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Ogilvy, Cadbury launch new campaign for Silk Hazelnut
MUMBAI: Kicking off the new year, Cadbury Dairy Milk Silk has introduced another delicious novelty – Silk Hazelnut that is an irresistible combination of rich creamy chocolate and whole Turkish hazelnuts. Ogilvy has created a brand campaign for that.
Hazelnuts are unknown in India – this was the challenge. How do we tell another irresistible story with an unknown ingredient? To bring alive the USP, the Ogilvy creative team highlighted the best part about the consumption experience. The best part of the consumption experience was the inclusion of whole hazelnuts. Every bite makes you pout!
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Ogilvy West senior executive creative director Zenobia Pithawalla said, “The new Silk Hazelnut comes with whole hazelnuts from Turkey. We tell the new ingredient story by bringing alive the eat experience. The inclusion of whole hazelnuts makes you pout while you devour the chocolate. So every time the girl takes a bite she looks like she is pouting to kiss. Making the 'Kiss me' jingle feel like it was written for this one. When consumers in India think premium ingredients, they think almonds, cashews, walnuts. Hazelnut was nowhere in the picture.”
Ogilvy West head of planning Ganapathy Balagopalan said, “Hazelnut is relatively unfamiliar to Indian consumers. So, we have given consumers something unique to remember and desire- the new Silk Hazelnut, ensuring it continued to be true to core promise of Silk indulgence. The creative does this using a clever device that is both cheeky and charming.”
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.
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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.
