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Sabse Pehle Life Insurance campaign gets real about protection-first planning
MUMBAI: In a country racing to become a $5 trillion economy, India is still trailing badly when it comes to protecting its people. The life insurance protection gap has widened to a worrying 87 per cent, with those aged 18–35 facing an even starker shortfall of over 90 per cent, according to a 2023 study by the National Insurance Academy.
Ringing the alarm bells, the Insurance Awareness Committee—representing all life insurers in India—has launched the next chapter of its pan-India campaign Sabse Pehle Life Insurance. The year-long initiative urges Indians to put protection before profit, making life insurance the foundation of every financial plan, not an afterthought.
Insurance Awareness Committee (IAC-Life) member said, “Sabse Pehle Life Insurance is not just a slogan—it’s a clarion call to rethink how we approach financial planning. We often treat protection as an afterthought in the endeavour to build wealth. This campaign aims to change that mindset. It is about putting protection first, about securing dreams before chasing them. Just as every structure needs a strong foundation, we should place every financial plan on the bedrock of life insurance. Our goal is to turn awareness into action, ensuring that no Indian family remains financially exposed.”
At the heart of the campaign is a series of emotionally grounded films and digital content that show how life insurance can be the safety net that keeps families afloat and dreams alive when life takes an unexpected turn.
The initiative spans television, digital, print, and outdoor media, while a revamped online knowledge hub—sabsepehlelifeinsurance.com—helps people understand coverage needs and make smarter choices.
The campaign aligns with the IRDAI’s 2024 mandate requiring insurers to reach at least 10 per cent of lives across 25,000 Gram Panchayats. It also comes as the industry boasts a claim settlement ratio of 96.82 per cent within 30 days for FY 2023-24, according to IRDAI’s latest handbook.
With the sector growing at 9.5 per cent CAGR and projected to accelerate to 10.5 per cent over the next decade, insurers are betting big on shifting public perception—from “maybe later” to “must now.”
Because in the fine print of every financial dream lies a simple truth: it’s all moot if it’s not protected.
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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.”
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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.
