Ad Campaigns
Lloyd launches ‘Khayal rakhenge, khush rakhenge’ campaign starring Ranveer-Deepika
MUMBAI: Lloyd, a Havells brand, has signed power couple of Bollywood, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, as brand ambassadors for its new campaign ‘Khayal Rakhenge, Khush Rakhenge’. The duo was brought on board by Go Fish Entertainment, one of the leading entertainment marketing agencies.
This is the first time that Ranveer and Deepika will be seen sharing the screen space for an advertisement. The campaign is a slice of life take on their unseen chemistry as husband and wife, with Lloyd products playing a crucial role in how they take care of each other and show their love in the little ways that matter the most.
On the occasion of this announcement, Havells India Ltd vice president marketing Amit Tiwari said, “For this campaign, we wanted to create a distinct new look for the brand which is why we decided to bring youth icons Deepika and Ranveer on board. This is the first time that India’s most loved couple will share screen space for an ad and incidentally, this is also the first brand that they are jointly endorsing post their marriage! Go Fish Entertainment was instrumental in making this a big success.”
Go Fish Entertainment Pvt Ltd director Sajay Moolankodan said, “We set out to achieve the impossible with this campaign. Bringing on board the biggest power couple like Deepika and Ranveer was not an easy task especially since this is the first brand campaign that they’ve agreed to after getting married. After a lot of careful planning and strategizing, we were ultimately successful and we believe that the ‘Khayal Rakhenge, Khush Rakhenge’ campaign will make a great impact in the minds of consumers.”
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.
