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Bikano elevates the humble ‘moongphalee’ with Peanut Ball
NEW DELHI: Taking the humble peanut and elevating it to suit classic and contemporary taste buds, Bikano has introduced Peanut Ball, another mouth-watering offering from its stables.
When it comes to this peanut-based snack option, “taste lies at the core”, thereby delivering what a really foodie wants.
“By improvising the humble peanut into Peanut Ball as one of the crunchiest and tastiest peanut-based snacks, we wanted the snack lover to really relish and feel the crunchiness with every bite that he takes. At the same time, the spiciness of it would give an instant punch and impact of eating something extraordinary to those eating it,” said Manish Agarwal, director, Bikano Group.
“In India, eating moongphalee or peanuts has been a cultural thing. Not only do we eat peanuts during the evening hours for a light snack, we often discuss several day-to-day matters with relatives, friends and colleagues while peeling off peanuts and tossing those little nuts into our mouths. To that extent, the carefully prepared Peanut Ball literally turns out to be your food for thought,” added Agarwal.
Given the popularity of peanuts, the brand has priced the Peanut Ball reasonably at Rs 10 only. With a view to ensure its widest possible availability, the product has been stocked across the company’s general and modern trade network.
The Peanut Ball is the latest addition to Bikano’s extensive product portfolio. Last month, the brand successfully launched its line of flavourful and healthy multi-grain chips.
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.
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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.
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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.
