Ad Campaigns
Sky Broadband to launch co-branded campaign with ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’
MUMBAI: Sky has joined forces with Twentieth Century Fox and DreamWorks Animation to create a brand new campaign featuring characters from DreamWorks Animation’s latest feature Kung Fu Panda 3 to promote Sky Broadband.
The new campaign, which launches on Christmas Day, features the characters from the latest Kung Fu Panda 3 film, which will be premiering in the UK on 11 March, 2016. The bespoke 50 second animated advert shows us what life is like inside the peaceful paradise that is the Panda Village – and how unreliable internet can disrupt everyone’s ‘feng shui.’
In the TV ad, Po’s biological father Li Shan is seen lulling the last of the baby pandas to sleep so he can snack on his favourite dumplings. Not wanting to miss the picturesque moment, Po and his adoptive father, Mr. Ping, decide to film it on their tablet as Li Shan adds some flavour to his dumplings with pepper. Unwittingly, he sprinkles some on one of the baby pandas which causes it to let out an almighty sneeze, startling Li Shan in the process and setting off a chain reaction of sneezing baby pandas.
Po, delighted at what he has just captured, decides to upload the hilarious video but is hindered by a slow internet connection. Mr. Ping, points out that they wouldn’t have had this issue if they had Sky Broadband, which is now available in the Sky Broadband Big Sale. The campaign will also feature on radio as well as on digital platforms, print media and on posters across Britain.
In the Sky Broadband Big Sale, new customers can get 12 months free Sky Broadband Unlimited, on a 12 month contract, or take advantage of half price Sky Fibre offers.
Sky Broadband director Lyssa McGowan said, “We’re delighted to have teamed up Twentieth Century Fox Film Company and DreamWorks Animation to come up with a truly great ad. We’re sure our customers will love it just as much as our great broadband deals. ”
To preview the ad, click here.
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.
