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Bewakoof.com ropes in Sanya Malhotra for new campaign
MUMBAI: D2C fashion brand Bewakoof.com has roped in Bollywood actor Sanya Malhotra for promoting the brand across all digital platforms.
Sanya will be the face of its latest marketing campaign flaunting a range of fashion as she makes the statement, “boring kapdo mein abhi bhi ho atke, phone uthao, and try something hatke,” the brand said. The actor is fiercely independent and appeals to the millennials and GenZ and has a point of view on the world. She makes for a perfect choice to represent the brand, it added.
Bewakoof co-founder & CEO Prabhkiran Singh said, “As a brand, we have carved a space in the minds and hearts of the millennials with our fashion range of Apparel, Backpacks, Flip Flops, and Mobile covers. We understand our customers well, feel the solutions they need for different occasions, are a vehicle for their expression, speak their language tone and tenor. We get them. We recently launched a digital marketing campaign with Rajkummar Rao and our customers gave it a big thumbs up. Sanya brings out our brand ethos as her journey is inspiring and her achievements are extraordinary. She is Hatke Apun Jaisai. Bewakoof wants to connect with and via celebrities who are fearless and unapologetic about their choices. For our brand, Sanya is the perfect representation of what Bewakoof is.”
Talking about her association with the brand, Sanya said, “I am happy to be part of the Bewakoof family. Bewakoof has all the fun and quirk that I always look forward to when I indulge in a brand.”
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.
