For all you social media evangelists and digital marketing professionals, here’s a great example of branded content with great viral potential. It’s a joke going around on SMS and BBM: Neil Armstrong lands on the moon, only to find two Indians already there! “Who the F*** are you??!” he asks in dismay. Pat comes the … Continue reading
While you can take this post as support for “free speech” and “protection of our right to privacy on the internet” I am doing neither. I am simply taking forth the point I made in my previous post on careless emailing. The truth is, everything you say or do on the internet is real. While … Continue reading
How about some #BlackbirdPie? My experiment with the #Wordpress – #Twitter integration? http://t.co/zjtuewA— Mehernosh Shapoorjee (@noshtradamus) November 08, 2010 I'll say it again, if Taylor Swift put on black eyeliner and flushed her head in a toilet full of glitter she'd be Ke$ha.— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) November 07, 2010 Yes, I agree that a stable … Continue reading
Today someone forwarded me the following text, on my BBM (that’s short for Blackberry Messenger, for those not from this planet). It’s insightful, and makes people laugh ~ especially the die-hard Crackberrys! How BBmessenger Has Changed Us: ~ This is sooo truee!! You check your phone before you even wake up Ignoring people has become … Continue reading
A whole lot nerdy, a whole lot filmy, a whole lot thought provocateur, a whole lot of fun – check this out! If you cannot see the video, please click here.
Here’s a video from one of my favourite youtube channels – Happy Slip. It is about, as the name suggests taking the proverbial “chill pill” – relevant for all you marketers who conjure up product USPs out of thin air, as well as inspiring for the producers of infomercials!! Enjoy! Take a Chill Pill!
As I was writing the post below, it suddenly struck me how I automatically used the terms “Agency Heads” and “Corporate Leaders”. I then realised that they’re part of common parlance, and how we in the advertising and marketing business, including related media, address the people at the top of their respective entities. So Agency CEOs are just “heads” and … Continue reading
In a move aimed at making the advertising and marketing business more professional and scientific, rather than amateurish and arbitrary, top agency heads and corporate leaders are expected to meet today and arrive at certain common guidelines for recruitment, training, work processes, and campaign evaluation. The meeting is supported by all the Ad Clubs of … Continue reading
As Finance Minister P. Chidambaram revealed the Budget 2008 in the Indian Parliament yesterday, an expected lot of reactions were heard from politicians all around. Without naming names, here’s some of the key comments and a tongue-in-cheek take on what they really mean: When they say: It’s a populist budget, aimed at the elections What … Continue reading
The Battle of the Departments – Creative versus Client Servicing – over Logoland and the fields of Responsibility, comes forth in this hilarious episode via TysonFaller. Be warned this dangerous stuff, and contains graphic descriptions of the wars being fought everyday, in every advertising agency’s faux wood corridors, between The Suits and The Ponytails. Proceed only … Continue reading
