Meera Nair
Meera Nair is a contributing writer at Ad Pulse, focusing on marketing, technology, and ethics. She explores how data compliance and ethical considerations shape today’s AI and tech industries.
CTV vs Linear TV: How to Choose the Right Ad Spend Strategy in 2025
Some of us may remember a time when a family movie night meant arguing over who would get the TV remote control. One screen, one time, one decision for all. Jumping to now, and living rooms do not look the same: one person is streaming Netflix from the bedroom, another is binge-watching a YouTube series…
Marketing Insight ‘Famine’: Over 50% Of Brands Lacks Quality Insight
Advertising and marketing industry is suffering from a marketing insight famine. 51% of brands say their insights are too weak for creative work, according to State of Creativity by Cannes Lions 2025. Every week and month, hundreds of reports and studies, packed with graphs and pie charts from the Moon to Venus, keep flooding the…
Brand Trust Starts Here: Why Promise and Experience Must Match
Every brand has a promise, whether it is made in a communication campaign touting a promise of quality, speed, innovation, or value. But promise alone does not win customers. What matters most is whether the brand delivers the promise through experience. When a brand‘s promise matches the feeling it delivers, trust grows. When they don’t…
Channelize Memories in your Festival Marketing Strategy for Sales Growth
We are entering the time of festivals in the midst of inflation and tariffs. The talk for festival marketing strategy is significant where consumers are running away from stores or buying anything. If a purchaser thinks more than once while going through the aisle, your brand is on the line of getting ignored or not…
The Hidden Power of Post-Purchase Experience in Driving Retention
The sale used to be the finish line. Today, it’s only the starting line. In a crowded marketplace where products look the same and ads blur together, the post-purchase experience has become the true battlefield for loyalty. What happens in the hours, days, and weeks after customers click “buy” will determine whether they become a…
Customer Loyalty Demystified: 4 Bonds That Actually Work
Customer loyalty isn’t a program, it’s survival. For brands, it’s the thin line between being the GOAT and being ghosted. Sure, freebies and coupon codes can win a click, but can they win a customer’s mindshare? Not for long. Ogilvy’s recent study reminds us of a brutal truth: loyalty isn’t built on discounts or gimmicks.…
Emotional Loyalty in 2025: How to Win Lasting Customer Trust
Loyalty is not what it used to be. Remember when “buy nine, get the tenth free” was a great way to generate customer loyalty? Those days are gone. In 2025, transactional loyalty programs are beginning to look like dinosaurs—impressive at the time, but simply not built to last. The “loyalty programs” that are offered to…
What Marketers Should Know About the Omnicom-IPG Merger
The advertising industry just had its mic-drop moment. The Omnicom-IPG merger, valued at approximately $13.5 billion, represents far more than just a headline. Rather, it represents a force that will reshape the very foundations upon which global agencies exist. For years, there has been conjecture about who would blink first in the race to scale.…
Google Just Released New AI Marketing Tools You Can’t Ignore
You heard it here first: Google just released a suite of AI marketing tools that are about to change the marketing game. With everything from AI-generated search overviews to generative video and image creation. The marketing world is changing faster than most brands can adapt. If you’re not paying attention to these changes, you’re already…
August Marketing Rundown: 6 Must-Know Stories That Shaped the Month
The landscape of August marketing was set already due to back-to-school and back-to-college campaigns. However, there were other players in the same set of markets ready to steal the attention. Right, we are talking about attention whether it is deserving or not. Attention is the market’s new currency and we have deep dived in our…