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Praveen Kenneth launches ‘Ek Desh, Ek Hum’ platform
MUMBAI: The founder of Law&Kenneth and former chairman Law&Kenneth | Saatchi & Saatchi, Praveen Kenneth, has launched the platform ‘Ek Desh, Ek Hum’ with a video that stresses on the ‘Stronger Together’ theme.
The launch video has been directed by noted filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar while the music has been scored by Dhruv Ghanekar and the lyrics have been penned by Ishita Arun. It shows a young nation awakening to the need to come together.
Elaborating on the intent of the campaign, Praveen Kenneth said, “What we are conveying is not new. It’s simple, it’s obvious. We all know the magic of India is the amazing diversity of its people, across cultures and religion. Our life is fuller, vibrant, expanded, thanks to our Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Jain, Buddhists friends, brothers, and sisters. I believe this is the underlying strength of our nation. The important thing, however, is that we need to keep bringing this back into the center stage of conversation and consciousness.”
He added, “In a daily life which zigzags through understandable difference, disagreements, arguments, and loud and angry debates—which is the beauty of a democracy and always encouraged—the interest of India and Indians, should and will always be the in the centre. The campaign is an effort to bring back these conversations”.
“Togetherness is strength; this is the singular message that we want to convey,” Kenneth concluded.
The video is accompanied by a Twitter push that will be hosted on #Ekdeshekhum and will be supported by an extensive TV and Radio support.
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.
