Ad Campaigns
Flipkart’s ‘Blame it on Flipkart’ campaign saves last-minute planners
Mumbai: As Valentine’s Day panic sets in, Flipkart comes to the rescue with a playful digital campaign called ‘Blame it on Flipkart.’ Conceptualised by 22feet Tribal Worldwide, the campaign playfully targets procrastinators and forgetful romantics who wait until the last minute to buy the perfect gift for their partners. Stepping in as the perfect wingman, Flipkart ensures a stress-free, love-filled celebration for its customers.
While Valentine’s Day is a special occasion, many of us tend to overthink or miss out on gift-giving until the very last minute. This often leads to frantic online searches and last-minute orders, leading to anxiousness about potential delivery delays that might impact our romantic relationships. That’s where Flipkart steps in, wearing the cape and saving the day by acting as a saviour for forgetful lovers.
Sharing his thoughts on the campaign, Flipkart Sr director, brand marketing Pratik Shetty said, “At Flipkart, we understand that panic of forgetting a special day and the last-minute hustle to make it right. Therefore, on Valentine’s Day, as searches for last minute gifts surged, we were happy to partner with 22feet Tribal Worldwide to come up with a creative solution that helped our customers get their partner’s gift of choice, while Flipkart took the blame for their last-minute order. The one-day delivery feature was the cherry on the cake.”
22feet Tribal Worldwide creative head Vishnu Srivatsav said, “We wanted a human take on Valentine’s Day that wasn’t about life but about the little things that happen in love. Like forgetting to buy a gift. In an otherwise crowded day, we needed to stand out and yet be relevant to the brand and its benefits. Fortunately, we hit upon an idea to both help people and entertain them.”
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.
