Ad Campaigns
Rapido breaks stereotypes with #MoveForward social media campaign for International Women’s Day
MUMBAI: Rapido, India’s largest Bike Taxi app, is ready to #MoveForward the youth of India, not only symbolically but socially too. To commemorate International Women’s Day 2020, Rapido’s #MoveForward campaign highlights ‘The 7 sins of modern society’ such as Pay Gap, Color Discrimination, Sexism, Homo Phobia, Sanism (discrimination against mental illness), Body Shaming and Internet Trolling. Starting 1 March 1, celebrated as Zero Discrimination Day across the world, the weeklong campaign aims to empower both, men and women to share their anecdotes around prevalent social injustice and stand in support of each other.
Talking about the campaign, Rapido co-founder Aravind Sanka said, “On an everyday basis, women in India are subjected to gender disparities that are caused by unconscious biases. At Rapido, we want to help break the stereotypes and biases against women. As a leading mobility company, we believe that the society should #MoveForward from ills against women and through this campaign we would like to urge our followers, customers and partners to #MoveForward against such biases.”
Influencers such as TV actress Priya Malik, Telugu actor Bharat Bandaru, fashion content creator Karron S Dhinggra among others are the face of the campaign who will be driving conversations around the modern day sins by sharing their personal experiences. Celebrating women who have broken stereotypes and have encouraged others to do so, the campaign will culminate on 8 March, International Women’s Day.
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.
