Anant Rangaswami

Articles by Anant Rangaswami

Opinion:

Uber and Ola: Broken On The Day They Started

What if the assumptions are wrong and you build a whole business on these wrong assumptions?

Opinion:

My Hope For 2022

We’re destroying the fabric of the creative fraternity, dragging them into conversations that only serve to distract them from producing brilliant advertising.

News:

Pradeep Guha, RIP. Not a tall man; but he walked tall.

Paying tribute to Pradeep Guha, who passed away after a late diagnosis of cancer and a short battle in hospital.

Media:

Star Struck

The rules that Peter Mukerjea broke, and the first thing he got absolutely right.

Research:

What Clubhouse Can Learn From WPPStream

I’m going to attend Clubhouse sessions with the same enthusiasm and hope with which I attended Stream sessions.

Marketing:

Predictions for 2021: May you live in interesting times

2021 will be about being faster, better, cheaper. But the most important opportunity will be the understanding of Indian languages and leveraging that understanding.

Marketing:

RIP Dharampal Gulati

Why do I say he was both a visionary and a brilliant marketing mind?

Advertising:

The Tanishq Mess And The Advertising Industry’s False Sense Of Self

The creative professionals – those who work on MAKING an ad – seem to have neither representation nor voice in any of the industry bodies.

Research:

Lessons From Paneer: Quality Of News Channels

How do you measure anything qualitatively, when, almost by definition, there seeps in large doses of subjectivity in the judging?

Advertising:

Of Tutorials And Messages You Shouldn’t Trust

Anant Rangaswami (Editor, Melt) explains why he's a complete cynic when he sees a brand ambassador pushing any product or service.