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Rabitat unveils Its latest Rakshbandhan campaign – ‘It’s the Little Crimes That Count’
MUMBAI: Rabitat has unveiled its latest Raksha Bandhan campaign titled, “It’s the Little Crimes That Count.” With this campaign, Rabitat is stepping into the season with humour, honesty, and a limited-edition festive hamper titled, “the Rabitat Rakhi Hamper”, acknowledging the silent economics of sibling life, where everything you own is also unofficially theirs.
For India, Raksha Bandhan is a celebration of a bond that’s built on love, mischief, and lifelong camaraderie. For Rabitat, it marks an opportunity to design products that honour this bond in ways that feel fresh, meaningful, and joyfully nostalgic. Curated to inspire lasting rituals and joyful moments, the kits consciously replace sugar rushes and plastic clutter with products built for joy, utility, and shelf life. Every box includes a Rakhi, a Rakhi Ritual Kit, a custom Sibling Tax Card (a playful take on sibling bingo), a photo frame, and a curated mix of Rabitat’s everyday bestsellers.
Commenting on the launch, Rabitat co-founder Sumit Suneja said, “Every sibling story is part crime, part comedy, and 100% chaos. It’s these unchanging truths that shape the kind of intent-led experiences we create at Rabitat. This Rakhi, we wanted to move gifting away from the usual suspects of sugar, plastic, and lead into experiences that celebrate modern siblinghood. Knowing we are laying foundational layers for the next generation of Indian families, Rabitat hopes to spark traditions that are as emotionally resonant as they are smartly designed; the kind kids will remember, and parents will be proud to pass on.”
The campaign draws from a truth all parents know too well: nothing in a sibling household is safe. From lunch boxes raided on the sly to stationery that mysteriously migrates, sibling “taxation” is real. Rather than tame it, Rabitat chooses to honour it, turning these petty moments into powerful rituals of bonding and banter.
To take the story beyond the box, Rabitat is teaming up with a host of beloved mom-influencers like Ishita Dutta, Smriti Khanna, Kishwer Merchant, and many more across platforms such as Instagram to share slice-of-life sibling tales. Adding to the momentum, Rabitat is also collaborating with FilterCopy to bring these real, relatable moments to life through heartwarming storytelling. Together, these content pieces echo a fresh Rakhi sentiment, one that’s rooted in realism, full of character, and reflective of how Indian parents and kids truly celebrate today.
As families seek safer, more thoughtful alternatives to traditional festive options, Rabitat’s Rakhi hampers emerge as a refreshing pick for the season. By turning sibling tussles into Rakhi-ready rituals, the brand proves that good design and great storytelling belong at the heart of every celebration.
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.
