(First published in The Economic Times Brand Equity, August 2022) On July 27, Google announced that it will delay the deprecation of third party cookies to the year 2024, saying that it needs more time to test the tools for privacy “while giving businesses the tools to succeed online.” A few days later, on August…
(Originally published in Impact magazine issue dated 04th February 2017) In early 2000, a bunch of marketing, media, and technology folks kicked the grave of John Wanamaker and woke him up from his long sleep. John Wanamaker, who had died 78 years earlier, suddenly became the brand ambassador for digital advertising. For it was he…
(First published in September 2016, in Maxus/WPP internal publications) The dynamic tension between two conflicting states and the need for an ideal balance is often considered a requirement for a system to move forward. For instance, the tension between change and stability; freedom and order; and innovation and efficiency and so on. So what do…