Ad Campaigns
Monster.com releases new ‘Thank God It’s Monday’ ad campaign
NEW DELHI: With the New Year, Monster.com is set to redefine the age-old connotation of Monday blues with the launch of #ThankGodItsMonday ad campaign in Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore.
The campaign encourages the idea of loving what you do; each day, every day.
The four-week long campaign started on 11 January, making the travel time to office exciting for office goers and young entrepreneurs in Gurgaon. The Rapid Metro was wrapped in Monster’s signature purple colour and the commuters were accompanied by the Monster Mascot – Trump. As part of the campaign, commuters also shared selfies with the Trump along with their story of why they love what they do. Every week, the winner with most creative caption and selfie are given one Kindle.
Monster.com MD (India, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong) Sanja Modi said, “With this is campaign we want to conquer the general feeling to hate Monday because it brings the start of the work week. To understand better, we asked people if they enjoyed going to work on Mondays after a fun filled weekend and more than 65 per cent said that they drag themselves to work on a Monday. ”
In Mumbai and Bangalore, select corporate parks saw Monster purple in their premises, with office goers and young entrepreneurs participating in the selfie contest, clicking pictures with Monster Trump. To make their Mondays special, office goers and young entrepreneurs were shuttled in luxury sedans from select stations and were dropped to their offices within a 5 kms radius in Gurgaon and Bangalore.
Modi added, “It’s time to change the way one feels about Mondays because there are millions of jobs giving millions of reasons to love Mondays. This will only happen if people really love what they do and when their work gives them the drive to start the work week – Monday on a positive note. So find better with Monster and experience a ‘different Monday’. Time to embrace #ThankGodItsMonday.”
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.
