The Hidden Dark Social of Dhaka: Why Your Analytics Miss the Real Story
Last week, a meme landed in my family WhatsApp group. It was a clever parody of a popular beverage brand’s latest TVC. By the time I saw it, the...
Last week, a meme landed in my family WhatsApp group. It was a clever parody of a popular beverage brand’s latest TVC. By the time I saw it, the...
It’s 11:15 PM on a Tuesday. You’ve just put your phone down to sleep, and it buzzes. Is it an emergency? A family member? No, it’s a generic SMS...
The numbers coming out of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) this year tell a deceptive story. Yes, internet penetration has climbed to over 54% of households, and smartphone adoption...
The “Dhaka logic” of branding is changing right under our feet. For a long time, we thought of social impact as something you do after you’ve made your profit, usually...
In my analysis of the Dhaka digital market over the last decade, I’ve noticed a painful trend: we are spending more on video production every year while our actual engagement...
Right now, if you walk into a boardroom in Gulshan or Banani, the conversation usually circles back to one painful reality: the cost of getting a new customer is...
Beyond the Click: Emotion AI for Bangladeshi Customer Journeys Why is it that we can track a Pathao ride across three neighborhoods in real-time, yet we still receive “one-size-fits-all” promotional...
Does your brand have a pulse, or is it just a balance sheet? That is a question I have been asking my teams in Dhaka lately. Over the last year,...
We handed 130 million people a smartphone, but we forgot to give them the manual. That is the uncomfortable truth staring us in the face, and it is exactly why...
Cross-Cultural Branding: When Bangladeshi Brands Go Global (and Foreign Brands Localize for Bangladesh) Here is the brutal truth: You can have the slickest logo, the biggest media buy, and the...