Ad Campaigns
ADK Fortune and Manforce team launch #YouAreNotAlone
MUMBAI: Taking its initiative to promote safe sex ahead, Manforce Condoms explores a completely new angle of ‘safe’ in its latest #YouAreNotAlone campaign that brings to light the perils of indulging in PDA thinking you are alone with complete disregard to prying eyes who are always on the lookout for such vulnerable couples.
The #YouAreNotAlone campaign has been conceptualised and executed by ADK Fortune Communications, Gurgaon.
ADK-Fortune managing partner Subroto Pradhan said, “After our successful campaign #ShutThePhoneUp, we wanted to continue with this momentum of sensitizing people about ‘safe sex’. And that is how we arrived at our fresh campaign #YouAreNotAlone. The campaign speaks about the danger of letting your guard down in a public place. Irrespective of what the place may look like, there is always danger lurking around and that can ruin your life.”
Commenting on the campaign, Mankind Pharma DGM Joy Chatterjee said, “As a responsible brand, we take pride in sensitizing couples about safe sex. This time we have a strong message to those couples who indulge in PDA thinking they are doing it within the four walls of their house. It’s important for them to understand where they are, what they are doing and how their action can ruin their life.”
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.
