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Sampad Swain explores Marketing, Social Media and Technology trends, strategies and its impact on Business, Culture & us

What Is The Most Trusted Forms of Advertising in India: Nielsen Survey Reports

July 29, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Advertising 2.0, India, Survey/Analysis

IndiaPRWire reports that recommendations by personal acquaintances is the most trusted form of advertising by Indian respondents garnering 93 percent votes, according to the latest quarterly Nielsen Global Online Consumer Survey of over 25,000 Internet consumers from 50 countries. Editorial content such as newspaper articles and Brand websites follow with 87 and 78 percent votes [...]

“No More Investment in Digital Media” Says India Today Chief – Less Revolutionary, More Reationary

May 06, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: India, Online Marketing, Strategy

Today where I read this piece from Danny Sullivan about Forbes CEO Jim Spanfeller’s comments on Google, I was wondering about Indian state of affairs. Act two came easy for me when I read this from ContentSutra’s article where Aroon Purie (Chief of India Today) said that he is no more interested in investing in [...]

Twitter’s First TV Commercial (Courtesy Sprint)

April 08, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Advertising 2.0, Uncategorized

How can I miss this one? Yes, you read the post title correctly – Twitter got its first television commercial. Okay, okay, I’ll cut short and drop the news.

Twitter was featured in a Sprint television ad with its birdie signage. This is what they had to say about it:

The folks at Sprint have a new [...]

How Far Are We From Ubiquitous Mobile Web Access?

March 27, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Uncategorized

May be just a question for this post. I don’t want to prude too deeply since I always believed that 1+1=11 while thinking about collective intelligence over internet.
Question is:

HOW FAR ARE WE FROM UBIQUITOUS MOBILE WEB ACCESS?

I always believed that web can go to deep end of the society only through a device which has [...]

74 Percent of Digital Messages Take Mobile Route

March 26, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Industry News, Survey/Analysis

According to TNS Global (published by eMarketer), 74% of the world’s digital messages were sent through a mobile device in January 2009. To be precise, its about 15% increase over the previous year.
Most of it is driven by emerging markets including BRIC economies viz India, China, Russia & Russia. In emerging markets, the trend [...]

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