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Airtel is ditching long TV ads for catchy Instagram reels. It knows what works

Airtel tapped into nostalgia by featuring actors Neena Gupta and Ashish Vidyarthi, but gave it a modern twist with a script tailored for Gen Z, smartly bridging the gap between two generations.

Flipkart’s Big Billion Days campaign is the festive season’s best. RD Sharma stars in it

Flipkart's Big Billion Days 2025 campaign has been conceptualised by Talented ad agency and directed by Anant Sharma. It's a clever and unexpected marketing move.

Anurag Kashyap, Samay Raina’s Bold Care campaign signals a shift in Indian condom advertising

Advertising condoms in India has long been a challenging task, with brands like Manforce and Skore having to tiptoe around cultural sensitivities.

Happydent’s new ad sparkles with nostalgia, dazzling smiles—and civic sense

The new Happydent campaign, Chamking Gum: Chamka Muskaan, Jagmag Jahaan, manages to recapture the charm of the original, which had won several awards.

Fevikwik is the latest Indian brand to use AI in ads. It has no recall value

The ad combines Fevikwik’s core value of ‘fixing things’, fun and creativity and an AI tool, but instead of a smooth cocktail, we're left with an indiscernible aftertaste.

Tata Tea’s Independence Day campaign loses its way. Sounds like iconic Madhya Pradesh ad

The rhyming and music pairing in the ad feels forced. Singer Piyush Mishra has lent his voice to the commercial, but his magic gets overpowered by subpar writing.

Samay Raina, Apoorva Mukhija show how to use ads for PR rehab. It’s the Astronomer playbook

In India’s influencer-driven, meme-amplified ecosystem, brand endorsements often double up as soft rebranding campaigns.

Sydney Sweeney’s ‘great jeans’ ad shows the risks of edgy marketing

In 2017, Pepsi faced backlash for a TV ad where model Kendall Jenner leaves a photoshoot to join a protest and offers a can of soda to a police officer.

Mohanlal embraces his feminine side—in a jewellery ad that redefines masculinity

The Vinsmera Jewels ad with Mohanlal breaks from familiar tropes—no ideal daughter, blushing bride, proud father, or feminist monologues.

CEAT to Bajaj Insurance—Shubman Gill is new poster boy of ads. Why it can also hit his brand

“After actors, it’s now the cricketers who are suffering from an overload of brand associations. Their credibility will eventually take a hit," said PR and communication strategist Dilip Cherian.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.