Author Archive for Umer Tanveer
AOA everyone, I've done my BBA and MBA from CBM and I've been associated with my family business for the past five years. Sports, food, cars and marketing are my areas of interest. I Hope to read quality content and make friends at PMB.
Azm-e-Alishan! Show Your Azm for the Nation
Come on Pakistan show your ‘Azm’, Lets build Pakistan!! Azmealishan is the resolve that each citizen of Pakistan has for Pakistan. A time when the country faces numerous issues at all levels Azmealishan comes as a platform to unite the nation, where family, friends, neighbours, students, teachers, celebrities, business community and people from all walks [...]
Happy ‘Not So’ Valentine’s Day
Yes it’s that time of the year when love is in the air (kind of), When local based condom brands start offering a premium to their faithful, When hotels/motels/rest houses/flowers/bouquets go over board and overpriced. Are we thinking on the same lines?? I guess we are.
Culture serves as a best reflection to a nation and [...]
IPL (Indian Prejudice League)
Yet again all my hue and cry has fallen on deaf ears has failed to wake up the authors who think they’re some kind of revolutionists. We are too busy monitoring marketing and advertising campaigns and miss out on the big ASS events. Recently the Indo Pak peace process (I [...]
Brand Façade (Yes! We can’t)
Intertwined as it may seem a brand can be given maximum leverage if the nuances of a brand and human psychology are on the same wavelength. Taking into account our social behavior and the moral values or the lack thereof which we practice/preach the brands need to cash in on the constantly changing human behavior.
The [...]
‘Cherry-Pick-ism’ Is My Brand of Religion
Talk about brand of religion! I say rather than calling mullahs extremists* we should call ourselves ‘Cherry-Pick-ists’. This term specifically means to follow what is easy part remaining heedless to the difficult bit. Just like the ripe cherries are plucked and the unripe ones are not, our religious conduct meets a similar fate.
This is a [...]
Banksters! Get Your Dirty Hands Off My Children
One fine morning I had guests over at my place that had children with them. My mom told me to take them children to the lounge so that they could watch some cartoons. As soon as I turned on the TV the cartoon characters were making out like crazy, I was a bit embarrassed the [...]
‘Falling Prey to the System’
I will be challenging a few assumptions in this article only for you guys to open your minds and look at the big picture. The IQ of a mob is considerably lower to that of an individual. A practical incidence of this is seen in riots when clearly a single person alone wont commit a [...]
A Step Closer To HellFire!
It’s the glorious month of Ramazan and the religious fervor is at zenith among the muslims. Amidst all the religious festivities where companies should give some thought to issues other than profit optimization, HBL have misguided people through advertisement for which I don’t want to single them out since all the players in the banking [...]
MY BRAND IS GONNA GET YEW HOOKED!!
With a barrage of criticism in my earlier posts, here I am with another criticism. You know what I feel the brands especially targeting the youth of the country are playing by associating attributes and characteristics which have nothing to do with the brand in the first place. No link, no connection, no synergy and [...]
Telecom Sector – You Can’t Have My Piece Of The Cake
Okay guys enough of the viral/verbal jibes between UFONE and ZONG. All of us have had fun watching them and its getting too heated for my liking. Leg pulling is a part of competition but I have a doubt whether trouser pulling is, since the war of ads demonstrate this quite explicitly. I don’t [...]
In The Name Of Hypocrisy
Guess we all are too busy celebrating the victory since nobody has noticed a norm of television broadcasting back in the day but totally ignored by the so-called forward thinkers/visionaries/creatives of today. I remember PTV and NTM transmission used to start with Tilawat-e-Quran (Recitation of the Quran) and end with Shan-e-Nabi Naat (Homage to the [...]
Okay fine! But what about the Children?
“Tsk Tsk Tsk” What has gone wrong with television?? Undoubtedly television is the strongest, most persuasive and appealing form of media here in this country. We as a nation (especially the masses) believe that whatever is being said on the media is a WORD OF GOD which cannot be changed or re-written. Looking at the [...]
The Mother of all Advertisements…!
4 to 5 months back I went to “CHATKHARAY” – a chaat house situated in Defence’ infamous Khadda market. Purpose was to have a quick meal and get back to work but I found out something that made me ponder. Before having my meal I went to the Chatkharay restroom to freshen up. To my [...]
Enough or Not Enough…? That is the question
Looking at our daily lives, we see people striving day and night for success, money, fame / recognition, innovation, ideologies etc basically going after every have-able thing there is but how the attitude is shifted after the attainment of those goals remains a mystery. Human Psychology proves how the importance falls of something that you [...]
Pepco : Craft or Crash?
I am pretty sure you all must have heard the oft-repeated cliché “PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH” but it didn’t seize to amaze me how Pakistan Electric Power Company (Private) Limited (PEPCO) can miss out on such a small thing in their latest ad which is being aired on all the leading television channels.
For those of [...]
