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eBay India rolls out festival marketing campaign
Mumbai: eBay, an eCommerce marketplace, has unveiled its festive marketing campaign.
Targeted to 18 – 40 years “value-seeking” shoppers, the campaign is designed to encourage consumers to use eBay India for the variety of great deals available on product categories
Developed by Law & Kenneth, the campaign is a combination of TV, digital and social mediums to drive awareness and encourage Indians to shop their heart out this festive season to get the best deals online.
The campaign portrays savvy consumers in real life situations realising they no longer need to shop the old fashioned way and can shop smartly for great deals on eBay India with an assurance of eBay guarantee of 100 per cent satisfaction, else a refund or a replacement. The tag line, “Want it, Get It” continues.
eBay India CMO Kashyap Vadapalli said, “Our new marketing campaign brings alive the fact that eBay India is the leading shopping destination for savvy online shoppers looking for great deals, offering an unmatched variety of products across categories. We foresee online shopping growing rapidly in India and as pioneers of eCommerce, our campaign aims at instilling consumer confidence, promising the consumer a completely secure & satisfaction-guaranteed experience of getting the product they selected and paid for”.
The campaign is a series of four TVCs of real life situations. In one ad, a young couple is in a discussion where the husband has his eye on a new DSLR camera and is keen for his wife‘s ‘US Chacha‘ to visit so he gets his hand on the latest model. His savvy wife turns around and challenges him with haven‘t you heard of eBay, you don‘t need to wait for a ‘US Chacha‘ for deals on the latest cameras.
In another ad, two friends are at a party and one of them envies the other‘s new phone & says he plans to wait for the next edition to launch, so he can get the old model at a great price. His friend again challenges him & says haven‘t you heard of eBay, you will get the best deals on latest phones throughout the year.
The ads end with Get Deals on eBay India that you can‘t get anywhere else. This is followed by eBay Guarantee and ‘Want it. Get it‘.
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Content India 2026 opens with a copro pitch, a spice evangelist and a £10,000 prize for Indian storytelling
Dish TV and C21Media’s three-day summit puts seven ambitious projects before an international jury, and two walk away with serious development money
MUMBAI: India’s content industry gathered in Mumbai this March for Content India 2026, a three-day summit organised by Dish TV in partnership with C21Media, and it wasted no time making a statement. The event opened with a Copro Pitch that put seven scripted and unscripted television concepts before an international panel of judges, and by the end of it, two projects had walked away with £10,000 each in marketing prize money from C21Media to support development and international promotion.
The jury, comprising Frank Spotnitz, Fiona Campbell, Rashmi Bajpai, Bal Samra and Rachel Glaister, evaluated a shortlist that ranged from a dark Mumbai comedy-drama about mental health (Dirty Minds, created by Sundar Aaron) to a Delhi coming-of-age mystery (Djinn Patrol, by Neha Sharma and Kilian Irwin), a techno-thriller about a teenage gaming prodigy (Kanpur X Satori, by Suchita Bhatia), an investigative crime drama blending mythology and modern thriller (The Age of Kali, by Shivani Bhatija), a documentary on India’s spice heritage (The Masala Quest, hosted by Sarina Kamini), a documentary on competitive gaming (Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution, by George Mangala Thomas and Sangram Mawari), and a reality-horror competition merging gaming and immersive fear (Scary Goose, by Samar Iqbal).
The session was hosted by Mayank Shekhar.
The two winners were Djinn Patrol, backed by Miura Kite, formerly of Participant Media and known for Chinatown and Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, with Jaya Entertainment, producers of Real Kashmir Football Club, also attached; and The Masala Quest, created and hosted by Sarina Kamini, an Indian-Australian cook, author and self-described “spice evangelist.”
The summit also unveiled the Content India Trends Report, whose findings made for bracing reading. Daoud Jackson, senior analyst at OMDIA, set the tone: “By 2030, online video in India will nearly double the revenue of traditional TV, becoming the main driver of growth.” He noted that in 2025, India produced a quarter of all YouTube videos globally, overtaking the United States, while Indians collectively spend 117 years daily on YouTube and 72 years on Instagram. Traditional subscription TV is declining as free TV and connected TV gain ground, forcing broadcasters to innovate. “AI-generated content is just 2 per cent of engagement,” Jackson added, “highlighting the dominance of high-quality human content. The key for Indian media companies is scaling while monetising effectively from day one.”
Hannah Walsh, principal analyst at Ampere Analysis, added hard numbers to the picture. India produced over 24,000 titles in January 2026 alone, with 19,000 available internationally. The country now accounts for 12 per cent of Asia-Pacific content spend, up from 8 per cent in 2021, outpacing both Japan and China. Key exporters include JioStar, Zee Entertainment, Sony India, Amazon and Netflix, delivering over 7,500 Indian-produced titles abroad each year. The top importing markets are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and the Philippines. Scripted content dominates globally at 88 per cent, with crime dramas and children’s and family titles performing particularly strongly.
Manoj Dobhal, chief executive and executive director of Dish TV India, framed the summit’s ambition squarely. “Stories don’t need translation. They need a platform, discovery, and reach, local or global,” he said. “India produces more movies than any country, our streaming platforms compete globally, and our tech and creators win international awards. Yet fragmentation slows growth. Producers, platforms, and tech move in different lanes. We need shared spaces, collaboration, and an ecosystem where ideas, technology, and people meet. That is why we built Content India.”
The data, the pitches and the prize money all pointed to the same conclusion: India is not waiting for the world to discover its stories. It is building the infrastructure to sell them.
