Month: October 2022

Instagram Reels and the small seller saga in India: How Meta’s platform is tripping up small sellers

Over the last few years, Facebook and Instagram pushed a number of features on their platforms to encourage small sellers. The tech giant even boasted of supporting 200 million businesses on Instagram, globally. (Representative image via Unsplash)

Small sellers are finding it hard to leverage Meta’s Instagram Reels and promote their products. Here’s why.

Interbrand global CEO Interview: We are entering India’s decade of possibilities, says Gonzalo Brujó

"One of the things that I like about the Indian community is their ethics and beliefs such that they are much more connected to nature than the other markets which I think is good for the kind of the businesses they do," says Interbrand's global CEO Gonzalo Brujó

Gonzalo Brujó talks about the importance of Indian brands at a global scale and why acts of leadership by companies will impact their relevance.

Adidas dumps Kanye West over anti-Semitic remarks, stands to take a $645 million hit

Adidas has ended its partnership with musician Kanye West post his anti-Semitic remarks at the Yeezy fashion show in Paris. As a result of which the Yeezy brand will now cease to exist. All Yeezy offerings will be newly listed under the Adidas banner.

Adidas ends its partnership with Kanye West over anti-semitic remarks. Analysts say Adidas is looking at total losses of $645 million from severing of ties with West.

Equal Pay in Cricket: Indian men and women cricketers to get equal match fee, announces BCCI’s Jay Shah

BCCI Honorary Secretary Jay Shah tweeted, “I’m pleased to announce BCCI’s first step towards tackling discrimination. We are implementing pay equity policy for our contracted BCCI Women cricketers. The match fee for both Men and Women Cricketers will be the same as we move into a new era of gender equality in cricket.” (Image source: BCCI)

BCCI announced equal pay for men and women cricketers in a major step to end pay disparity.

Coca-Cola products may look a tad different in 2023

With ongoing sale in smaller containers and multi-packs with fewer cans, the company introduced a value collection in the third quarter that offered the customers their products in multiple sizes (Representative image via Unsplash)

Package innovation takes a bigger role and the company will approaching 2023 with a broad innovation agenda but with some slight weighting to packaging, CEO James Quincey has said

Unilever recall of dry shampoos not to impact India: HUL

On October 25, several reports surfaced talking about the recall of dry shampoos manufactured by Unilever. According to a notice posted on the US Food and Drug Administration’s (USFDA) website, the company is recalling products under brands such as Dove, Tresemme, Nexxus, Suave, TIGI (Rockaholic and Bed Head) (Representative Image via Unsplash)

The FMCG major in a media statement said that it does not manufacture or sell dry shampoos under Dove or any other brand in India.

Madison Media Alpha bags Godrej & Boyce’s Rs 100 cr media mandate

The agency will handle the entire gamut of media including TV, print, social media, digital, performance marketing, OOH and activations. The account is estimated to be over Rs 100 crore and the incumbent agency is Starcom

The account was won in a multi-agency pitch and the agency will handle the entire gamut of media including TV, print, social media, digital, performance marketing, OOH and activations.