Ad Campaigns
Google Pay scores big with ‘Sab Tick Hai Team’ IPL 2025 campaign created by Lowe Lintas
MUMBAI: In a season where every ball counts, Google Pay has swung big with its latest IPL 2025 campaign, ‘Sab Tick Hai Team’, created by Lowe Lintas and rolling out on JioHotstar.
The digital payments giant is using the country’s cricket fever to cement its brand values—reliability, speed, and trust—into the hearts of millions. The campaign cleverly mirrors the traits of a crack cricket team—swift running, secure fielding, dependable leadership—with Google Pay’s own promise of safe, fast transactions.
‘Sab Tick Hai’ is not just a slogan—it’s a lifestyle choice for the cricket-obsessed nation, now extended seamlessly to digital payments. Lowe Lintas has given the campaign a playful, relatable spin, ensuring it blends into India’s IPL-mad summer like cold drinks and tense run chases.
Adding spice to the mix, the campaign features exclusive pre-match commentary by Jatin Sapru and cricket legend Suresh Raina. These segments, crafted under Lowe Lintas’ creative baton, spotlight what makes a ‘Sab Tick Hai Team’ both on the field and at the checkout counter.
“Our goal was to capture the essence of cricket’s reliability and camaraderie and map it onto the digital payments experience,” Lowe Lintas said. The result is a campaign that is relatable, punchy, and designed to drive fan chatter between overs.
By partnering with JioHotstar for IPL 2025, Google Pay aims to tap into the unrivalled viewership and excitement surrounding cricket’s biggest carnival. With Lowe Lintas steering the storytelling, Google Pay is looking to knock brand engagement out of the park this season.
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.
