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ShopClues.com scouts for a creative partner in Gurgaon
MUMBAI: ShopClues.com, has initiated a multi-agency pitch to bring on board a creative partner to lead its mass media strategy in Gurgaon. ShopClues.com is India‘s online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers by offering a shopping experience. This is the first time that the company has called for a creative pitch.
Two years into operations, ShopClues.com has previously been active on the social media, radio and the outdoor front. Till now the online and ATL campaigns were done in-house. With the growth and expansion in the company and the boom witnessed in the e-commerce space, the company is set to get on board a creative partner for its mass media strategy.
ShopClues.com founding member and corporate vice-president marketing and Merchandising Radhika Aggarwal said, “Having built a wide assortment across 900+ product categories, we are now looking for a creative partner who will further help us strengthen our position as a one-stop destination for millions of online customers across India. Within just two years of launch, we have achieved to ascend from 35th to be among the top six e-commerce destinations in India, and with a new creative partner on board, we want to take it a step ahead.”
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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.
