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Generative AI and the future of brand storytelling
Mumbai : Brand storytelling is a powerful tool leveraged by marketers to communicate their brand’s values, identity, history and purpose. Marketers see GAI as a productivity booster in brand storytelling, enabling one-to-one personalised experiences and dynamic messaging. According to a SAP report, 48 per cent of companies leverage generative artificial intelligence (GAI) for their marketing and sales content. This illustrates the importance of GAI in enhancing marketing strategies and consumer engagement, improving customer experience, loyalty, and firm performance.
GAI has the potential to create content at scale and even real-time, helping brands maintain a consistent and dynamic presence on multiple platforms. These tools often are easy to use especially by users belonging to a non-technical background. Large brands like Vistara, Zomato, Coca cola, BMW etc. have employed AI in the creation of ads for various marketing channels like billboards, social media and events. Companies like Netflix and Amazon are leveraging GAI to curate personalised recommendations and experiences, effectively turning each customer interaction into a unique storytelling opportunity.
By analysing engagement patterns with AI-generated content, brands can also gain deeper insights into customer preferences and behaviours, further refining their storytelling strategies. Also, the scale at which content is generated, brands can rapidly experiment with different storytelling approaches and monitor their effectiveness to select the best suited story. GAI is also being used in engaging customer experiences at events, experience centres and museums. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York uses AI to enhance their visitor experience by analysing visitor behaviour and experiences. BMW teamed up with an agency to project AI content on their BMW 8 series Gran Coupe. The algorithm was fed with 50,000 images and artwork spanning 900 years.
Some researchers believe that there is a need for more empirical studies to quantify the benefits of GAI in storytelling. The research should focus on measuring the impact of GAI on key marketing metrics such as customer engagement, conversion rates, and campaign effectiveness. These studies will also initiate the development of best practices for implementing GAI in marketing.
While more small to medium companies are enthusiastic about adopting GAI there are a few barriers to the absolute adoption of GAI.
● Cost – The enterprise version of most GAI services charge monthly or annually which can be a hindrance for small companies in developing countries.
● Data privacy – Employing GAI on large scale projects collects proportionally large amounts of consumer data, raising privacy concerns and regulatory challenges.
● Lack of skilled workforce – Since it is a fairly new field of work, there is a dearth of skilled professionals in AI and data science who can develop and manage GAI systems.
● Quality control – Images especially videos generated by AI can be unpredictable as there is a lack of quality control on visual content. Often correcting mistakes made by AI in images and videos can take more time than creating them from scratch.
Although, GAI is great to enhance the creative process for creators and designers, potentially streamlining brainstorming and simplifying development stages. IT cannot entirely replace the need for human generated content. AI on its own is not good enough to develop the entire brand story. It is only a tool that requires more experimentation and study on its effectiveness. As the technology evolves, it is certain that newer innovative ways of leveraging it will develop.
The article has been authored by Tagglabs founder Hariom Seth.
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Ember Cookware appoints Amit Singh as chief of supply chain
10-year veteran to lead operations as brand scales across D2C, quick commerce and retail.
MUMBAI: Ember just handed its supply chain the perfect seasoning because when your cookware is non-toxic and non-stick, the operations behind it better be fast and flawless. Ember Cookware has appointed Amit Singh as chief of supply chain and Services, bolstering its leadership team at a pivotal growth phase. Singh brings over a decade of experience in supply chain strategy, operations and large-scale network buildouts.
He began his career at Singapore-based retail giant Giant Hypermarket before joining Pharmeasy in 2015, where he played a foundational role in building and scaling its pan-India supply chain across B2B and B2C channels. At API Holdings, he later led supply chain operations for North India, managing end-to-end execution across complex, multi-city networks.
In his new role, Amit will oversee Ember’s complete supply chain and service ecosystem including sourcing, manufacturing coordination, logistics, last-mile delivery, post-purchase support and workforce development. His mandate focuses on building cost-efficient, resilient operations that shorten fulfilment times, strengthen inventory management and deliver a consistently high-quality consumer experience as the brand expands nationally.
Ember Cookware co-founder & CEO Siddharth Gadodia said, “Supply chain is where growth either holds or breaks. As we scale across channels and geographies, we need operations that are efficient, resilient, and built for speed, without ever compromising on the consumer experience. Amit has done this before, at real scale.”
Ember Cookware co-founder & CMO Himanshi Tandon added, “As we scale, supply chain efficiency becomes as important as product and brand. Amit’s mandate is to build the operational foundations that make our promise consistent at scale.”
Amit Singh commented, “Ember is building something genuinely different, a category-defining brand with a clear purpose and the ambition to match. I’m looking forward to building supply chain infrastructure that doesn’t just keep pace with growth, but enables it.”
The appointment forms part of Ember’s broader push to deepen leadership across key functions as it invests in its Innovation Lab, proprietary material technologies and operational backbone to support national expansion.
In a kitchenware world where non-stick promises are easy but delivery is hard, Ember isn’t just cooking up products, it’s cooking up an operation that keeps every promise sizzling from factory to fork.
