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EaseMyTrip partners with Value 360 Communications; gives away its PR-related activities
Mumbai: The leading travel tech company EaseMyTrip has entrusted the New Delhi-based PR firm Value 360 Communications as their public and media relations partner.
The agency will be responsible for strategic planning and meticulous management of all PR-related activities for EaseMyTrip.
From FY’20 till FY’22, EaseMyTrip grew its profit at 78 per cent CAGR thus reflecting its impeccable track record of achieving sustainable growth in the travel sector. Consequently growing via word of mouth, the company undertook several technology-led innovations to increase its operational efficiency. Furthermore, EaseMyTrip achieved another milestone by joining the elite club of India’s first hundred unicorns while remaining bootstrapped and consistently profitable.
The company remained profitable even during the pandemic times, highlighting the resilience of its highly efficient cost infrastructure and business model. After establishing a key foothold in the air ticket industry, EaseMyTrip started focusing on expanding its non-air verticals. The company strategically gained inorganic growth by acquiring innovative companies across diverse travel segments and evolving into a complete travel ecosystem.
Speaking on the association, EaseMyTrip CEO and co-founder Nishant Pitti said, “Over the past 14 years, EaseMyTrip has taken pride in being a customer-centric company and has focused on efficiently catering to the rising needs of customers and offering a wide range of value-added services, a practice that has remained unhampered during the course of the pandemic as well. We are excited to have Value 360 Communications as our PR firm and confident to achieve new heights with their set of expertise in the field of PR. Together, we aim at creating focused and robust PR campaigns that will help in developing consumer-centric and engaging communications.”
Excited about the partnership, Value 360 Communications founder and director Kunal Kishore said, “We are pleased to begin our alliance with EaseMyTrip for the mandate of Public Relations. EaseMyTrip is a self-made company which completely bootstrapped itself till IPO. They are the pioneers in the online travel industry and are directed to become the only trusted travel company backed with technology. We intend to collaborate for some amazing work together and creating campaigns that are resourceful, innovative, and stimulating and support them to achieve their communication objectives.’’
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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.
