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Bajaj Allianz signs internet’s ‘dancing uncle’
MUMBAI: Professor Sanjeev Srivastava, whose videos have gone viral on the internet and is trending as #DancingUncle and #GovindaUncle, has been signed up by Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance for their latest video.
Tapping on Sanjeev’s popularity, Bajaj Allianz Life has roped in the ‘Dancing Uncle’ to shake his legs on their latest announcement of one-time special bonus for their policyholders. The latest video sees him dancing to Bajaj Allianz Life’s new jingle ‘Samjho Ho Gaya’ that captures the essence of the brand’s new philosophy ‘Life Goals. DONE.
This is the fourth video from the internet sensation that has gone LIVE and has got huge traction in a matter of minutes. His earlier videos where he danced to Govinda’s tracks that made him a superstar overnight have already crossed millions of views and saw his fan following increase by the day including the who’s who of Bollywood.
Bajaj Allianz life insurance chief marketing officer Chandramohan Mehra says, “Sanjeev evokes our brand values of optimism, confidence and youthfulness. The idea was to ride on the popular wave and ensure our customer-centric bonus offer is reached out in an engaging manner. The idea emanates from our belief that life insurance is about enabling our policyholders to live life to the fullest and help them achieve their Life Goals”.
After rolling out the brand transition campaign “Samjho Ho Gaya”, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance has been raising the bar with their marketing initiatives. As part of its earlier digital initiatives, the company launched bite-sized three episodes web series #GameOfLifeGoals where they roped in two popular faces from the web comedy world Rahul Subramaniam and Kumar Varun. It was a follow-up to the vox pop video of #GraveyardOfLifeGoals that was launched in end of March 2018 with popular YouTube star Sahil Khattar.
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.
