Ad Campaigns
Promax & TSBI create quirky campaign
MUMBAI: Promax has brought on board, Digital first branding agency, The Small Big Idea (TSBI), to partner with them for the upcoming awards ceremony. TSBI recently kickstarted with an innovative social media campaign to announce the key note speaker for the event.
Conceptualized as ‘#IndustryInsults’, the campaign aims to introduce Mr Bingo, infamous for sending hate emails, in an innovative and quirky manner creating the much desired intrigue on this addressal at the event. The campaign will acquaint consumers to ‘Mr. Bingo’ in a style that’s today benchmarked by his own witty illustrated insults.
“We have been partnering and participating in Promax for many years, and Mr. Bingo is certainly one of the most unique speakers the event has witnessed. His style fits in naturally to our palette. Through this campaign, we have tried to do justice to Mr. Bingo’s quirky ways and we are sure that our messages will be well received by the industry insiders. It is “SO US”, says The Small Big Idea co-founder Harikrishnan Pillai.
“Insults can be brutally fun too and our keynote speaker, Mr. Bingo has managed to create a livelihood out of this niche skill. The Small Big Idea, the Digital First Branding agency for Promax has captured this very essence of Mr. Bingo and created a campaign of “#IndustryInsults” that acts as a perfect way of introducing our unique and enterprising keynote speaker by providing witty content in Mr. Bingo’s unique style,” adds PromaxBDA Awards 2017 country head Rajika Mittra.
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.
