Ad Campaigns
This wedding season, Manyavar celebrates with Virat Kohli
MUMBAI: As the wedding season dawns on the nation, Manyavar is all geared up to make the most of it. Its recent campaign ‘New Beginnings’ with Virat Kohli, the brand ambassador for Manyavar is in line with the same thought and inspires to celebrate life.
The campaign has been conceptualised by Shreyansh Innovations with its honcho, Shreyansh Baid helping the creative work. Elements is the production house.
Through this campaign, Manyavar aims to bring back the charm of good old days when every new occasion brimmed with excitement, little moments left us speechless. The brand attempts to keep tradition alive and re-stablish connect with Indian culture by initiating the concept of a new beginning in a kurta.
Looking dashing in a red kurta, Virat talks about wearing a kurta to make his moments special, like making a cup of tea for the first time. Though the first tea may not be up to the mark, wearing a kurta definitely makes the occasion memorable.
Targeted at youth, the campaign brings about a feeling of positivity and celebration – a kurta will make you look good, feel great and the moment special! Kohli is the most relatable figure for the audience that Manyavar is targeting.
Manyavar is one of the best retail brands when it comes to celebrations, the ethnic way. They have evolved as per the fashion trends and offer customers ethnic wear for every occasion in their lives.
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.
