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Tanishqs new campaign by Lowe Lintas celebrates remarriage
MUMBAI: Jewellery adds to your celebrations, isn’t it? That is the mantra on which Tanishq is cashing on this wedding season with its new campaign conceptualised by Lowe Lintas.
Tanishq had launched its wedding collection in 2010, and though it has a range of wedding jewellery, it’s not the preferred choice of wedding specific customers. To deal with this setback that it is facing, the brand has introduced a range of wedding jewellery that is a fusion of new age and contemporary design set in age-old Kundan polki, which makes it unique.
The brief given to the creative agency was to establish Tanishq as the ‘differentiated wedding jeweller’.
“Everything about the ad has to reflect the brand as the new-age product. Hence, we came up with a subject like this to make a bold statement talking about the brand which hasn’t been tapped in the past, says Lowe Lintas’ NCD Arun Iyer about the TVC.
The TVC opens with a bride getting ready for her wedding, when a little girl walks up to her and starts interacting with her. The bride and the little girl walk together to the wedding mandap where the little girl goes and sits next to an elderly couple and the pheras start. Alongside, the little girl is shown telling the elderly couple to be a part of the pheras too but is denied. Finally, the little girl calls out to the bride and says “Mama, I also want to go round and round”. The bride shushes her, but the groom, on seeing how sad the little girl is, calls out to the girl and carries her. The couple completes the rest of the pheras with the little girl.
What is catching everyone’s attention is the concept. Another talking point is the ‘dusky’ woman who features in the TVC. “Yes, we know everyone is talking about it, but nothing was done intentionally. The girl suited the role so we got her onboard,” clarifies Iyer.
About the expectations from the campaign, Tanishq senior VP sales and marketing Sandeep Kulahalli says, “We wanted to do something different this time and do something which is usually not done by this category. And maybe, that’s why the camapign has been well recieved by people.”
He adds, “Tanishq as a brand has evolved over the years and this showcases that we arent a ‘traditional’ brand. We show the progressiveness in people’s mind.”
The campaign will be executed on TV, print and OOH.
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
