Ad Campaigns
Nicotex to smokers: choose life over cigarettes
MUMBAI: Cipla Health owned teeth whitening brand ‘Nicotex’ is running a 12-week therapy programme using Nicotex to help users get back to life without dependence on nicotine. To converse the communication, company associated with Kinetic India to activate audiences on the move. The campaign was executed in Mumbai and Bangalore for period of 13 days.
For the launch, the objective was to increase awareness of the newly launched variant and to make users mindful of additional benefit of Teeth whitening along with helping users to quit smoking. With help of Kinetic Academy – proprietary suite of tool, we understood the consumer lifestyle and pattern flow which further directed us to the strategy of ensuring desired Impact. Since we had to outshout we considered taking large format Billboards placed on key arterial roads and junctions. This acted as catalyst to the entire visual creative of the brand. To further enhance the communication we did an LED innovation on billboard highlighting the features of the product at key congregation points.
Commenting on the campaign, Cipla Health head marketing Himava Nath said, “Nicotex enjoys high awareness amongst smokers. Nicotex Teeth whitening is an innovative product launched to address the need of smokers. This variant not only helps consumer quit smoking but also provides an additional benefit of teeth whitening. Outdoor being a visual medium fit the bill perfectly to communicate the additional benefit of Teeth whitening.”
Adding on above, Kinetic west business head Yusuf Merchant said, “Associating with Cipla is a prestige. It’s rare to see this category advertising in out-of-home and we have successfully demonstrated the product through simple innovations at strategic consumer centric touchpoints.”
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.
