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Dell Aarambh TVC encourages creative capabilities
MUMBAI: Dell, India, has launched its new TVC conceptualized to encourage PC usage in learning, for students in their academic years. The TVC will be airing across leading kid’s entertainment and movie channels, as well as Hindi and regional news and general entertainment channels.
With the theme Ek Behtar Kal Ka Aarambh, Dell is building upon its pan India PC for Education initiative Dell Aarambh launched in 2016 to spearhead the use of the personal computer in education. Dell will also be launching mobile video outreach to complement the reach of this campaign to its audience.
Conceptualized and executed by GREY group, the TVC follows the journey of a bright young girl who sets out to solve a real life problem – that of having to travel a long distance all the way around a lake to go to school, each day. As the story progresses, we see the young girl partnering her personal computer to support her understanding of the Archimedes Principle to arrive at a practical solution to take her across the lake, saving both time and effort.
Dell, India director marketing – consumer & small business Ritu Gupta said, “Our objective has been to equip young minds with technological capability such that they are prepared to build their future in a world that is becoming increasingly digital.”
GREY Bangalore VP and business head Vishal Ahluwalia said, “The TVC has been shot in a real environment with a real life predicament bereft of any gloss. It tells the story simply and yet effectively. We are positive that this would appeal to parents and children alike and bring about the required change in acceptance of a PC being essential for education.”
Dell Aarambh has been engaging with three key audiences – students, teachers and parents – in a series of activities meant to build their confidence and familiarity with using the PC.
Dell Aarambh has been running on-ground and online programs since its inception in June 2016, and has covered a base of 3,305 schools and 59,349 teachers who have received PC training.
In 2017, the program is reaching out to mothers with Dell DigiMoms, a PC awareness and training program which has been kick-started with a pilot in 8 towns in Karnataka and Maharashtra. The program aims to reach out to 16,000 households, and will be implemented by the 32 on-ground Dell digital correspondents to engage with mothers, showing them how to understand and best utilize the PC in aiding the holistic growth of their children.
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.
