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The Indian AdGeek podcast is where the best advertising minds sit down to talk real business of building brands, every fortnight, from Mumbai to Madison Avenue. What started as a platform to spotlight India's sharpest marketers has evolved into a global stage, featuring a blend of premier Indian & international agency leaders. We celebrate the art and business of advertising - showcasing how storytelling and agency P&L are equally important to resonate with audiences & clients alike. If you build brands, run an agency, or simply love the business behind the work, pull up a chair. Some of advertising's best minds already have.
Unknown Host hosts The Indian AdGeek.
Gautham Narayanan runs Virtue, VICE Brand Group's creative agency, across Europe[cite: 1]. Before that, 13 years at AMV BBDO London on brands like Guinness and BT, doubling profits at BBDO South Africa, and a run as Mana
What do you actually say when someone asks what AKQA does? That's the question Episode 31 opens with, and Bianca Dordea , Global Client Lead at AKQA , answers it. Before AKQA, Bianca was CEO of DDB Berlin , and before th
In our milestone 30th episode (& our very first video podcast), we are joined by one of the true greats of Indian advertising: Santosh Desai (MD & CEO of Future Brands India, author of Mother Pious Lady , and leg
Episode 29 of The Indian AdGeek features Tracey Barber , Global Chief Transformation and Growth Officer at Havas Creative Network, in a conversation that moves from war rooms to advertising's version of them. Tracey spen
Episode 28. What do you get when one of India's sharpest advertising minds walks through the doors of Sequoia Capital, watches how the world's best money thinks about brands, and then decides neither world is doing it ri
On Episode 27 of The Indian AdGeek, Vishal Mehra sits down with Laurent Thevenet, Head of Creative Technology APAC, Publicis Groupe. What does creative tech actually look like inside a large agency network? Laurent talks
What happens to advertising when AI agents shop for us, Q-commerce becomes a media channel, and a team of five can do the work of twenty? In this episode, Babita Baruah, CEO of VML India, talks about her 30 year journey
Episode 25 What happens when an agency refuses to call itself an agency? In our silver jubilee episode, Vishal sits down with Advait Gupt, Co-Founder & CEO of Kulfi Collective, the Mumbai-based creative powerhouse behind
Episode 24 What does a Global Chief Strategy Officer at one of the world's most sophisticated out-of-home companies actually think about the state of media? Quite a lot, and almost none of it is comfortable. In this epis
In Episode 23 of The Indian AdGeek, we sit down with Toby Southgate, Global CEO of We Are Social, to dissect the fundamental evolution of the agency model. Toby has navigated every corner of the advertising world, from t
Episode 22 What happens when you stop trying to fix a broken agency model and just build a new one from scratch? This week on The Indian AdGeek, we are joined by Lucy Jameson, the strategist and founder behind the global
Episode 21 | Adam Ferrier (Founder, Thinkerbell) “If you want to change behaviour, stop asking people what they want.” In this episode of The Indian AdGeek, we dive deep into the mind of Adam Ferrier, the founder of Thin
Episode 20 What if the future of advertising isn't a great campaign — but a great system? Rakesh Hinduja left one of the world's most storied agency networks to build something India had never seen: a platform-first mart
In Episode 19 of The Indian AdGeek, we are joined by the man who is literally rewriting the repair manual for the advertising brain: Orlando Wood, Chief Innovation Officer at System1 and author of the seminal works Le
Episode 18: How does a digital-first agency transform into a global integrated brand partner with footprints in London and Dubai? In this episode, Vishal Mehra sits down with Shradha Agarwal, co-founder and Global CEO of
Episode 17 In a world obsessed with 15-second micro-trends and "zero-click" conversions, Anant Sharma (CEO of Matter Of Form) is making a radical case for slowing down. In this episode of The Indian AdGeek, host Vishal M
Episode 16 kicks off The Indian AdGeek in 2026 with a powerhouse guest: Tarun Rai, Co-Chairman of Start Design Group UK and former Group CEO South Asia at Wunderman Thompson (JWT). In this wide-ranging conversation, Taru
Episode 15: The Year-Ender | Scale, Soul, and the Agentic AI Revolution with Rishad Tobaccowala As 2025 draws to a close, the advertising world is reeling from the massive Omnicom-IPG merger and the realization that AI i
Is the advertising industry undergoing a mid-life crisis? We are obsessed with youth culture, viral trends, and Gen Z—yet the data shows that Gen X outspends Gen Z by a staggering 10:1 ratio. The 14th episode of The Indi
Episode 13 of The Indian AdGeek, Vishal Mehra sits down with Manisha Kapoor, CEO of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) and Vice President on the Executive Committee of ICAS, for a wide-ranging conversation
Adam Ferrier
Founder · Thinkerbell
1 appearance on this show
Anant Sharma
CEO and co-founder · Matter Of Form
1 appearance on this show
Rishad Tobaccowala
author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data” · Publicis Groupe
1 appearance on this show
Santosh Desai
Futurebrands India
1 appearance on this show
Tracey Barber
Havas Creative Network
1 appearance on this show
Laurent Thevenet
Publicis Groupe
1 appearance on this show
Babita Baruah
VML India
1 appearance on this show
Advait Gupt
Kulfi Collective
1 appearance on this show
Ranga Somanathan
billups
1 appearance on this show
Toby Southgate
We Are Social
1 appearance on this show
Lucy Jameson
Uncommon Creative Studio
1 appearance on this show
Rakesh Hinduja
Wondrlab
1 appearance on this show
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