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Noise’s Luna Ring wins 2024 Red Dot Design Award
Mumbai: Noise, a connected lifestyle tech brand, has been honoured with the prestigious Red Dot Award in the category of Product Design for its flagship wearable Luna Ring wearable device. This globally-renowned award recognizes Noise’s excellence in design quality and innovation.
Launched last year as the segment’s first smart ring, the Luna Ring represents Noise’s dedication to design-driven innovation in wearable technology. Conceptualized and crafted in-house, this compact and comfortable device blends advanced health monitoring capabilities with a stylish, discreet form factor.
The Luna Ring elegantly houses research-grade PPG, motion, and body temperature sensors within its durable titanium casing – a feat of miniaturization that marries cutting-edge biometrics with premium materials. Beyond its sleek aesthetics, this smart ring tracks over 70 biometric signals, providing valuable insights into sleep quality, activity levels, and overall well-being. The product’s design focuses on elevating both functionality and wearability for a seamless user experience.
The Luna Ring represents the perfect symbiosis of Noise’s innovative spirit and design prowess. Packed with advanced sensors and intuitive user interfaces, it allows users to conveniently track their health, fitness, and daily metrics while making a bold statement with its sleek, minimalist aesthetics.
Established in 1955, the Red Dot is an internationally respected mark of excellence that has become a coveted seal for exceptional design works across product, communication, and concept categories. By securing this distinction in the Product Design segment, Noise has cemented its position among the global vanguards of design leadership. For 2024, an international jury meticulously evaluated thousands of product designs from companies across the globe before bestowing the ‘Red Dot’ distinction upon Noise’s Luna Ring – a seal reserved only for products featuring truly outstanding designs.
“Design thinking has been the guiding force behind our product vision at Noise,” said Amit Khatri, co-founder at Noise. “We blend cutting-edge features according to user needs while packaging them in an exquisite design language. Being named a Red Dot winner for the Luna Ring validates our brand’s relentless commitment to this design philosophy. This prestigious award recognizes our ability to develop connected wearables that not only offer superior functionality but also elevate the user experience through an exceptional design crafted around their needs and preferences.
As a Red Dot laureate for 2024, Noise’s Luna Ring will be featured in the Red Dot Design Yearbook, online exhibitions, and museums. The company is also invited to celebrate this milestone at the Red Dot Award Ceremony and Designers’ Night in June 2024.
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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.
