Advertising Ka Kamal is part of an effort to understand advertising... Understand the creativity that happens behind the business of making people buy things they may or may not need... Understand what people sell and... More importantly, how they get through to their customers... Understand what people buy, and... More importantly, what convinces them to do so...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Monday, August 24, 2015
Unfurling The Story Of Onam...
Kappa TV retells the myth of Onam. The artists are lead by Orion Champadiyil and his awesome team consisting of Prem Krishna Akkattu, Athif Aziz, Akhil Jacob, Aarthy Rao and others...
Kappa TV retells the myth of Onam. The artists are lead by Orion Champadiyil and his awesome team consisting of Prem Krishna Akkattu, Athif Aziz, Akhil Jacob, Aarthy Rao and others...
Saturday, August 22, 2015
100% Bihar
To quote from Meiyang Chang's post on Centre for Enironment and Energy Developments 100% Bihar campaign... "Some might say I'm from Jharkhand, but let's not get into the politics of that. Dhanbad WAS in Bihar when I born unto it".
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Thursday, August 20, 2015
Issey Kehtay Hai Social Network Marketing...!!!
If you want....
1000 facebook likes.
5000 retweets.
400 hearts on instagram.
300 shares on tumblr.
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Proud To Be Indian
It's
not very often that you'd get goosebumps, pride, tears, and smiles going all
together. Here's a film that manages to do that for all the right reasons.
- Sam Maneckshaw, Field Marshall, Indian Army
Saturday, August 15, 2015
One Day Mataram... The A B C of it...
On the occasion of Independence Day Terribly Tiny Talkies the film making arm of Terribly Tiny Tales has released 3 films as Independence Day has been approaching. Makes one wonder, how free we are...
Devashish Makhija's 'Agli Baar'
Abhishek Sengupta's 'Bapu'
Vijayeta Kumar's One Day Mataram
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Leo Burnett Farewell - When To Take My Name Off The Door
Came across this post shared by Sugandha Dubey on facebook which was (originally shared by) Anirban Mozumdar which caused Nigel Sequeira to share the video of that speech...
Video via: Anthony Kalamut
When to Take My Name Off the Door Leo Burnett December 1, 1967
On the day when Leo Burnett formally retired as the head of his company at the age of 76, his valedictory address to his employees was a remarkable one.
Delivered on December 1, 1967, his remarks serve as guidelines of standards for the agency. The remarks have been enshrined as guiding principles of the company and continue to remind its employees toward good advertising practices and produce advertising of Leo’s standards even today.
Somewhere along the line, after I’m finally off the premises, you – or your successors – may want to take my name off the premises, too.
You may want to call yourselves "Twain, Rogers, Sawyer and Finn, Inc." … Or "Ajax Advertising" or Something.
That will certainly be okay with me – if it’s good for you.
But let me tell you when I might demand that you take my name off the door:
That will be the day when you spend more time trying to make money and less time making advertising – our kind of advertising.
When you forget that the sheer fun of ad-making and the lift you get out of it – the creative climate of the place – should be as important as money to the very special breed of writers and artists and business professionals who compose this company of ours – and make it tick.
When you lose that restless feeling that nothing you do is ever quite good enough.
When you lose your itch to do the job well for its own sake – regardless of the client, or the money, or the effort it takes.
When you lose your passion for thoroughness…your hatred of loose ends.
When you stop reaching for the manner, the overtones, the marriage of words and pictures that produces the fresh, the memorable, and the believable effect.
When you stop rededicating yourselves every day to the idea that better advertising is what the Leo Burnett Company is all about.
When you are no longer what Thoreau called "a corporation with a conscience" – which means to me, a corporation of conscientious men and women.
When you begin to compromise your integrity – which has always been the heart’s blood – the very guts of this agency.
When you stoop to convenient expediency and rationalize yourselves into acts of opportunism – for the sake of a fast buck.
When you show the slightest sign of crudeness, inappropriateness or smart-aleckness – and you lose that subtle sense of the fitness of things.
When your main interest becomes a matter of size just to be big – rather than good, hard, wonderful work.
When your outlook narrows down to the number of windows – from zero to five – in the walls of your office.
When you lose your humility and become big-shot weisenheimers…a little too big for your boots.
When the apples come down to being just apples for eating (or for polishing) – no longer a part of our tone – our personality.
When you disapprove of something, and start tearing the hell out of the man who did it rather than the work itself.
When you stop building on strong and vital ideas, and start a routine production line.
When you start believing that, in the interest of efficiency, a creative spirit and the urge to create can be delegated and administered, and forget that they can only be nurtured, stimulated, and inspired.
When you start giving lip service to this being a "creative agency" and stop really being one.
Finally, when you lose your respect for the lonely man – the man at his typewriter or his drawing board or behind his camera or just scribbling notes with one of our big black pencils – or working all night on a media plan. When you forget that the lonely man – and thank God for him – has made the agency we now have – possible. When you forget he’s the man who, because he is reaching harder, sometimes actually gets hold of – for a moment – one of those hot, unreachable stars.
