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FCB Interface wins integrated creative mandate for Max Life Insurance
New Delhi: FCB Interface wins the integrated creative mandate for Max Life Insurance. After a multi-agency pitch that included multiple rounds, Max Life Insurance has assigned its integrated creative mandate to FCB Interface.
The mandate includes creative strategy, execution and social media management for the brand across all channels.
Commenting on the announcement, Max Life Insurance chief marketing officer Rahul Talwar said, “We are geared up to make the Max Life brand authentic, contemporary, and relatable to millennials & Gen Z. This partnership will strengthen our brand purpose of ‘You are the difference’. FCB Interface joins our strong ecosystem of highly credible partners, and fits in our vision to build integrated communication channels from strength to strength and deliver impactful work together.”
Speaking of this association, FBB Group chairman & CEO Rohit Ohri, said, “Max life is looking at accelerated growth in India and we at FCB Interface are excited to partner with them on this journey. Integrated mandates are what we love because that’s what empowers us to build relevance, authenticity, and consistency across every stage of the customer journey.”
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.
