Ad Campaigns
Parachute’s #DearWinter campaign inspires women to love winter again
NEW DELHI: With their latest campaign #DearWinter, VMLY&R India and Marico’s hair-nourishment brand Parachute Advansed Hot Oil address the love-hate relationship that women have with winter thanks to dry winter hair, and help them enjoy the chilly season all over again.
Winter is a season to look forward to for so many reasons – it’s the season of love and weddings, a time to revel in winter fashion, and of course, festive family reunions, among others. Unfortunately, winter hair is the spoiler. Women dread the dry hair and split ends that come hand-in-hand with the season. Unfortunately, the season when women want to be seen at their best is exactly when their hair is at its worst.
Marico CMO Koshy George said, “With #DearWinter, we aimed to show this sometimes strenuous relationship between a woman and her hair especially during the time of winter and how Parachute Advansed Hot Oil is the ideal companion to achieve perfect hair even during the dry and cold months of winter.”
Conceptualised and executed by VMLY&R, #DearWinter tells the story of a girl’s fraught relationship with winter, as a troubled ode to the season.
“All it just takes is just one bad hair moment to ruin a day. And winter is one long bad hair day turned into an endless bad hair season. It’s ironic that during what is arguably the most beautiful season of the year, is when women’s hair troubles are at their peak. So, with this campaign, we captured this fraught relationship that girls have with the season, as a ‘lover’s quarrel with winter’. And bring alive the winter hair troubles in a way that every girl can relate to.”, said VMLY&R Asia CCO – SEA and India Venkatagiri Rao.
The campaign was launched with a digital film and in partnership with nine influencers (Shivangi Joshi, Dhanashree Verma, Kanika Mann, Arishfa Kan, Sameeksha Sud, Ashna Zaveri, Yukti Thareja, Steffi Cyril, and Nisha Bano) and includes digital assets on social media.
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.
