Ad Campaigns
Genelia Deshmukh features in CashKaro’s new ad films by OWLED Media
Mumbai: OWLED Media, a renowned creative marketing agency, has teamed up with CashKaro, a leading player in the online cashback and coupon industry to create three ad films focused on highlighting Cashkaro’s value proposition. The films feature Bollywood actress Genelia Deshmukh and showcases the shopping habits of three individual family members of Genelia’s onscreen family and how they can save on their spending by purchasing their products via CashKaro app.
Genelia stars alongside her family members in amusing scenarios:
1. The first film features her father’s social media mishap leading to an impromptu online shopping spree, with Genelia recommending CashKaro.
2. In the second film, Genelia reminds her sister to use CashKaro while shopping for a pricey lipstick.
3. The last film showcases her husband searching for a trimmer online.
These comical narratives cleverly highlight CashKaro’s benefits, offering discounts and instant cashback directly to users’ bank accounts. The films playfully reinterpret the iconic tune from the popular Bollywood film “Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na,” originally “Pappu can’t dance saala,” as “Pappu can’t shop saala.” This clever twist triggers a sense of nostalgia among the audience while also building brand awareness and introducing the audience to CashKaro’s various features.
OWLED solution strategist Tanisha Shrivastava said, “Though challenging, we successfully condensed a photoshoot, three compelling ad films, and performance marketing call-outs into a single day, thanks to our dedicated team’s unwavering effort. The result was truly spectacular, leaving everyone involved thoroughly satisfied with the impressive output we achieved together.”
While speaking about the campaign, CashKaro associate director – brand & creative Zayyan Waseem said, “Being the leading Cashback & Coupons app in the industry, our aim was to make this campaign as big and make sure everyone knew CashKaro’s name and the value we provide to our users. The entire CashKaro & OWLED team synergised to make this a reality. We have put together pure tactical campaign with a brilliant creative layer as Genelia Deshmukh brought our #CashKaroAishKaro idea to life.”
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.
