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13/10/2026

Your ad report says great ROAS. Your warehouse says half the COD orders came back.

58% of COD orders were returned in last year's festive quarter (Unicommerce data, 6,000+ Indian D2C brands).

A returned order isn't a sale. It's a courier bill.

Ask your agency one question: what's our ROAS after returns?

If they go quiet, you have your answer.

09/10/2026

Brands pay to bring 100 people into a shopping app. By my math, about 97 are gone within a month.

Installs in India: up 85% in two years. Day-30 retention: down 41% in two quarters.

Festive sale season is starting, so the install spending is about to ramp up again.

Count the shopping apps on your phone you haven't opened since last Diwali. That number is the whole story.

07/10/2026

Noticed something this week: Indian brands are increasingly collaborating with totally unrelated other brands. Not to co-sell a product. To borrow each other's communities.

A skincare brand doesn't need a fitness app's product. It needs the fitness app's audience, people who already trust what that app tells them daily.

Makes sense why this is happening now. Building an audience organically got slower and pricier. Borrowing someone else's already-trusting community is the shortcut.

Risk nobody talks about: that trust is temporary. A community trusts the HOST brand because of years of consistent behavior. The guest brand gets maybe one campaign's worth of goodwill before people start asking why a stranger's suddenly in their feed.

05/10/2026

86% of Indian shoppers are spending more this festive season. Here's the part most brands haven't caught up to yet.

A growing share of that spending gets shaped by what ChatGPT or Gemini recommends, before anyone opens Amazon or Flipkart. The AI isn't guessing. It's pulling from your reviews, your product pages, your D2C site, and whatever online communities are talking about your category.

Most festive budgets this month are going exactly where they went last year, paid ads and influencer deals. Almost nobody's checking whether an AI model even has a reason to say their brand's name out loud when a shopper asks it directly.

That gap is wide open right now. Festive season is exactly when wide-open gaps get expensive.

30/09/2026

A music video went viral for its synchronized crowd dance formation. Within days, brands selling everything from food to jewellery were recreating the exact same formation with their own products.

That's STORM II, premiered live at the VMAs this week. An AI tool made the formation instantly copyable. Days later, it wasn't a music video anymore, it was a template, and brands noticed before most agencies finished discussing it internally.

The brands moving fast here don't necessarily have the biggest budgets. They have a workflow that lets someone spot a trend Tuesday and ship it Thursday. These formats have a shelf life of days.

Most brands don't miss these moments because they lack creativity. They miss them because their approval chain is slower than the internet.

25/09/2026

GTA 6 has had exactly 2 trailers since 2023. No influencer campaign. No countdown urgency copy. Delayed 3 times, publicly, with a plain explanation each time.

It's the most anticipated launch in the industry right now. Pre-orders already breaking records, months before release.

Every marketing rule says this shouldn't work. Delays kill hype. Silence loses attention. Minimal content means minimal relevance.

The actual mechanic: Rockstar isn't managing attention. It's managing trust. Every delay came with honesty, not spin. Every trailer was clearly finished, not rushed to hit a content calendar.

Most brands post constantly because stopping feels scarier than continuing. Rockstar proved disciplined silence, followed by something genuinely ready, builds more anticipation than any calendar could.

23/09/2026

Ranked every marketing channel available to an Indian brand by actual ROI, not by how much money gets thrown at it.

Top of the list: WhatsApp marketing, 5-10x better ROAS than regular ads. Quick commerce ads on Blinkit/Zepto, 1.5-2x better ROAS than Meta or Google. Boosted personal LinkedIn posts, 77% cheaper per click than brand ads.

Bottom of the list, somehow getting most of the actual budget: standard single-image Meta ads. 0.9-1.4% click-through rate. 55-70% of B2B ad spend in India is still parked right there.

The best-performing channels are getting the least attention. The weakest one is eating most of the money. Not on purpose. Just because it's the default everyone starts with.

15/09/2026

AI will replace you.

I'd like to see it convince a client that "make it pop" is not a creative direction.

Real trend going around right now: state the AI fear, undercut it with something painfully specific and human. Ours could run all day. I'd like to see AI sit through a brief that changes three times before lunch. I'd like to see it explain, for the fourth time, why "viral" isn't a dropdown option.

The funny part, once you actually think about it: nobody's worried about AI writing a headline. Everyone's worried about it managing the part of the job that was never about writing. Reading a room. Holding a client's hand through their own indecision.

That's the actual moat. Not the copy. The conversation around it.

10/09/2026

Google quietly added a new report this week that shows exactly how often your website gets mentioned inside an AI answer.

Used to be a total guess. Now it's an actual number, sitting inside Search Console, the same dashboard most businesses already have open and barely explore past the traffic graph.

Google also merged AI Mode into AI Overviews this month, so it's one target to optimize for now instead of two.

Most people won't check this report for months. That gap is exactly the kind of thing that's expensive to be late to and free to fix early. If you've got Search Console open, this is five minutes, not a project.

04/09/2026

Krishna's flute didn't need a boosted post. People just came outside when they heard it. No reminder, no push notification, no incentive.

Most festive marketing right now is built like a loudspeaker instead, more reach, bigger budget, hoping volume does what resonance used to do.

The flute version of marketing is rarer. Content specific and honest enough that people show up on their own, without being pushed.

Happy Janmashtami. May your content need fewer boosts this festive season.

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