KFC / Pizza Hut India (Sapphire, Devyani franchisees)
KFC / Pizza Hut India (Sapphire, Devyani franchisees) has 10 campaigns on record and no confirmed sponsorships yet.
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Sponsorships
Season by season, then every row newest first with what our check found on its source.
None of these rows could be confirmed on their source yet.
2 more rows we could not confirm
The source does not name the brand, names it without saying it sponsored, or could not be loaded and is not trade press or an official page. Not counted anywhere on this page.
Sleeve sponsor · Team · 2025
Sleeve sponsor of Kerala Blasters, 2025–present.
Integrated segment · YouTube · Undated
Kfc is listed among ARE YOU HUNGRY's YouTube sponsors by SponsorRadar, which reads brand deals off the videos themselves. Not announced by either side.
Ambassadors
Talent named in KFC / Pizza Hut India (Sapphire, Devyani franchisees)'s campaigns. Current means seen in a campaign since April 2025. From campaign credits, not contracts.
| Name | Status | First seen | Latest campaign |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arjun Kapoor | Current | 6 Jul 2026 | 6 Jul 2026 |
| Shivam Dube | Current | 17 Feb 2026 | 17 Feb 2026 |
| Varun Chakravarthy | Current | 17 Feb 2026 | 17 Feb 2026 |
| Harshit Rana | Current | 17 Feb 2026 | 17 Feb 2026 |
| Danish Sait | Current | 13 May 2025 | 13 May 2025 |
| Mrunal Thakur | Current | 13 May 2025 | 13 May 2025 |
Campaigns
With the agency and talent where the trade press named them.
Experiential · 30 Jul 2026
KFC partnered with community platform PlayAce to host ten curated house parties across three Indian metro cities, introducing the Double Chicken Dynamite Burger to Gen Z through peer gatherings rather than conventional paid advertising.
Digital/social · 6 Jul 2026
A campaign fronted by siblings Arjun Kapoor and Anshula Kapoor that reimagines the peace-sign hand gesture as a 'piece' sign, opening with cryptic social posts before a reveal film promoting KFC's July buy-one-get-one bucket deal.
Talent: Arjun Kapoor, Anshula Kapoor.
Launch · 1 Jul 2026
KFC India launched the Double Chicken Dynamite -- two Zinger fillets layered with Korean noodles, spicy mayo, cheese and bold spices -- via a campaign built around unlikely food pairings, fronted by CMO Suhayl Limbada's commentary on India's taste for unconventional combinations.
Sports · 17 Feb 2026
A campaign film for Pizza Hut's new oval-shaped Crafted Flatzz pizza featuring Indian cricketers Shivam Dube, Varun Chakravarthy and Harshit Rana, timed to the ICC T20 World Cup and IPL season and built around on-field team banter.
Talent: Shivam Dube, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana.
Ad film · 24 Jan 2026
KFC India's campaign for its Dunked sauce range starred comedian Vir Das playing an exaggerated version of himself, using humour-led 'dry life' scenarios to position KFC's sauces (including Fiery Texas BBQ) as the antidote to monotony.
Talent: Vir Das.
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Integrated campaign · 20 Nov 2025
To launch the Ultimate Cheese crust, Pizza Hut told India to eat the pizza crust first. The brand turned its whole Instagram account upside down, ran an anthem, and flipped billboards and entire stores, with influencers teasing the idea before the reveal.
Agency: Havas Creative India.
Integrated campaign · 4 Nov 2025
A homecoming-themed KFC India campaign about food as the bond that welcomes travellers home, extended into a kilometre-long sequential OOH billboard trail along one of Mumbai's busiest commuter corridors in partnership with WPP Media.
Integrated campaign · 13 May 2025 · Reported value Rs 299
A value push built around a nine-piece chicken bundle at Rs 299 for dine-in only. Mrunal Thakur reacts to the price at a KFC counter and Danish Sait turns up in several avatars, with the film ending on a group chant of the price point. It ran across more than 1,300 outlets on TV, digital and social.
Agency: FCB India. Talent: Mrunal Thakur, Danish Sait.
Purpose · 8 Oct 2024
Pizza Hut and Americana Restaurants opened a Riyadh restaurant staffed by people with hearing and speech impairments, launched during the International Week of Deaf People and run with the Saudi NGO Sa3ee, whose senior team took sign-language training. It was framed against Saudi Vision 2030 and pitched as the first of a wider rollout across the Kingdom and the region.
