In this week's in-depth analysis of an editorial site of Natural Diamond Council, Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, writes how their website, as branded content, has been able to do what a marketing campaign, a series of advertisements or a promotional exercise couldn't have achieved — the ability to direct and shape the diamond semiosphere

A leader in using content to build brand image and brand connect recently caught our attention with its innovative approach to branded content. Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, analyses the brand's content initiatives from the semiotic lens

When the logic grows old or doesn't help strongly distinguish between category competitors, reaching out to the emotional faculty can possibly ensure your product's renewed usage, writes Hamsini Shivakumar, the founder of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting

Due to the pandemic, the consumption of food-related content is on a high, making many brands take this path. But the challenge is differentiation. This week, Hamsini Shivakumar lays down the strategy that can help brands bring a differentiation at a time when everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of food-related content

Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting writes that hybrid format tends to mix up characteristics from ads and content, as per the perceived requirement and it makes more sense to the marketer who feels concerned about the ROI on a pure branded content film and sees this as a way to continue the product sell while making it less interruptive

This week, Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, analyses Spotify's influencer-led content marketing strategy through the filter of semiotics

In this week's semiotic analysis, Hamsini Shivakumar analyses the brand's music video created with rapper Dee MC. She says the brand hasn't found its own voice through the video or evolved the visual and verbal signs of progressiveness, but it has simply adopted the formula learnt from culture to tick the right boxes for the anti-colourist crowd

In this week's semiotic analysis, Hamsini Shivakumar picks up Tinder's content initiative and asks what are Tinder and its influencers' definition of dating for the young Indian

In the last 2 to 3 years, several brands have started coming up with campaigns that motivate consumers to become content creators or take up content creation more seriously. BuzzInContent.com explores how this strategy benefits brands

The virtual event held between December 14-17 set high benchmarks in the Indian A&M industry with over 500 LIVE concurrent audiences during awards on YouTube alone

With over 70% members from the client-side and ~50% female members, the jury panel represents all the stakeholders

Content initiatives either created or executed between November 1, 2020 and October 31, 2021, can avail of the early bird offer till October 22, 2021

While human-interest storytelling certainly is a powerful way to evoke emotions, BuzzInContent asks experts why brands need to be more innovative and go beyond creating just human-interest storytelling if they want to beat the fatigue

Speaking at BuzzInContent Conversations, experts from diverse fields discuss how brands need to find ways of making troll-proof content

Industry captains will headline the BuzzInContent Conversations as five power-packed panels discuss the future of the content marketing, along with the challenges. The event will be held alongside the BuzzInContent Awards on December 9 at 3 pm

At a time most brands across the globe are theming their content around hope and positivity, only being able to resonate with the consumers' cultural background can help them stand out in the clutter, writes the Founder of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting

To help answer this question, Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, has studied four examples of branded communication – two with child influencers and two storytelling-driven pieces featuring kids

After writing 30 articles for BuzzInContent's section Content & Culture and analysing more than 80 pieces of branded content in over seven months, this week, the Founder of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting looks back at all the insights and lists them as five stages one must pass through in his or her journey to creating meaningful branded content