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Fanta launches a new Fnacking campaign featuring Kartik Aaryan
Mumbai: Fanta, the renowned and flavorful beverage brand of Coca-Cola India, unveils a new campaign to showcase the joy of Fnacking by having the flavorful Fanta Orange with their favorite snacks. The campaign film featuring Kartik Aryan, encourages consumers to seize the moment and build a perfect snacking ritual with Fanta’s multisensorial and indulgent taste. India’s snacking landscape is exploding with experimentation from unusual snack combinations to testing viral food hacks, experimentation snacks to snack review. Amidst this, Fanta acts a perfect enabler to enhance the taste of these sumptuous delights. Grab a FANTA & a Snack and Get FNACKING!
In the Fnacking campaign, Bollywood sensation Kartik Aaryan showcases the playful side of ‘Fnacking.’ Yes, that’s a new term to capture the fun of snacking with delicious Fanta. Kartik breathes life into the concept of experimenting with Fanta Orange and snacks, portraying Fanta as the catalyst for unconventional and experimental snacking, both at home and with friends.
Conceptualized by Ogilvy, the campaign is set to captivate audiences across multiple platforms, including television, digital media, and outdoor advertising, bringing the charm of Fanta to every corner of the nation.
Commenting on the campaign, Coca Cola India and South-West Asia senior category director, sparkling flavours Sumeli Chatterjee said, “We are celebrating Fnacking as the joy of snacking in its unique, flavourful Fanta way. This campaign emphasizes that snacking is not just about quelling hunger but about elevating the entire experience with flavors that excite the taste buds. We are thrilled that Kartik Aaryan agrees with us and loves to add Fanta to his snacking ritual, making every moment more vibrant and enjoyable. Fnacking is not just a moment but a delicious sensorial experience.”
Speaking on his association with Fanta, actor Kartik Aaryan said “Being part of Fanta’s Fnacking campaign has been amazing! Fanta’s indulgent and flavorful Fnacking proposition is a game-changer. It’s truly exhilarating for me to be involved in this captivating campaign that brings a Champion spirit and a fresh perspective to the table.”
Commenting on the campaign, Ogilvy North chief creative officer Ritu Sharda added, “We love experimenting with our snacks, constantly exploring unique combinations of flavours. This is why it comes as no surprise when you hear snack names like Samosa Bhel, Pakora Pav, and the likes. To demonstrate the coming together of Fanta and this culinary spirit, we’ve created a visually stunning world inspired by the Gram, where Kartik Aryan crafts these amazing snack fusions. With a playful twist, he enhances the flavour journey by adding a splash of delicious Fanta, transforming it into a “Fnack” (Fanta + Snack), making every bite more vibrant and enjoyable.”
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.
