Customer Experience

AI-driven behavior

Your Next Buyer Isn’t Human: How AI-Driven Behavior is Changing Marketing in 2025

By Garima Sinha / May 22, 2025

Wait, Who’s Shopping Now—An AI? Is it for real? You log into your favorite shopping app to reorder dog food. Before you can even tap, the item’s already in your cart, shipping on the way. Smooth, right? But here’s the twist: it wasn’t you who added it. Magic—no, it’s your AI assistant. Your AI-driven behavior…

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Immersive Brand Activations

From Passive to Participatory: Why Immersive Brand Activations Matter  

By Garima Sinha / May 19, 2025

Billboards and predictable product placements are now boring. The future of brand love — it’s immersive, emotional, and unforgettable. We live in the age of attention scarcity. Consumers scroll, skip, and swipe their way through ads like it’s second nature. In today’s noisy digital world, immersive brand activations cut through the noise by making people…

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dark funnel marketing

Dark Funnel Marketing: The Invisible Hand Behind Every Click

By Garima Sinha / May 13, 2025

It always happens, doesn’t it? You are chatting with a friend on WhatsApp when a friend casually drops a link to a new skincare brand they have been loving. Later, you spot someone raving about the same brand on Instagram Stories. You add their bestseller to your cart without seeing it after a week. That’s…

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Liquid Death Demise in the UK Because of Culture and not just Product

Culture Over Carbonation: Unpacking Liquid Death’s Demise in the UK

By Ruchi Roy / May 12, 2025

For many months, marketing experts and pundits have covered Liquid Death’s failure in the UK and explored its reasons. Liquid Death’s journey is quite an interesting case study for brands that may see the UK as a potential market for themselves.  Liquid Death saw an uptick in its sales and popularity simultaneously in the US…

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Circular economy

Circular Economy Meets Creative Strategy: Reinventing Sustainable Advertising

By Garima Sinha / May 8, 2025

First came #SponCon (Sponsored Content). Then de-influencing took over. Now there’s a new wave currently sweeping around our feeds, which is more concerned with sustainability than flashy new purchases. By supporting the circular economy rather than encouraging excessive consumption, influencers are rewriting the rules of traditional advertising. This is the new age of circular economy…

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Over-Optimization of Customer Journey Map Leads to Fatigue

Over-Optimized Customer Journey Maps: A New CX Risk?

By Ruchi Roy / May 7, 2025

Customer journey map is a technical term, but when customers experience the journey and find it not worth the energy, brands fail.   I was trying to buy a subscription to Amazon Prime Video, and the entire process made me understand the meaning of the customer journey. I had to juggle between two apps for more…

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Marketing Funnels are Not Linear Anymore, Continuity has Entered

Marketing Funnels are Not Linear Anymore, Continuity has Entered

By Ruchi Roy / May 5, 2025

The time has come for marketing funnels. Well, they are not dying. But you cannot ignore the presence of elements impacting them and bending the linear path of the customer journey.   Marketers worship AIDA (Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action), the foundation of the marketing funnel. It is clean, predictable, and comfortingly neat. However, digital enlightenment has…

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Is Short form Video Still… Short?

Stretching the Limits: Is Short form Video Still… Short?

By Ruchi Roy / April 25, 2025

Stretching Short Form: Did you know the first short form video had a time limit of just six seconds? The platform was Vine—a viral, vertical video app that exploded in popularity among early creators. But Vine met its end in 2016, and one of the many reasons was precisely that rigid time limit. Around the same…

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AI Voice Assistants

Talk to Post: How AI Voice Assistants Are Powering the Next Wave of Social Media Creators

By Garima Sinha / April 18, 2025

Picture this: You’re brushing your teeth and remember a hilarious tweet idea. Instead of scrambling for your phone, you just say, “Hey AI Voice Assistant, tweet: ‘Brushing off bad vibes like plaque.’” Boom—posted. That’s the magic of AI Voice Assistants today. They’ve gone from setting alarms to setting trends—helping creators post, caption, script, and even…

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Why Accessible Design Is the Next Big Thing in Digital Advertising

Accessible Design: The Real Game-Changer in Digital Advertising

By Garima Sinha / April 17, 2025

The internet is meant to be a level playing field—one that allows everyone to engage, explore, and connect. But what if the way we design digital experiences is unintentionally leaving millions out? For brands trying to capture hearts and clicks, that’s not just a design flaw. It’s a missed opportunity. Accessible design isn’t just about compliance…

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