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Zomato's copywriting is doing more work than most brands' entire marketing team

How a food delivery app in India accidentally became the country's most-followed copywriter.

Brand New Money Editorial29 June 20261 min readZomato
Zomato's copywriting is doing more work than most brands' entire marketing team

Zomato's Twitter account has 2 million followers. It doesn't tell you what to order. It tells you about your ex, your Sunday hangover, the strange dignity of eating alone.

Every notification is a punchline. Every push copy is a haiku. The tone is closer to a friend texting you at 11pm than a food-tech company chasing lifetime value. And somehow, this is the same brand that runs blockchain-backed Zomato Gold, a fashion sub-brand, and a live rescue campaign for a stray dog named Pluto.

The consistency is not accidental. Somewhere in Gurgaon, a copywriter is being told: sound like a person, not a company. That single instruction is the moat.

Producer’s Take

What we’d tell you.

Zomato's advantage isn't design or media spend. It's a house style. A voice that is unmistakably one company across every touchpoint — notifications, out-of-home, memes, and CEO letters.

For a small business: write your first ten push notifications yourself. Then write the eleventh in the same voice. Congratulations, you now have brand guidelines that cost you zero rupees.

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