Ad Campaigns
Alia Bhatt performs magic tricks in Lay’s new ad for ‘thinnest chips’
MUMBAI: Lay’s has launched a new digital campaign for its recently introduced “thinnest range of chips” – Lay’s Wafer Style. Titled ‘#TheThinPossibleChip’, the campaign encourages fans to try fun and quirky magic tricks using the flavourful and light, “Lay’s Wafer Style – a chip so thin and paper-like, that it disappears.”
Kick-started by brand ambassador Alia Bhatt, and Bollywood actor Siddhant Chaturvedi, the campaign shows the actors enthralling the audience as they perform magic tricks using the flat-cut and paper-thin Lay’s Wafer Style. In the video, Alia can be seen holding the thin chip in her hand and making it magically disappear as she clicks her fingers. Towards the end, she throws #TheThinPossibleChip challenge to her fans and asks them if they can make the Lay’s Wafer Style chip disappear.
Taking a cue from Alia, several celebrities including Raghav Juyal, Anushka Sen, Gauhar Khan, and Jasmin Bhasin have joined the campaign on social media.
PepsiCo India director-marketing (Potato Chips Category) Shailja Joshi said, “Lay’s Wafer Style is the thinnest chip from the house of Lay’s and we’ve received an overwhelming consumer response that has further encouraged to drive the messaging of the thin and light chip with #TheThinPossibleChip campaign. The digital campaign brings alive the unique attributes, especially the thinness of the chip in a fun and playful manner with celebrities and content creators performing illusions and making the Paper Thin, Wafer Thin chip disappear.”
Lay’s is also engaging with influencers by sending them Lay’s Wafer Style hamper which includes a stylish T-shirt and Lay’s Wafer Style packs in three special flavours – Salt & Pepper, Tangy Treat & Sundried Chilli, and engaging with them to highlight the paper-like thinness of the Lay’s Wafer Style chips through entertaining illusions and tricks.
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.
