Ad Campaigns
Iodex launches influencer campaign with Bani J and Sunil Chhetri
Mumbai: Iodex, the pain relief brand from GSK has launched an Instagram Influencer campaign roping in personalities like VJ and actor Bani J and footballer Sunil Chhetri amongst others, for its latest product – Iodex Rapid Action spray. The legacy brand aims to extend its flagship campaign ‘Thodi Himmat, Thoda Iodex’ to a younger and physically active cohort.
“Influencer marketing is one of the best ways to stay connected with consumers. It’s about showing people engaging with brands and connecting with like-minded people who have the same interests or needs,” said GSK Consumer Healthcare head of marketing India sub-continent Anurita Chopra. “With changing lifestyles, the incidences of body pain have been on a rise. Iodex, with a rich legacy of over a century, truly understands pain and with the launch of the new spray format we aim to be a one stop solution catering to every pain type.”
The campaign pins to the essence that excellence in a field, isn’t a destination, it’s a journey – and the road to success requires having ‘Courage’ to stretch beyond one’s comfort zone to power personal transformations. The commercial aims to strike the right chord by positioning the brand’s spray as a modern-day reliable pain reliever and encourages consumers to push their limits and continue to challenge themselves.
Eighteen influencers across the board, including Sunil Chhetri and Bani J, will be posting 50 content pieces, which will be reaching out to an audience of over 10 million, said the brand.
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.
