@SandeepRamesh@arindam___paul The soln to that, IMO, is for brands to work only with CPS, and say no to CPM/CPC. Building an affiliate m̶a̶r̶k̶e̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ sales platform for D2C because I believe in this so much after all the heartburn I've seen delivering retail ad platforms
@BharadwajVikram@arindam___paul But data clean rooms are somehow out of the reach of most retail ad platforms (context: I built some of it at Walmart Intl). Big brands are willing to pay for programmatic access, but retailers are scared they may give away too much
Some history Trivia on Project Tiger. A🧵
Though the Project was launched today, 50 yrs ago, the actual beginning was a year earlier. In 1972, an 11-member 'task force' constituted by Indira Gandhi submitted its report. They thought of a title for their report. They called it 👇
@SamsungIndia - My Watch4 lets water in during a 15min pool swim & my warranty is voided. I pay for repairs, but your care team says it will never be water-resistant again. What kind of a scam is this?! :-) Your care number is unreachable, btw - IVR asks me to click on sms link!
@hicare_services - Your insistence on going through a feedback to get a completion OTP is the most frustrating thing to deal with in the middle of a working day...
@ntca_india This seems to be a very low estimate. A reserve like Bandipur would be worth only ~500-2000cr/year going by this?! Goes against global biodiversity estimates?
It's funny (not), when casual racism comes in the garb of animal welfare. I always maintained that India is one of the few places where the extreme right and the extreme left find this weird common ground
For all those who said it's just okay to dig for oil in National Park areas - FIRST the oil spilled and the company can't clean it up (it's been over ten days). Countless animals have died in an endemic area
SECOND the oil has now caught fire.
Baghjan, Dibru-Saikhowa landscape.