Ad Campaigns
Reliance Jewels and JioStar spark Akshaya Tritiya frenzy with a blast of bling and buzz
MUMBAI: Diamonds might claim the sparkle crown, but this Akshaya Tritiya, JioStar’s MegaBlast stole the show. Mumbai lit up like a carnival as Reliance Jewels and JioStar staged a launch spectacular loud enough to wake the gods. Matching the grandeur of Tirupati temple’s golden spires, Reliance Jewels unveiled its Tirupati Collection with a punchy, gold-dusted flourish, fuelling the 10 edition of its Jewels of India series. Powered by JioStar’s freshly minted MegaBlast platform, the campaign turned the gold-buying frenzy of 29 April 2025 into a full-throttle nationwide spectacle.
Reliance Jewels took the wraps off its Tirupati Collection, inspired by the spiritual richness and design grandeur of Tirupati. Timed to perfection, the launch coincided with Akshaya Tritiya, when buying gold is almost a national sport. JioStar cranked up the volume with its MegaBlast solution, flooding TV and digital platforms at high frequency through JioStar’s vast entertainment network and JioHotstar.
“The Tirupati Collection represents devotion, craftsmanship, and tradition. Partnering with JioStar allowed us to launch it with the scale and sanctity it truly deserves. We chose MegaBlast, a first-of-its-kind innovation, as it gave us a unique, all-encompassing solution for reaching our target audience at an unprecedented scale and delivering impact. The high-impact visibility across TV and digital gave us the momentum to connect meaningfully with audiences across India, turning our launch into a nationwide celebration,” a Reliance Jewels spokesperson said.
In true showbiz style, JioStar ensured that every six seconds, across 84 top general entertainment and movie channels, audiences caught a glimpse of the bling. Formats such as Spotlight Frames, Brand Bridges, Stings, and Mega Spots weaved Reliance Jewels into the entertainment fabric, making the brand impossible to miss.
“Akshaya Tritiya is a time for tradition, celebration, and new beginnings. We are proud that JioStar’s MegaBlast was able to elevate the Reliance Jewels Tirupati Collection into a true cultural moment. MegaBlast is more than just a product—it’s a comprehensive marketing funnel that drives high-decibel awareness, ensures top-of-mind recall and ultimately influences consumer consideration. With its unmatched scale, cross-platform integration, and storytelling capabilities, it offers brands an unparalleled opportunity to engage with audiences throughout the entire campaign journey,” a JioStar spokesperson said.
The sparkle didn’t stop at TV. Reliance Jewels unleashed a Digital MegaBlast too, hogging screens with pre-roll takeovers, feature trays, pause ads, and juicy mid-roll spots on top shows, ensuring a gold rush across all devices.
The campaign demonstrated that, even in today’s splintered media jungle, a bold strategy with the right platform still cuts through the clutter. MegaBlast delivered not just big glitzy moments, but also measurable business outcomes, proving that real-world impact can come wrapped in glitz and strategic grit.
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.
