Ad Campaigns
#TrySomethingNew from FreshMenu.com
MUMBAI: FreshMenu.com, one of the leading online restaurants, recently launched its online campaign, #TrySomethingNew .The series features inspiring young individuals who have dared to try something different in their lives.
FreshMenu pioneered the concept of app-based food delivery kitchens in the country. A team of about 500, FreshMenu.com operates its own kitchens, cooks food in-house, and runs its own delivery fleet to drive the entire process of food ordering.
The campaign resonates with FreshMenu’s belief which encourages people to try something new every day with a daily changing menu inspired from cuisines across the world. It encourages people to explore novel avenues and discover new possibilities in life.
The series so far has featured three charismatic and dynamic individuals.
The first video features Charles Ma, a professional Bharatanatyam soloist and guru, whose passion for dance goes beyond the classical idiom to tell us about his inquiry into this mystical art form.
While the second video narrates the story of underwater photography professional, Bhushan Bagadia whose urge to try something new helped him discover his love for the marine world and sparked his love for underwater photography.
The newest and the third video features popular illustrator Alicia Souza. While Alicia loved sketching, she never considered it as a viable career option. She worked with several brands including Chumbak before she started her own project.
FreshMenu.com CEO/Founder Rashmi Daga said, “Every day has something new to offer as the menu is never the same. Hence the campaign #TrySomethingNew reflects the brand’s ideology. It celebrates stories of people from our neighbourhood who took a leap of faith, explored their options, tried new avenues and excelled in it.”
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.
