Tag: market
OWSUM’s Awesome Advertisement and Other Stories . . .
Should Owsum be with an ‘O’ or with an ‘A’? This is a debatable topic discussed in the last episode, well . . . the last post. In my recent advertising class we were to bring in print advertisements and analyze them, however, a girl in my class had forgotten to bring one so I [...]
Pepsico Launches Sting
Pepsico has now entered the energy drinks market by launching ” Sting” in Pakistan recently. The media break is pretty much visible with good frequency on selected TV channels. The quick feedback is that the selected channels are hitting the right audience. Besides, we can hear the disruptive radio executions also on most radio channels. [...]
Deceptive Advertising
Deceptive advertising is a norm in places that have no consumer rights practiced or exist just for the sake of existing on paper. It involves persuading people into purchase decisions they would not normally make since the product would fail to satisfy their needs. However, it is surprising why some renowned fast food chains would [...]
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. [...]
Brand Personification
Brand personification is a concept which is rather new in our market as the rate of oblivion is surprising when especially you try to do some research on this topic. It’s a concept prevailing in the Western market since the 1940′s and 50′s, however, marketers over here have started making good use of it recently. [...]
Tracker Direct Insurance (TDI) Best Customer Satisfaction! Are you sure?
This post is written by Arsalan Za, who is the Marketing Manager at SZABIST, Karachi. Ever since tracker direct insurance came to into existence it has been regarded as one of the best insurance companies, being the pioneers for offering C-Track along with insurance it has caught the eye of many consumers. It’s comparatively costly then [...]
“Ramzan and Below the Line Activities… Buy Big and Still Act Low”
With Ramzan we witness a number of blessings, some are genuine while some are forced such as the case with goodwill paid under the table to police men, in simple words, bribe. However, it’s visible nature makes the premium quality of bribe quite obvious which further gets classified into various subtypes. These people simply get to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Mobile Marketing Phenomenon: Towards Personalisation
Human beings as a species have an insatiable thirst for more that, it seems, cannot be quenched. Over the last few decades we have come up with some amazing things and what the human mind can come up with still does not seize to amaze. First came the Internet, a few years later [...]
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 [...]
Use of Language in Advertisements
Language is an interesting tool to persuade or to stop others from acting or thinking in a certain way. And when this tool is used by people who are ill equipped, the results can be embarrassing, funny and fascinating. Language is a delicate tool and if one is not a native speaker, and sometimes even [...]
Greenstar: The *SUNO ZARA* Campaign
Going through the blog I found out that the writers are more concentrated towards the BLING-BLING brands as they say. In Pakistan, there is a brand which has been working for the past 13 years yet no one wants to discuss about it openly. The brand has had its fair share of criticism when it [...]
The Name Game – Celebrity Brands
There are times when we see something, feel it, like it and then buy it. This is an ongoing daily basis process that each of us go through. Be it bread or butter, a bottle of water or a packet of chips, we all seek something that satisfies our needs. A lot of us are [...]
… and then there was Olpers!
The milk sector in Pakistan is Huge and that is putting it lightly. According to SMEDA we produce about 28 billion liters a year and Packaged Milk is just a dent on this number. 92% to 93% of milk is open milk. Because of various socio economic factors Packaged Milk is still not that popular [...]
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