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Pepsi announces new campaign ‘More Fizz, More Refreshing’
Mumbai: Pepsi has rolled out a new ad film that continues to elevate its philosophy of “More Fizz, More Refreshing,” featuring brand ambassador Salman Khan.
The new film reiterates that Pepsi is the voice and choice of the swag generation. The campaign’s core message is to encourage young people to try Pepsi, which is now offering a more fizzy refreshing experience to consumers.
The new Pepsi TVC will be amplified via a robust 360-degree campaign. Pepsi is available in single and multi serve packs across all modern and traditional retail outlets in India, as well as on leading e-commerce platforms.
The film opens with a young couple sitting at a diner, where a waitress serves them a bottle of chilled Pepsi. The guy gets up, walks to the waitress, and asks her to serve them a cola beverage with more fizz, and he is overheard by none other than superstar and swag ambassador Salman Khan, who is seated nearby.
Khan, in his irreverent swagger, passes on a glass of cola and asks him to try it. The boy’s thirst is dramatically quenched, and he asks the waitress if he wants the same cola beverage as the one given to him just now. Hearing this, Khan says he was just given Pepsi, which surprises the boy because he hadn’t expected Pepsi to have so much fizz. The boy then picks up a bottle of Pepsi and is seen enjoying the more refreshing experience that it has to offer.
Speaking on the film, PepsiCo India Pepsi Cola category lead Saumya Rathor said, “Pepsi’s new campaign brings alive the philosophy of swag and refreshment with more fizz. This campaign is pivoting on driving trials while maintaining the brand’s quintessential irreverent challenger spirit. Working with Salman has been an absolute delight, and we are sure all Pepsi lovers will enjoy his new swag avatar in the film.”
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.
