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Hyundai Motor India unveils Dil mein Bas Jaye EXTER campaign
Mumbai: Hyundai Motor India Ltd. (HMIL), renowned for its innovative marketing strategies and customer-centric approach, proudly launches its latest multi-channel media campaign for Hyundai EXTER, ‘Dil mein Bas Jaye EXTER’. The campaign, featuring a series of six quirky films, aims to significantly enhance brand recall and generate buzz surrounding the EXTER while effectively highlighting its key safety, convenience and comfort features like six Airbags standard with 40 safety features, Paddle Shifters, Sunroof, Cruise Control, Hill Assist Control, and more. The TVCs incorporate carefully curated regional nuances to resonate deeply with diverse audiences, ensuring a powerful and lasting impact transcending cultural boundaries.
These films are characterised by their unique and humorous storyline, with a common central character ‘Surya’, who embodies the spirit and features of EXTER in a convincing yet entertaining manner. This highly memorable approach to advertisement-making sets the campaign apart, ensuring a lasting impression on viewers.
Sharing his insights about the campaign, Hyundai Motor India Ltd AVP & vertical head of marketing Virat Khullar said, “The ‘Dil mein Bas Jaye EXTER’ campaign exemplifies Hyundai’s commitment to creativity and innovation in marketing. With a focus on creating high brand recall and amplifying awareness about EXTER, these TVCs effectively communicate the unique value proposition of our SUV. By leveraging humour and relatable narratives while establishing an enhanced regional connect through Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi and Bengali languages, we aim to resonate with our target audience and further strengthen the brand value and recall of the Hyundai EXTER.
He added, “Besides the TVCs, we’ve developed concise, social media-specific content featuring familiar characters and settings. This targeted strategy aims to boost awareness and reinforce the ‘Dil me bass jaye EXTER’ positioning digitally, maximising engagement and resonance, particularly among the Gen Z demographic. By extending the campaign’s reach to social platforms, we anticipate heightened participation and advocacy for Hyundai EXTER.”
The multifaceted campaign will be promoted across TV, digital, radio and social media channels, including YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Targeted toward driving higher website visits and video views, the campaign will utilize programmatic platforms to reach in-market auto enthusiasts, news channels, family-focused individuals, sports enthusiasts, and travel affinity audiences.
Since its launch in 2023, Hyundai EXTER has garnered phenomenal customer response and critical acclaim. Boasting over 100,000 bookings and capturing a remarkable 34 per cent segment share, EXTER has firmly established itself as a top choice in its category. Notably, the higher trims featuring enhanced convenience features, including a sunroof and Hyundai Bluelink Connected Car technology, have contributed to over 70 per cent of EXTER sales.
With 20 first-in-segment features and 9 best-in-segment features, Hyundai EXTER continues to elevate the aspirations of Indian customers. Over 38 per cent of EXTER buyers are first-time car buyers, with an average age ranging from 18 to 29 years. Furthermore, nearly 30 per cent of customers are influenced by pure word-of-mouth marketing, underscoring the high levels of customer satisfaction associated with the EXTER.
The ‘Dil mein Bus Jaye EXTER’ campaign represents Hyundai’s unwavering commitment to delivering innovative, customer-centric marketing initiatives.
Hyundai EXTER enthusiasts and prospective buyers can explore more about the campaign and the SUV’s features by visiting the official Hyundai website and social media channels.
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.
