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Simply Speaking: Importance of AI literacy over reactionary policies rooted in fear

Sora’s uncanny ability to transform simple text into strikingly polished 4K video unlocks new frontiers for brands and agencies to drive engagement and ROI through visually dynamic campaigns personalised at scale. The potential for localised video content across languages, demographics and sectors appears boundless. (Image from a video generated by Sora.)

As India’s digital maturity and smartphone adoption continue to accelerate, Sora-like AI video solutions can no longer be ignored by forward-thinking marketers keen to engage this new generation of mobile-first consumers.

Simply Speaking: The Algorithmic Accord – AI, youth, and the new global paradigm

The landmark political agreement makes the EU the first major world power to enact laws governing AI. Trailing the EU in AI regulations are countries such as China, the UK and the US, and major G7 democracies that are also formulating their own AI regulations. (Representative Image: Igor Omilaev via Unsplash)

With its tech-savvy population and robust digital infrastructure, India stands at an intriguing crossroads. The nation’s commitment to digital growth, exemplified by initiatives like ‘Digital India’, has catalysed its emergence as a crucible for AI development and application.

Simply Speaking: The T20-fication of content; TikTok and the fame to flame story

TikTok’s rise is meteoric. Yes, it’s creating a new generation of celebrities – many of whom are younger than the YouTubers who came before them. But the rise of TikTok has wider ramifications, arising from the fact that it was made by, and is still owned by, a Chinese company. (Representational image by Alice Donovan Rouse via Unsplash)

The idea of bringing advertising closer to entertainment and pop culture was always a theoretical no brainer but never a practical choice of the mainstream players.

Simply Speaking: All about the Olympics of creativity

Work from across the globe will be judged, awarded and celebrated during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, running from 17 to 21 June 2024. (Image sourced from Cannes Lions website)

Attending Cannes Lions makes you think like a marketer, create like an entertainer, deploy like a tech platform, writes Shubhranshu Singh.

Simply Speaking: Velvet rope – the tightrope between longing and belonging

To make bonds, connections and emotive associations is the nature of social man but all the while he craves the halo of singularity. Indeed, we are unified in our hunger for exclusivity. (Image: Andrik Langfield via Unsplash)

Broadly the quest for status via consumption is an intended outcome of prestige brand consumption. It signals that we have access, to something exciting, enriching and more fun.

Simply Speaking: The incessant whirlpool of internet as brand medium

Everything is measured in terms of likes and shares. The power a social network brings to politics is, by itself, something worthwhile. (Representative image by George Kedenburg III via Unsplash)

Social media is a show cabinet for the individual. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist claims that the way the Instagram works is changing how teenagers think. The need for approval of how they look and what they say and what they’re doing, is forever increasing. The view of self is now constructed from online evaluation of others.

Simply Speaking: Brands are born inside

Companies that leverage their brands to achieve phenomenal growth and market stature take their brands beyond marketing. (Representational image by Calvin Craig via Unsplash)

A brand needs support and reinforcement from its own people first and foremost and committing to creating an environment that makes their people happy and engaged is the way to do it.

Simply Speaking: Buy or Bye Bye?

Humans have high risk consciousness but low risk assessment capability. The human mind does not appreciate probability instinctually. Therefore, risk is beaten by belief. Shared stories create belief. (Representational image by Jeffrey Grospe via Unsplash)

The tug of war between perceived risk and perceived value.

Simply Speaking: What is Viral is not always Vital

Brands talk to the rejectors and the ‘passives’ in the same way they talk to their core. The idea is to activate the brand’s worldview in the brains of such folks. It is believed that via mirroring of messages, brands gain traction. (Representative image by Mike Petrucci via Unsplash)

When marketing pundits talk about ‘loyalists’, or ‘the passives’ or ‘detractors’ they are referring to merely a collection of individuals into range based groups. Leaving diehard loyalists aside, there is much eagerness to engage with the middle uncommitted. The recruits all lie in this middle mass is the belief.

Art of Framing in marketing: What you know changes what you see, what you see changes what you know

Persuasion is fortified with evidence - information, referendum, validation, certification, statistics, testimonials - all enhance acceptance. Emphasizing the benefits is another technique for framing. (Representational image by paul skorupskasvia Unsplash)

Framing is about mental structures and stencils which we apply to derive meaning. To change a perspective is reframing. Reframing is a triumph of marketing.