Ad Campaigns
#SantaIsStuck: MTV beats demonetisation blues
MUMBAI: It is that time of the year when the smell of cakes fill the air, carols are sung and gifts are exchanged! As the country celebrated Christmas, MTV helped Santa Claus break free from the shackles of demonetization. With everyone’s going through a cash crunch (including Santa), MTV decided to help him out in getting the gifts delivered to little ones out there with its new campaign, #SantaIsStuck.
The channel has joined hands with Akanksha Foundation to help get the gifts delivered to little ones with its cheeky campaign.
With this campaign, the channels requested the people to step in and play Santa for all those little kids out there. MTV wants to help connect the Santas with little ones where Santas can donate books, toys, clothes and make this Christmas a happy one for them.
Link to the video: https://www.facebook.com/mtvindia/videos/10154758556225102/
Moreover, taking its legacy forward and sticking to its motto, Music is for everyone, MTV has come up with a video for the deaf and the dumb this Christmas. Beautifully encapsulating the message through a girl, lip- syncing and enacting the Christmas carol.
Link to the video: https://www.facebook.com/mtvindia/videos/10154760608615102/
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.
