Technology

Seven critical UX mistakes your brand might be making

Users have little tolerance for fragmented, disjointed experiences.

Brands will win when they stop chasing attention

Sustainable marketing isn’t about being louder; it’s about being the right answer at the right moment in the right context.

Love at first click

This year, AI is playing matchmaker and finding shoppers the perfect Valentine’s Day deal.

Why brands must learn the language of LLMs

As consumers migrate from SEO to GEO, the playbook is still being written, and that’s precisely where the opportunity lies.

The LLM ad wars have begun and Google isn’t blinking

ChatGPT ads will spark a new battle for intent, but dislodging Google’s search dominance will take more than conversational AI.

Why the Netflix-Warner Bros deal proves us wrong about the future of entertainment

In a world of ‘AI slop’, authentic human stories do not lose value; they become much more expensive.

Rewriting the path to purchase

When visibility no longer comes from being indexed, how does your brand get chosen?

The age of 'being recommended' has begun: what ChatGPT ads will change

In AI-led marketing, trust beats targeting, says Resonant principal Ramakrishnan Raja.

Why 2026 will belong to the premium open internet

The "walled garden" era is giving way to a new ecosystem where consumer attention and trust are highest.

From spectacle to substance: what CES 2026 revealed about the future of advertising

The global tech fest illustrated that the next wave of brand growth will come from those willing to invest in creative tech not as a layer, but as a capability.

Delegating cognition, one prompt at a time

In the rush to automate, have we stopped thinking about thinking? And what AI is doing to our minds? Publicis' Laurent Thevenet implores.

AI rewired marketing. Leadership is next.

If you’re still debating about whether AI marketing belongs at the centre of your strategy, you’re already behind the curve.

Why we’re trading 17 opens tabs for one good conversation

Between comparison charts and keywords searches, the humble product page has begun to lose its shine.

Woolley Marketing: All I want for Christmas is… to fall in love with marketing, again

Darren Woolley unwraps his wishes for 2026 — more time, more magic, more safety, and a future where humans shine brighter than ever.

Upping the game: How Indian game developers can scale growth in 2026

While India has massive download volume, only a small percentage are high-value payers.

India’s digital ecosystem needs an overhaul

The recently notified Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules could result in a more robust, transparent, trust-led ecosystem.

AI ads and the uncanny valley problem

For the creative industry, this is no longer a conversation about technology adoption. It’s a conversation about craft.

Why LLMs should be “decolonised”

LLMs today need to speak a variety of languages, not just English with an accent.

The feed is full, but we’re all starving

Why brands must stop performing for algorithms and start speaking to humans again

How to be GEO-ready in 2026

The future of discovery won’t be a search result. It will be a conversation, one where AI decides whose voice to amplify.

How India’s VFX and post studios are powering global storytelling

India is no longer an outsourcing destination; it is a trusted, creatively mature partner in the global content supply chain.

From noise to ROI: how smart brands can win India’s festive quarter

Soaring cart abandonment rates, undecided consumers and a tendency to mass-serve irrelevant ads are challenges that can spike during this season.

What the Cloudflare outage reveals about digital fragility

This outage, alongside similar incidents at major cloud providers, signals a rising pattern of vulnerabilities and structural degradation.

Agentic AI and the morality gap: Can logic learn compassion?

The future of storytelling, branding, and consumer trust depends not on machines that think faster, but on those that act responsibly.

Build a brand that kids will love

Most brands try too hard to convince. Kids remind you that when something feels good, it doesn’t need explaining.

The AI train has left the station. Are Indian agencies on it?

(No em dashes were harmed in this article. It rambles on too much to be AI-perfect.)

The future belongs to the curious

In an AI-driven industry, FCB's Dheeraj Sinha sees vulnerability in middle-layer jobs, but says the real dividing line is not between juniors and seniors, but between those who evolve and those who don’t.

When interesting AI work often gets lost in translation

It is time to reframe AI and why the world’s most transformative technology needs a new language.

When AI turns to humans to feel human

Anthropic and OpenAI recently turned to human-led creative shops to tell their story. They didn't market AI's efficiency or speed, but empathy.

Marketing’s new reality: Always on, always human

The next edge in marketing isn’t louder storytelling; it’s better listening.

Marketing through the looking glass: The wearable AI shift

Marketers who see the tech as a license to capture every blink will lose trust quickly. The smarter play is to treat intimacy as a privilege.

Search shifts from ranking links to answer engines

AI-driven discovery is reshaping brand visibility, demanding machine-readable content, structured authority, and multimodal strategies as traditional SEO signals lose relevance.

Why do we give better feedback to GPT than to people?

Candidness is supposed to be a workplace superpower. Yet somehow, says Publicis' Vini Dalvi, we save our most useful feedback for machines.

Advertisers hold the keys to reviving UN sustainability goals

Most people are not reading through 50-page sustainability reports. That’s where creativity comes in.

AI agents collapse the wall between marketing and CX

From HUL’s virtual try-ons to Zepto’s AI personas, brands and agencies face new roles as machines reshape leadership and trust.

Conversational AI: Why India’s marketers can’t ignore the voice shift

AI-enabled voice assistants are reshaping how consumers shop and search—demanding experiences that are useful, personal, and rooted in local context.

When AI agents rewrite the rules of brand leadership

As they collapse the gap between awareness and retention, between acquisition and advocacy, AI agents are rewriting the roles of CMOs and CXOs in real time.

Cookies crumble as brands turn to first-party data

With third-party tracking fading under regulation and tech shifts, marketers are retooling around first-party insights to build direct customer relationships.

Followers don’t equal fans: Rethinking brand personalisation

With algorithms dictating feeds, brands must reclaim personalisation through owned data, AI, and storytelling—beyond the illusion of social ‘community’.

Voice AI at the frontline: Control or creativity?

Generative AI offers human-like conversations at scale—but can brands manage the risks without losing their authentic voice?

From billable hours to billion-dollar IP: Agencies face AI reckoning

As AI reshapes industries, agencies must pivot from selling time to building proprietary assets—before disruption makes their model obsolete.

Search is being rewritten – and marketers aren’t ready

As AI reshapes search, brands must move past traditional SEO to engineer discoverability within AI-driven ecosystems and redefine visibility for the future.

Predictive AI: From guesswork to game-changer in marketing

Brands and agencies are shifting from reactive to proactive strategies, leveraging AI to anticipate customer needs while navigating ethical and technical challenges.

India becomes the brief in OpenAI’s global playbook

With ChatGPT’s INR 399 plan and UPI integration, the test for marketers is no longer discounts but designing for India’s complexity.

AI’s web takeover: Who pays when bots swipe content?

As AI agents slash publisher traffic, the open web’s old economics collapse, forcing a rethink on content control and monetisation models.

AI can write the script — but can’t read the room

As PR wrestles with AI disruption, emotional intelligence, context, and ethics remain non-negotiable in a landscape ruled by nuance and noise.

Sustainability is no longer the message — it’s the material

If the product is already doing the work, no additional justification is necessary.

ROMI or bust: Why last-click lies to you

BornHi’s co-founder takes a sharp look at why traditional ROI fails in India’s multi-touch, mobile-first landscape—and how ROMI rewrites the marketing playbook.

Trust is the new ad currency in 2025

As cookies crumble, Nimida Digital’s head maintains that data trust and clean tech—not just budgets—will determine performance marketing success.

Tesla’s India showroom whispers what ads can’t say

In a market of noisy sales floors, Landor’s senior strategist–experience unpacks how Tesla’s stark Mumbai space flips the script — selling brand attitude, not cars.