Ad Campaigns
Ranbir promoting Panasonic ‘Shinobi Pro’
MUMBAI: Panasonic India kicked off its new television commercial campaign for the ‘Shinobi Pro’ LED TV Range with brand ambassador Ranbir Kapoor. The new TVC promotes Shinobi Pro LED TV Range with sharp features, stealth and accurate techniques. The campaign has been conceptualized and conceived by IBD and will be supported on television, print, OOH, cinema and digital.
The campaign launched across leading English & Hindi entertainment, lifestyle, movie and news channels as well as Regional language channels. The television commercial features Ranbir Kapoor, who reveals himself as Shinobi (Japanese ninja) in the end of the advertisement. Each frame introduces new Panasonic technologies such as sharp design, bright colours with Hexa Chrome Drive, clear and crisp sound, and IPS Super Bright Panel Plus.
Panasonic India brand and marketing communications – head Sarthak Seth said, “Our new campaign brings alive this essence and positioning by communicating that Shinobi Pro is a product of superior and contemporary Japanese technology. After receiving a phenomenal response for our Shinobi Pro LED series, we aim to generate more sales with our new campaign featuring Ranbir Kapoor during the festive season.”
IBD COO Srikant Rath said, “The story makes a strong attempt to build an affinity between the brand and its imagery of a Shinobi warrior. Shinobi is a warrior in Japanese martial tradition. This TV range is technologically advanced as cutting edge. The TVC attempts to communicate that superior technology is used to craft the TV range, specifically the bright panel and colour display.”
Focusing more on HD platforms, the TV campaign will air on spots of popular reality shows such as Bigg Boss 10, Jhalak Dhikhhla Jaa 8, Dance+, The Kapil Sharma Show and Super Dancer among others. The commercial further reinforces the brand promise of delivering solutions to complement the lifestyles of the internet generation of today, which is fast paced and need technology on their fingertips.
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.
