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Delhi Airport & 22feet Tribal Worldwide take homebound travellers on virtual tour with #DELnavigate
NEW DELHI: Delhi Airport joined hands with 22feet Tribal Worldwide, part of the DDB Mudra Group, to launch an innovative Instagram campaign #DELnavigate. The initiative enables people to experience India virtually while being safe at home.
The ongoing pandemic has forced travel enthusiasts to stay indoors and has potentially derailed plans for travel this year. Delhi Airport spotted an opportunity to offer a unique experience through #DELnavigate, to lift the spirits of people experiencing wanderlust by allowing them to explore picturesque locations from their phones.
Delhi Airport’s reconnection to a host of domestic destinations is seen through a virtual network of destinations on Instagram. Four zone accounts – @DELtoNorth, @DELtoEast, @DELtoSouth & @DELtoWest – connects to four more destination accounts each. These are connected via tags through Instagram highlight stories. Users can seamlessly engage with multiple story highlights that showcase popular picturesque destinations in the country.
22feet Tribal WW national creative director -Debashish Ghosh said, “In today’s time with respect to the Covid-19 scenario, the role of social media for the consumers has become even more important than it was ever before. With #DELNavigate we wanted to showcase that even a little bit of interactivity allows the user to engage with the brand in a more meaningful way. As the enabler of travel, Delhi Airport understands what effect the lack of leisure travel has on our consumers. This activity was a way to let them experience a bunch of exotic destinations they have visited, or want to visit, vicariously.”
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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.
