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Kavisha Mody

ASCI Releases Draft Rules That All Social Media Influencers Should Know About | MissMalini

ASCI issues a new draft with a fresh set of guidelines for rampant social media advertising. All social media influencers, check this out!

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ASCI Releases Draft Rules That All Social Media Influencers Should Know About - MissMalini

Over the past few years, we have seen influencer
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marketing pick up a lot of pace in our country. Now, it’s easily considered to
be one of the mainstream advertising channels for countless brands. With regard
to the swift increase of advertising and brand promotions in the digital media
space, ASCI has released a fresh set of guidelines. The Advertising Standards
Council Of India has issued a draft that a

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Karishma Govil

Ashok Kurien's 70th Birthday Party Was Nothing Short Of A Scene From 'The Great Gatsby' | MissMalini

I recently attended Ashok Kurien's 70th birthday party and it legit felt like walking into a scene from 'The Great Gatsby'!

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Ashok Kurien’s 70th Birthday Party Was Nothing Short Of A Scene From ‘The Great Gatsby’ - MissMalini

Who doesn’t like parties
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, yes? What if I told you, I recently attended the grandest party of all times?
Yeah, you’re probably wondering how badly I may have exaggerated this statement.
But the truth is, it really was an unimaginably extravagant affair. Ready to
know the deets? Well, it was the advertising genius, Ashok Kurien‘s 70th
birthday party on 25th January. Here’s everything that went down…

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Web Series

Shubanka Sridhar

'Thinkistan' Traces The Highs & Lows Of The Indian Advertising Industry Like Never Before | MissMalini

Thinkistan - that latest original web series from MXPlayer - takes a look inside the life of an Indian ad agency & we're intrigued!

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‘Thinkistan’ Traces The Highs &#038; Lows Of The Indian Advertising Industry Like Never Before - MissMalini

Web Series – ThinkistanLooking for our next binge.
As audiences who are constantly surfing the web, we’re always looking for
interesting new shows to binge on. Lately, there has been no dearth of stories
catering to Indian sensibilities, which has made consuming and creating original
content very exciting. Set in the mid-1990s, MXPlayer‘s upcoming drama – 
Thinkistan is a new web series that has us super intrigued!

A show based on the daily happenings of an advertising agency is not something
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Atmaj Vyas

5 Videos That Will Restore Your Faith In Advertising | MissMalini

While some ads can be misleading and OTT, others can actually make you feel a bunch of emotions, you didn't think an advertisement could make you feel.

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5 Videos That Will Restore Your Faith In Advertising - MissMalini

Advertisement (Image Courtesy: Shutterstock)We’ve all come across an
advertisement that we thought was about something, but ended up being completely
unrelated. There are also a lot of ads that mislead innocent customers. With all
that is going on, very few people actually have any faith left in
advertisements. However, all is not lost! Here are 5 advertisements that prove
not all of them are boring and will also restore your faith in them.

1. IKEA
This is an ad that is brilliantly executed. Un

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15 Of The Funniest Headlines That Will Leave You ROTFL | MissMalini

News headlines are usually pretty serious. However, sometimes, when they go unchecked, they end up being downright hilarious.

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15 Of The Funniest Headlines That Will Leave You ROTFL - MissMalini

News outlets sometimes have a tendency to go a bit overboard when it comes to
reporting. The headlines they print sometimes are totally gag-worthy and make
you want to cringe really bad. However, not every headline is a bad one! Some of
them are outright hilarious and make you question the sanity of the editor and
writer. Whether it was deliberate or just accidental, here are 15 of the
funniest headlines we’ve come across.

1. Federal Agents Raid Gun Shop, Find Weapons
Right… what else were you 

Bollywood Features

Ranbir Kapoor

Malini Agarwal

My Thoughts On Ranbir Kapoor's Hero Scooter Ad! | MissMalini

Basically everything you needed to know about Ranbir Kapoor you can probably tell from this scooter ad!

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My Thoughts On Ranbir Kapoor’s Hero Scooter Ad! - MissMalini

Ranbir Kapoor scooter adEVERYTIME I catch this ad flipping channels on my TV,
the SAME thing occurs to me: Yup, basically everything you needed to know about 
Ranbir Kapoor you can probably tell from this scooter ad. He’s cute, he can
never be serious and his boyish charm and good looks means he can get away with
just about anything! Right? Watch!



Now here’s the commercial I would LOVE to see: this exact same girl gets fed up
of her boyfriend’s “it’s a boy thing” ways, breaks up with him and 

Hilarious

Lady Gaga

Music

Ranjit Rodricks

Hilarious: Lady Gaga Makes her Debut in a Desi Ad (Like A Virgin!) | MissMalini

Ever so often we come across those WTF-are-you-crazy?! kind of advertisements which are stuck in the local trains or printed in vernacular newspapers.

