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Battle of Bandhans: Brave New World’s latest campaign for Raksha Bandhan brings in nostalgia with a smile
MUMBAI: Every relationship has its ups and downs. But nothing beats the highs and lows of the sibling relationship. The latest campaign for Trends celebrates this realistic and very relatable aspect of this partnership.
Taking off from last year’s Raksha Bandhan campaign, the film captures those memorable fights that become the cornerstones of a shared childhood. It seeks to ignite nostalgia in the viewer and urges them to celebrate their favourite fights with their siblings on social media.
Sraman Majumdar, Senior Creative Director of Brave New World said, “Trends is a brand that appeals to a wide swathe of society. Raksha Bandhan, read sibling dynamics, was a great opportunity to connect with everyone on a personal note. The film is a snapshot of a universal emotion that we can all relate to and interpret through our own lives – whether in bratty humour, mischief, rivalry, peacemaking or just fond nostalgia.”
Brave New World, an integrated advertising agency in Bangalore, India, is the brain behind the campaign. In just a few years, the agency has turned Trends’ social media channels into engagement hotspots. Always pushing the boundaries of what topicality can mean and do for an audience. In just a few hours, the video is already seeing the brand’s engaged fanbase commenting with their stories and anecdotes, with no heed paid to word count; just another great example of the brand’s ability to build powerful campaigns around simple and relatable insights that appeal to all ends of the it’s audience spectrum.
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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.
