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Goafest 2017: Mindshare & Maxus win big, Dainik Jagran leads publisher category
GOA: Kick-starting the day one by popping a bottle of champagne, Goafest 2017 brought much cheer to the media, marketing and advertising fraternity. The Advertising Club (TAC) and the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) together felicitated the works of the advertising agencies with the Media and Publisher Abby Awards 2017 on Wednesday.
Mindshare India, like last year, bagged the maximum number of medals at the Media Abbys on day one of Goafest 2017. With a total of 10 medals, the agency has received two gold medals in ‘Best use of an Integrated Campaign’ and ‘Best use of Branded Content’ category, one each for its campaign for Star Plus titled ‘Nayi Soch’, and another for Dove’s ‘Dove reframes the beauty debate in India.’ The agency also won three bronze and five silver medals.
On Goafest Abby’s 2017, Mindshare South Asia CEO Prasanth Kumar said: “Topping at Goafest is definitely a great achievement. We are delighted that the series of good work across our clients are witnessing recognition. We as always get motivated when we win and we thank all our clients and partners for being the force behind our performance. For us, it is a constant that we keep evolving and redefining ourselves as well as challenging ourselves every year to ensure we deliver the best to our clients. We promise to keep this momentum continuous.”
The second top winner of this year is Maxus which took home six medals – one gold, four silver and two bronze. It received gold for their Sonata ACT campaign titled ‘When courage prevailed from 8pm to 8am campaign in the ‘Best use of Radio’ category.
The third leading agency was Madison Media bagging a total of eight medals — five silver and three bronze.
Apart from these, Dentsu Webchutney, Social Street, MediaCom Communications, Lodestar UM, Shemaroo Entertainment, ibs and Milestone Brandcom bagged one gold medal, each.
A total of 10 gold medals were given away at the Media ABBY, followed by 26 silver and 17 bronze.
In the Publisher Category, Dainik Jagran, continuing its winning streak, emerged as the winner for day one with two gold, five silver and two bronze medals. The publisher won the golds in the ‘Best promotion of a CSR’ category for ‘A newspaper galvanizes communities to revive 4000+ lakes’ and in the ‘Best brand innovation in newspapers printed or online’ for ‘Crowdsourcing Imagination to create the newspaper of the Future by the Future.’
2017 ABBYs has just got bigger and better. With 4500 entries, the Goafest ABBYs 2017 presented by the The Advertising Club and The AAA’ of I has once again seen the entire advertising and marketing community descend upon the silver sands of North Goa to celebrate excellence in creativity across media platforms and genres.
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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.
