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Burger Kings introduces ‘Sober Whopper’ to curb hangover this new year
Mumbai: New year’s evening is often associated with indulgence followed by a whopper of a hangover the next morning. So this new year, Burger King India has introduced the #SoberWhopper, which has been specially curated for guests to enjoy the first-hand experience of 1 January.
Conceptualised and executed by FoxyMoron (part of the Zoo Media network), the #SoberWhopper campaign will be promoted with a digital film. The brand has activated the #SoberWhopper campaign on social media.
“Burger King as a brand has a unique way of connecting with its TG of GenZ and millennials,” said Zoo Media & FoxyMoron co-founder Pratik Gupta on the brand campaign. “While most brands focus on bringing in the new year, Burger King in its signature humour and topical lens, decided to focus on the unique touchpoint of the customer’s sentiment the morning after, when all the fun and frolic is over, and all you want is great food.”
“Our strategy is to constantly hack contemporary moments and culture. The #SoberWhopper was designed to ensure that no matter how hard our guests party, they can start their new year on a Whopper note,” said chief marketing officer Kapil Grover.
The limited-time ‘Sober Whopper’ is exclusively available on the Burger King mobile app between 28 December and 5 January 2022, said the statement.
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.
