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Ranveer Allahabadia joins forces as an Investor in DECIML
Mumbai: DECIML, a micro-investing fintech platform aimed at inculcating the habit of investing among youngsters, has onboarded Ranveer Allahbadia as its investor. The company is looking for influencers to promote their app but got an interest from Ranveer Allahbadia aka Beer Biceps in becoming an angel investor. A hysterical video released by the company as a part of its brand awareness campaign shows how he was approached and decided to invest in the brand instead.
The brand gears up to announce more such epic investor collaborations with intriguing videos to be released soon. The creative agency that has conceptualized and written the campaign is Bare Bones Collective. Writers include Girish Narayandass, Anuya Jakatdar, and Sainee Raj. The excitement is about to reach astronomical levels.
DECIML is a platform that rounds up the user’s expense to the nearest ten and invests the difference so that they can invest as they spend. These small investments add up, and without straining their pockets, users can invest a substantial amount by the end of the year. The platform thus capitalizes on the power of compounding to help its users grow their money. It also helps them become financially disciplined and more aware of the benefits of investing.
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.
