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DAN’s Posterscope rolls out campaign for Appy’s new avatar
MUMBAI: Appy, an apple juice drink by Parle Agro, has joined hands with Dentsu Aegis Network’s Posterscope India to roll out a new campaign featuring Appy’s new avatar. The Rs-3 billion brand continues the use of its distinctive black packaging, with an evolution of its logo developed to build a strong brand persona, attracting new consumers to the brand.
Building on the brief, Posterscope India crafted a campaign highlighting the brand’s new bold, chic look that resulted in a media mix delivering both impact and reach. The media formats used were billboards, bus shelters, gantries, unipoles, bus wraps, metro pillars, etc. In an attempt to create impact, multiple creatives are being used across cities. The campaign has been executed in 30 plus cities that include the top eight metros, the tier 1 and tier 2 cities.
The main objective of the campaign was to create reach and awareness. From arterial routes, youth hangouts, shopping destinations to residential belts, all were covered methodically using a mix of media formats to get maximum visibility. Posterscope made extensive use of its primary research tool Outdoor Consumer Survey (OCS) to arrive at the TG touchpoints and its planning tool, OOHZONE, for zeroing on the right media placement location and plan optimisation.
Ashvin Bhatia, Associate Vice President, Posterscope Mumbai said: “We used our own core understanding of the Appy brand DNA and our location expertise to arrive at an optimised consumer centric approach.”
Fabian Trevor Cowan, Director, Posterscope India said “Posterscope’s association with Parle Agro goes back a long time. We have deeply invested in this relationship and are honoured to be part of their out of home initiatives”.
Nadia Chauhan, JMD & CMO, Parle Agro said, “The new Appy design gives it a contemporary and bold look and is being communicated with high impact campaign to create top of mind brand recall in the cluttered beverage category.”
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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.
