Ad Campaigns
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India unveils new OOH campaign for CB Hornet 160R
MUMBAI: Posterscope India will execute on pan-India basis the new OOH campaign for CB Hornet 160R launched by Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India.
The CB Hornet 160R is a high-performance machine that has struck the chord with India’s youth. It heralds a new era of Street Naked Sports Biking and is priced at Rs 79,900 (ex-showroom Delhi) in India.
The concept has been made to focus on product features like backlit hoarding to highlight the signature X-shaped tail light. The optimized campaign plan includes billboards, mall facades, bus shelters, metro branding, kiosks, institutional media and corporate parks.
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Yadvinder Singh Guleria said, “Ever since its launch in December, the CB Hornet 160R has stood out for its Raw, Real & Ripped appeal. Designed to set the pulse racing with its looks, aggressive styling and cutting edge performance, the CB Hornet 160R has caught the fancy of the youth. With the vehicle now available across Honda’s main network, this campaign is set to enhance the awareness among the target audience. We look forward to the OOH expertise that Posterscope India will bring to the table and help us build on this early success.”
Commenting on the win, Posterscope Group India MD and Asia Pacific Regional Director Haresh Nayak said, “We are extremely happy to be associated with brand Honda. CB Hornet 160R with its macho looks and durable performance has already won hearts. We will further, ensure that the Street Naked Sports Biking momentum is continued throughout. This is an important win for us. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to have showed trust on us.”
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.
