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Sprite’s Joke in a Bottle returns: Comedy giants and digital stars unite for ultimate humour experience
Mumbai: Sprite, a lemon and lime-flavoured beverage, is back with ‘Joke in a Bottle’, following the resounding success of its inaugural season. Strengthening its renowned ‘Scan Karo, Joke Suno, Thand Rakho! campaign from last year, the brand is set to become the ultimate heat hack for this season, delivering a fresh wave of comedic content that’s bound to leave audiences in peals of laughter. Given the challenges in today’s fast-paced world, Sprite is one of the coolest brands, making it a natural fit to own the humour space and provide a refreshing escape. With a simple scan of a bottle, youngsters can unravel jokes across over nine regional languages across their most relatable topics such as exams, college, relationships, food and much more.
As the brand gears up to dominate the comedy landscape once again, Sprite’s ‘Joke in a Bottle’, promises an unparalleled experience of laughter and entertainment. To spearhead the campaign, they’ve collaborated with three unconventional pairs tied by their love for comedy. For the nationwide commercial, we will see Kapil Sharma – India’s biggest comedian come together with Suryakumar Yadav who is known for his quick wit in the Indian cricket Team. Following this, the Bengali commercial will feature superstar Dev Adhikari and Comedian Niranjan Mondal, and the Oriya commercial will feature actor Sabyasachi Mishra and comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath.
Commenting on the new campaign, Coca Cola India and South-West Asia senior category director, sparkling flavours Tish Condeno said, “We are thrilled to bring back Sprite’s Joke in a Bottle campaign, following the outstanding response from last year. Our goal remains unchanged: to infuse our consumers’ lives with happiness, delivering genuine and relatable content that resonates with our brand ethos. Sprite is dedicated to offering an unmatched, delightful experience, and we are eagerly looking forward to spreading joy and laughter with everyone!”
Ogilvy India (North) chief creative office Ritu Sharda: Sprite Joke in A Bottle, now running in its second year, not only has regional jokes, but the campaign is regional too. Real comedians have joined forces with popular personalities to keep the heat down and laughter up. The campaign features stars like Kapil Sharma and SKY for the north market, Dev and Niranjan for the Bengali market and Sabyasachi and Biswa for Oriya. The campaign will surely tickle you in the language you love and strengthen the brand’s promise of ‘Thand Rakh’.
Talking about the campaign, Kapil Sharma said, “I’m thrilled to team up with Sprite for ‘Joke in a Bottle’ as we serve up a refreshing dose of humour to bring smiles to faces nationwide. As a comedian, telling jokes is not only about making people laugh but also about connecting with them through the medium of laughter. I am happy to be part of this campaign which not only entertains but brings out the funny side of life.”
Commenting on his association with Sprite, cricketer Suryakumar Yadav, said, “I’m a fun-loving person and like to make people smile be it on pitch or off it. I’m excited to join hands with Sprite for ‘Joke in a Bottle’ that as an opportunity to entertain everyone, everywhere, with a simple scan on a Sprite bottle.”
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.
