Ad Campaigns
Glucon-D campaign joins forces with water
MUMBAI: Glucon-D, the instant energy power brand from the Kraft Heinz Company unveils its new campaign ‘Sirf Paan Nahi, Glucon-D wala Paani.’
The new campaign communicates Glucon-D superiority in providing instant relief from exhaustion compared to plain water. The ad film created by McCann shows a group of kids playing Kabaddi in the scorching heat. After winning the match, the protagonist of the film, a school kid, returns home after the game and approaches the refrigerator to fetch a bottle of water. The mother stops him saying “Don’t just drink water, add Glucon-D to the water” to get instant energy. The film ends with a refreshing reminder “Sirf Paani Nahi, Glucon-D wala Paani” to reinforce the importance of consuming Glucon-D with water to beat exhaustion caused due to harsh summer.
Kraft Heinz India CMO Vikramjeet Singh said, “In summers, heat and high humidity lead to exhaustion. Glucon-D aims to educate the consumers about the benefits of adding Glucon-D to water to quickly restore the lost glucose, minerals and vitamin levels in the body after spending long hours in the sun.”
McCann national planning head Suraja Kishore added, “Being the market leader, Glucon-D’s task is to grow the category and we went single-mindedly towards that end to chase ‘only water’ consumption occasions in summers. Through the campaign ‘Sirf Paani Nahi, Glucon-D wala Paani’, we wanted to highlight the superiority of Glucon-D in recharging the body and providing instant energy.”
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.
