Ad Campaigns
Stay in tune with your friends with Line, Katrina
MUMBAI: Star power surely works! And thus Line Corporation, that operates Line, a free call and messaging app, launched a new TV commercial recently that features actor Katrina Kaif, who is trying to woo users with stickers.
Yes, the company has come up with two ads of 40 seconds and 20 seconds that have been created by Hakuhodo Percept, Delhi to present to the audience the sticker language.
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This time, Katrina is seen in a coquettish mood where she is trying to spark a playful conversation with a French man using Line messaging application. The ad campaign captures the quintessence of displaying emotions, defying the barriers of language and hitting off a romantic encounter using exciting new series of stickers on the app.
The story begins with an attractive French man trying to woo Katrina to spend a romantic night in town, but language becomes a barrier and he leaves Katrina puzzled. The story develops as Katrina switches to stickers on LINE and drops cues to the French guy who then uses his charm to impress her with his witty selection.
The ad features visually alluring effects on screen while Katrina and the French man continue sharing stickers with each other. The commercial highlights the new way of sharing emotions through personalised stickers to spark off conversations between users on Line. The TVC unfolds with a vibrant background score that lingers on.
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.