THAT, boys and girls, is when I shall insist you take my name off the door.
And by golly, it will be taken off the door.
Even if I have to materialize long enough some night to rub it out myself – on every one of your floors.
And before I DE-materialize again, I will paint out that star-reaching symbol, too. And burn all the stationery. And tear up a few ads in passing. And throw every goddamned apple down the elevator shafts. You just won’t know the place, the next morning. You’ll have to find another name.
Note: We DO NOT own the copyrights to this but have posted it for educational purposes for advertising students and other followers of this blog.
Many consider this his "valedictory address" to the employees gathered. It passionate and it was a remarkable.
Delivered on December 1, 1967, his remarks serve as guidelines of standards for the agency and are the guiding principles of the company and continue to inspire the advertising practices and standards even today.
Note: We DO NOT own the copyrights to this but have posted it for educational purposes for advertising students and other followers of this blog.
Many consider this his "valedictory address" to the employees gathered. It passionate and it was a remarkable.
Delivered on December 1, 1967, his remarks serve as guidelines of standards for the agency and are the guiding principles of the company and continue to inspire the advertising practices and standards even today.
Friday, July 31, 2015
Unilever... Clean up your S#!t...!!!
To quote Kaevan Umrigar... "It's very heartening when someone who works in advertising has the gumption to take on a large client using the very same skills she employs to promote them. Kudos, Sofia Ashraf (she's a creative supervisor at Ogilvy & Mather)..."
Sunday, July 26, 2015
What is Creativity?
To quote Jason Silva
"A great artist is but a conduit for an expression that resonates with something that is greater than him or herself"
"A great artist is but a conduit for an expression that resonates with something that is greater than him or herself"
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Friday, July 17, 2015
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Mike Khanna. Wizard without a wand!
Mike Khanna - A Tribute
1939 to 2015
Words by Ivan Arthur
The business world will toss numbers; will talk of the magical growth he showed in the time he led Hindustan Thompson, now JWT; first as head of the Delhi office, which bobbed up from No.7 in that city to No.1 in just one year of his taking over; he did the same with the Bombay office and finally as CEO of HTA, India, he walked the agency up a steep climb to the pinnacle; success following him like a poodle.
And those who do not know him will have visions of a man like some others with similar achievements, men who draw attention to their success with big flourishes of the corporate wand and the abracadabra of individual style.
With Mike there were no flourishes; no conjurer’s patter, no abracadabra showmanship. He almost seemed like a novice with a pack of cards, slowly dealing them out, stopping to spit-wet his fingers when suddenly you would notice: he has dealt you an ace. And then another and another. You looked in awe. And there he was, unimpressed with his own magic, intent on just dealing you those aces.
But the aces we are talking about are not those numbers; of billings, growth, profit or industry ranking; facts and figures that even then placed him on the throne of the advertising industry. Oh there is much to be said about all that and the business world can talk about it at length. What ‘Thompsonites’ will talk about are other aces, their own personal ones, for which they will remember him most. From secretaries, studio artists and accountants to members of the executive committee, all have poignant stories to establish their personal relationship with Mike: of how on a bad day, he sat them down, got to the heart of the problem and sent them away with a new spring in their step; of how they came to him with clenched fists over an issue with a colleague and how a cuppa tea with him would end in handshakes all round. A creative director will tell you how, on the occasion of the global CEO’s visit, her presentation was delayed by an hour, and how Mike went up to her, put his hand on her shoulder and said, “Relax. This is not the end of the world.” “I could have kissed him then,” she said. “But I went about getting the job done.” An office manager narrates how on his wife’s birthday, he had invited Mike home for dinner, at which he demonstrated the five-finger-and-palm bhangra clap.
His manner was calming. He broke down difficult and high tension situations with his quiet, unbeatable logic to resolve both business and even creative crises. his intuitive feel for the moment, touched with humaneness, his ability to get down to the root of the matter at hand to help you with a problem and above all, his sense of fairness were among the aces up his sleeve. These were the aces he dealt around.
Early this morning, on the 7th of June, the mobile phones of those who worked with Mike were clogged with messages, all of them saying that they were still holding in their hand the aces that Mike had personally dealt them: the ‘can do’ spirit. The freedom to try and fail. A strong sense of self-worth. Fairness. Integrity. Leadership. Challenge. A sense of fun. Aces that they hold close to their chest. Aces that have led them to where they are today. Many are now happily retired and a good number are CEOs, chairmen of companies and leaders in their fields. They are all of them echoing one line,”I am what I am today because of Mike.”
Blog:Excalibur: arthurivannoel.blogspot.in
The business world will toss numbers; will talk of the magical growth he showed in the time he led Hindustan Thompson, now JWT; first as head of the Delhi office, which bobbed up from No.7 in that city to No.1 in just one year of his taking over; he did the same with the Bombay office and finally as CEO of HTA, India, he walked the agency up a steep climb to the pinnacle; success following him like a poodle.
