Ad Campaigns
ISL: DHL unveils campaign; to engage 450 million
MUMBAI: DHL Express, the world’s leading international services provider, and the ‘Official Logistics Partner’ of the Hero Indian Super League’s (ISL) has announced its launch of an interactive 360 degree brand campaign – “We know, great is in the detail”.
The campaign is poised to reach over 450 million people across the country, and will leverage an array of engaging touch-points. These include a four-part television commercial series aired on national television, DHL-ISL branded fleets across four cities -Mumbai, Pune, Cochin and Chennai, social media contest across the eight match venues and in-stadia branding throughout the duration of the ISL. Additionally, the campaign will roll out OOH hoardings, tie-ups with online ticketing partners as well as BTL activations to increase engagement with ISL fans.
“The brand campaign – We know, great is in the detail – has been shaped around DHL’s ability to achieve success through its devotion to detail. As Official Logistics Partner to several prestigious events across the globe, we know that it is the little details that come together to bring the moment alive. Be it in art, music, sport or business – the attention to detail is critical to success,” says DHL Express SVP & Country Manager, India, RS Subramanian, “This year, the campaign’s mainstay is the four-part TVC that engages football fans by creating that ‘wow’ factor and surprises them with details about the sport that they might not yet know about.”
Williams Lea Tag India, managing director Amit Chandra said, “We took the creative route of presenting “Unknown Facts”: highlighting little-known aspects about the sport that would amaze and enthuse football fans. At the same time, the TVCs were developed to deliver the message that DHL knows that great is in the detail – in a tone and manner relevant to the target audience. I wish them and the campaign huge success in garnering eyeballs.”
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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.
