Ad Campaigns
Happy mcgarrybowen creates film for Jabong’s Showstopper Festival
MUMBAI: Online fashion destination, Jabong, will launch a four-day shopping extravaganza, the Showstopper Festival, between 27-30 April.
Targeted to fashion aficionados, the festival will showcase an exquisite collection from renowned international, luxury, designer, beauty, accessory and athleisure brands.
To support the festival, Happy mcgarrybowen has launched its latest campaign for urban fashion-forward customers. A digital-first approach has been adopted for the campaign, and is supplemented by outdoor, cinema and radio. The core campaign thought, #FashionGuilty, builds a world for the showstoppers, where mediocrity ceases to exist.
Jabong VP for brand marketing Gaurav Kackar says, “Showstopper Festival is an ode to the fashion forwards and the trend makers. Every aspect of our campaign comes from a simple insight that being #FashionGuilty is something you wear on your sleeve proudly. The visualisation of the commercial is powerful, eclectic and high on fashion quotient portraying the free-spirited, who defy mediocrity. It encapsulates the essence of the brand, as a curator of best in class labels and high-end fashion.”
Happy Mcgarrybowen CEO Kartik Iyer adds, “The thing about those who fiercely love fashion is that they don’t care about what others think. Some people have a certain boldness about them. The Showstopper Festival is for such people. The film brings this thought alive with the showstoppers celebrating their uniqueness, even if they are being judged for who they are.”
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.
