Ad Campaigns
Society Tea blends tradition with on-box advertising campaign
Mumbai: Society Tea has collaborated with Amazon Ads on an innovative on-box advertising campaign. As part of this campaign, Society Tea will integrate its branding onto Amazon’s delivery boxes. This integration further reinforces Society Tea’s commitment to innovation and customer engagement in the ever-evolving tea industry. The special delivery boxes will be available across Bengaluru and Mumbai.
This collaboration with Amazon Ads marks a significant milestone for Society Tea as it is the first time it has used on-box advertising to reach customers. The activation represents an extension of Society Tea’s successful online and above-the-line (ATL) campaign which is “Taazgi Bhari Pyaali Society Waali”.
Karan Shah, Director of Society Tea, remarked, “Our collaboration with Amazon Ads represents an exciting new medium for Society Tea, allowing us to extend the reach of our campaign across omni-channels, leveraging special delivery boxes as mini billboards for our latest advertising campaign. By reaching customers in new ways through this campaign, we hope to not only expand our customer base but also introduce our variety of products to a wider audience.”
“We always strive to help brands reach relevant audiences across both online and offline touchpoints,” said Amazon Ads India director, Growth Customer Sales, Kapil Sharma. “We have worked with Society Tea for a number of years now. Using on-box advertising, we hope to help Society Tea introduce its range of products to homes across India.”
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.