And those who do not know him will have visions of a man like some others with similar achievements, men who draw attention to their success with big flourishes of the corporate wand and the abracadabra of individual style.
With Mike there were no flourishes; no conjurer’s patter, no abracadabra showmanship. He almost seemed like a novice with a pack of cards, slowly dealing them out, stopping to spit-wet his fingers when suddenly you would notice: he has dealt you an ace. And then another and another. You looked in awe. And there he was, unimpressed with his own magic, intent on just dealing you those aces.
But the aces we are talking about are not those numbers; of billings, growth, profit or industry ranking; facts and figures that even then placed him on the throne of the advertising industry. Oh there is much to be said about all that and the business world can talk about it at length. What ‘Thompsonites’ will talk about are other aces, their own personal ones, for which they will remember him most. From secretaries, studio artists and accountants to members of the executive committee, all have poignant stories to establish their personal relationship with Mike: of how on a bad day, he sat them down, got to the heart of the problem and sent them away with a new spring in their step; of how they came to him with clenched fists over an issue with a colleague and how a cuppa tea with him would end in handshakes all round. A creative director will tell you how, on the occasion of the global CEO’s visit, her presentation was delayed by an hour, and how Mike went up to her, put his hand on her shoulder and said, “Relax. This is not the end of the world.” “I could have kissed him then,” she said. “But I went about getting the job done.” An office manager narrates how on his wife’s birthday, he had invited Mike home for dinner, at which he demonstrated the five-finger-and-palm bhangra clap.
His manner was calming. He broke down difficult and high tension situations with his quiet, unbeatable logic to resolve both business and even creative crises. his intuitive feel for the moment, touched with humaneness, his ability to get down to the root of the matter at hand to help you with a problem and above all, his sense of fairness were among the aces up his sleeve. These were the aces he dealt around.
Early this morning, on the 7th of June, the mobile phones of those who worked with Mike were clogged with messages, all of them saying that they were still holding in their hand the aces that Mike had personally dealt them: the ‘can do’ spirit. The freedom to try and fail. A strong sense of self-worth. Fairness. Integrity. Leadership. Challenge. A sense of fun. Aces that they hold close to their chest. Aces that have led them to where they are today. Many are now happily retired and a good number are CEOs, chairmen of companies and leaders in their fields. They are all of them echoing one line,”I am what I am today because of Mike.”
Blog:Excalibur: arthurivannoel.blogspot.in
Monday, June 8, 2015
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Are You An Anagram Lover...???
Monday, May 25, 2015
Bye Bye Smartphone... Hello Kudaphone...
In Malayalam, Kuda or Kuta (pronounced as Kode of Kodai) is the word for Umbrella. Though I'm no Malayalam expert, the dialogue goes a bit like this, where the girl asks the guy if his phone has an umbrella.
For more... Read here
For more... Read here
Friday, May 22, 2015
Mom's First Day At School???
Really? It is a touching ad no doubt and we all must keep in touch with our mothers (and fathers too)... How-ever far away from them we are. But come on... Without our mothers (who started schooling us the day we were born, irrespective of whether they were formally schooled or not), where would we be?
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
What is Branding? Minimalistically Speaking!!!
Design Taxi thinks this video is a brilliant answer to the perennial question of what branding actually is.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Suckitaa Lickitaa!!!
For those of you who may be surprised on Frooti move Frooti's from Creativeland Asia to Sagmeister & Walsh it isn't a new piece of news! This to quote CLA owner Raj Kurup and Parle Agro chief marketing officer Nadia Chauhan, who are husband and wife, said the move was part of their decision to separate personal and professional lives. "We have planned this mutually over the last one year.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Is It Only About India's Daughters???
What about India's Mothers, Wives, Sisters and more importantly India's Sons, Brothers, Fathers and Husbands???
To quote Madhuri Haridas... "It does begin at home!!!"
To quote Madhuri Haridas... "It does begin at home!!!"
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Todo Nahi...!!!
Now this one's timed right for today considering the hype of the Indo-Pak cricket match but there are some who are wondering whether this is a subtle message to the dispensation in the Corridors Of Power in Lutyens' City???
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Damn Right I'm Hot...!!!
Unlike other ads which tend to show well chiseled women, thus ending up objectifying them... This one shows women as they are.... With stretch marks, sweat, cellulite et al...!!!
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Betiyaan Ladvaao... Desh Banaao...
This... to quote from the JSW Steel's youtube link... is Geeta Phogat's (she is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in Wrestling at the Commonwealth Games) story. But the story is not just her's, there are four Phogat sisters... All wrestlers...
JSW has also got its timing sort of right... What with the PM's Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Campaign...
JSW has also got its timing sort of right... What with the PM's Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Campaign...
The Phogat sisters... Currently training for Rio 2016 at The National camp, Lucknow |
To quote from this article in the DNA... "Mahavir (their father and coach) has brought about a minor revolution in gender equations in this part of the state. "He always wanted chhoris. I was the one who wanted a son," says Daya (the mother). The couple has five children, four girls and one, the last born, son, and Mahavir is training all of them."