The Indian AdGeek
Behind every campaign sits a business. Vishal Mehra speaks with agency leaders, strategists and marketers about clients, money and the changing work of building brands.
From the conversation. Short excerpts on agency economics, creative judgment and the business of building brands. Follow a subject into the full conversation.
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MANJA’s 16-person model: pricing expertise, protecting attention
Arvind Krishnan

Karaoke marketing, potted plants and what’s wrong with modern marketing
Shubhranshu Singh

Why advertising struggles to price its own value
Prasad Sangameshwaran

What attention data can tell advertisers
Mike Follett

Building brands through entertainment
Gautham Narayanan

AKQA’s frontier model: embedded teams, prototypes and pricing
Bianca Dordea

Reading the Indian consumer
Santosh Desai

What winning pitches teach an agency about growth
Tracey Barber

Brand building when the marketing partner takes equity
Raja Ganapathy

Creative technology’s advantage beyond access to AI tools
Laurent Thevenet

Connected brands and the pricing problem of AI-assisted work
Babita Baruah

Kulfi Collective’s business across branded content and owned IP
Advait Gupt
