Ad Campaigns
Wunderman Thompson encourages consumers to work out while staying in
MUMBAI: With India going into lockdown for a longer period, it has become even more difficult for health enthusiasts to continue their regular workout regime. Parag Milk Foods, for its sports nutrition brand ‘Avvatar’, had come up with a campaign encouraging consumers to continue with their daily health routine without stepping out. Conceptualised by Wunderman Thompson South Asia, this campaign emphasises on the need of the hour of – ‘Staying home to stay safe’.
Talking about this campaign Parag Milk Foods sr. VP strategy Akshali Shah said "We are surrounded with lots of negativity today, leading to only anxiety and fear in one’s mind. In these difficult times, one of the best ways to stay motivated is through a daily workout. A healthy body and healthy mind help to relieve stress and anxieties of everyday life. Also, the fitness, strength, and resilience achieved, help to protect us from both mental and physical illness. So, with little help from Avvatar and a little dedication from us, we can achieve that much-needed positivity which gives us the strength to fight back. As a responsible corporate social citizen, our aim was to encourage consumers to develop this habit of working out every day while staying at home and achieve their fitness and mental health goals."
Wunderman Thompson, India sr VP and exec business director Samarth Shrivastava further added, "For the moment, working out has just moved in. So, what do you do? You adapt. Our campaign objective was to drive that adaptability factor along with spreading the awareness of staying at home."
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.
