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mCaffeine launches new initiative to support Covid vaccination drive
Mumbai: Homegrown caffeinated personal care brand mCaffeine has launched the #GetTheGoodDose initiative to encourage millennials to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The initiative hopes to inspire these youths to better take care of themselves while supporting the government’s vaccination drive. To further foster this sense of social responsibility, anyone who is 18 and above and pledges to get vaccinated on their website, will earn a token of appreciation in form of a special reward, the brand said in a statement.
“With the second wave of Covid-19 just settling, we all need to come together and ensure that we act responsibly by pledging to get vaccinated, whilst also urging and helping others around us to get their jab,” said mCaffeine’s co-founder & CEO Tarun Sharma. “With #GetTheGoodDose, we aim to be vocal through the voice of our consumers, and strengthen their resolve to get vaccinated, for we truly believe that our consumers are the best advocates for our country.”
“If we are able to bring them all together to share this common goal via large participation, we can lead by example and our campaign can serve as an authentic voice to encourage the nation’s millennials to safely act before it is too late. Every small step towards this contribution could make a huge impact, as the more people are vaccinated, the closer we are to our pre-covid routines. Our campaign thus aims to put together a collective effort to curtail the spread of this year-long global pandemic,” he further added.
#GetTheGoodDose went live on 7 July on mCaffeine website; the registration process details are available at: https://www.mcaffeine.com/pages/vaccination-drive.
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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.
