Ad Campaigns
SRK & Gauri break gender stereotype in D’décor campaign
MUMBAI: Dharma 2.0, the young creative unit from Dharma Production stable, recently bagged the mandate for D’Decor’s new ad campaign – ‘Touch of Love’. While showcasing the wide array of D’Decor’s designs and qualities, the campaign focuses on the new line of product highlighting softness and comfort. The campaign has been conceptualised and produced by Dharma 2.0.
The TVC features Shah Rukh Khan in the role of a home-maker, arranging the bedding with the D’Decor bedsheets, while Gauri Khan is busy at work. On this premise, the TVC brings to life the soft essence of love that the brand brings to its luxurious fabrics.
Dharma 2.0 head Punit Malhotra said, “As this was the first product led campaign from D’décor, we had to introduce the new range in a way which is compelling and also stays true to the brand’s core value. With ‘Touch of Love’, we wanted to set up a fresh and relevant context for today’s generation. We did it by turning the clichés around and subtly breaking the societal stereotypes. I am happy by the way the campaign has turned out and hope to continue this association with D’décor in future as well.”
D’Decor MD Ajay Arora shared, “As a brand that deals in luxury fabrics, we wanted our TVC to capture that essence of D’Decor. Dharma 2.0 has created a lot of buzz in the market, for its excellent work. They understand our objective behind the campaign and have put their best foot forward in delivering excellent results.”
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.
