These days, brands are often seen dumping branded content after developing enough awareness in the market. In this backdrop, BuzzInContent tries to find out if branded content strategy is losing relevance or still in the game

Hamsini Shivakumar and Kanika Yadav of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting suggest how brands can take a position in the cultural space of festivals through branded content

Hamsini Shivakumar and Kanika Yadav of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, write that producing content around sensitive issues related to women empowerment can be a tricky area, but brands can't afford to be silent. If done right, branded content around sexual intimacy, harassment, body-shaming and other such topics can help brands to be a relevant part of the culture that is increasingly anchoring itself in the fourth wave of feminism

In today's Content & Culture article, Founder Hamsini Shivakumar and her colleague Kanika Yadav from Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, write that taking inspiration from Kerala Tourism's branded content, brands can maximise their messaging via exploring ordinary symbols associated with a place or product. For example, tales, myths, songs originating from the landscape itself can be employed to create an authentic aura that is both ordinary and exotic at once

In today's BuzzInContent's weekly section ‘Content & Culture', Hamsini Shivakumar and Kanika Yadav of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, write how the edtech major is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to branded content. The brand has created content ranging from long-term content IPs to web series, from music to chat shows and others

Leapfrog Strategy Consulting's Hamsini Shivakumar and Kanika Yadav, write that with its ability to offer stimulation and customised storylines, interactive content is a technological innovation well suited to the needs of the fast-paced consumerist culture. It is a concept worth exploring for brands and creators involved in branded content

In her weekly column Content & Culture, Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, explains why modern packaged food brands should embrace their modernity and use branded content as their point of distinctiveness vis-à-vis other food brands

BuzzInContent.com explores how news channels need to go beyond set rules and formats of branded content in order to attract more brands

Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, has picked five branded content samples to analyse how brands have reimagined the bond of protection between brother and sister to update their cultural stance. And the ways in which that has shaken the traditional understanding at the root

BuzzInContent caught up with masters of branded content in India to figure out the right way of placing logos in branded videos and if a brand logo's presence really bothers consumers

Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, analyses Netflix India's branded content strategy, including the content initiative for the film Haseen Dillruba, where inspector Rawat from Haseen Dillruba (played by Aditya Srivastava, known for his role as Abhijeet on C.I.D.) reaches out to the OG crime-solving team C.I.D. to help him crack the case central to the film

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

Selling branded content is a lot different from selling regular ad inventories. BuzzInContent caught up with biggies in the branded content space, who shared their expertise on how to make a mark on the client and crack deals

This week, the Founder of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting analyses branded content created by Wakefit, Philips, Duroflex, Centuary Mattresses, Peps Industries and how it is helping them to create a habit of good sleep and set them up as shapers of culture and culture change

Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, writes that stand-up comedy as branded content can only succeed when it is based on the fundamentals of what branded content is supposed to be — a way for brands to participate in culture

In her first weekly article this year, Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, points out learnings that brands can get from the D2C home and sleep solutions brand when they jump on to the branded content bandwagon without getting swept away in the plethora of content being created to woo the audience

The feature will soon be introduced in Live as well. A new workflow will also allow advertisers to create branded content ads without the need for them to post organically on Instagram first

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