Ad Campaigns
Ting and Swisse give wellness a wink with Aditya Roy Kapur snoozefest
MUMBAI: Ting has once again proved that wellness doesn’t have to be boring. The homegrown advertising agency teamed up with Swisse, to roll out a campaign featuring Bollywood heartthrob Aditya Roy Kapur and it’s making the internet sit up (or nap) and take notice.
The buzz began with a blink-and-miss teaser: paparazzi pages like Viral Bhayani, Manav Manglani, and Instant Bollywood quietly dropped a clip of Aditya catching some serious shut-eye. No captions, no context — just a peacefully dozing star. Naturally, social media went into sleuth mode.
Soon after, the mystery unravelled with a mock-interview-style digital video that playfully introduced the real hero: Swisse Magnesium, touted for better sleep and muscle recovery. Riding on Aditya’s easy charm and not-so-subtle wit, the film skipped the usual wellness preach and instead served up a dose of relatable humour and laid-back cool. Ting’s brief was clear — ditch the dull and spotlight Swisse’s magnesium benefits with a campaign that felt more Instagram swipe than instruction manual.
“We wanted to take advantage of Aditya’s easy charisma and magnetic screen presence by letting him get up close and personal with the audience,” said Ting senior creative director Sahil Joshi. “When you present your insight as a fun little inner joke between your celeb and your audience, the brand messaging feels a lot more authentic.”
“At Ting, we love telling stories that simplify wellness without dumbing it down,” says Ting partner, Aadil Mehta. “Our partnership with Swisse will go a long way to prove that you can build awareness and entertain at the same time.”
“Aditya brings a calm confidence that reflects everything we stand for at Swisse. Swisse Magnesium is already Australia’s #1 — and it’s fast becoming a favourite here in India too. We’re proud to lead the conversation around wellness and recovery with a product that’s genuinely effective, easy to trust, and made for real, everyday life,” says Swisse Wellness marketing head India Abhishek Barur.
With this, Ting continues its winning streak in the wellness category, transforming functional messaging into fun, human-first storytelling, all while flexing its signature mix of insight, humour and just the right amount of celebrity sparkle.
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.
