Advertising Marketing In-Depth
Pooja Ahuja Nagpal
Dec 18, 2013

Double standards: How effective are ads featuring competition?

Advertisements showing or clearly referring to competition can cut both ways, finds Pooja Ahuja Nagpal, in conversation with Dheeraj Sinha and Ranju Mohan.

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