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SOCIAL creates nostalgia through its latest campaign #SOCIALReunion
Mumbai: With Friendship Day on the horizon, everyone’s favourite neighbourhood café, SOCIAL, has launched its friendships day campaign, #SOCIALReunion, encouraging people to revive the plans with their friends that could have been. Inspired by the power of friendship, the beauty of old connections and an opportunity to pave the way for new ones – the campaign is an invitation to reminisce about heart-warming memories and create new ones.
SOCIAL outlets all over are celebrating friendship day this Sunday through a host of activities:
❖ All SOCIAL outlets have postcards placed within a dedicated Friendship Day zone, encouraging guests to write a heartfelt message for their friends to cherish those childhood memories.
❖ From the good old slam books to friendship bands, #SOCIALReunion joyfully embraces the spirit of OG friendships across all outlets.
❖ Flagship outlets in 6 cities – including Khar SOCIAL, FC Road SOCIAL, Ring Road SOCIAL, Saket SOCIAL, Church Street SOCIAL, and Sector 7 SOCIAL – are hosting a day packed with engaging community activities on Sunday, August 6th, starting at 12 noon.
❖ To amplify the spirit of friendship, large groups visiting any SOCIAL outlet across India will be treated with exclusive offers on Sunday, 6 August for their gang.
❖ All of this culminates the evening into the #SOCIALReunion bash turning favourite SOCIAL outlets into a stylish retro-themed party, for guests to rejoice in true SOCIAL fashion. With neon lights and disco themes, the retro party is sure to entice SOCIALites into a night of groovy dancing, vibrant energy, and nostalgic fun taking them back in time!
❖ At the core of this extraordinary campaign is a touching brand film that takes viewers on a fun journey. Reuniting with childhood friends to bathroom pep talks to friendly bartenders who remember their frequent customer’s favourite drink, the film artfully portrays the magic of real friendships.
Impresario Entertainment & Hospitality Private Ltd chief growth officer Divya Aggarwal said “Friendship Day had slowly lost its allure, turning into a mere social media posts and losing its touch as compared to Halloween or Valentine’s Day. With #SOCIALReunion, our goal is to reignite this lost spark of true friendship. We are inviting you to relive those best memories and encourage you to act on those unfinished plans at a SOCIAL near you. Gather your old gang, feel the nostalgia, and create new memories. We truly believe in the bonds that go beyond the digital realm, and we’ve always been at the centre of some of the best experiences people have. This Sunday, it’s time to come together and celebrate those connections.”
The #SOCIALReunion film is now live across the brand’s social media handles, extending an irresistible invitation for people to step in and relive those cheeky memories of friendship.
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.
