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Vivo launches a new campaign encouraging India to #LiveTheJoy
Mumbai: Smartphone brand Vivo on Thursday released a new brand film in India titled ‘Live the Joy.’ The two-minute video sheds light on the purpose of Vivo as a technology brand.
“With this digital film, Vivo hopes to help consumers recognise moments of joy in their lives and cherish these moments as they’re meant to. The core message of the film is that there is joy in the world all around us – be it through self-expression, connections with our loved ones or in the multitude of things all around us if we look at it through the right perspective,” said the brand in a statement.
Backed by a strong narrative, the DVC communicates how one can find Joy in every moment in their lives as long as we look at it from the right perspective. The film further elaborates on this point by depicting beautiful instances such as the simplest moment of an interesting looking shadow or the craziness of the peak of a roller coaster ride, the simplest exchange of messages or a grand public gesture of love, sharing your laughter with hundreds on stage or giggling to yourself while scrolling through social media.
“Aligned with our brand philosophy, we channel our efforts towards making our customers’ lives joyous with the use of our superior and technologically advanced products,” said Vivo India director-brand strategy Yogendra Sriramula. “Today while coping with a fast-paced life, chasing social validation, materialism, and individualistic pursuits, we sometimes miss that we are blessed to be surrounded by an abundance of joy in our lives. To bridge this gap, we aim to use technology to bring people together, helping them find joy in the daily moments.”
Vivo, as a technology brand having started its journey in India in 2014, has seen tremendous growth reaching a market leadership position since Q4 2019 and holding on to it ever since. Along the way, Vivo has been blessed to bring Joy to the lives of over 100 million smartphone users in the country today. vivo hopes to further this message of joy by communicating that we can find ‘Joy’ in all things big and small, routine and exciting, calmness and clamour, said the statement.
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.
