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Aegis’ Carat launches Kochi operations with Indulekha account
MUMBAI: Mosons Group’s personal care brand Indulekha that operates in the skin care and hair care category has roped in Aegis Medias’ Carat Media as its media AOR. With this account, the agency has launched its Kochi operations; its third in South India and fifth nationally. The spends on the brand are in the range of Rs 300 – 350 million.
Carat MD Kartik Iyer said, “We are delighted to be in Kerala and do look forward to providing globally proven solutions to clients from this part of India. We are delighted that our partnership with Mosons has provided us the platform we required to begin this operation. With our cutting edge media solutions backed by CCS (Consumer Connection System), Aegis Media’s proprietary research based tool, we look forward to working with Mosons in taking the brand to new heights with solutions across every type of media like print, TV, radio, OOH, digital, activation etc.”
Indulekha brand head Alex Thomas said, “Being a growing company , we wanted a capable media partner and therefore were delighted to see the response we received from Carat on the brief and their huge passion for our business. We are pleased to have them as a partner and are sure that they would contribute significantly to our business growth.”
Carat senior vice president –south Joydeep Raha said, “We were pleasantly surprised to see the way Indulekha had brought to life micromarketing with individual solutions for different states and product lines. Our understanding of the consumers with respect to their attitudes and aspirational needs was used to recommend customised media solutions in line with their approach. We look forward to partnering with Mosons in their endeavours and will leave no stone unturned to deliver cutting edge Integrated solutions for the brand.”
Indulekha is a brand with products already launched in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and the Gulf countries. Their current plans include an expansion into the rest of India.
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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.
