Ad Campaigns
Women encouraged to challenge set norms in new Vivel campaign
NEW DELHI: Through a unique message, personal care brand Vivel has launched a #AbSamjhautaNahin campaign with a television commercial aimed at asking women to challenge the compromising way of life.
In the TVC, the protagonist voices her soft yet firm “Ab SamjhautaNahin!” and depicts just one of many uncomfortable situations that a woman often encounters.
The aim is to raise its voice addressing the specific issue of pre-conditioned mindsets for women, leading them to compromise at various stages in their lives
Chief Creative Officer: Vivek Rao
Directors: Subir Chatterjee & Namita Roy Ghose
Production Company: White Light Moving Pictures Limited
The TVC has been conceptualised by L&K Saatchi & Saatchi to present an everyday situation faced by modern day Indian women at workplace and to communicate the brand message that every gaze, every thought that suggests women being weaker or less than equal needs to be shattered.
According to the concept, “We have all heard the fable about the mighty elephant tethered by a mere rope, unaware of its inherent strength because it was conditioned into believing that the rope was enough to hold it back. In a similar vein, women in India from a very young age have been taught to conform to societally accepted ways of life. Moulding her thinking and behaviour to fit within the prescriptive boundaries of the way others want to see her. A social conditioning that leads to a life of restrictions, a life less lived”.
As the campaign unfolds, it will provoke in women the realisation of this latent conditioning, inspire them to challenge status quo and therefore maximise their potential and live fuller lives.
Law & Kenneth Saatchi & Saatchi CEO & Managing Partner Anil Nair said: “Not every day we get an opportunity, especially in the personal care category to creatively amplify a brand’s strong point of view. This is a ‘what we believe in’ campaign and we sincerely hope that we can inspire women to say #AbSamjhautaNahin in their own unique way
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.
