Ad Campaigns
Kiara Advani & Pantene tell women to let their hair down
NEW DELHI: Hair care brand Pantene has launched its new campaign with Bollywood actor Kiara Advani, encouraging young women everywhere to embrace hair fall free open hair with confidence.
The latest commercial highlights the concerns young girls face around hair fall, causing them to tie their hair. Pantene with Advani emphasises that you haven’t grown your hair long to simply tie it.
Advani said, "I have always had long hair, but hair fall is a concern we all face. Pantene’s proven solutions are enriched with Pro Vitamin B5 and Fermented Rice Water giving you flawless free flowing hair fall free hair. I am excited to be the new face of Pantene and share my journey with other women like me, who love their hair and enjoy wearing them open."
P&G Haircare country leader Binu Ninan said, "We spoke to women across the country and their number one concern for their hair continues to be hair fall, making them keep their hair tied up and unable to flaunt them. With Pantene’s proven solutions, our ambition is that women can leave their hair open more freely, without worrying about hair fall. We are glad to have Kiara Advani on board, who is a role model for young women everywhere."
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.
