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Marketing Focused Media: The trends, the campaigns, and the rituals are what paint a picturesque marketing landscape. Knowing the nuances of what your competition is doing will unlock creative arenas for you to experiment. Read about the latest trends, campaigns and marketing rituals here:
American Marketing Association
My personal favourite is Nielsen India. It was during my internship that I came across this blog and have not been able to skip any of its articles so far. The micro-level insights that they analyze is simply unparalleled.
Publishing Houses & Consultancy: If you’re looking for a deep delving analysis of a category, segment or product; here is where all your questions get answered:
Business Today (Case-studies of brand practices and campaigns)
Euromonitor Passport (Very Important)
Marketing Sherpa (Cases)
McKinsey (Marketing & Sales Insights)
Economic-Times
Business Standard (Paid)
Euromonitor-Passport gives a vivid quantitative and qualitative analysis of categories. It paints a macro picture for you to get a holistic view of the category at large. If you like doing case competitions, this is the best source for all your secondary research.
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Blue Perks (Opinions)
Marketing Unplugged (Curated Articles)
Marketing Practice (Latest Brand happenings)
Timely Pick (Syndication)
Marketing Practice has up-to-the-minute updates about various brands their launch, campaigns, rituals, personas, among others. It gives a very objective analysis of brands, both new and iconic. As its name suggests, it actually brings marketing to practice.
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Comments
Chirag Shukla
Thanks Pratik! This is really helpful. Could you also suggest some books which can provide similar insights on marketing?
20 Dec 2018, 11.17 AM
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Pratik Ranjan
Pratik is an MBA candidate at IIM Lucknow. He is an ardent aspiring marketing strategist. His passion for marketing multiplied multifold post his internship with Unilever, where he was conferred with a PPO. Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug & seized by afflatus to read, write & explore, this twenty-something believes in the power of dreaming with his eyes open. He is a columnist in various newsletters and is up for any discussion that involves the nuances of marketing and strategy. P.S: He's charged by the fuel of caffeine.
Hello, Chirag! Sure. There are many books on consumer insights and journey of iconic brands, however, very few on Indian consumers. Here are my personal favorites: *Fortune lies at the bottom of the pyramid *Nawabs Nudes Noodles * Pandeymonium * We are like this only * Darwin's Brands.
20 Dec 2018, 12.28 PM |
nishant vurla
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Thank you so much Pratik!!
20 Dec 2018, 12.16 PM
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Pratik Ranjan
Pratik is an MBA candidate at IIM Lucknow. He is an ardent aspiring marketing strategist. His passion for marketing multiplied multifold post his internship with Unilever, where he was conferred with a PPO. Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug & seized by afflatus to read, write & explore, this twenty-something believes in the power of dreaming with his eyes open. He is a columnist in various newsletters and is up for any discussion that involves the nuances of marketing and strategy. P.S: He's charged by the fuel of caffeine.
Anytime, Nishant! :).
20 Dec 2018, 12.28 PM |
Rishika Gupta
Travel Junkie, Philosphical , High on life
Thanks Pratik, this is really helpful. Please share as to how one can become a columnist for a marketing newsletter?
29 Dec 2018, 12.49 PM
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Pratik Ranjan
Pratik is an MBA candidate at IIM Lucknow. He is an ardent aspiring marketing strategist. His passion for marketing multiplied multifold post his internship with Unilever, where he was conferred with a PPO. Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug & seized by afflatus to read, write & explore, this twenty-something believes in the power of dreaming with his eyes open. He is a columnist in various newsletters and is up for any discussion that involves the nuances of marketing and strategy. P.S: He's charged by the fuel of caffeine.
Thank you so much, Rishika! You can apply to B-School clubs, Start-ups and journals with your article. I am sure they'll approve and accept it.
3 Jan 2019, 07.50 PM |
Darpan Saxena
Hi Guys, there's another Marketing blog for MBAs that I have been running for over a year. I write about marketing concepts with real-world examples. It is superheuristics.com
30 Jan 2019, 06.22 PM
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Pratik Ranjan
Pratik is an MBA candidate at IIM Lucknow. He is an ardent aspiring marketing strategist. His passion for marketing multiplied multifold post his internship with Unilever, where he was conferred with a PPO. Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug & seized by afflatus to read, write & explore, this twenty-something believes in the power of dreaming with his eyes open. He is a columnist in various newsletters and is up for any discussion that involves the nuances of marketing and strategy. P.S: He's charged by the fuel of caffeine.
Thanks for the addition, Darpan!
10 Apr 2019, 11.16 AM |
Manish Kaddu
Very Helpful. This is exactly what I needed. Thanks for writing it.
11 Apr 2019, 10.07 PM
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Pratik Ranjan
Pratik is an MBA candidate at IIM Lucknow. He is an ardent aspiring marketing strategist. His passion for marketing multiplied multifold post his internship with Unilever, where he was conferred with a PPO. Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug & seized by afflatus to read, write & explore, this twenty-something believes in the power of dreaming with his eyes open. He is a columnist in various newsletters and is up for any discussion that involves the nuances of marketing and strategy. P.S: He's charged by the fuel of caffeine.
Glad! Let me know if you need anything else.
9 Aug 2019, 09.15 PM |
sathish kumar
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29 Sep 2020, 06.29 PM