Hrishikesh Deshmukh

Marketing teams are adopting AI across research, content production, personalisation and reporting. The competitive advantage, however, comes from a reliable operating system around the tools—not access to the tools alone.

India’s digital market is too diverse for a single national persona. Device access, language, age, location, platform habits and purchasing power all affect how a campaign should be planned and measured.

As generative tools become part of advertising production, disclosure and provenance are becoming operational requirements. Transparency is not just a platform-compliance issue; it influences trust, review processes and brand risk.

Search journeys are becoming more conversational and multi-step. New AI-supported ad experiences aim to place relevant commercial options inside those journeys, changing how advertisers think about keywords, creative assets and landing-page continuity.

Digital advertising in 2026 is increasingly shaped by AI-assisted campaign creation, conversational product discovery and stronger connections between media and commerce data. The opportunity is significant, but automation still requires disciplined inputs and measurement.

Generative search does not eliminate the fundamentals of SEO. It increases the value of technically accessible pages, specific answers, first-hand evidence and a recognisable entity behind the content.

AI-generated search experiences are changing how information is summarised, cited and discovered. For website owners, the practical question is no longer whether AI will affect search visibility, but how to control access while preserving discoverability.