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Euro launches new campaign created by Scarecrow
MUMBAI: Fashion innerwear brand Euro, from the house of Rupa & Co, has launched a campaign with a view to reinvigorate its brand presence in partnership with creative agency Scarecrow Communications.
Euro was launched with ‘Prepare to get assaulted‘ campaign. The campaign was successful, but having ran it for years, the brand team felt it was about time Euro took a fresh stance and reconnected with the target audience.
The new campaign breaks the category codes and introduces a new brand of humour in the segment. It stems from the insight that ‘size‘ is a big thing for men. It boosts their ego and even self-esteem.
The campaign through a series of press ads and hoardings asks men the million dollar question – what‘s your size? The print campaign is shot exclusively in Prague by photographer Colston Julian. The TVC are conceptualised by Scarecrow and produced by Salt Management.
Rupa & Co president brand promotion Rajnish Agarwal said, “Euro is another success story from the house of Rupa. The earlier positioning ‘prepared to get assaulted‘ had created a distinct space for Euro. Now we need to take it to the next level and cement our bond with the youth of India. The current campaign ‘What‘s your size?‘ is a step in that direction.”
Scarecrow founder director Manish Bhatt said, “‘Mine is bigger than yours‘ is the most fundamental male insight. The campaign is single-mindedly based on this insight. Hence, we think the campaign will touch a chord with the audience.”
Scarecrow senior creative director Kapil Tammal added, “We are in a process of revamping the entire Rupa portfolio in phases. Euro kicks off this transformational journey in style. For the idea to realise its full potential, we needed the casting and the production to be spot on. Models were flown in from all parts of Europe. We are happy the production teams in India and Prague didn‘t let us down.”
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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.
