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SW Network appoints Alin Choubey as business head – Delhi
Mumbai: Advertising agency SW Network has announced Alin Choubey as the new business head of its Delhi office. In this crucial management role, Alin will lead the agency’s strategic initiatives and operations at the Delhi office. His vision and leadership qualities will be instrumental in further steering the leading agency towards its growth objectives and enhancing operational capabilities.
Bringing a wealth of experience to SW Network, Alin has held influential positions at prominent agencies including Foxy Moron, Chimp&z Inc., Herald Digital, and many more. His extensive background in digital marketing and advertising has seen him drive impactful campaigns and build strong relationships with top brands, CMOs, and marketing leaders.
In his new role at SW Network, Alin will oversee client management, campaign innovation, P&L responsibilities, and the continuation of an already established collaborative team culture. He will directly work with SW Network co-founders Pranav Agarwal and Raghav Bagai to advance the agency’s strategic and operational initiatives.
Commenting on the appointment, SW Network co-founder Pranav Agarwal said, “Alin’s arrival marks a strategic move for SW Network. His deep industry expertise and track record of delivering immaculate and transformative results definitely align with our vision for expansion, creative and operational excellence, and delivering business impact for our partners. We look forward to leveraging his insights to drive continued success.”
SW Network co-founder, Raghav Bagai, added, “Alin’s appointment highlights our constant commitment to elevating our agency’s strategic capabilities and our never-ending quest to drive value for our clients. His history of innovative leadership in this industry will undoubtedly enhance our ability to deliver exceptional integrated advertising solutions and build robust client relationships.”
Reflecting on his new role, Alin Choubey expressed, “I am thrilled to join SW Network, at this critical juncture. Raghav and Pranav’s unwavering commitment to creative and operational excellence resonated deeply with me. I am eager to bring my experience to the table, contributing to the continued growth of our clients and enhancing the strategic capabilities of our agency. Together, we will strive to achieve a perfect balance between scale and innovation, delivering exceptional results for our partners.”
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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.
