Ad Campaigns
Licious launches their quirky new digital campaign #NoFreeKaMaal
MUMBAI: Building on the brand’s mission of helping their customers eat world class fresh meats and seafood, Licious, is launching their new brand campaign called #NoFreeKaMaal. Keeping up with their category-first promise, Licious is the first and the only brand in this category to explore visual storytelling to talk about the prevailing customer pain points of quality, hygiene, freshness and convenience when it comes to purchasing meat and seafood, that the brand has successfully solved since inception.
Targeted specifically at Mumbai and Pune markets, where the brand started operation about 3 months ago, the three-film series talks about the three ‘freebies’ that we often tend to pick up from local meat and fish markets- unwanted odour, vermin and the nuisance caused by strays. Featuring actor Namit Das, the films effectively blends humor with everyday life situations to make a strong point about these issues.
Commenting on the strategic thought behind the campaign, Vanda Ferrao, Head-Marketing, Licious, says “If you have ever made a trip to an Indian meat and fish market, you would be familiar with the squalor and chaos that is has to offer. What’s interesting to note is that the customer takes back a bit of that squalor with him along with his purchase, sometimes unknowingly! Along with the meat or fish, the butcher/fisherman also packs a few freebies- a bit of stench and buzzing flies that often has the stray dog at the market following you all the way home! Getting your hands on some good quality meat should not be this difficult. Our #NoFreeKaMaal campaign is a quirky take on this everyday issue. The underlined message upholds the brand’s core functional benefit, which is our offering of an unmatched range of meat and meat products, delivered at your doorstep sans all the free ka maal!”
The campaign draws inspiration from Licious’ in-depth customer research and is conceptualized in-house by the brand team. The first of this three-film advertisement series goes on air on 18th June 2019. All the films will be hosted at and promoted through the brand’s 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.
