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Curry Nation executes first commercial for Netsurf Communications
MUMBAI: Curry Nation has come out with Netsurf Communication‘s first television commercial. The first commercial went air on 28 July. The creative agency had won the creative mandate for Netsurf two months back with the aim to leverage its brand proposition.
The ad establishes an emotional connect with consumers and promotes Netsurf amongst existing distributors and consumers while building up on the new base attracting others. On the campaign, Curry Nation creative head Priti Nair said, “Through the TVC we have attempted to showcase how people connect with one another by touching each and influencing others lives. This is similar to the philosophy of Netsurf which goes out connecting with its audience while building an emotional connect with them.”
The tagline for the campaign is Sehat, Barkat, Muskurahat. “This communication was designed to ensure that the brand stays in the mind of the consumers and distributors. We want to create a recall value for the brand. When it comes to executing a commercial for a client like Netsurf, the brand and branding becomes more important than the product as it is a company which engages in a cooperative selling concept,” added Nair.
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The total ad spent allocated to marketing Netsurf Network‘s is Rs five crore with heavy focus on the television and digital medium. BTL would be used as a support medium where the brand would promote itself via mall activations.
Headquartered in Pune, Netsurf has consumers majorly situated in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. “We have plans to establish our office in Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and West Bengal with our presence in more than 300 districts across India,” said Netsurf Network Limited chairman Sujit Jain.
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Netsurf jointly with Curry Nation plans to set up new standard concrete platforms in the field of network marketing in India. “The communication task was to establish Netsurf as a serious player in the business by leveraging the core truth of the product offering. We aim at empowering people and touching lives. The gift of health, wealth and prosperity is what the network offers to the people,” he added.
“The challenge we faced while executing the commercial was that we had to alter the process of showcasing our product portfolio and creating an emotional connect on the product lines. I think Curry Nation has done an excellent job to communicate the same,” said Jain.
The film has been conceptualised by Priti Nair and directed by Shimit Amin of the Chak De India fame.
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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.
