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The Indian AdGeek Podcast is your backstage pass to the frontlines of modern marketing in India and the region. Every fortnight, industry leaders, agency heads, and creative innovators will share their perspectives on how brands are built and grown in one of the world’s most dynamic markets. The show will celebrate the art and business of advertising - showcasing how storytelling and agency P&L are equally important to resonate with audiences and with clients alike.
Unknown Host hosts The Indian AdGeek, a business show with 28 episodes published.
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
What does it take to build not just great campaigns, but great businesses? In this episode of The Indian AdGeek, I sat down with Ivan Fernandes — leading marketing management consultant — to unpack the urgent shifts resh
On Friday, October 25, 2025, the advertising industry woke up to devastating news—Piyush Pandey, the Godfather of Indian Advertising, had passed away. The man who gave Indian advertising its own voice, who believed that
A wide-ranging conversation with Lulu Raghavan on brand building, pitching, and design-led business transformation across APAC, from San Francisco and London to Mumbai and the Delhi airport that changed her work forever.
In this episode of The Indian AdGeek, we sit down with Anita Kotwani, Chief Client Officer at Dentsu South Asia, to unpack over two decades of industry evolution. From swapping a law degree for manual media formulas to l
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