Ad Campaigns
Tetra Pak gives Mumbai a new recycling anthem
MUMBAI: Tetra Pak recently launched a quirkly new ad to inspire Mumbaikars to recycle their Tetra Pak cartons. A part of Tetra Pak’s on-going consumer awareness campaign ‘Carton Le Aao, Classroom Banao’ this rap is composed by popular rapper, Emiway Bantai, who enjoys a fan base of over 1.5 lakh Mumbaikars across social media platforms.
The rap is all about how Mumbaikars can simply deposit their used Tetra Pak cartons at any of the deposit centres set up by Tetra Pak across Mumbai. These cartons are then recycled to create classroom desks and other useful things for schools for the lesser-privileged.
South and South East Asia communications director Jaideep Gokhale said, “Sustainability and recycling are an intrinsic part of our organisational ethos. We have been working ahead of the curve for over 15 years to set up a viable recycling ecosystem for our paper-based cartons. Today, Mumbai has more than 175 deposit centres for used cartons, and we urge Mumbaikars to make the most of these and bring back their used cartons for recycling. We hope that this quirky, yet inspiring, rap video will take our message to millions of Mumbaikars, and inspire them. Our message is simple – bring us your used cartons, and we will recycle them to create something useful.”
Today, Mumbaikars can deposit their used cartons at 45 Reliance Retail and Sahakari Bhandar outlets and over 130 other deposit points across the city of Mumbai. This initiative is designed to mobilise consumers to make a behavioural change and create a positive environmental impact.
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.
