Ad Campaigns
Aditya Birla Capital talks money in new campaign
MUMBAI: Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABCL) has launched its latest campaign #DearMoney across 51 TV channels, 14 radio stations, several OOH locations, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and several websites. With this launch, all ABCL businesses inclusive of Aditya Birla Finance Limited, Aditya Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund, Aditya Birla SunLife Insurance and Aditya Birla Health Insurance, have come together as one to serve the end-to-end financial needs of its retail and corporate customers through one brand.
The campaign highlights the launch of a whole new category — money, and the launch of a whole new way in which financial brands enter and become a part of peoples’ lives through their life’s needs. Given that the complexities surrounding money are unique to every individual, most of us do not like to talk about it, not just with others, but often even with ourselves.
The objective of the campaign is to provoke people to start a conversation about money and with money. In a unique one-on-one conversation across all channels and mediums, the campaign touches upon the issues the people of India have in relation to their finance and self-realise the need for money in various aspects of their life. It encourages people to actively thinking about it, so that they can take the first step towards financial planning.
Aditya Birla Capital chief marketing officer Ajay Kakar says, “We are here to enable individuals to protect what they value; to invest so they can live a life they aspire to live; and to finance their dreams, needs and desires. We want to build this into a brand such that whenever a customer thinks of money, they think of us.”
Directed by Ram Madhvani, the TVC has been created by Taproot Dentsu India with FoxyMoron media handling the digital campaign roll-out and MindShare India being responsible for digital and TV media planning. FITCH India was responsible for the creation of the new visual brand identity for Aditya Birla Capital.
Taproot Dentsu India chairman and chief creative officer Agnello Dias says, “We needed an open letter from the people of India to a puzzle called money. We focused on taking this conversation out of homes and dining tables to start a collective exchange about all things money. Hopefully the film will encourage each of us to start having real-time conversations with our own #DearMoney in a light-hearted yet insightful way.”
Mindshare South Asia chief digital officer Vinod Thadani says, “The roll-out across various mediums like mobile, digital, social and native, have been extremely innovative and at a scale aimed to reach out to as many people as we can. With every medium having its own unique conversation, the campaign has been one of the most engaging and interesting that we have worked on yet.”
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.”
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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.
