Ad Campaigns
Tata urges people to question their Salt
MUMBAI: Tata Salt has launched its new campaign ‘Sawaal Kijiye Apne Namak se’ to educate consumers about the quality of their salt and help them make well-informed decisions. The thought behind the 360-degree campaign is derived from the fact that, though salt is universal and one of the oldest food seasonings, there is limited knowledge about the quality of salt and its impact on health.
The TVC, conceptualised by Ogilvy and Mather, stars Konkona Sen Sharma and Tilottama Sharma as the protagonists. Designed as a series, each TVC has been shot to communicate specific product characteristics and quality markers with strong legs in digital, radio and experiential. The phases will highlight quality and purity as the key factors that consumers should consider whilst purchasing salt.
Ogilvy West chief creative officer Sukesh Nayak says, “The campaign had to urge consumers to question the purity of their salt. We demonstrated clinical tests which people can easily replicate at home.”
Tata Salt, over the years, has created a strong emotional connect with its property, ‘Desh Ka Namak’ and is now moving towards building a stronger narrative on health. The new campaign aims to bring forth the evaluation criteria for better-quality salt.
Tata Chemicals chief operating officer Richa Arora adds, “Through this campaign, we aim to encourage people to test the purity of their salt as consumption of adulterated salt may lead to serious health implications. There is an urgent need to generate awareness among the masses about the various methods to identify adulterated salt.”
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.
