Ad Campaigns
Lowe Lintas Delhi gets Ranveer Singh ‘Faster Than Faster’ for Vivo India
MUMBAI: With the much-awaited VIVOIPL 2016 ready to take off, title sponsor VIVO has rolled out a brand campaign promoting its latest product offering – VIVO V series smartphones-V3 and V3Max Series. The new campaign is themed around “Faster than Faster” and highlights multiple features of the newest offering from the leading smartphone player including its breakthrough faster fingerprint unlocking technology.
Vivo India has roped in Bollywood heartthrob and youth icon Ranveer Singh as its brand ambassador. With his ability to instantly connect with the youth, Ranveer Singh will be exhorting users on the benefits of the new smartphone in a quirky and unabashed manner.
Commenting on the new campaign, Vivo India CEO Alex Feng said, “It gives me immense pleasure to announce the launch of our innovation, the V3 and V3 Max for the Indian market. The V series designed with creativity and equipped with state of art technology will be a landmark for Vivo India. And we are truly delighted to have Ranveer Singh as the face of Vivo in India. Ranveer enjoys a huge fan following amongst the young Indian audience and Vivo being the brand for the youth, this lethal combination is all set to create magic in the Indian market. The campaign also looks young and fresh and we are confident that it will help the brand grow to the next level.”
Lowe Lintas Delhi president Naveen Gaur said, “The task was to establish Vivo in an incredibly competitive landscape of mobile handsets and launch the new V3 and V3Max with a campaign that brings alive the product proposition of ‘fastest phone’ in the market. For that, we chose Ranveer Singh as the brand ambassador as he truly symbolizes ‘fast’ both in terms of his success and growth in the film industry and his immense energy. His association has ensured a strong youth connect and he has beautifully demonstrated the key features of Faster RAM, faster fingerprint unlocking and faster processor in the campaign.”
Sharing his views on the creative thought-process behind the campaign, Lowe Lintas CCO Arun Iyer said, “The features that make VIVO V3 and V3Max exceptional were many, but the ones that particularly stood out and provided the brand its ethos were fast speed, huge memory and being an able ally of the youth. The campaign shows Ranveer Singh encapsulating these attributes in his unusual style and manages to establish a strong brand connect. Filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee has done a wonderful job in bringing these moments to life in a manner befitting the brand.”
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.
