Ad Campaigns
GoDaddy launches localised ad campaign in India
MUMBAI: GoDaddy, a technology provider dedicated to small businesses, has launched its first regional marketing campaign in India. Beginning with Tamil, GoDaddy is working to educate India’s local small businesses that with an online presence, that no business is a small business. This supports the company’s broader India strategy to educate small business owners on the advantages of having an online presence – allowing businesses to operate 24/7, reach customers globally and grow their business.
“In this market, where local language content still remains dominant, Tamil is one of the most popular languages in India. The next wave of growth in Internet adoption will be driven by local language content and smaller cities,” said GoDaddy India VP and MD Rajiv Sodhi.
“What’s more, Tamil Nadu is home to one of the highest number of operational small and medium sized enterprises in India. Through this campaign we want to increase GoDaddy’s brand awareness among Tamil-speaking small business owners and boost Internet adoption,” he added.
The regional campaign includes a Tamil language television commercial featuring GoDaddy customer – Chennaifurniture.net – a local furniture manufacturer, along with a social media campaign. The TV commercial is now airing on regional channels in the South including Sun TV and Adithya TV.
“Until now, my business success was based on word-of-mouth. But today it’s important to be online, because that is where the consumers are. That’s why creating an identity for my business on the Internet was crucial. GoDaddy helped me establish an online presence with ease and now we get orders around the clock,” said Chennaifurniture.net owner Elango Samy.
“We’ve seen that small businesses listen to their peers’ recommendations about a particular product or solution and its benefits. The new campaign illustrates through a real-world customer example that the Internet is not just for large enterprises, and that small business owners can attain the same benefits for their business,” Sodhi added.
“And now with our latest solution – Get Online Today, small business owners can establish an online presence, easily and affordably,” he informed.
Get Online Today package comprises a domain name, subscription to website builder and Microsoft Office 365 from GoDaddy for Rs 99 per month for the first year with an annual purchase. The offer is designed to cater to the business and communication needs of SMBs, while making the business more discoverable, keeping the identity secured and enabling collaboration online.
GoDaddy’s regional push follows two integrated marketing campaigns in Hindi, since starting operations in India in 2012. Both campaigns were geared towards educating small business owners and individuals on the need to get online.
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.
