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Madame launches ‘Stay Real’ campaign ft Shanaya Kapoor
Mumbai: Madame has launched its Autumn/Winter 2024 campaign, ‘Stay Real’, featuring Shanaya Kapoor. The campaign encourages women to embrace their individuality and personal style.
It highlights Madame’s Autumn/Winter 2024 collection, which includes evening dresses, blazers, and co-ord sets designed for modern women, emphasising quality and authenticity over trends. The campaign video features Shanaya Kapoor in key pieces from the collection, showcasing her confidence and style, aligned with the campaign’s message of self-expression.
Kapoor stated, “Stay Real is a message that deeply resonates with me. Fashion should celebrate who you really are.”
Sumedha Jain, MarCom Head, at Madame added, “This campaign reflects our brand ethos: to empower women to celebrate the unique essence that makes them who they are. Fashion is more than just clothing; it’s a powerful form of self-expression.”
Madame aims to connect with Gen Z and millennial audiences, reinforcing its commitment to diversity and self-expression. With the ‘Stay Real’ initiative, Madame continues to inspire women to own their unique narratives, reaffirming its status as a beloved brand in the fashion industry.
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.
