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Senseless advertising

hrithikHey, kaha na pyar hai, main hoon aapka duggu….blah blah blah. What the hell or rather who the hell has put their thoughts behind the ongoing Reliance ads? I simply fail to see the objective. Do you? I mean by making Hrithik Roshan thank the whole world, what actually is Reliance Telecom trying to get at? Who is the target customer…. The existing ones or are they talking to potential customers? During a chat my friend opined that the idea behind this ad was to encourage people to pick their phones and talk more often to people without hesitation! Hmm that might be possible. But that’s not how it came across to many of us. The ad story could have been lined better. But for the fresh opinion, I had out rightly written this ad off.

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Priya Q on June 13th 2009 in Advertising / Marketing, Author's muses

When risk meets grit…

Prakash Varma and Sneha Iype founder, Nirvana Films agreed to have started a firm 8 years ago without knowing where they where headed. All they had was a dream. I wonder what would have happened had they not taken that one risk…that one step out from their comfort zone.

We wouldn’t have had the pug and the kids and the current favorite for many “zoozoos”! Yeh, ok there would have been something else but surely not the nearly icons pug and zoozoo. For interest of the readers Nirvana Films is a Bangalore based company that has created a niche out of ad-film production and have many award winning ad-films to their credit.

Vodafone’s Zoozoos

We all have seen the alien looking characters introduced by Vodafone for its value added service advertisements more so while watching the IPL matches. All this while I thought it was an animated ad; was quite surprised to read that they were actually live beings dressed in white! The set, including all the props, is in the form of shadows created by spray painting.

The ads are getting quite mixed reviews though if you ask my opinion, I feel they are clutter breaking, creative and brilliant. Here’s my favorite ad of the lot…

Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus

Watch the video and you will know why ;-) … its the new commercial of Heineken and is super cool

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Priya Q on March 29th 2009 in Advertising / Marketing, Video

GoaFest 2009

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Despite the economic slowdown, Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and Ad Club Mumbai have decided to go ahead with the biggest event in the advertising industry – GoaFest 2009.

The honchos and bigwigs from the advertising world would get together in the land of sand and sun during 2nd-4th April 2009. Delegates would also include media professionals and clients. Advertising gurus or prominent speakers would deliberate in a knowledge session packed amongst eminent people from the related industry.  The event will be held at the Cavelossim beach, Goa.

WOW events and experiential marketing results09

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Live Entertainment of the Year
Sunburn 2008 PDM India GOLD
IIFA Weekend and Awards 2008 Wizcraft SILVER
The Unforgettable Tour Wizcraft Event Active SILVER
Chivas Fashion Tour 08 Showhouse BRONZE
Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Grand Finale Showhouse BRONZE
Live Event of the Year in a Foreign Location
The Unforgettable Tour Wizcraft Event Active GOLD
IIFA Weekend and Awards 2008 Wizcraft SILVER
CISCO India Partner Summit 2008, KL Shobiz Experiential Communications SILVER
New Event Property of the Year

What do u think?

Keep it Simple, that’s what Vodafone has done with its new chotta credit ads. Crisp, to the point and (I guess) hence effective. Couldn’t have been a better time to release ads, with kids at home busy preparing for exams. It has a touch of innocence and a moment of truth to which most of us have been able to connect to. Nice ad.

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Priya Q on June 12th 2008 in Advertising / Marketing, Author's muses

The world of advertising…..

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We have had some nice and creative advertisements in the recent past. Greenplay ad with a punch line of janam janam ka saathi where a Sikh kid meeting savithri ..his sweetheart from the previous birth (which I find quite funny), or the Mentos ad of that of a college classroom scene, or the superb ad of surf excel showing brother and sister love, where the brother “beats up” the puddle which makes his sister trip. I like all of these. Another ad that I will probably never ever forget is the old Cadbury’s ad where a girl rejoices in the victory of her batsman boyfriend on a cricket field. None of the current Amitabh Bachaan series of Cadbury ‘pappu’ ads (pun intended) are anywhere near to it.

Top 10 brands globally………

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Article that I read on the net didn’t explain further the criteria for selection….but the results are as mentioned under….

1. Google
2. GE
3. Microsoft
4. Coco Cola
5. China Mobile
6. Marlboro
7. Wal Mart
8. Citi
9. IBM
10. Toyota

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Priya Q on April 30th 2007 in Advertising / Marketing