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Maaza brings a ‘Mangolicious’ contest to delight Super Singer fans in Tamil Nadu
MUMBAI: Maaza, one of the most loved and iconic mango beverages in India is all set to provide moments of indulgence to consumers in Tamil Nadu. The brand has launched special bottles with Super Singer labels that give lucky winners a chance to watch the Super Singer Finale Live by playing a ‘Mangolicious game’.
Participants can login at www.coke2home.com/maaza/ using their mobile number. Post completion of the registration steps, they have to fill in the code visible on Maaza bottles of net quantity 600ml, 1.2L and 1.5L to earn Maaza coins which will allow them to start their gaming experience. The game displays a variety of mangoes falling on the screen. Players have to squeeze the golden mangoes using the tap gesture to progress in the game and earn points. For every golden mango, they earn 50 points. Additionally, the game has 30 multiple-choice questions based on Maaza or Super Singer, which the players must answer to progress in the game and earn bonus points. Players who make it to the top 100 will win a Maaza hamper, while one lucky winner will get the opportunity to watch Super Singer Finale live. Winners will be selected every week. The contest is open till September 30, 2019 only for consumers in Tamil Nadu.
Commenting on the innovative contest, Srideep Kesavan, Director – Juices, Coca-Cola India, said, “Super Singer is one-of-its-kind singing reality show and we are excited to kick-off this contest to provide a delightful experience to fans in Tamil Nadu. Our aim is to build deeper engagement with the consumers by providing them numerous opportunities to sit back and unwind with Maaza, while they indulge in a mangolicious gaming journey.”
As the next step in Maaza’s journey towards becoming a USD 1 billion home-grown mango juice brand by 2023, Maaza is transforming into a Master brand bringing in different variants of mango Indulgence for different moments. Launched in the 1970s, Maaza has an impressive heritage and has been the most loved mango juice beverage in the country for over 42 years now.
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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.