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Hilarious: Lady Gaga Makes her Debut in a Desi Ad (Like A Virgin!) - MissMalini

Ever so often we come across those WTF-are-you-crazy?! kind of advertisements
which are stuck in the local trains or printed in vernacular newspapers. This
advertisement is from the latter category and was tweeted by a person going by
the handle of @Tire_Puncture.

Like A Virgin? Lady GagaRoughly translated, it means: “Apart from European and American women, now
available for Indian women too is Virgin Oil. She’s like ‘New’ every day!”

Errr… and in case you were wondering, this is not an ad for

Television

International

International TV

Mad Men

Serena Vora

Mad Men's Return to Television With 'Zou Bisou Bisou' | MissMalini

Mad Men is finally back on air, and ever since I watched the premiere of Season 5 the song Zou Bisou Bisou has been stuck in my head. Warning: Spoiler

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Mad Men’s Return to Television With ‘Zou Bisou Bisou’ - MissMalini

Jessica Paré on Mad Men.Mad Men is finally back on air, and ever since I watched the premiere of Season
5 the song Zou Bisou Bisou has been stuck in my head.
Warning: Spoiler Alert!

Megan Draper (yes, they got married!) played by Jessica Paré sings the song Zou
Bisou Bisou at Don Draper’s surprise 40th birthday party and it’s become an
overnight rage. The song is already available to download on iTunes and critics
have been raving about Pare’s interpretation.



The origins of the catchy tune g

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Would You Go Shop at a F*****G Sale? They Have One in Japan! | MissMalini

We've been to sales and shopped till we dropped! In fact, I personally do my yearly shopping when the sale season starts. But when I saw this actual

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Would You Go Shop at a F*****G Sale? They Have One in Japan! - MissMalini

And what exactly does one &quot;buy&quot; at this sale?We’ve been to sales and shopped
till we dropped! In fact, I personally do my yearly shopping when the sale
season starts. But when I saw this actual picture of a sale, doing the rounds on
the net, my jaw dropped in shock.

This sale actually took place in a shopping centre in Osaka, Japan, just after
New Years!

Like, what exactly is a “F*****g Sale”? And what would you buy there? Any
idea..???

Bollywood Gossip

Madhuri Dixit

Smile! Or Else Madhuri Dixit, Chief Smile Officer Will Have You Brush and Floss For Her! | MissMalini

Gosh! The things Bollywood stars and celebrities have to proclaim when they endorse a product! At times, it can seriously border on the hilarious and this

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Smile! Or Else Madhuri Dixit, Chief Smile Officer Will Have You Brush and Floss For Her! - MissMalini

Madhuri Dixit NeneGosh! The things Bollywood stars and celebrities have to
proclaim when they endorse a product! At times, it can seriously border on the
hilarious and this particular tweet by dhak-dhak girl, Madhuri Dixit Nene,
actually had me ROF-LMAO.

Madhuri&#039;s hilarious tweetWonder what the good “Officer” will do if we desist
from showing-off our pearly whites? Run after us with a brush and tooth-paste?
Actually, let’s not give her any ideas….

Abhishek Bachchan

Amul Butter

Hollywood

Rahul daCunha

Billions of Yellow Buttering Particles - Tintin Gets a Taste of Desi Amul Butter! | MissMalini

Whoever has seen Tintin - The Secret Of The Unicorn, has loved the film immensely and rated it as one of the best films that has been released in 2011. In

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Billions of Yellow Buttering Particles – Tintin Gets a Taste of Desi Amul Butter! - MissMalini

The Tinitin film posterWhoever has seen Tintin – The Secret Of The Unicorn, has loved the film
immensely and rated it as one of the best films that has been released in 2011.

In fact, Tintin is so popular in India that it was released here before it was
screened in the USA. It’s probably precisely for this reason that adman Rahul
DaCunha has created a lovely ad for his client, Amul Butter, which honours the
film’s release.

The Amul Butter - Tintin advertisementNow isn’t that cute?

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How Cute Is This? It's Utterly Butterly Cuteness! | MissMalini

Rahul daCunha and his gang at daCunha Communications have done it again! These brilliant mins behind the Amul Butter campaign have now released an

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How Cute Is This? It’s Utterly Butterly Cuteness! - MissMalini

The latest Amul advertisementRahul daCunha and his gang at daCunha Communications have done it again! These
brilliant mins behind the Amul Butter campaign have now released an
advertisement which commemorates (or celebrates?) the Seven Billionth person’s
birth, which is ironically a baby girl in Uttar Pradesh.

The legendary Amul Girl with the polka-dot bow in her hair has never been cuter.
How about merchandising a line of dolls in her various avataars, Rahul? It would
be  great collectible for