Ad Campaigns
Marico’s hair oil campaign depicts ingredients’ visual delight
MUMBAI: Marico’s youthful and contemporary hair nourishment brand, Hair & Care, has launched a new campaign for its revolutionary fruit hair oils. With this campaign, the brand aims to reignite a feeling of exhilaration and excitement towards hair oiling amongst its youthful consumers.
Hair & Care Fruit Oils caters to the modern, young woman between the age group of 18-30 years, who is on a constant look out for exciting products across categories, especially beauty and personal care. The brand has introduced one-of-a-kind range of hair oils with a distinctive mix of fruits that moisturise and energise hair.
The brand plans to make a big impact in the market through a multimedia promotion exercise led by a TVC being showcased on various shows and channels. Starring Hair & Care’s ambassador, Shraddha Kapoor, in a never seen before avatar, the new ad highlights the brand’s core benefit – hair full of energy. Conceptualised and executed by BBH India, the film has been shot in a manner that makes consumers actually experience the elation and vigor of the new offering.
Commenting on the new campaign, Marico CMO Anuradha Aggarwal said, “The new Hair & Care fruit oils address the hair nourishment needs of its young contemporary consumers. It redefines the traditional source codes of nourishment and introduces the much needed stimulating oiling experience amongst today’s youth. The campaign is built to disrupt the category by presenting this product innovation, not through a narrative but by demonstrating the visual delight of its ingredients and hair that is full of energy.”
The launch, driven by the campaign, focuses on key markets of the Hindi speaking belt. In addition to the TVC, it is being promoted through high impact outdoor and print campaign, an engaging digital campaign and cinema branding, amongst others.
BBH India CCO & managing partner Russell Barrett added, “Hair & Care Fruit Oils is a first of its kind hair oil for a younger audience and hence our advertising had to reflect that. What excited us was the innovation of the product, so, we wondered what if we could have people feel the energy and goodness of fruit rather than merely present a logical argument for it. And our partners at Marico said, why not!”
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.
