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Havells unveils ‘#LetsEndDarkness Talks’ in a new digital campaign
Mumbai: Havells India has started a video series #LetsEndDarkness (LED) Talks under a newly launched campaign, celebrating inspiring stories of people who have eliminated darkness from their lives despite obstacles and challenges.
Content partner by Unhide and conceptualised by Netter, the campaign features five inspiring real-life influencers who overcame the dusk and triumphed in their lives.
The central concept that lies behind the campaign idea is that with determination, individuals can rise to their fullest potential despite the challenges they face and grow beyond the constraints of their current circumstances.
The five influencers who will be a part of this campaign video are: India women’s cricketer, Smriti Mandhana, who has established herself in a sport that is primarily known to be male-dominated. Athlete Deepa Malik, who became the first Indian woman to compete in the Paralympic Games. Photographer Vicky Roy, a ragpicker at New Delhi railway station who ran away from home, studied photography and eliminated darkness from his life. Dr. Ruth John Paul, who took birth in a male body with a feminine spirit and transformed herself. She has worked her way up to become the first doctor at India’s first transgender clinic. Pooja Dasgupta, a single parent, who has overcome her unhappy marriage. Dasgupta raised her child single-handedly and emerged stronger despite the unforeseen challenges.
The campaign video begins with a black screen with a voiceover of the influencer in the backdrop and moves on to a frame of light and illumination where they begin narrating their story. The videos are shot in long-form stories for the website and in a crisper short format for social media channels. The video series will run for six weeks on all social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, and will be amplified on digital platforms.
A true warrior doesn’t need a sword. All she needs is the light from within – especially when her name itself means spreading bright light!
Stay tuned to watch her challenging life journey on Havells Lighting #LetsEndDarknessMoments.
#LetsEndDarkness #HavellsLighting pic.twitter.com/CC5eIEMjRg— Havells (@havellsindia) August 22, 2022
Here we are with the episode 2 of Havells Lighting #LetsEndDarknessMoments. Watch how @DeepaAthlete, the first Indian woman to win a medal in the Paralympic Games, accepted the challenges & turned the tides of misfortune & rewrote her fate.
Know more-https://t.co/cd4hVwB63r pic.twitter.com/LoGBxnUklt— Havells (@havellsindia) August 24, 2022
Commenting on the launch of the new campaign, Marketing Havells India executive vice president Rohit Kapoor said, “The campaign thought of “LED Talks” aims at taking the high ground and thought leadership in the category, which is above product and feature-based advertising. We are proud that the first campaign video amplified by Smriti Mandhana on her Instagram handle has already garnered more than 1,18,000 likes.”
“The campaign is another step towards creating remarkable storytelling that will help coherently communicate the brand’s narrative for change with LED (light-emitting diode) to a completely different proposition where the three letters of ‘LED’ stand for “Let’s End Darkness,”” he added.
Havells India president & SBU head Parag Bhatnagar added, “With the new “LED Talks” campaign, we want to spread positivity among people and hope that they resonate with it in a powerful yet humble way. The campaign establishes real-life victory testimonies that people have achieved despite obstacles and hardship owing to their valour. A core message of ‘enlightenment within’ has been used in the campaign with a strong emotional and socially responsible message. We are hopeful that people will be inspired by the new campaign and feel motivated to achieve their aspirations.”
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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.
