Ad Campaigns
This Valentine’s Day, Manforce unveils a new campaign Ab India hoga #PyaarMeinHigh
Mumbai: Manforce Condoms, from the house of Mankind Pharma, has launched an innovative campaign #PyaarMeinHigh to celebrate Valentine’s Day week in a unique way.
Manforce Condoms is India’s number condom brand with a whopping 30 per cent* market share (value wise) while it’s an undisputed leader when it comes to the volume market share i.e. 28 per cent*. Manforce has successfully maintained the leader position year on year. *As per IQVIA MAT DEC 2023
To spice up the occasion, through this campaign the brand proposes to celebrate the entire ‘Love Week’ rather than just being limited to Valentine’s Day. The brand conducted a captivating social experiment in collaboration with Gaurav Kapoor, a well-known stand-up comedian and influencer. A vox-pop film that features individuals from diverse age groups and captures the essence of the best gifts people have given or planning to give to their loved ones.
Through this film, the brand highlights the message that this Valentine’s Day, give your partner a bouquet from the Manforce High Condom Range. Resonating with #PyaarMeinHigh theme, Manforce Condoms ingeniously decided to elevate the excitement with the introduction of High Condom Range bouquets offering an option to choose from Kiwi Paan and Double Apple flavours.
The brand has also collaborated with stand-up comedians such as Harsh Gujral, Gaurav Kapoor, Rajat Sood, Satish Ray and Inder Sahani as part of the campaign, all of the five influencers are known for their witty content.
In an exciting twist, the brand has also implemented a user-generated content strategy to enhance engagement and broaden the campaign’s reach. The #PyaarMeinHigh challenge invites participants to share reels, videos, or pictures showcasing the best gifts they have given their partners, tagging the brand with the hashtag #PyaarMeinHigh. The brand will choose four lucky winners, each receiving a different cash prize. However, one lucky winner will cash a prize of up to Rs 1 lakh. The winners will be announced on 23 February.
Adding to the campaign’s momentum, the brand has creatively integrated meme marketing, injecting humour and relatability to ignite excitement and conversation surrounding the initiative.
Speaking on the campaign, Mankind Pharma Ltd AVP of sales & marketing Joy Chatterjee, said, “Our objective has always been about connecting with our target audience in new and meaningful ways. This time with #PyaarMeinHigh, we intend to not just celebrate love but spread joy that strengthens connections more deeply. Our campaign #PyaarMeinHigh is a testament to our commitment to celebrating love in all its forms, and for the same, we have implemented various marketing approaches to ensure the message reaches far and wide and people join us together in celebrating the power of love”.
NATIONAL: Amazon Ads has laid out a sharply tech-led vision for the advertising industry in 2026, arguing that artificial intelligence, streaming TV and creator partnerships will combine to turn brand building into a more precise, performance-driven business.
At the heart of the shift, the company says, is the fusion of AI with Amazon’s vast trove of shopping, browsing and streaming signals, allowing advertisers to move beyond blunt reach metrics to campaigns designed around real customer behaviour.
“The future of advertising is not about reaching more people, but the right people with messages that resonate,” said Amazon Ads India head and vice president Girish Prabhu. “By combining AI with deep customer insights, we help brands move from broadcasting campaigns to having meaningful conversations wherever audiences spend their time.”
One of the biggest changes, according to Amazon Ads, will be the collapse of the wall between media planning and creative development. Retail media, powered by first-party data, is increasingly shaping everything from brand discovery to final purchase, pushing marketers to design campaigns around audience insight rather than internal instinct.
AI is also moving from a support tool to a creative engine. Agentic AI, which automates and accelerates production, is expected to make high-quality creative accessible even to small businesses, compressing weeks of work into hours and giving challengers the ability to compete with larger brands on speed and scale.
Behind the scenes, AI-driven analytics will take on a bigger role in campaign optimisation, identifying patterns, spotting opportunities and recommending actions that would previously have required teams of analysts.
Streaming TV is another big battleground. With India’s video streaming audience now above 600 million and connected TV users at 129.2 million in 2025, advertisers are set to treat streaming not just as a branding channel but as a performance engine, measured increasingly by sales, sign-ups and bookings rather than just reach.
Finally, Amazon Ads sees creators and contextual advertising reshaping how brands tell stories. Creators will act less like influencers and more like long-term partners, while scene-aware ads on streaming platforms will allow brands to insert hyper-relevant offers into the flow of what viewers are watching.
Taken together, Amazon Ads argues, these shifts mark a move towards advertising that is both more human and more measurable, where AI handles the complexity, and creativity does the persuading.
