Ad Campaigns
‘Taste The Feeling’ with Coca-Cola India
MUMBAI Reaching out to millions of hearts every day, Coca-Cola has launched the local rendition of its new global campaign in India – “Taste the Feeling”. The campaign seeks to remind the consumers of the happy and joyous moments that a chilled and effervescent Coca-Cola bottle brings to their life. The new Coca-Cola TVC launched in India features Bollywood superstar Sidharth Malhotra enjoying the feeling of sipping on Coca-Cola.
After the award winning “Open Happiness” campaign, the new campaign “Taste the Feeling” by Coca-Cola is the latest global campaign that hopes to capture the hearts and minds of the younger generation.
Speaking about the campaign, Bollywood actor and Coca-Cola Brand Ambassador, Sidharth Malhotra said, “Everyone seeks refreshment for different reasons and nothing beats the delicious refreshment offered by a chilled bottle of Coca-Cola. Being the ultimate refreshing beverage, Coca-Cola has been an integral part of my growing up years and I will never forget how the simple pleasure of drinking an ice-cold Coca-Cola made so many moments more memorable. I am very excited to be a part of the new ‘Taste the Feeling’ campaign, celebrating one of the many ordinary, day to day moments made special by Coca-Cola. I am sure the consumers will enjoy the ad and get reminded of their own special moments with Coca-Cola”.
“Taste the Feeling,” campaign has rolled out in India on 11 March, 2016 at various platforms across key markets and will come to life through a number of elements, including a strong TV presence across Hindi and regional channels, integrations across IPL matches, thematic OOH campaign after 3 years on brand Coca-Cola across 10 key cities at different locations and seeding on owned social assets and conversations through brand advocates and influencers.
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.
