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adidas reinvigorates positive sporting culture ahead of Paris Olympics 2024
Mumbai: Committed to helping athletes achieve their goals, adidas launches the next chapter of its global campaign ‘You Got This’. The campaign comes together in a series of nine 15-second films that showcase the resilience of athletes and how each of them navigates the weight of expectations ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024. The campaign focuses on helping athletes activate the ‘backyard mindset’ that shifts their focus from negative pressure and invokes a sense of joy for their individual sport.
Set against the song ‘Under Pressure’ by Queen & David Bowie, the ‘You Got This’ film delves into the minds of adidas Olympics qualified athletes Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain, Saikhom Mirabai Charu, Manika Batra, Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Jyothi Yarraji, and Para Olympics qualified Sumit Antil, Palak Kohli and Nishad Kumar, showcasing their individual journeys in disarming negative pressure. Over the years, adidas has stood strong with each of these athletes and reinforced its support with the ‘You Got This’ campaign, as they step closer to their dreams.
As they compete on the global stage, adidas aims to reinstill a sense of confidence and motivation among the athletes through its empowering message ‘You Got This’.
Speaking on the new brand campaign, adidas India GM Neelendra Singh said, “At adidas, we understand the immense pressure the athletes feel just before stepping onto the global stage. We take pride that our athletes will represent India at one of the most watched events globally and are dedicated to investing in their growth at every stage. Everything we do is rooted in sports and through the empowering message ‘You Got This’, we encourage athletes to ease pressure and just focus on the sport and the joy they derive from it.”
The athlete films will be launched across a diverse range of media platforms to reach consumers across the globe and amplified through retail store activations.
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.
