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FCB creates Blue Star ‘cooling’ campaign
MUMBAI: Blue Star, known for its unmatched innovation, has yet again taken the ‘Precision cooling’ of their inverter AC to a whole new level where it allows setting the temperature in decimals. The new commercial, conceptualized by FCB Interface ratifies Blue Star’s USP in the latest brand campaign.
The campaign has been released on the digital platform and will soon be on air across leading channels supported by print, digital and OOH presence.
The film shows an inconsequential fight between a couple over disagreement of room temperature. Both are stuck on a temperature which each feels comfortable with. This recoils a quirky, dramatic hand-shadow fight between the two of them. This is where the Blue Star AC with precision cooling comes into the picture and the couple shadow fighting ferociously like animals end up as love birds and the fight ends in truce.
Blue Star Joint MD B Thiagarajan says, “Blue Star has set a new benchmark in the air conditioner industry with the launch of India’s first Precision Inverter Split AC that allows temperature setting in decimals to provide the user with precise cooling as desired for ultimate comfort. This reiterates Blue Star’s expertise in cooling and supports our value proposition of ‘Nobody Cools Better’. The TVC communicates the need for cooling in decimals and we are sure most of the viewers will relate to this insight”.
FCB Interface Chief Creative Officer Robby Mathew says, “Blue Star films have always been quirky and this one’s no different. To bring alive the insight of how couples disagree on the right temperature in the room, we used a hand-shadow fight between animals. Vicious wolves transform into dinosaurs and then sharp-toothed monsters. Peace returns to the household only when they discover the new Blue Star Inverter Split, which allows them to make temperature adjustments in decimal points. There is absolutely no use of computer graphics in the film. The shadows were created live, on set, by the finest exponents of hand shadowgraphy in the country – the Calcutta-based father-son team of Amar and Arko Sen.”
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.
