Well, Isn’t Diwali a time for something new?

For a festival that thrives on bringing in the new, one would think marketers would search for that bright new spark (pun intended) to set aside their advertising. After all, it’s a big season - with some categories reporting 50% of annual sales around the time.

It’s also a festival that comes towards the end of the Roman year, one would think leaving us with a lot to look back upon. How a world changed. How it met new challenges, and how its readying for the year ahead.

So what do you think works well for your brand? Emotional advertising? Functional advertising? Both?

The recent CARS24 campaign got us thinking about this. Selling your car via a tech enabled intermediary. CARS24 is creating a whole new experience in facilitating the sale of your car. As someone who has both the pre and post CARS24 car selling experience, CARS24 was a blessing. No more newspaper ads, OLX pesky callers, brokers – I was in control of the selling experience.

So no surprise that it has been a very fast growing company building the market as well as bringing in competition into the category.

While the Peloton customer base is primarily the affluent, its recent marketing has been geared towards making it more accessible for people by providing financing options as well. It is constantly communicating how a one-time payment for life-long fitness is better than paying large annual sums for a gym membership you may or may not use.

Byju’s has managed to bridge this obvious generation gap with the help of their ‘consultants’. Once the company has your details, thanks to the information you feed into the app, the consultants get in touch for a home visit.

Advertisements should not speak to kids directly and should not be allowed on media being largely consumed by the kids. Parents should always remain filters of content to young age children. It will only force marketers to be more creative in engaging parents for products beneficial to the kids.