Category: Society

  • JWT India and Ford: the real costs of stretching boundaries

    Last week’s kerfuffle surrounding JWT India, unauthorized mock-up ads and car maker Ford that Shel and I discussed at length in this week’s episode 697 of the FIR podcast may have subsided in terms of news headlines in the mainstream…

  • BBC global survey shows evolving news consumption habits across multiple screens

    It’s doubtful that many people would disagree with the belief that our behaviours in how, where and when we consume content – the evolved way of saying what we used to describe as reading the papers, listening to the radio…

  • The dawn of the valuable-ad era

    Here are two ideas about advertising – online and offline – that could catch on in a big way and ‘evolutionize’ entire industries. Social news and entertainment site Reddit plans to let users vote on the ads they see when…

  • Real beauty isn’t retouched says Dove

    One company that’s earned credibility for its open and authentic approach to brand marketing and communication is Unilever for its campaigns for the Dove personal care product range. Who can’t recall the ground-breaking Dove: Evolution video from 2006, showing image…

  • Papal perspectives from a citizen-reporter priest

    The eyes of many throughout the world are focused on the Vatican in Rome at the moment, as one hundred and fifteen members of the College of Cardinals deliberate in a papal conclave behind closed and locked doors to choose…