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How brands are adopting creative ways to communicate amid Covid-19 lockdown

The problem is deep, if one were to look at the consumer responses to a recent study from Kantar to assess how they expected businesses to act during the coronavirus pandemic

How brands are adopting creative ways to communicate amid Covid-19 lockdown
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About 75 per cent of respondents to the survey said corporations should not exploit the health crisis to promote their brands.

Anchita Ghosh
Last week, Honda sent out a WhatsApp message to consumers fretting at home under lockdown. It had the image of a contactless keypad of a car and read “You played a key role”. Once you clicked on the message, the first slide appeared with the image of a car and its purported owner. It said, “You kept your car parked”; the second slide showed the owner washing up and the message said, “You kept the threat away”; the third showed the owner keying away at her laptop with a message, “You kept working at home”. The final slide, a simple

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