Ad Campaigns
Amazon Fashion and Ogilvy Bangalore turn Kamalpur to Parispur
MUMBAI: Amazon Fashion’s new campaign shows how fashion has become a unifier and a language that bonds Indian youth into a cult called ‘Citizens of Fashion’. A 3600 degree campaign encompassing TVC, Digital, Print and OOH, Citizens of Fashion portrays the new Indian youth who remain rooted within, but are breaking traditional stereotypes with their sense of style.
Shot in Varanasi, the two commercials show how Indians in every nook and corner are becoming increasingly fashion aware. Created by Ogilvy & Mather Bangalore and directed by Arun Gopalan of Storytellers Productions, the films are set to foot-tapping music and have slick cinematography.
Ogilvy Bangalore, ECD Azazul Haque said, “Fashion belongs to everyone. It belongs to those who live in Paris. It belongs to those who live in Banaras. All you need is the desire to look stylish and fashionable. Amazon Fashion wanted to celebrate these citizens of fashion who live everywhere. In small towns. In big cities. Amazon Fashion wanted to become the destination for anyone who is seeking the latest style and famous fashion brands, online.
From such a brief emerged the idea of showcasing and celebrating stylish, fashionable people from every nook and corner of our nation. From Mumbai to Kanpur. From Delhi to Patna. Anyone who is a citizen of fashion picks his labels from Amazon Fashion.
The idea was to make brand Amazon Fashion edgy yet relatable. Extremely fashionable yet mass. So came the idea of Parispur and Rioganj. People who are extremely fashionable yet earthy. The contrast of people in an extremely relatable backdrop behaving like the mass of India but dressed in high fashion clothes. People who turn Kamalapur to Parispur and Raiganj to Rioganj. People who are the citizens of fashion.’
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.
