Ad Campaigns
Youthbeat wraps up campaign for Myntra’s FWD with 15,000 creators
Mumbai: SW Network has announced the successful completion of a large campaign for Myntra’s new Gen Z clothing brand, ‘FWD.’ Managed by SW Network’s youth marketing vertical, Youthbeat, the campaign involved 15,000 creators and is one of India’s largest creator-driven marketing initiatives.
FWD was launched with the aim of becoming a trendsetter for the digitally savvy Gen Z audience. Youthbeat’s execution involved coordinating 15,000 creators weekly, requiring effective strategy and execution.
SW Network co-founder Raghav Bagai commented on the scope and success of the campaign: “Managing 15,000 creators on a weekly basis was no small feat, but we saw it as an opportunity to demonstrate our execution prowess. The scale of this campaign was unprecedented, but our team at Youthbeat delivered beyond expectations. Every piece of content was strategically aligned to reflect the ever-evolving Gen Z trends, and our ability to keep everything running smoothly is a testament to the efficiency and creativity of our team.”
The campaign set new benchmarks for content creation, with 15,000 creators producing fresh, trend-driven content weekly and introducing trends like ‘baddie’ and ‘core.’ Each creator focused on engaging Gen Z content to keep FWD at the forefront of fashion conversations. Youthbeat managed the logistics of this large-scale operation, ensuring alignment with the brand’s messaging and driving significant engagement across social platforms.
The campaign achieved over 60 million views, reached over 45 million people, and garnered over one million engagements. More than just numbers, the creators sparked organic conversations and established FWD as a leading Gen Z brand. The campaign’s planning and execution highlight SW Network’s capability in managing large-scale projects effectively.
“This campaign reflects our ability to handle large-scale, complex projects while maintaining a focus on creativity and innovation. It highlights our capacity to manage campaigns at an immense scale while staying deeply connected with the audience we aim to reach,” added Youthbeat director Shubham Chawla.
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.
