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Cadbury Gems blasts off with a cosmic new ad campaign
MUMBAI: Cadbury Gems, India’s most playful bite-sized chocolate brand, is launching into orbit with its latest campaign, taking fun to a whole new galaxy. True to its tagline, Jitney Colours, Utni Masti, the campaign is a riot of colours, cosmic wonders and pure, unfiltered joy.
This time, the mischief heads beyond Earth, straight into the vastness of space, where an unexpected adventure unfolds. Bursting with quirky characters, dazzling visuals and a storyline packed with intergalactic excitement, the film is designed to fire up kids’ imaginations—and leave them reaching for a pack of Gems.
The TVC features a couple of astronauts are out in space repairing a spacecraft when one of them is distracted by a ball of Gems and chases it. He plucks one of the Gems candies from the sphere and lo behold it sets of a chain reaction which leads to the breaking up of a large satellite made up of Gems. The explosion scatters the little coloured chocolate delights into space to the astronaut’s delights who soaks himself in the shower of the candies. What makes the film fun for kids, is the background sounds and music that the Ogilvy creative team has used.
Rolling out across TV, digital platforms and social media, the campaign is set to beam its fun-fuelled energy to every corner of the country.
Mondelez India vice president – marketing Nitin Saini said, “Gems is an iconic brand that has sparked spontaneous masti for over five decades. Inspired by childlike curiosity and imagination, our new campaign brings the colourful Gems buttons to life in a wonder-filled cosmos. We hope consumers enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed creating it.”
Ogilvy India chief creative officer Sukesh Nayak, added, “We are thrilled to launch a fun new campaign for Cadbury Gems. The brand stands for an explosion of colours and fun, and this film delivers on all of that and more. Kids everywhere are fascinated by space and its endless possibilities, so we’ve taken that curiosity and turned it into a visual spectacle. The film is bound to strike a chord with kids and could well become one of the most memorable chocolate ads of modern times.”
To watch the Cadbury Gems space commercial click here.
With its blend of vibrant storytelling, intergalactic masti and irresistible chocolate, Cadbury Gems is proving yet again that when it comes to fun, the sky’s not the limit—it’s just the beginning.
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IAS launches Total TV suite to boost transparency in CTV ads
New solution offers programme-level insights across platforms and publishers.
MUMBAI: In the world of streaming, what you see is not always what advertisers get and that’s exactly the problem IAS is looking to fix. Integral Ad Science (IAS) has unveiled ‘IAS Total TV’, a new suite of Connected TV (CTV) solutions aimed at bringing what it calls “linear-like” transparency to the fast-growing streaming ecosystem. In simple terms, it is an attempt to make digital TV advertising a lot less of a black box.
The offering aggregates programme-level data covering genre, ratings, language, shows and specific content from major platforms including Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Prime Video, along with opted-in publishers via Publica. All of this is housed within the IAS Signal interface, giving advertisers a unified view of where their ads actually appear.
The timing is hardly accidental. According to Nielsen, as of Q4 2025, 74.2 per cent of all TV viewing in the United States is ad-supported. Of that, streaming alone accounts for 45.6 per cent outpacing traditional television and cementing its position as the largest ad-supported medium. Advertisers have followed suit, funnelling premium budgets into CTV, but often without a clear, standardised view of performance or placement.
That gap is precisely what IAS is targeting. By combining content insights with media quality, supply path data and campaign outcomes, the platform aims to give marketers more control over when, where and alongside what content their ads run. The goal is not just visibility, but accountability ensuring ads land in brand-suitable environments rather than disappearing into opaque inventory pools.
The suite also promises practical gains. Marketers can access real-time, aggregated transparency across shows and platforms, streamline campaign controls across digital video channels, and leverage third-party verification to improve efficiency and pre-bid decision-making. Measurement tools extend to quality reach and incremental conversions, offering a clearer link between spend and outcomes.
At a time when high CPMs and fragmented data make CTV both attractive and complex, the push for transparency is becoming less of a luxury and more of a necessity. IAS’s move reflects a broader industry shift, where the race is no longer just for eyeballs, but for clarity on what those eyeballs are actually watching.
Because in streaming’s premium playground, knowing the content may just matter as much as owning the audience.
