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Dell Technologies revives nostalgia and joy through AI
Mumbai: Dell Technologies has launched its latest festive campaign titled “Sweets,” positioning the PC as an indispensable tool for users. This reinforces Dell’s commitment to driving meaningful innovation and empowering customers through products equipped with cutting-edge technologies. By highlighting the integration of AI, the campaign aims to bring joy this festive season and demonstrate how technology can create opportunities in today’s fast-paced digital world.
The campaign film, tells the story of a young man visiting a sweet shop, craving a traditional Indian dessert, kheer. Upon arriving, he learns that the recipe for this beloved treat has been forgotten. Despite suggestions among other patrons, no one can recall the exact ingredients. Determined to rediscover the lost recipe, the young man turns to Dell’s AI-powered Inspiron 14 Plus. Using AI-driven insights, he recreates the recipe, piecing it together bit by bit, with a little help from his grandmother. In a heartfelt conclusion, he shares the rediscovered delicacy with his newfound companions, making the festival more memorable.
Announcing the campaign, Dell Technologies, India, director of marketing, consumer and small business Mayuri Saikia said, “The festive season in India brings a sense of cheer and excitement, often filled with nostalgia. Technology has the unique ability to connect people, making these moments even more special. Our latest campaign celebrates this spirit and highlights how AI has evolved into a vital part of our everyday lives, helping users discover new possibilities. With Dell’s commitment to empowering people with the right technology and innovative products, we are enabling our customers to stay ahead and achieve desired outcomes.”
Conceptualized and developed by VML, the campaign adopts an omni-channel strategy, launching interactive videos on Dell’s social media platforms today. It will be amplified in multiple languages including Hinglish, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi and will be promoted across a variety of platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. The campaign will also be promoted on Amazon, Spotify, and via media partners to maximize visibility and engagement. Dell is also collaborating with popular content creators and influencers to showcase the devices and highlight their use cases. Additionally, retail amplification and on-ground activations will take place in 35 cities and 60 locations nationwide.
Commenting on the campaign, Rohan Kumar from VML said, “Festivals today are filled with individuality and personality. Trends show that every celebration has its own unique touch. Food, being an integral part of any festival, brings its own distinct flavours to each occasion. This year, we wanted to highlight Dell’s range of AI-powered PCs, which can help people reconnect with their roots and make this festive season truly special.”
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.
