entertainment
Ad to Arc: What Cannes 2025 tells us about branded entertainment
When brand stories resonate with culture rather than at it, they become things people keep, says McCann Worldgroup India's CEO and CCO, and Cannes Lions 2025 juror.
From overs to overkill: IPL ads hit saturation point
As IPL morphs from cricket league to culture machine, Virtue Asia’s business director advises brands to trade tired TVCs for culture-driving IPs—or risk irrelevance.
CTV’s big picture: Small screens are getting left behind
As India’s CTV adoption grows 30–35% yearly, Tonic Worldwide’s senior vice president for media and martech notes that why marketers must recalibrate their plans to woo high-value audiences in untapped regions.
India’s big creative pitch: Now streaming to the world
WAVES 2025 was less summit, more sales deck—India positioned as the next global content factory, so who’s buying the dream?
India’s creator economy meets Adobe’s global agenda at WAVES 2025
From in-housing to automation, its WAVES push forces marketers and creative shops to rethink their value in an AI-first content economy.
A tale of two campaigns: Borrowing from the past without looking at recent history?
It is easy to get trapped in nostalgia. But Famous Innovations’ creative head cautions that brands and agencies need to maintain a fine line between cultural tribute and creative redundancy.
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