Ad Campaigns
Fevicol makes a banner that actually sticks
MUMBAI: No one pays attention to web banners anymore. So Fevicol, India’s leading adhesive brand, decided to make a banner that would genuinely stick and not just figuratively.
The sticky banner appears to show up in YouTube pre-roll ads of other brands, like a standard in-video banner. And the adhesive power of the banner is so strong, that even the characters in the ads can’t escape it.
This effect was achieved by making videos that closely mimicked the ads viewers were used to watching every day, and deploying them as seemingly ordinary pre-roll ads on Youtube.
Ogilvy vice chairman and group chief creative officer Sonal Dabral notes that Ogilvy has a long history of creating memorable television commercials for Fevicol. “Stories that always leave you with a smile. So when it came to pre roll ads in the digital space we decided to say it in the same Fevicol voice. Quirky little ads that will leave you with a smile and a message that will remain stuck long after the ads are over. Like all Fevicol advertising, we hope the consumers will enjoy this campaign too and will have as much fun watching it as we had creating it,” he adds.
Pidilite Industries CMO Vivek Sharma mentions, “Fevicol is known for its innovations in product and marketing, especially it’s entertaining TVCs and activities. Continuing its tradition of innovation and targeting the young digital generation, Fevicol has devised these creative digital interventions with the aim of pleasantly surprising the consumer while giving its message of unbreakable bonds.”
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.
