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Hyundai books 6000 TV spots for new Eon launch
BANGALORE: Car maker Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) has booked 6000 spots on general entertainment and major news channels for the new Eon that its claims has been built on a completely new platform made for the Indian market.
The communication, which commenced with the launch of the Eon in Delhi on 13 October, will be aired across the popular Hindi and regional general entertainment channels and news over the next six weeks.
“One 60 second TVC created by HMIL‘s in-house creative agency Innocean, made by ShawnTell and directed by Damien Toogood has been made. This TVC has been pared to 40 and 30 seconds and will be aired during different spots,” revealed HMIL‘s Eon brand manager Amit Patel while speaking with www.indiantelevevision.com. “Our Eon campaign is around television, radio, print digital and outdoor.”
HMIL managing director and CEO H W Park said, “Eon has been specifically built keeping in mind varied Indian conditions and special requirements of our esteemed Indian customers. The Eon will further expand our market share in the fast-growing small car segment in the Indian market.”
Hyundai India is trying to take on the Maruti Alto and is looking at sales volumes of around 150,000 units over a 12-month period. “The company will be spending between Rs.300 to Rs.400 million towards brand building and marketing alone for the Eon,” revealed an automobile industry source.
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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.
