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LeEco India signs on three strategic digital marketing partners
MUMBAI: Global Internet and technology conglomerate, LeEco has inked strategic partnerships with three leading digital marketing solutions companies in India– iCubeswire, netCORE and vCommission. The expertise of the three companies will enable LeEco to further strengthen its digital communication by offering personalized strategies and integrated marketing campaigns.
LeEco prioritizes digital technologies into its core marketing strategies and these partnerships will play a critical role in delivering relevant and real-time experiences to consumers. The global technology company is betting big on LeMall.com in India, and the partnership with iCubeswire, netCORE and vCommission will help LeMall.com generate pre-booking and registrations for its flash sales through innovative creatives for the connected generation.
“With the increasing focus of users on digital channels, executing marketing strategies that connect effectively with them is extremely important. We believe these partnerships will help us amplify the reach of LeMall.com and further entrench our presence in the country,” said LeEco India Smart Business Electronics COO Atul Jain.
As part of the partnership, iCubeswire will support various digital marketing activities with accurate data, reports, analytics, and insights to drive higher ROI. In the past as well, iCubeswire has helped LeMall.com, in generating pre-buzz ahead of the launch of LeEco’s Superphones and sustaining momentum for them, ultimately aiding record-breaking sales.
Both netCORE and vCommission were recently assigned to manage the marketing duties for the “LeMall for All” day held on 9 August 2016, that saw an incredible user traction. “LeMall for All” Day is a one-day shopping festival hosted on LeMall.com where users cab avail exciting discounts on LeEco products such as Superphones, audio devices, and other accessories. LeEco plans to make this a recurrent shopping carnival going-forward. After successfully supporting the launch of Le 2 and Le Max2, netCORE will also work with LeEco to support the first flash sale of its Super3 Series TVs.
Over the years, marketing has moved beyond the traditional and has implications for a wide variety of stakeholders. In such a scenario and a fiercely competitive smartphone industry, these partnerships will empower LeEco to differentiate itself from others.
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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.
