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Ignitee bags Fujifilm’s digital mandate in India
MUMBAI: Imaging technology Fujifilm India has appointed digital marketing agency Ignitee Digital to manage their social media campaigns and digital communication.
The appointment is a move towards furthering Fujifilm India’s decision to aggressively explore and leverage the social media platform.
The agency was chosen keeping in mind its expertise and differentiated thinking on utilising social media for leading brands.
Ignitee will help Fuji establish a youthful and contemporary brand imagery in sync with its technically-superior product range. The brand hopes to connect with the tech-savvy Indian youth by creating opportunities to interact and engage with the brand. Towards this end, Ignitee will manage not only consumer engagement across all social networking sites but also the digital media planning and buying for the brand across digital platforms.
Ignitee Digital Services COO Ranjoy Dey said, “We are thrilled about partnering with Fujifilm. The digital camera segment is extremely cluttered, and every brand is vying for consumers’ attention on digital & social media. We are looking forward to the unique challenge to create a distinct and cutting-edge platform on digital media for the brand. We strongly believe that our approach and ideas for Fujifilm will bring forward the unique value proposition of the brand and its products – attracting the right set of consumers for an engaging interaction.”
Fujifilm national marketing manager Sriwant Warizsaid, “We are establishing Fujifilm as a brand that’s constantly focused on delivering more value for the consumer. While we are delivering that through our innovative and technically-superior product range, we want to further establish our value proposition by giving the consumers more opportunities to interact and engage with the brand and the product range on the digital and social media platforms. In our competitive market segment, through social media as a key medium, Fujifilm intends to highlight its young and contemporary brand imagery and bring its target audience closer to the brand.”
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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.
