Ad Campaigns
Kinetic India powers Tata CLiQ Electronics campaign
MUMBAI: Kinetic Worldwide is a leading global player in the out-of-home (OOH) media industry and has successfully executed creative campaigns for a number of its clientele. Yet another success story is the Tata CLiQ Electronics campaign.
Understanding the need to increase awareness of the brand with the objective to strengthen its connect in the market, Kinetic smartly used its OOH expertise and adopted a simple communication approach that created a distinguished visibility for the brand. Installing larger than life, vibrantly designed billboards at high traffic junctions in Mumbai and Gurgaon created a huge impact. Not only did it attract the attention of passengers stuck in traffic jams, but also kindled a sense of curiosity to explore the options that the brand has to offer.
On the basis of data acquired via the New Consumer Classification System (NCCS), Tata CliQ targeted 28-40-year-old working professionals who are tech savvy, trend setters, and believe in saving time. An established luxury shopping destination online with a strong network of 100 plus partner brands pan India; functioning on the belief that consumers should have access to the best and new products every time they go shopping, the intent was also to present consumers with the best experience of CLiQ and PIQ services through their app.
“The smart / connected homes industry is witnessing a rapid growth in the Indian market. IT hubs and HNWIs were the initial adapters of this change however; today almost every household in metro cities has at least 2-3 smart appliances. However, majority of tier 1 and 2 cities feel that converting their home into smart home will be an expensive affair. Being the first e-commerce website in India to have introduced Connected Homes as a category, our endeavour is to create awareness amongst our patrons on the connected home concept and ways to convert their home into smart homes at affordable prices and with least amount of time spent,” said Tata CLiQ chief marketing officer Kishore Mardikar.
"From being stringent about shopping at a store to moving towards shopping online, the consumer purchase journey has indeed come a long way. With the rapidly increasing competition in the online and digital space, ensuring that your brand has an edge is vital. Thus, mobile marketing combined by smartly positioned OOH helps yield higher results on campaigns,’’ said Kinetic regional head-west Nandini Nayyar.
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.
