Ad Campaigns
The Pant Project launches humorous ad campaign
Mumbai: The Pant Project has launched a new ad campaign leveraging humor and memes. By acknowledging that humor is key to male social interactions, the campaign challenges the serious tone often found in menswear marketing.
The latest campaign features a humorous segment on the Beerbiceps podcast. The ad begins with a close-up of a Beerbiceps lookalike mid-conversation, who is interviewing a pair of pants instead of a traditional guest. He kicks things off with a comical question: “What would you do if an alien stole your zipper?”
The playful banter continues as he jokes, “You and your underwear spend the whole day together—would you call yourselves ‘chaddi buddies’?” The mood shifts when the pants get up and walk off the set, leaving the host’s laughter to fade awkwardly.
Turning to the camera, the host says, “So guys, that was a pair of pants by The Pant Project.” The ad concludes with a voiceover: “Some questions are hard to answer, but for the rest, we let our pants talk.”
“Our latest campaign focuses on one key narrative – No nonsense pants for No Nonsense men but with a humorous twist. We embraced meme marketing to engage with men in a fresh and relatable way. The campaign is a mix of humor, comfort, and authority, using a light-hearted narrative to highlight that what we know best is to make great pants,” said The Pant Project co-founder Dhruv Toshniwal.
The campaign highlights the brand’s unique blend of humor and style, allowing their custom-fit pants to take center stage.
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.
