Truly dawning on the world of an all time high demand natural and sustainable products, the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit could not have been better timed, organized by Organic Monitor. Having shared my views on how to market products with green ingredients at their former conference, this one was upgraded with consumer insights into the demand for […]

Truly dawning on the world of digital, it’s a surprising reminder that the iPhone just launched in 2007. The birth of an era really, for since, not only has the way we live our lives changed, but the way marketers operate has dramatically shifted. Much in line with principles of modern leadership and management, the […]

What could brands possibly do with disappearing content? A lot, it turns out. Especially when analytics driven marketers realize that the Snapchat market targets users in the 13-25 demographic who are slowly languishing from other social media platforms. And the user base is over 26 million American users, sending of 400 million snaps a day. […]

I have often pondered over the short lived life of snowflakes. A short, but intense pleasure amidst the chaos. Polar Vortex excluded. The principle of something beautiful that does not last is a metaphor for the glamorous window displays that flock the cosmopolitans from Harrod’s to Bergdorfs every season, be it Christmas, Valentines, or really […]

Technology and social media go hand in hand. Many platforms are enabled (or eventually disabled) by the advancements of tech. While some trends improve and enhance interfaces and usage, others like virtual reality can pose more dramatic shifts in the way social media is used and consumed, particularly by digital marketers. Here are 6 tech […]

The digital marketing landscape changes so rapidly that it does not often give marketers a buffer to catch up. As Interpublic Group’s Magna Global, has predicted, digital advertising will become the major advertising platform by 2017 through the latter half of this decade. Bid your farewell to television sets and their frequent ads, as the biggest chunk […]

Once in a while, you see the film medium being used to relay a message and relay a call to action. And when that happens, the medium becomes truly powerful in becoming a catalyst for change and transformation. Sold, a film by Academy Award winning Jeffrey Brown, is a film based on Patricia McCormick’s accounts […]

The holiday season, despite its one eve of festivity, absorbs anywhere from weeks to months of our time as shoppers and consumers, and even more so if we are marketers. It evokes the anxiety, well pondered over in days when brands battled for loyal consumers. Attracting one and all with the glitterarti of lights that […]

With 10 million users in just 6 months, Periscope is here to stay, as is the ever-present trend of real time marketing. Plus, Eddy Cue, Senior VP of Software & Services of Apple, recently called Periscope truly revolutionary. After all, the founders wanted to build the closest thing to teleportation. Periscope is a live streaming […]

Is a shopper need truly distinct from a shopper want? A previously penned post on the distance between the heart and the brain certainly suggests so about consumer psychology. And now, having understood the emotions that drive purchase for frequent shoppers, its logical to examine how retailers react and position themselves to the very same […]