to share creative ads that manage to break through the clutter and drive home the intended message in an engaging manner. It’s a commendable achievement as a majority of ads simply go unnoticed. Here are my picks from this week: Iceland Air: hard to leave Choosing a travel destination for holidaying is a high-involvement decision. Much research goes into it and the needs & tastes of many have to be taken…
Ask an average 25-year old advertising or marketing professional in India if they have heard of Ravi Gupta, Mohammed Khan, Kersy Katrak, Suresh Mullick or Alyque Padamsee and chances are that responses will be in the negative. My point is this: new entrants to the field of advertising & marketing are not taught anything about the history of Indian advertising. If someone chooses to make a career in architecture wouldn’t the curriculum and the ‘system’…
Creating clutter-breaking advertising is tough. A majority of the ads are simply ignored – a fate worse than being noticed and disliked. Given the fuzzy briefs, opaque approval process and other ills of advertising, this is not surprising. My weekly compilation of clutter-breaking creative ads is a small tribute to such marketing & advertising teams who manage to get their ads noticed, recalled and liked. AirPods Pro: Quiet the noise Campaign Asia had an interview recently where I came…
Most ads are simply ignored. That’s a fate worse than being noticed but disliked or being indifferent about it. My weekly compilation of clutter-breaking creative ads (aside from the occasional opinion piece) is a small tribute to brand teams everywhere. Here are a few clutter breaking creative ads which caught my eye this week: Currys: trade in your old tech Recycling gadgets or e-waste is a challenge commonly accepted as a fallout in the digital world. How…
An overdose of anything is not good. Does that apply to the amount of what passes of as ‘content’ put out by brands too? The word content can refer to any piece of paid or unpaid creative across platforms: TV commercials, print ads, YouTube videos, Reels & Shorts, social media posts, blogs, WhatsApp campaigns, webinars, videos culled from such events…and so on. ‘A content piece a day’ seems to be the norm. There was a…