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Cadbury Gems initiates #GemsJrNFT, kickstarts world’s longest running charity campaign
Mumbai: Cadbury Gems, India’s chocolate brand has launched #GemsJrNFT campaign in 2022. Aimed at adding utility to kid’s paintings for a noble cause, this unique initiative used blockchain technology to convert regular artworks into NFTs. Out of the converted artworks, 1544 NFTs have already been minted, and the exciting drop took place on 15 February 2023. Every time these NFTs are re-sold a portion of the proceeds is donated to save the children making this campaign the world’s longest-running charity.
These digital collectibles are available for sale on CadburyGems.in and potential buyers can transfer their NFTs to Metamask wallet and trade in platforms like opensea.io. With every re-trade, five per cent of the royalty would continue to go towards the charity and the cycle will be never-ending as the royalty is coded in the smart contract while minting the NFTs.
Commenting on the impact, Mondelez India VP Nitin Saini said, “Over the years, Cadbury Gems has become synonymous with joy and playfulness at the back of encouraging children’s imagination and giving flight to their creativity. Through NFTs and blockchain technology we have been able to direct their ingenuity towards a great cause. This effort is well aligned with our mission to go beyond just storytelling and make some real difference through our iconic brands like Cadbury Gems. We believe that our consumers will be just as excited to own a piece of the collection as they are to support a worthy cause.”
GuardianLink co-founder & CEO Ramkumar Subramaniam added, “While it is a pleasure for GuardianLink to power the technology behind digital collectibles, it gives us an enhanced sense of pride and satisfaction to be behind an NFT project aimed at a noble cause,that too, aspiring to be the world’s longest-running charity! We believe this initiative will be one of the most eventful collaborations in the history of digital collectibles.We aspire to collaborate and power the technology of more such noble and charitable digital collectible initiatives in the future!”
Ogilvy India senior executive creative director Neville Shah said, “Cadbury Gems has always encouraged children to have fun with their colourful imaginations. And what better way to do it than letting them draw; and letting their drawings help kids, who need help. And that’s when we asked ourselves one question: If art is forever, shouldn’t its impact be too? That’s the birth of the longest running charity. A charity that doesn’t stop helping kids and teaches kids the valuable lesson of helping others.”
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.
