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Max New York Life Insurance is principal sponsor of Pune Warriors
MUMBAI: Max New York Life Insurance has associated with Pune Warriors India as principal sponsor and official team partner for the IPL Season 4.
Speaking on Max New York Life’s first-ever direct partnership with an IPL team Max New York Life CEO & Managing Director Rajesh Sud said, “We are proud to be associated with the Pune Warriors India. With India’s recent success in the Cricket World Cup 2011, IPL Season 4 promises to be even more exciting for the millions of cricket fans across India. We wish the Pune Warriors team a great IPL season ahead. Max New York Life has been associated with IPL since inception and we see this association as a step to take our IPL engagement to the next level. We have always believed in experimenting with new ideas and opportunities for the Max New York Life brand.”
Obseved Abhijit Sarkar of Pune Warriors India, “We are excited to have Max New York Life Insurance as our Principal Sponsor and the Official Team Partner. Max New York Life is a prestigious brand to be associated with and this association will strengthen Brand Pune Warriors India.“
The insurance company will also leverage its association in the IPL Season 4 to drive focused internal and external stakeholder engagement and rewards and recognition initiatives to build on to the spirit of the T20 tournament which it feels would not only help drive the fan base for Pune Warriors India but also play a key role in enhancing stakeholder satisfaction and motivation.
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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.
