Tag: Advertising
Sex & Violence! Does It Really Sell?
We live in the 21st century and things are quite different from when our parents were our age. The cultural norms have changed over time to suit the need for change and have moved into a new realm all together. Ask anyone and they`ll tell you that sex and violence sells but does it really? [...]
Advertising Online 101
In today’s economy individuals and businesses are going for the more for less option and trying to keep the less to an extreme minimum. Online advertising, though it has changed the face of advertising is not very different to conventional advertising that we are all used to. The basic principles are the same if you [...]
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 [...]
HBL – Tapping Into The Neglected SME Segment
In HBL’s latest “Business Value Account” advertising campaign, a farmer is featured as one of several small business owners whose anecdote is supposed to inspire potential customers to use HBL. TV, Print and Web ads prominently display the man and other entrepreneurs with the heading “Grow your business” & the tagline “Jahan Khwab, Wahan HBL”. [...]
Brand Loyalty in Pakistan?
Is there a company that provides such an exceptional product or service that you never go bargain hunting & proclaim brand loyalty across social networks? Are you loyalty to the same brands as you were a decade ago? My guess is, no. My time at Mission Centenarian has taught me that it’s better to sell [...]
KESC – Karachi’s Electric Supply Cut?
It is quite bizarre how brands tend to highlight the “Promotion” part of the marketing mix and start believing that it is some sort of a therapy or a safe passage to utopia. As I tossed and turned in my bed last night agitated by yet another power break down I asked myself a simple [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Demolishing the By-Product of a Booming Industry: Ad Clutter
This article is written by Agha Zohaib, who is currently the Head of Planning Corporate at Mindshare Pakistan. Some time back, not too long ago, there existed two categories of media planners. One group was persistently asked to deliver and justify reach and frequency levels of their media schedules and the other, well… the [...]
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 feel [...]
Omore OMG! The Art of Happiness or Is It?
I’m sure most of you must have seen the Omore Ice Cream Ad by now. A friend of mine brought my attention to it while we were talking about random telecom crapiness so obviously Telenor’s Tom Thumb Ad was brought up and thats when he said “what’s up with that Omore ad?” and I quickly [...]
Kawasaki Returns
This post is written by Arsalan Za, who is the Marketing Manager at SZABIST, Karachi. We have read a lot about consumer products and communication networks on this blog, but now its time for something different. When I was 13 years old I used to slip out of my house from the backdoor and steal [...]
Djuice – It’s Fun To Be Lame?
“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 [...]
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 Highly Irritating Robots – Warid Telecom
Talking about being “in” the market scenario, expressing yourself through the best possible acts (in terms of advertising I mean), we all want to try something new; one that has never been done before by any other company. Nowadays, since the heat is at its verge and so is the T20 World Cup, all I [...]
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 [...]
Online Advertising and Marketers in Pakistan
Advent of internet has introduced a new touch point for Marketers and an unprecedented opportunity to interact with the consumers online, where they plan, live and share their lives. This opportunity has been bolted the Pakistani Market as well with a sufficient amount of users activating their participation, on the world wide web. I will [...]
Inspiration… or Plagiarism??
We live in a world of laws, boundaries and moral values and our hand is guided by them our actions dictated by them but what happens when something falls into the cracks where this system we have built around us fails. I am of course talking about Inspiration how do we define it and what [...]
Pepsi Max – Blading Its Way In… But Is It?
Pepsi Max was fiiinally launched a while back in Pakistan. I love their recent ads, with the pretty decent dubbing and fun concepts. Overall, they’ve timed the launch pretty well; soft drinks sale bound to go up looking at the current weather/electricity scenario. I’m not much of a Pepsi co. fan, but in comparison to [...]
Chai, magar kaunsi? Lipton ya Tapal..?
Drinking tea defines our culture as well as history. Around 95% of the total world’s population is relatively familiar with tea, its strong and sensational aroma and its soothing, yet slightly bitter astringent flavour (taste). After water, tea is the most widely-consumed beverage in the world. In Pakistan, almost every 10th person is a tea [...]
Wonders of Bad Publicity
We’ve seen or heard about a lot of bad publicity of many brands every now and then. Sometimes it becomes responsible for the decline of some of the biggest brands, but we have also seen brands grow because of their negative publicity, somewhat like politicians and a few celebrities. How many people remember the incident [...]
Dearth of Celebrities in Pakistan
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 [...]
Gaye Soap – Return of the COW?
It used to play soccer and used to run down the hills of suziland! And it has been extremely famous for shooting CANON BALLS … Yes everyone, I am talking about the one and only “Gaye Chalaye Toap, Yeh Hai Gaye Soap!” The gaye is back in town and it seems to mean business… yet [...]
The Lakson Group – Short Profile
One of my pioneer research works in my good old study days was of Lakson Group of Companies. The first time I heard the name “Lakson”, all I could think about was the annoyance of a health hazard cigarette dancing at the very front of my eyes. Obviously back the, all that my tiny winy [...]
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