Eyeballing 2012

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Santosh Desai:  Dec 18 2012, 01:42 IST
a whole, of course, coherence is the one quality that has remained remarkably elusive. The typical advertising in this category tends to be exaggerated to the point of being somewhat unhinged; prime examples being the trying-so-hard-that-it-bleeds attempt by Quikr featuring Bob Biswas and the decidedly strange offering dished out by Godaddy.com. Salman Khan’s presence made a ham-handed Yatra.com campaign worse. Untethered by having to cater to too many ground realities, internet and e-commerce start-ups seem to reside in a world of their imagination. The pressure to be whimsical makes for some very uneven creative output; 2012 was certainly a great illustration of this aspect.

Some of the better work this year included Cadbury’s on-going campaign—though less distinguished than last year’s effort it continued to move along a very clear and well-defined trajectory. This year the quality was less consistent, but there were winners like the ‘in-laws, outlaws’ commercial featuring a young couple talking on the sidelines of a wedding, and the one where a wife tells her husband she is pregnant. The Cadbury’s Milk Shots campaign that featured Anurag Kashyap looking for appropriate people to cast in a new film worked well, although the same could not be said of another brand from the stable, Oreo, which is too cutesy for its own good. In the case of Oreo, one senses the heavy hand of international campaign formats lurking somewhere in the background.

Tanishq was another brand that did some consistently good work; the wedding gift and the solitaire commercials in particular,

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