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Divya Dixit takes the reins at Recz as CEO
MUMBAI: Serial growth specialist and former AltBalaji, Z5 and Google Appscale mentor Divya Dixit has taken over as chief executive officer of Recz, a luxury-focused consumertech and social networking platform that recently rolled out its beta version.
Announcing her new role on LinkedIn, Dixit invited users to “make a profile, play with it, and share brutally honest feedback.” She’s promised to helm Recz with “obsession-worthy execution” and build not just a product but a brand that’s “loved and lived.”
With over two decades of experience across entertainment, telecom, OTT, and gaming, Dixit has previously held senior roles at AltBalaji (senior vice president, marketing and revenue), Z5, LeEco, and Tata Docomo. She’s also been an advisor to startups in blockchain, metaverse, OTT, and music tech, while currently consulting for One Health Assist.
As Recz eyes scale in the niche but rising luxury digital segment, Dixit’s entry signals an aggressive play for user growth, community building, and monetisation. Whether Recz becomes the next app obsession may depend on how sharply it can execute under her leadership — and how quickly it tunes in to user vibes
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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.
