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Atishi Pradhan is Mogae Media chief strategist
MUMBAI: Mogae Media has appointed Atishi Pradhan as chief strategist. Based in Delhi, Pradhan is joining in from Contract Advertising where she was working as senior vice president and executive planning director.
Pradhan brings in over 24 years of experience. She has also worked with JWT for around 20 years in account planning.
Mogae Group executive director Tanya Goyal said, “These are exciting times for us at Mogae as we build a bright and resourceful team with some of the finest talent in the business. Atishi is a well known name in strategy circles. She has worked on brands, both big and small. Sandeep (Goyal) and she worked together on Horlicks many moons ago and to date Sandeep admires Atishi‘s insights and consumer understanding will bring conventional marketing wisdom to a business that has few precedents.”
Pradhan added, “Mobile devices are a natural fit for personalisation and hence direct hits: phones are emotionally more ‘personal‘ than PCs. They are something you carry with you, something that connects you to your social circle, and unlike PCs, something that you rarely if ever share.”
Mogae Media is the new venture launched by Sandeep Goyal focused on mobile monetisation.
Recently, Mogae Media has announced other senior level hires too. Pavan Chandra joined Mogae from VivaKi Nerve Centre India as chief intelligence officer while Tushar Dhingra (former Big Cinemas COO) joined the Mogae team as chief delights officer.
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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.
