Ad Campaigns
Kesh King ropes in Imtiaz Ali and Huma Qureshi for TVC
MUMBAI: Ayurvedic hair care brand Kesh King is set to release its new ad film for which it has roped in actors Imtiaz Ali and Huma Qureshi. The ad film will go on air around mid-March 2016.
Emami Limited director Priti A Sureka said, “Till now the brand Kesh King used to run mass communication messages focusing only on the functional benefits of the product. Post-acquisition of the brand, we have conducted extensive consumer research which threw up myriad moments of truth in the life of an Indian woman for her falling, damaged, dull and lifeless hair due to daily stress, improper diet, pollution, weather and many other reasons. We have found out that many women tend to suffer from low confidence, low self-esteem and even depression due to problems like excessive hair fall, premature graying and unhealthy hair quality. Basis this insight, we thought of weaving in these consumer findings in our ad story and establish Kesh King as the one stop solution for all these hair woes of women and give them back healthy lustrous hair along with their lost confidence and happiness. We believe that this new film focusing more on the consumer needs will strike a chord with our TG.”
The storyline of the ad film has actor Huma as a hassled housewife complaining to her husband about her falling, lifeless and dull hair and her distress at people including her husband being indifferent to her agony of having bad hair. As the husband introduces her to Kesh King and its benefits and helps her to manage her tousled tresses, Kesh King tries to establish itself as a brand that not only takes care of hair woes but also mends relations.
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.
