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BankBazaar uses music to make you #GoPaperless
MUMBAI: Online financial marketplace, BankBazaar, has launched a #GoPaperless music video to encourage digital adoption for finance-related queries. Ditching the staid old set-up, the music video gives personal finance a fun twist and explains the advantages of paperless banking in an unexpected new format.
Finance, despite its seriousness, is thought to be boring and dry. Its complex nature and lack of adequate information have kept people aloof. Today, paperwork is giving way to digital even as seamlessness and convenience are the new buzz words.
BankBazaar is offering a paperless e-KYC platform for instant loan approval. With digital documentation, sanction time can be as low as one business day. The new digital campaign elaborates how these changes can make the life of the customer simpler and give them faster results.
BankBazaar brand marketing head Prince Thomas says, “BankBazaar has always tried to bring about a change in the way people think about finance. This time, BankBazaar attempts to break the norm of finance as a boring topic and talk about all the benefits of paperless finance through an exciting music video. Today, as the world moves on from long, tedious, paper-based processes to instant and paperless processes, it is essential that customers understand what this means and how to leverage it best. We are trying to do this in a way that makes imparting this information as well as receiving it fun.”
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.
