Ad Campaigns
Sony Yay! launches interactive campaign ‘Finding Funny’
MUMBAI: Sony Yay! has launched an interactive campaign named Finding Funny Challenge in association with Act II. The campaign is presented by Johnson’s Active Kids Shampoo.
Aimed to harness children’s adventurous & playful spirit, this two-month long campaign will add a fun and amazement quotient by setting children up for a treasure hunt to find ‘Funny’ – a crazy fun character that pops onto the screen to every kid’s surprise. Children will be able to find ‘Funny’ on their home screens between 1-3 pm during their favorite shows Guru Aur Bhole, Sab Jholmaal Hai and win some exciting gadgets.
With this campaign, Sony Yay! aims to set a new benchmark of interactivity and engagement with children in the back-to-school season.
As a part of this campaign, the channel introduces its first ever School Contact Programme across the country. Tapping 800 schools nationally, the programme plans to be the widest reach initiative undertaken by any kids’ channel. The programme will cover 26 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and key cities from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, and Gujarat, to name a few.
The campaign started on 10 July. Sony YAY’s School Contact Program will add huge doses of excitement to the children’s everyday school life by bringing them a host of interactive games, trivia, competitions, and prizes.
Sony Yay business head Leena Lele Dutta said, “We all know that children’s imagination is unbounded and adventurous, exploration and play is what they thrive on. We wanted to encourage this very spirit amongst our little fans and that became the genesis of the Finding Funny campaign. To extend this campaign on- ground, we are also embarking upon the largest ever School Contact Program. We aim to make Sony Yay! the go-to destination of entertainment and engagement for children, and the Finding Funny campaign and School Contact Program are a strong step forward in that direction.”
“We believe happy, playful children show more keenness to learning. By bringing entertainment and engagement to their schools, we want to reach 800 schools. We are excited to begin this interactive journey with the little ones. Through each initiative we take, we aim to strengthen our position as the ultimate destination of happiness for kids.”
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.