Launch · 15 Dec 2022
Americana brought the Wimpy burger brand back to the UAE at the Dubai Mall food court and built the reopening around Flippy 2, a Miso Robotics fry-station robot working in the open kitchen, positioning Wimpy as a tech-first smash-burger brand under the line 'All About You'.
10 deals outside India and the Gulf
Rows under the same brand name abroad. Not counted in the numbers above.
Co-branded campaign · Series · 2 Dec 2025
Hawkins Fried Chicken in the UK and a mystery campaign in Mexico. Announced by Netflix on 2 December 2025 as part of the largest brand campaign in the show's history.
Sleeve sponsor · Team · 2024
Sleeve sponsor of Multan Sultans, 2024–2025.
Sleeve sponsor · Team · 2020
Sleeve sponsor of Quetta Gladiators, 2020–2022.
Shirt sponsor · Team · 2015
Front-of-shirt sponsor of Australia national cricket team, 2015.
4 more rows we could not confirm
The source does not name the brand, names it without saying it sponsored, or could not be loaded and is not trade press or an official page. Not counted anywhere on this page.
In-video ad read · Podcast · 10 Jul 2026
Pizzahut is promoted with a listener offer link (2fwww.pizzahut.com.au) in the show notes of 9 episodes between 2026-07-10 and 2026-07-20, most recently 'Officiating UNDER FIRE, Fozball Cooling & FINALS RACE Heating Up! Round 20 Revie'.
Integrated segment · YouTube · 2026
Kfc is listed among JOLLY's YouTube sponsors by SponsorRadar, which reads brand deals off the videos themselves. Not announced by either side.
Integrated segment · YouTube · Undated
Kfc is listed among Deji's YouTube sponsors by SponsorRadar, which reads brand deals off the videos themselves. Not announced by either side.
Integrated segment · YouTube · Undated
Pizza Hut is listed among Bleacher Report's YouTube sponsors by SponsorRadar, which reads brand deals off the videos themselves. Not announced by either side.
Agencies
Credited on KFC / Pizza Hut India (Sapphire, Devyani franchisees)'s campaigns, latest first. Roles (creative, media, PR) are not recorded yet.
| Havas Creative India | 1 campaign | 20 Nov 2025 |
| FCB India | 1 campaign | 13 May 2025 |
Marketing leadership
As reported in the trade press, with the date and the article.
Against food peers
Confirmed deals only. The full food leaderboard.
| Brand | Properties | 2026 deals | Campaigns | Main passion point | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KFC / Pizza Hut India (Sapphire, Devyani franchisees) | 0 | 5 | 10 | – | 30 Jul 2026 |
| ITC | 9 | 4 | 13 | TV and streaming | 13 Jun 2026 |
| McDonald's India (Westlife + CPRL franchisees) | 0 | 2 | 14 | – | 1 Aug 2026 |
| Britannia | 2 | 4 | 13 | Business, tech and industry | 25 Aug 2026 |
| DS Group (Rajnigandha, Pulse, Catch) | 2 | 8 | 12 | TV and streaming | 5 Jun 2026 |
Where peers sponsor and KFC / Pizza Hut India (Sapphire, Devyani franchisees) doesn't
| Property | Peers on it |
|---|---|
| Goafest | ITC, Britannia |
| Pushpa 2: The Rule | ITC, Britannia |
| News18 Rising Bharat Summit | ITC, DS Group (Rajnigandha, Pulse, Catch) |
| Comic Con India | ITC |
| Kaun Banega Crorepati season 18 | ITC |
| Kaun Banega Crorepati season 17 | ITC |
| India national cricket team | ITC |
| Zomaland by Zomato | ITC |
Questions people ask
Who are KFC / Pizza Hut India (Sapphire, Devyani franchisees)'s brand ambassadors in 2026?
Campaigns since April 2025 feature Arjun Kapoor, Shivam Dube, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Danish Sait. This comes from campaign credits in the trade press, not from endorsement contracts.
Which agency works on KFC / Pizza Hut India (Sapphire, Devyani franchisees)'s campaigns?
Credited on KFC / Pizza Hut India (Sapphire, Devyani franchisees) campaigns: Havas Creative India (1 campaign, latest 20 Nov 2025); FCB India (1 campaign, latest 13 May 2025).
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