The State Of Social Media Marketing is Not So Depressing After All

I recently ready a blog post titled – “The Depressing State Of Social Media Marketing” by Mitch Joel (btw, I highly recommend both his podcast and the blog) lament about how brands are not realizing the true potential of Social Media. In my opinion, the vision being proposed by Mitch or by Chris Brogan, Seth Godin or Nilofer Merchant is the extreme end of the spectrum of possibilities for social media. However, what we don’t realize is, that in order to be able to realize that vision of enabling connections/conversations, the entire marketing strategy and execution (to a certain extent, of the […]

Targeted Advertising Vs Intrinsic Advertising

There has been a lot of interest lately in “Big Data” and how this will allow marketers to create campaigns that are targeted towards every individual consumer and hence will drive the consumption economy. I would like to differ on this. Though, there is no doubt that soon marketers will have the capability to be able to draw up and run such campaigns, I don’t believe that this form of advertising will be very effective. Our minds have the innate ability to mask everything that it does not want to see or acknowledge. Hence, the success rate of advertisement, however […]

Two Awesome Campaigns: A Cancer Hospital and A Cola

What could be common between a hospital trying to treat kids with cancer and Coca Cola ? Simply amazing thought process leading to some of the most creative campaigns that I have seen lately. Hospital Campaign: A.C.Camargo Cancer Center treats children with cancer. The first and the most important in the treatment is the belief of the patient in the treatment they are being given. No amount of talking to these children could get them to believe in the treatment. So, in association with JWT, they came up with an awesome idea to get these children get totally involved in […]