Ad Campaigns
#DontMessAround with unprotected sex, says Manforce Condoms
NEW DELHI: Manforce Condoms has come up with a new campaign #DontMessAround, urging people not to engage in unprotected Through this campaign, the brand is focusing on a larger responsibility of educating people to use condoms to steer clear of messy scenarios which arise due to unprotected sex.
The campaign gives the message that ‘unprotected sex can be pleasurable but it’s unprotected for a reason.’ Unprotected sex can come with bigger problems such as STDs and unwanted pregnancy. Moreover, it can become a cause for a messy experience, and no one ever talks about that.
Through this campaign, the brand wants to remind people of the childhood memories when we used to play around and our teachers or parents used to tell us not to mess around and play safe. Similarly, Manforce condoms, as a brand is here to act as a guardian to its users and tells them “#DontMessAround” while playing, just put on a Manforce and be safe.
Mankind Pharma DGM Joy Chatterjee said, “Through this campaign, the intention is to show how messy of an experience it can be if you decide to go raw instead of using a condom. We have always been committed to our customer’s safety and want to ensure that sex always stays as an act of pleasure, along with safety. We want to communicate to the masses #DontMessAround, put on a Manforce to avoid unprotected sex and sexual diseases”.
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.
