Once in a while comes along a book or a body of thought that impacts one highly because it is both revolutionary in its newness while at the same time being resonant with one’s deepest notions of self and society. This post is the result of one such book that has crystalized in me a marketing project of global scope and deep societal impact that I hope to evangelize over the coming years. Write to me if you want to join in this nascent effort
The Four Sort Of Fundamentals of Maybe Going Viral
Making a video or post go viral is the holy grail in digital marketing.
Today’s post on my blog lists some pointers emerging from a recent exhaustive study in the US market and leads from there to a couple of larger questions regarding the science and art of advertising.
Decoding Creative Advertising – Addressing The Highest Common Denominator (HCD)
Here is the second of the series “Decoding Creative Advertising” where I reference Apple’s advertising over the decades to discern a greatness-making creative strategy driving some of their campaigns. The first of this series was published on my blog on June 3 where I examined the creative strategy driving the Volkswagen Beetle campaign of the 50s.
Machine Intelligence to Machine Curiosity – The Route to Machine Creativity
The current use of AI in marketing is shallow. This post is about how the next generation of AI will get to the core of marketing.
Decoding Creative Advertising – Mining The Gestalt
Today’s post is the first in a new series titled “Decoding Creative Advertising” In my experience the sobriquet “creative” applies to a very small number of advertising campaigns. Campaigns that are created by people who break the rules of advertising not because they can but because their mastery of them allows them to transcend them. I undertake the decoding of some such campaigns as an exercise in refreshing the sense of possibilities inherent in the art of advertising.
The True Promise of AI in Marketing
The True Promise of AI in Marketing
I believe the use of analytic and AI in marketing till date has not just been sub-optimal but in the wrong direction. This post briefly points out a new direction
Advertising and The P versus NP Problem
These days I spend a lot of time learning where AI and Deep Learning are going and musing their use in strategy and marketing. This post is a side-product of my ongoing pondering
What comes first – the product or the marketing?
He was once a Silicon Valley entrepreneur now focused on entering the real estate development sector in India that he…
Influencer Marketing: The Case for Going Deeper
While celebrity-driven Influencer Marketing is high-profile there is a lower profile but as if not more effective arm of marketing that is gaining traction. Today’s post takes a brief look at this phenomenon
To Amazon Or Not To Amazon!
Today’s post on my blog highlights and briefly discusses a question the answer to which is increasingly central to the business and marketing strategy of a new or small consumer business.
