From creator collabs to AR chefs, IPL 2025 proves brands must chase relevance across memes, match breaks, and micro-moments—not just media buys.
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Bats, reels, and buys: The new IPL media mix
Pepsi moments don’t wait—and neither do we: Cathy Graham Kidd
With ‘Anytime is Pepsi Time,’ Pepsi’s senior brand director unpacks the brand’s global playbook, cultural agility, and the art of real-time marketing.
A new UNICEF campaign hits a six for gender equality
Deceptively simple, profoundly compelling. Watch Howatson+Company's latest pro bono effort for Cricket Australia.
Kohli, Dhoni and Ronaldo among India's favourite sportsmen: Ormax report
The report also found that nearly 48% of the population—678 million people—are sports enthusiasts in India.
Mastercard's Raja Rajamannar on making the right cricket partnership
The chief marketing and communications officer shares insights into Mastercard's decision to tie up with the ICC, and on choosing not to renew the BCCI partnership
Star Sports shows how fans back team India irrespective of victory or defeat for Asia Cup promo
Conceptualised in-house, the campaign puts the hearts of 1.6 billion fans at the core.
Will brands follow the BCCI and close the endorsement-fee gap between genders?
With the Indian women's cricket team and the men's cricket team members getting the same match fees, we ask experts if this will help the endorsement fee for the former
New spot celebrates what makes cricket, cricket!
Cricket Australia's new campaign celebrates crickets’ unique contribution to culture, samosas, snags and sweet memories.
Disney Star's innings with ICC to continue till 2027
The media company has retained the digital streaming and television rights.
In reverse decision, Vivo set to leave as IPL lead sponsor
Amid a public outcry over Chinese-Indian tensions, reports say Vivo is now likely to quit as lead sponsor of the tournament.
For brands in India, is cricket the ticket, or a sticky wicket?
'When in doubt, use cricket' is a truism in India. But according to the performance of heavy sponsors like Oppo and Vivo on our list of India's top brands, it may be time for a re-think.
Football boots rival sports into touch
F1 and baseball make gains, but neither come close to the beautiful game’s grip on Asia-Pacific.
A Royal Challenge to get rid of stereotypes in cricket
DDB Mudra helps sports drink champion gender parity in India's most popular sport.
A cricket anthem about buckets? Ok then, KFC
To launch the new cricket season in Australia, KFC is encouraging an 'army' to don camo-coloured KFC buckets on their heads. Guess you sort of have to be there.