Ad Campaigns
Dove launches major OOH campaign showcasing 10-in-1 deep repair hair mask
Mumbai: Over the years, beauty and personal care brand – Dove has firmly established itself as a trusted brand and as an expert in hair care solutions. Known for its nourishing formulas tailored to restore damaged hair, Dove has launched its biggest OOH campaign for its new 10-in-1 Deep Repair Treatment Mask. The campaign, titled “Pause, Reverse, and Play,” marks a significant milestone in Dove’s commitment to innovation and customer engagement.
This expansive campaign will cover over 4000 key touchpoints across India, strategically placed in high-traffic areas such as malls, highways, residential neighbourhoods, metro stations, and pivotal locations in 12 cities: Bangalore, Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Noida, Pune, and Thane.
Featuring multiple immersive digital displays (enhanced visual experiences), this campaign is one of the biggest OOH campaigns by the brand. The visually appealing screens will bring Dove’s message to life, providing an interactive and memorable immersive experience just as we hit the festive season.
“OOH is a crucial medium to impactfully reinforce Dove’s expertise in hair care,” said HUL vice president hair care Sairam Subramanian. “This being one of our biggest OOH campaigns to date, we have strategically positioned our assets in key locations across cities and in different formats. This campaign celebrates the journey of beautiful hair without any worry of hair damage with Dove’s new 10 in 1 Deep Repair Treatment Hair mask”.
The campaign highlights Dove’s 10-in-1 Deep Repair Treatment Hair Mask, known for its ability to reverse up to three years of damage*. Timed perfectly for the festive season, it encourages consumers to integrate the hair mask into their weekly routine to “hit reverse” on damage and “Press Play” with revitalized, healthy hair, fostering renewed confidence.
* Basis lab test in a controlled environment on protein-damaged hair after five washes*
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.
