Ad Campaigns
Casio India launches its new brand campaign #LiveYourDream for the Casiotone range of keyboards
Mumbai: Casio India announced the launch of its new “# LiveYourDream” brand campaign for its Casiotone range of beginner music keyboards on Monday.
The cornerstone of the campaign is a digital brand film featuring “Taare Zameen Par” star Darsheel Safary, playing the role of an underdog who is able to rise in the eyes of his peers with the help of the music-playing skills he has developed by learning the Casiotone.
Conceptualised by Tribes Communication and produced by Rising Star Productions, the film takes the opportunity to highlight the strengths of Casiotone, which enables the protagonist to realise his desire to play an instrument and garner admiration from his fellow college students. The film is live across all social media pages of the company, including YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.
The campaign is supported by well-known artists from the music industry, such as music composer Sean Rolden, singer-instrumentalist Swasti Mehul, keyboard player Anshuman Singh, and singer-instrumentalist Priyanshi Srivastava, who are communicating their own tryst with social recognition achieved through playing a musical instrument.
Commenting on the campaign, Casio India MD Hideki Imai said, “We want to transform young India from a music-loving country to a music-playing country. And we believe that Casiotone will help us take a giant leap towards this goal. Casiotone has an uncluttered interface, which makes it less overwhelming for beginners; its portability and compatibility with the Casio Music Space app means that you can start and continue the learning process anywhere—at home or in your hostel room. Also, keeping the target market in mind, the instrument has deliberately been made sleek and colourful to augment the appeal and attractiveness that a musical instrument player enjoys. Knowing to play a musical instrument is the epitome of cool, and we hope that this campaign instigates Generation Z to pick up one.”
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.
