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#CollarUpWithTide adds to pride of Indian women
MUMBAI: Tide Plus, one of the leading fabric care brands in India from P&G, has introduced the New & Improved Tide Plus. The New version of India’s popular detergent brand has undergone a formulation upgrade, leading to a superior, better performance! Leading actresses Drashti Dhami, Mouni Roy, Namrata Shirodkar and Jasmin Bhasin went on a cross country tour to launch the New and Improved Tide Plus across Big Bazaar & Hypercity stores, and spoke about Tide’s latest campaign #CollarUpWithTide.
The campaign is a funny take on the perils of hanging your collar to prevent dirtying it, and how with the new best-ever Tide, you can pop up your whitest collar in pride.
Every homemaker takes immense pride in ensuring that her family looks well groomed, and does not have to face embarrassing situations.
Actor & producer Namrata Shirodkar, who launched the New Improved Tide Plus in Hyderabad, said, “I recall that as a child, my mother would be very particular about my uniform when I went to school. Now that I am a mother myself, I realize how every homemaker takes pride in her family’s grooming.”
Drashti Dhami who is known for her extremely popular TV shows like Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil, Geet and Madhubala – Ek Ishq, Ek junoon unveiled the product in Ahmedabad and Chandigarh.
Mouni Roy, the widely-acclaimed actress of Naagin fame who launched the Tide Plus in Kolkata, added, “With faster dissolution, more lather & easy rinse – you are in for surprising whiteness!.”
Jasmin Bhasin, known for her popular show Tashan-e-Ishq and Dil se Dil Tak, took the audience of Bhopal by storm with her vivacious personality and Collar-up ishtyle said, “I have been a hospitality student, and our daily uniforms were supposed to be stark white! I have been through this struggle, and hence the insight for the campaign resonates very well with me.”
P&G India Fabric Care brand manager Priyanka Goyal said, “The new product formulation aims at delighting the consumer in ways like never before – an even superior product, for superior whiteness, improving the overall laundry experience! The new TVC is a fun, quirky take on relatable situations about men who hang out their collars to avoid getting them dirty, and end up being embarrassed.”
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.
