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Mia by Tanishq inks partnership deal with Bacardi NH7 Weekender
Mumbai: Jewellery brand Mia by Tanishq has announced its partnership with music festival Bacardi NH7 Weekender for the event to be held on 26 March in Pune. The association was set up by Mates, the content unit of Madison World.
Bacardi NH7 Weekender is an annual multi-city and multi-genre, music, and comedy festival held in India. Under this partnership, Mia by Tanishq will get a ‘Mia Lounge,’ an exclusive lounge that will provide festival-goers access to “innovative digital beauty experiences and a fun-filled paradise complete with WiFi, air conditioning, mobile charging stations etc,” said the statement.
A virtual trial of Mia jewellery will be conducted in Pune using augmented reality. Mia will receive ten tickets for each city of Goa, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Shillong/Guwahati and Delhi to distribute to their top spenders. Additionally, Mia by Tanishq will receive branding across all of Bacardi NH7 Weekender marketing communication platforms.
“We are very happy to partner with MAates and Bacardi NH7 Weekender,” said Mia by Tanishq head of marketing Sampurna Rakshit. “We feel that this is a great property to reach out to the young, modern free-spirited Mia women. We plan to give them a taste of the Mia way of life through the uber-stylish on-ground lounge.”
Mates is the entertainment specialist unit of Madison World that focuses on content marketing, celebrity management, film marketing, influencer associations, OTT collaborations, video production, and partnerships with gaming companies, platforms, and e-sports influencers.
“We at Mates are delighted to enable the association of Mia by Tanishq and Bacardi NH7 Weekender,” said Mates head Kumar Siddharth. “Both brands that appeal to the free-living independent women of today. We have worked closely with the NH7 organizers to enhance the festival goers’ experience by providing them with a space where they can unwind and be themselves. Creating associations between brands and properties that have true synergy is the cornerstone of our strategic approach and we’re hoping this is the first of many such innovative collaborations.”
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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.
