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McCann takes forward Greenlam Laminates message of beauty
Mumbai: Greenlam Laminates has created a new campaign, taking forward the idea of “Zamaane ko Sajana hai”.
The campaign – ‘Mahaul Sundar toh Khayal Sundar’ – plans to bring the message in a more interesting and engaging manner to the masses. In keeping with the brief given by the client, the TVC created by McCann depicts social evils and day to day happenings in a more positive manner.
MWG India CEO and chief creative officer Prasoon Joshi says, “This is a special client who allows space for such creative flights for the brand. This ad is a satire and creative take by the brand, which exaggerates how a product like Greenlam transforms not only your physical being but also transforms your state of mind and thinking. The script carefully takes care of striking a balance between cynicism and humour. Music enhances it to make you really think and question… And it was as usual enriching to work with Ram.”
The cue for the creative was taken from the New York metro case study. A research done in New York highlighted the fact that keeping the surroundings and environment clean reduced the crime rates drastically as compared to unkempt and filthy environment.
Hence, the agency took the social angle but by sticking to the brief of –‘When your environment is beautiful it results in getting positive thoughts.’
On the campaign, Greenlam Laminates marketing and communications vice president Alex Joseph says, “Greenlam Laminates has taken a leap forward from its last year’s ‘Zamane ko Sajana hai’ campaign which goes on to evoke beautiful, positive and refreshing thoughts amongst the masses. Our belief that beautiful surroundings lead to happy thoughts has been highlighted in the TVC in a satire manner. We intend to touch the human hearts with emotions of happiness and comfort, thus instilling the need of a beautiful ambience.”
A complete 360 degree media campaign is planned for the campaign. The TVC was aired on 70 channels. Prior to the TVC, the teasers were used in print media where half page jackets in almost all leading publications informed the readers on ‘changing india’. RJ’s in various FM channels asked their listeners to be tuned in to their favorite channel to witness ‘changing india’. A complete online campaign also ran informing the surfers about the change.
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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.
