Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 68th EPISODE Advertising and Marketing. This is pure coincidence that while I was thinking of the next story for the weekly advertising marketing episode, I read this blog ‘The Acronym Trap’ from B Harish in Marketing Buzzar. Immediately I knew what is the story I am going to share with you all. The… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 66th Episode. Taking you back to the crazy days of advertising and the days when parties were regular feature of life. It was as if party was a way for the mad advertising crowd to release all the pressure, to remind that it was this they worked for and loved their… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala This is neither the first time nor the last time that I was reading a story based on the interesting professional arena called advertising. But, it was definitely the first where the characters seemed a lot more familiar. This caused a constant tussle between my real life perception of the characters… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 62nd EPISODE. Take you back to LINTAS of Mohandev Building Connaught place, New Delhi time. We had a few Public Sector clients and the billing was not worth discussing. These clients were just continuing as a legacy with us. They were wasting huge sums on advertising mostly in print through other empaneled… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala 61st Episode. I am taking you all back to late eighties. This one is a story I have heard and don’t know if this one is factually true. But the people who told me that, I would want to believe it is true. Or it is one of the stories you create… Read More »
Tweet Follow @s_kotnala It was Women’s Day on Sunday and there were celebrations across our world for women. Every one of the events organised to commemorate the day screamed: “You are a lesser being, but this is the one day we will allow you to be you.” But only as per our ideas… Read More »
Tweet Follow @s_kotnala Darwin’s Theory explains the evolution of living beings. It hints that we tend to discard and lose control of a skill or expertise if We rarely use it We are conditioned to think that it is of no use We find better alternatives Similarly, on the other end, we evolve, create,… Read More »
Tweet Follow @s_kotnala 58th EPISODE. Mumbai Late 2006. One of the well know niche channel was launching a new programme. If my memory serves me right, it was something to do with Pyramids and was held somewhere in Juhu side. I do remember it for the yellowish glowing pyramidal shaped objects that occupied centre stage… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala Let us play a small game. When I say ‘Bungee Jump, Skydive, Scuba Diving, Flying fox, Beaches, Wind Surfing, Water skiing, Snorkel, Parasailing, Go-karting, Golf and Long Boat Racing’, which city comes to your mind? Let me add few more cues, ‘Coral Island, Elephant Village and Underwater Walk’. And the confusion would be resolved… Read More »
Tweet Follow @s_kotnala 56th EPISODE. ‘Holi Hai’. This week we will be celebrating Holi, the festival of colours. Sharing a Holi centric episode would definitely make sense. I am not sure of the year but it was between 2006 and 2008. As DNA was already launched and DRY HOLI concept from Dainik Bhaskar was yet… Read More »
