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02 Sep 22

Zeroing in on Net Zero

Several approaches are proposed to mitigate Climate Change. Increasing environment friendly actions and investment, reducing fossil fuel consumption, manufacturing low carbon items, and even changing one’s diet are prescribed…and the list goes on. A comparatively larger, macro scale approach to mitigate climate change is achieving “Net Zero.” According to the UN, “..net zero means cutting […]

29 Aug 22

The marketing strategy where there are no handbooks

The digital native generations, especially Gen-Z, are big on online and social media. That, in a way, could be said as a birth right of theirs as they started with these platforms since Day 1 of their birth. World Economic Forum estimates that Gen Z spends (average) 2 hours and 55 minutes per day on […]

26 Aug 22

Climate change messaging the wrong way

Communicators try to prescribe ‘steps to take’ (along with a list of multiple action choices to pick from) in macro level issue messaging such as climate change. This is done with the good intention of helping to overcome the situation. This is due to many reasons and communicators are encouraged to focus on what not […]

22 Aug 22

From Millennials to Zillennials to Gen Z

According to Hubspot, every month, around 2.5 billion worldwide active users are on Facebook, 1 billion on Instagram, and 330 million on Twitter. Advertisers realised that unlike traditional media, digital platforms (Social and Online) have a wider, ever present reach to consumers. TV news, for instance is ‘periodic’ – in that, one needs to wait […]

12 Aug 22

When the audience loses trust…

Before trying to understand what ‘not’ to communicate on climate change, it is important to know what the audience ‘believes’ in. Climate change or otherwise, if the audience becomes skeptical of the messaging received, then there’s ‘trouble ahead’ for the communicator. Edelman Trust Barometer 2022 found that “almost two-thirds of people are inclined to distrust […]

04 Aug 22

‘Controlling’ fake news

Fake news, due to its very nature, is a stream that cannot be controlled. Instead, combating against it may be a way forward, though not the ‘best’ way. Any established mainstream media can come under serious scrutiny if it makes errors in its reporting, and be held directly accountable. This, in a way, works positively […]

18 Jul 22

FUTUREPROOFING PUBLIC RELATIONS

Public Relations is a field which evolves overnight. What makes sense today may not make sense tomorrow. However, as PR practitioners, we have the magical power of paving the path to thefuture of PR, to some extent. Most nations have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and it is not unknown that the pandemic has […]

14 Jul 22

The magical 72%

One half of climate change battle-front is equipped with scientific analysis, reams of observational and simulation data, and geographic reporting. There’s that missing half which is equally crucial (if not more) in communicating this. If you have read the previous articles in the series, you may have guessed it already. The other half of the […]

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