Category: Industry News
‘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 [...]
Pepsi World
It’s been a while once again, since I wrote anything here…though I did read many posts that other writers have contributed. I was just going through some sites for my research and in the process also came across this website created by Pepsi Cola. http://www.pepsiworldpk.com I am glad that at least there is a local [...]
HP Bloggers’ Meet UP!
Greetings Everyone! Once again I hop in after taking a long break from writing. Well this is going to be a short post as I just wanted to inform all of you that HP is calling all bloggers for a meet up. The occasion is the launch of HP Mini and the event will take place in [...]
Sugar Boycott… Playing with the Nation’s Sweet Tooth Are We?
Sugar is the talk of the town these days . . . with stock hoarding, it’s merely a matter of supply and demand. And to ad icing to the scenario, media has it’s own ways to getting people embrace the fashion, ‘Sugar Boycott”. To me it’s just a matter of deviating the nation’s attention to [...]
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 [...]
Four Indispensible Tools For Any Marketer
1. Google Reader If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, learn about it now and start using them! For the rest of us, we all know the number one challenge (in any industry) is keeping up to date with what is happening in your field. RSS feeds make life 1000% easier since you [...]
Rebuilding Trust?
Recent events have heightened the consumers need to control every little aspect of his life. Add in the lovely mix of social media tools and now he had the power to vent with millions around the globe. It gives them empowerment and best, instant voice. Consumer voice has significantly transformed along with any loyalty & [...]
‘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 [...]
Worst. Job. Ever.
Trump made it look easy on “The Apprentice”. I assure you it is one of the most difficult & mentally demanding tasks you will, at some point of your professional career (regardless of the industry or field) have to undertake in a management position (unless you work at one of those traditional Japanese companies that [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Career Trends: Short CMO Tenure
For some reason, getting to the top C-level job of Chief Marketing Officer comes with a bitter price that few accept and many disdain; Low job security. The reason can be attributed to what is called the “Marketer’s Dilemma”, which is something I faced in my short stint as CMO of Élan Guides – I [...]
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 [...]
The Day When Maxcom Went Against Books… Attention Maxcom Users!
It started as a happy Saturday. . . the day with no classes to attend this semester for the first time in Szabist. I started of with an assignment that needed nine references which means nine books and yes Google happens to be the best friend when it comes to skimming through relevant books or [...]
BodyGuard – Lest We Forget :D
Forget what you have been fed these few days and let me take you on a trip in my time machine… Now that I have been trying to find a job (with little success)… I haven’t had the time to make my usual postings and after the rebranding of the PakMediaBlog, I was looking for something [...]
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 [...]
Check out the Dew Tornado
It’s been a while since I posted something on the media blog. And I am shocked no body has written about some of the most amazing campaigns that are on air already. Mountain Dew has come up with it’s new Tornado copy. One of the finest ads of this year highlighting everything that Dew is [...]
Worldcall – A User’s Worst Nightmare
As most of you who may have used any Worldcall service might already know, their service is absolutely pathetic. Why it is so bad is not really a mystery. The service quality since WC’s inception has been going downhill and it took a more than a few disgruntled customers to actually make them work towards [...]
Talk About Originality? Directed by Mr Waqar Zaka…
Check out the famous foreign version of this video if you haven’t seen it, before moving on to the one below which so proudly directed by Mr Waqar Zaka… And this is the one Proudly directed by Waqar Zaka. His name appears at the end proudly showing that he directed this frame by frame theft. [...]
Consumer Rights… A fresh approach!
It has been a long time since I have contributed an article here, but actually i have been busy with my vacations in England. For a few years this has been my second home. I have escaped here every summer to unwind and enjoy the weather and this year was no exception. The quality of [...]
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 [...]
Sprite-Aquafina Slam
The Sprite ad, which has been on air for sometime now has received lots of applause from all ends with special praise for the song and splash effect. I believe the commercial has also received some award. All in all a great execution that reaches out to the youth in a perfect way. [...]
Pepsi – Badal Do Zamana
It is not a new phenomenon that for quite sometime Pepsi’s commercials are just not upto the mark. They are no longer inspirational. They don’t possess the sort of passion that Pepsi ads used to have once upon a time. Another reason could be that for years Pepsi was alone but it’s only for the [...]
Brand Ambassadors – Loyalties Down the Drains
There is no denial that clever selection of brand ambassadors can really do wonders for some brands. For instance many people recall Abhishek Bachchan for Motorola and IDEA campaigns; Aamir Khan for Samsung and Coca Cola. Just like once upon a time, we associated Imran Khan with the classic Pepsi commercial. We keep [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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