Author Archive: Sarosh Waiz
Founder of PakMediaBlog, Sociality360, The One Rupee Project, and Head of Digital Strategy & Innovation at DHQ (Digital Headquarters). Twitter ID: saroshwaizZz , Personal Blog: www.saroshwaiz.com
Wake Up Marketers! Spamming is not Blogging!
So is there really a difference between blogging and spamming? Those of you who are familiar with the ‘internet’ jargons might understand each term separately and might also be able to differ between the two. Yes, I deliberately used the word ‘might’ because a lot of people still can’t figure out if they are really [...]
Ufone: A Satanic Organization – 666!
Yes I knew I’d intrigue you with the title of this post. In fact I actually wanted to do that because one thing caught my attention this very morning when one of my cousins jokingly said that Ufone is using the code “666″ which is the number of the Satan. And then another person present [...]
Aftar/Dinner by Weblounge – Telenor Connecting With Its Customers
As always, Telenor has taken another great step towards building up its strong relationship with its customers. In the holy month of Ramadan it was Telenor, which invited its Web-Lounge customers to an Aftar-Dinner in Pearl Continental Karachi on Monday the 14th of September 2009. Telenor has always been one of the innovative companies, and [...]
Sunsilk – Can You Dare To Wear Your Hair?
Have you ever done something daring? Something that lets you stand out and be known for who you are? Well … if you haven’t as yet, now is the time to give yourself a different outlook. Hair represents you, and how you carry your hair tells a lot about you and your overall personality; and Sunsilk’s [...]
Dancing Babies – Pampers Pakistan
Its time to wrap up all those nappies and make your baby dance for the Pampers Dancing Baby Contest in Pakistan! Pampers has always been a hit brand that got synonymous with the word “diapers” or “nappies,” just like the brand Jeep that got synonymous with SUVs. One of my friends told me about the [...]
Telenor Persona Weblounge: Convenience At Its Best!
Providing convenience to the end consumer has always been at the top of the priority list of today’s marketers. And this is mainly because we as consumers are more likely to try out new products and services that we find convenient. Talking on the lines of convenience, the most recent attempt by the marketing professionals [...]
Garnier Officially Steps Into The Pakistani Market
Garnier was created in the year 1904 and is owned by L’Oreal, and since then there is no looking back. This product has been famous for a range of high quality home hair colorants that are easy to use and give good results. We have been accustomed to use Garnier products because we have been [...]
Sunsilk – Talk About Interactivity!
I’m quite fond of digital online campaigns that I have been observing recently, and its very interesting to see that a lot of female targeted brands are going into online activation. One of the campaigns that was executed not long ago was of Sunsilk Fight Hair Hunger. A lot of Unilever brands have been going [...]
Telenor CSR Initiative – Khuddar Pakistan
We have been talking a lot about CSR recently, and the topic that I am writing about today is no different. We have seen a lot of companies moving towards CSR in the last few months, but the initiative that Telenor has taken recently is a great one in my opinion. With Khuddar Pakistan, Telenor [...]
Online Marketing Fueled by Octave Interactive in Pakistan
As marketers when we talk about trying out new mediums, we all look forward to finding an agency for us which can get the job done efficiently and effectively. And although most of us have been using the internet for almost about a decade now, we either tend to miss out the opportunity of advertising on [...]
Editorial Teams & Authenticity of Publications
Since all of us have already been talking about brands and the TV as a medium, I thought of writing something about the print media today. If we talk about the print media in Pakistan at present, there are hundreds of publications that go in to printing. Each publication is well targeted either to the [...]
Revamped: ARY Digital Network – Aik Naya Ehsaas!
ARY Digital was one of the initial Pakistani channels launched on satellite and the group has added more channels, based on the market demand, to their portfolio as the time passed by. I had been in the media industry myself since the past couple of years and I had been thinking about the idea of [...]
Lack of Creativity: Pakistani Advertising
The consumers of today are hit by thousands of advertising and communication messages every day, and even though we know that it is a point of saturation in terms of amount of advertisement flowing in through multiple communication channels, we continue to do the same things every day. Even as marketers, in majority of the [...]
Coke Studio – Season Two
Coke Studio is an initiative taken up by Coca Cola to tap on to the music platform in Pakistan. It claims to bridge barries with fusion music ranging from traditional eastern, modern western and regionally inspired music. Coke Studio is a collaboration between different platforms of music and it is a step towards Coca Cola’s [...]
25th May 2009 – Letters to the Editor
Greetings Everyone! The following are the letters received today. We have tried our best to answer them. Keep writing to us and we will be more than obliged to publish your questions and our replies … Email – 1 By Critic: Why must the planners subscribe to the same thinking and speak the [...]
The Editorial Team
Hello Everyone, We’re kickstarting our “Letters to the Editors” section today and we welcome all of you to write to us through the Contact Us page on the top. After getting to interact with our audience, we found a need for this section and we really thought we should have a place that can help [...]
Follow Up – Lays 100% HALAL
I am writing as a follow up article to Zaira’s post of “Lays – 100% HALAL.” The whole issue of Lays being HARAM falls onto the claim that Lays uses an ingredient known as E-631, which is a flavor enhancer. E-Code ingredients are known to be extracted from pig fats and nowadays there are several [...]
Launch: PakMediaBlog.Net
Welcome to the PakMediaBlog. This is a launch post and this will explain you about what PakMediaBlog is all about. As we all know that when it comes to accessing information about Pakistan on the internet we have very limited options and resources. Keeping this situation in mind, PakMediaBlog has been launched in order to [...]
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