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Paytm Ads & Meesho partner to leverage soundbox for mega sale
Mumbai: One97 Communications (OCL) which owns the brand Paytm, a payments and financial services distribution company and the pioneer of QR, Soundbox and mobile payments, today announced the expansion of Paytm Soundbox Ads. The industry-first solution enables brands to advertise their products and services through Paytm Soundbox, where the ad will play after the transaction.
During its sale, Meesho is the latest brand to partner with Paytm Ads on the soundbox. This partnership signals a new benchmark in audio advertising, transforming the moment a transaction is completed offline into a potential online purchase through the Meesho app. By unlocking demand for e-commerce in Bharat, Meesho is making online shopping accessible and affordable for a large segment of the population. The brand takes pride in democratising e-commerce, ensuring that even the most remote towns can enjoy the convenience and joy of festive shopping online.
With Paytm Soundbox Ads, brands can leverage Paytm’s leadership in merchant payments and can build brand recall for advertisers. The company’s innovative in-store marketing solution empowers brands to play their advertisements on the iconic Soundbox devices across all points of sale.
The Soundbox audio advertisements aim to seamlessly integrate branding and messaging between companies and consumers. Paytm Soundbox Ads can be customised for different geographies as the auto-assisted device supports 11 languages, including English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and Odia. Paytm has partnered with several brands, including Coca-Cola for Sprite, Mondelez for Oreo biscuits and Dabur for Odonil, among others for Soundbox Ads.
Paytm spokesperson said, “As the leader in merchant payments, we are bringing innovative opportunities for brands to leverage our reach. Paytm Soundbox is one of the most preferred payment devices and the latest Ads solution is a first-of-its-kind offering for brands in the industry. The scale of Paytm Soundbox distribution ensures that marketers and brands can reach their audience in various cohorts of state, city or language for a targeted & meaningful reach. Through this unique solution, brands can increase customer engagement within a shorter duration while taking it beyond online marketing. ”
Meesho director-brand marketing Soumitra Choubey said, “The sale season brings a lot of excitement among our consumers. In a cluttered time like this, it’s not just what you say, but how you say it. Capturing attention and hacking memory structures has become increasingly challenging. For our marquee sale of the year, it was imperative that we lead with innovation. Creativity is a business multiplier. and this simple but wild activation is a testament to that.”
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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.
