Marketing
Articles in Marketing
August 8, 2017
Marketing:
From Marketing To Marathons
Ushnota Paul profiles four top corporates in India who spill the beans on how running marathons has helped them in their professional career.
August 7, 2017
Research:
QSR Chains And The Social Media Landscape
Social media is a great place to be in for brands in 2017. With more people logging in multiple times a day, there’s no better medium to reach the wi-fi enabled. And that’s exactly what brands from the QSR industry in India did. In this report by Unmetric, we take a look at the social media landscape of quick service restaurants and take a deep dive into the performance of 15 brands.
August 7, 2017
Research:
Point Of View: Is Your Brand Doing Justice To Its Sermon?
What the world once trusted, it now doubts. The mainstream media has lost its monopoly on authority. Societal and economic fears are dominating the conversation, especially concerns about job loss, immigration restrictions, and the rapid pace of innovation. The chasm between views held by the elites and the mass population continues to widen.
August 7, 2017
Research:
Point Of View: The Other Sides Of The Marketer
Question: Name five books that you recommend to marketers and CEOs. Answer: CEOs and CMOs come with rich experiences, which not only set them a class apart, but also hold them and their brands in good stead. However, in today’s world, unlearning is as important as learning. And therefore, it is key for them to be refreshed with the new realities and opportunities. I would, therefore, recommend these 5 books with each bringing a unique but key learning.
August 7, 2017
Research:
The Social Media Habits Of Top Aviation Brands
Airlines are very heavy users of social media. They vie with competitors to reply to their customers online in the most efficient manner possible, offer the best possible rates and the greatest experience.In addition to redressing consumer concerns, airline brands use social networks to engage their audience with relevant content and pass along information about flight schedules, new routes, discounts etc. This way, social media plays a key role in constructing a brand’s personality online. In order to understand how effectively airline brands used social media, Unmetric took a look at the top 15 brands across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram during Q1 2017. These include: Aeromexico, Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, Allegiant, American Airlines, Delta, Frontier Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines, United Airlines, Virgin Airlines, Volaris and WestJet. Here’s what we found:
August 7, 2017
Media:
Burning Issues: The Great Unbundling Of Digital Video
Digital video is being unbundled into ad-supported and subscription supported content. In that on-going fission, lies opportunities for a new kind of marketing, that marries story-telling and computing.
August 5, 2017
Advertising:
The Sharing Economy VS The Caring Economy
In the coming years, all content would translate to videos. This would mean staying open to the re-structuring of PR plans and opening the team to several other expertise simultaneously leaning to real situations that would eventually lead to sustainable topics.
August 5, 2017
Marketing:
Point Of View: The Challenges Of Being A CMO Today
We are seeing a new sort of consumer emerging of late. They are more ‘me centric’, and follow their passion into non-traditional jobs; ownership of assets is unimportant. They are active participants in the sharing economy. Loyalty is not a highly valued virtue. It is, in fact, a different value system altogether. Clearly, this means the traditional ways of looking at brands and brand positioning need to be revisited.
August 5, 2017
Advertising:
Dave Trott, “Advertising Isn’t Marketing Comms.”
One of the main problems with our business is language.People like to use long complicated words to describe simple things. This makes their job sound more impressive. Consequently, advertising isn’t called advertising anymore. Now it’s called ‘marketing comms’. Comms is short for communications.
July 26, 2017
Marketing:
Amul – The Number One Nobody Talks About
The $4.1 billion dollar organization is not situated in Mumbai or New Delhi, but tucked away in Anand in Gujarat, about 45 minutes from Baroda. The organization is the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), India’s largest food product marketing organization, hawking a slew of brands in an astonishing 450 stock-keeping units. Considering the size, GCMMF is extraordinary nimble, having built a capability to launch new products within 60-90 days of conceptualization. 85% percent of their revenue is spent on their most critical raw material, milk. Advertising, the second largest cost head, is a mere 1% of their revenue. How does Amul achieve these metrics?