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Pune Warriors ropes in TVS as team sponsor
MUMBAI:New IPL entrant Pune Warriors received a shot in the arm with India‘s third largest two wheeler manufacturer, TVS Motor Company, leading as team sponsors.
The deal was stitched together by Creatigies Communications.
“In the recent past, TVS Motor Company has had successful associations with the game of cricket and when Creatigies presented us with this opportunity, we felt that it was a great platform to partner and support a new team like Pune Warriors India, as both of us are go-getters and are passionate about what we do,” said TVS Motor Company President – Marketing .H S Goindi.
Sahara Adventure Sports director Abhijit Sarkar added: “TVS has been a home grown successful brand and we at Pune Warriors India are really thrilled with having such a brand as our Lead Sponsor. The values shared by both are similar, youthful, energetic and hungry for success”.
The Pune Warriors India is in its first season with the DLF IPL, and is led by the World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh.
“It is wonderful to see both TVS and Pune Warriors India finalise this partnership, as both valued the opportunity each presented,” said Creatigies Communications managing director Navroze D. Dhondy. “It‘s always a win-win for both partners when each finds synergy in the other. Both Pune Warriors India and TVS are looking at leveraging this partnership and maximising benefits for the respective brands.”
Pune Warriors India, which won its first match, plays all its home matches this season at the Dr D Y Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai.
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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.
