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Lenskart ropes in Bhuvan Bam as brand ambassador
MUMBAI: Eyewear retailer Lenskart has signed YouTube star Bhuvan Bam as its new brand ambassador. The decision was taken keeping in mind that Bhuvan’s digital content appeals to the youth and aligns with their brand image.
As unveiled by Lenskart, Bam will be part of multiple campaigns and will also be producing exclusive content for them. He also recently launched the new store for Lenskart in Ambience Mall, Gurugram.
Commenting on why Bhuvan as brand ambassador for Lenskart, Lenskart.com founder and CEO Peyush Bansal opined, “Bhuvan is a youth icon and he appeals to the audience we’re looking at targeting. Lenskart believes in challenging the status-quo whether it’s in the kind of products or the services it offers the customers. Bhuvan himself is a game changer in his own line of work and that is why we think it’s the perfect association. We’re looking forward to working and creating fun campaigns with him.”
Taking on the new role as ambassador Bam expressed, “I have always loved Lenskart and their collection because as a content creator for BB Ki Vines, I strive to create characters with distinct traits and quirks and glasses help me a lot with that. Like for Banchod Das, the character wears these shield black frames. Lenskart has been my one stop shop for all my eyewear requirements and I’m really excited to be a part of the Lenskart family because it also aligns with my mantra and that is having fun with what you do.”
Part of the Lenskart app’s interface is a special section called #BBkeFrames that consists of a collection of frames inspired by Bhuvan’s personal style, handpicked by him. This feature is also available on the M-site, website as well as in stores. The collection includes metal frames in trendy shapes namely the pilot-style, rounds, and hexagons across John Jacobs and Vincent Chase. Lenskart customers can shop these across stores as well as online under the “BB Ke Frames” category.
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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.
