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Vodafone U launches new digital campaign #SortedHai
MUMBAI: Digital platform Vodafone U has launched a new marketing campaign to welcome college students to the new academic year with some exciting propositions. The campaign features social media sensation, Mithila Palkar, in a web series ‘Mithila’s SortCuts’. Connecting with the young folks, Mithila shares some interesting tips to make college life #SortedHai.
#SortedHai is conceptualised on a commonly used hook phrase amongst the youth. With Vodafone’s latest proposition of 50 per cent off on Amazon Prime subscription, Mithila shares tips on having movie nights #SortedHai with Vodafone U, apart from this offer, there are also many other exciting offers available to young consumers every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in both the phone recharges as well as deals in F&B, fashion and other youth-centric spaces.
Taliking about first digital campaign, Vodafone India Marketing EVP Siddharth Banerjee said, “As youngsters most of us have faced challenges of coping with a new academic year and looked for some resourceful hacks. Taking this insight,#SortedHai campaign aims to engage with youngsters to help them make the most of their campus life with some exciting propositions under the Vodafone U umbrella. Mithila Palkar represents the mobile-savvy youth and help us engage with the college students digitally.”
Ogilvy and Mather ECD Kiran Antony added, “The youth today have limited pocket money and plenty of wishes. Vodafone U enables them through relevant offers, to experience most of it. We tapped into the social currency of today’s youth, our campaign idea #SortedHai is based on this understanding.”
To ensure maximum connect with youngsters, the campaign is live on digital platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Vodafone U will also engage with college students at their campuses to further amplify the #SortedHai messaging.
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.
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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.
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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.
