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Telecom Sector – You Can’t Have My Piece Of The Cake

Telecom Sector – You Can’t Have My Piece Of The Cake

| June 29, 2009 | 3 Comments

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 feel [...]

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In The Name Of Hypocrisy

In The Name Of Hypocrisy

| June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Djuice – It’s Fun To Be Lame?

Djuice – It’s Fun To Be Lame?

| June 15, 2009 | 16 Comments

“Jigar aaj raat ka kya plan hai…” Most might recognize this line from the recent Djuice commercial bring aired promoting their new SMS package. I don’t know who is coming up with these concepts for their commercials and which telenor representative is approving them for production but this is just ridiculous. The quality of their [...]

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Enough or Not Enough…? That is the question

Enough or Not Enough…? That is the question

| June 10, 2009 | 3 Comments

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 [...]

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Editorial Teams & Authenticity of Publications

Editorial Teams & Authenticity of Publications

| June 9, 2009 | 4 Comments

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 [...]

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Dearth of Celebrities in Pakistan

Dearth of Celebrities in Pakistan

| June 1, 2009 | 11 Comments

Entertainment is what the majority seeks. And advertising  in a way is serving the purpose of providing this entertainment to its viewers. Perhaps this is why the quality and concepts of the Pakistani advertising have taken a turn over the years. And thus it has become very entertainment centric. But one must not forget that the [...]

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Ufone – Flashback

Ufone – Flashback

| May 26, 2009 | 4 Comments

There are very few local ads that leave their mark on the mind of the viewer instantly. Not that there aren’t good ads being made but for how long does one recall them is still quite unpredictable. Some very nicely made ads also lose their charm after being watched twice or thrice.  And some can even become annoying as they keep popping up on [...]

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Launch: PakMediaBlog.Net

Launch: PakMediaBlog.Net

| May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments

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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