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Softline launches festive campaign to promote India’s ‘First Comfort Fit Pocket Leggings’
MUMBAI: This festive season, to showcase its differentiated and innovative product proposition, Softline the premium women wear brand from Rupa & Company Ltd has rolled out a special campaign to promote India’s ‘First Comfort Fit Pocket Leggings’ with Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma in the lead.
In line with its brand philosophy ‘Effortless You’, the TVC will emphasise on the benefits of Pocket in women’s daily wear. With the launch of Softline Comfort Fit Pocket Leggings, the brand aims at empowering the women with enhanced mobility and convenience.
Along with the TVC, the brand has also launched an interactive online game called ‘Softline Pocket Game’, which will a pivotal role in creating saliency for the product. The users can compete virtually with other players and the highest scorer will get an exciting gift hamper from Softline.
Commenting on the campaign, Rupa & Company Ltd president and brand director Vikash Agarwal said, “We are introducing a new category to women’s daily wear and trying to create conversation around Softline Comfort Fit Pocket Leggings by engaging with the consumers in a meaningful way. The festive season always calls for an effortless style statement and with the inclusion of pockets in women’s daily wear we aim at empowering them with enhanced mobility and convenience. To create awareness about the product we have chalked out an aggressive marketing plan touching all the promotion avenues and we are confident of striking the right chord with the audience.”
In addition to that, Softline has also introduced another customer engagement initiative to promote India’s First Comfort Fit Pocket Leggings. As part of the offer, customers of Softline Leggings and Outerwear will be eligible for an assured free gift of Nivea Crème worth Rs. 50 and will stand a chance to win a Smartphone worth Rs. 12,900.
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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.
