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From Campaign to Movement The Colgate Playbook

SMARTIES Studio | From Campaign to Movement: The Colgate Playbook

In this episode of SMARTIES Studio, Rohit Dadwal goes behind the scenes of Colgate’s Oral Health Movement with Gunjit Jain and Shekhar Banerjee, unpacking how a real consumer problem, technology, organisational commitment and radical collaboration came together to create impact at scale. The starting point was a striking gap: while 9 in 10 Indians have […]

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AI’s True Potential Lies Upstream

AI’s True Potential Lies Upstream

Most conversations about AI today revolve around productivity, efficiency and speed of execution.  We use AI to draft content, build presentations, generate campaign ideas, summarize research, refine copy and automate repetitive tasks. These are valuable applications. But most are downstream applications — actions taken after the strategy has been defined, the problem framed and the

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The Gap Between Proving Personalization and Running It at Scale

The Gap Between Proving Personalization and Running It at Scale

AI has dramatically expanded what marketers can personalize – across audiences, creative, channels and customer journeys. But greater capability has also exposed a harder question: can the organization actually operate personalization at the same scale that technology now makes possible? The constraint is increasingly less about generating another variation or identifying another audience. It is

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What Happens When Availability Becomes a Brand-Discovery Signal?

A shopper asks an AI assistant to find a portable speaker under $150 that can arrive before the weekend. Product quality matters. Reviews matter. Price matters. But so does something marketers have traditionally considered further down the purchase journey: whether the product is actually available when the consumer wants it. That distinction is becoming more

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Who Owns the Incrementality Number in Retail Media?

A retail media campaign concludes with a strong incrementality result. The retailer’s study shows additional sales attributable to the investment. The brand’s analytics team evaluates the impact through a different methodology, while finance looks at revenue, margin and the return required to justify the next investment. None of these perspectives is inherently wrong, but which

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Everyone in Southeast Asia Has Adopted AI But Almost No One Is Ready to Scale It

Everyone in Southeast Asia Has Adopted AI But Almost No One Is Ready to Scale It

New benchmark from Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA) and Decision Lab maps how deeply marketing teams across the region have integrated AI, and where the real gaps remain.  For years, the question in Southeast Asian marketing was whether to adopt AI, and that question is now settled. The Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA) and Decision Lab have released The State of

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