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Majestic ties up with ScoreData to streamline analytics
MUMBAI: BSE-SME-listed Majestic Research Services and Solutions Ltd (MRSS) has formed an alliance with California-based global data analytics firm – ScoreData to streamline sophisticated analytics in customer engagement.
As part of the alliance, MRSS clients will mine new data sources, modelling on the ScoreFast™ run-time platform to uncover insights quickly for data analysts and business managers alike.
MRSS India chairman Raj Sharma said, “With the Indian economy on the cusp of a major tax reform that is set to galvanize the economy, the alliance would leap-frog MRSS India into the next level and gear itself for several new opportunities that are set to open up in this emerging market.”
Scoredata’s analytic tool will help consumer goods companies including banking and financial services, insurance firms, telecom service and retail companies to unlock their full data potential.
ScoreData CEO Vas Bhandarkar said, “The current ways of gleaning useful digital signals are too cumbersome and silo’d for most businesses. Our partnership with MRSS gives customers quick access to making sense of their data constantly and quickly, in a broad range of use cases from financial services to retail to media and more.”
MRSS MD Sarang Panchal said, “Every company we encounter seems to have multiple strategic digital data initiatives, but tangible result in a reasonable timeframe eludes them. Working with ScoreData positions us to bring amazing value to our customers, spanning machine learning, domain expertise, and process depth for turnkey solutions.”
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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.
