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Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India unveil new campaign ‘Scooter Bole Toh Activa’
Mumbai:Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has launched a new campaign “Scooter Bole Toh Activa” for its legendary scooter. The new campaign consists of a captivating song with sing-along lyrics. It shows how Activa has become a household name over the last two decades.
Conceptualised by Hakuhodo Wyng (a unit of Hakuhodo International India), the campaign highlights the nation’s cultural diversity and richness with many languages, regions, and ethnicities of India and the role of Activa in people’s lives—especially the youth. It emphasises how we vary in other aspects of life, but when it comes to defining a scooter, Activa runs synonymously with everyone.
The main film of the campaign has lyrics with words from many regional languages, making it truly diverse, just like this country. “Conceptualising this campaign was a unique experience—the creative idea was hidden in the brief itself, but to dig it up and to shape it into a full-fledged campaign was a challenge our team took up successfully,” said Hakuhodo Wyng managing partner & creative head Shobhit Mathur.
He further added, “HMSI wanted to show how Activa has been such an integral part of Indian lives that it has become synonymous with the word, ‘Scooter’. So we gave the campaign a very Indian feel – a diverse lifestyle yet similar values, and a common love for Activa!”
The campaign has been shot all over the country to show how diverse the customer base for Activa is. Talking about the same, Hakuhodo Wyng senior business partner Saptarshi Sengupta said, “We have covered a very vast spectrum in terms of diversity to do justice to the love Indians have shown for Activa over the years. We have included people from multiple regions and age groups – especially the youth with their many life moments.”
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.
