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Purple Focus wins creative biz of DLF Place
MUMBAI: Purple Focus has bagged the creative mandate for DLF Place, the premium fashion lifestyle mall in South Delhi.
The incumbent agency for the account was M&C Saatchi.
As part of the creative mandate, Purple Focus will work on the strategy and creative deliverables of DLF Place.
Purple Focus NCD Arvind Pal Singh said, “The brief always had been to create a fresh and clutter breaking communication keeping in mind the DNA of brand DLF, which agency did successfully. Our campaigns aim to extend the essence of the brand in order to match the changing needs of retail markets. Purple Focus team is exhilarated by the news & the agency looks forward to create different Mall Specific events & communication in the time to come.”
DLF Place VP- mall management Benu Sehgal said, “The agency understood our goal well. Besides, it showed much understanding of the category.”
In the past Purple Focus has handled ‘DLF Shopping Festival‘ throughout DLF malls for two successful years, ‘Fashion Focus‘ (for another premium mall DLF Promenade) and few other projects on project basis.
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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.
