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Mango signs Vaani Kapoor as first India brand ambassador
NEW DELHI: Spanish fashion brand Mango, along with its franchise partner Myntra, has roped in Vaani Kapoor as its first brand ambassador in India. The actor’s first campaign with the brand will be for its spring-summer collection.
As part of this association, Myntra and Mango have launched their first campaign with the Befikre star across digital and social mediums, highlighting the new season collection centred around the theme- ‘Happy and I know it’.
The 48-second film features a slice of life sequence where Kapoor is seen trying some cool summer dresses, relaxing, posing, playing and pampering herself with coffee and cake.
Kapoor said, "I am excited to be associated with Mango as their first brand ambassador in the country. Fashion to me is a way of expressing yourself and exploring your individuality. I am happy to be a part of the brand's endeavour to strike a chord with customers from every pocket in the country."
Myntra senior director Vishal Anand said, “Her (Kapoor’s) persona is a reflection of the attributes of the brand Mango, making her the perfect choice to connect with fashion forward consumers, across the country. We aim to strengthen our position in the evolving fashion space and attract new 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.
