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The Minimalist marks its sixth anniversary, reveals new vision
New Delhi: Mumbai based creative agency The Minimalist marked its sixth anniversary by unveiling a new vision for its future growth. The agency that started as a team of two people has now grown into a strong team of 150+ people across offices.
It is now aiming to become one of the country’s most inventive companies in the creative business. The Minimalist has created some out of the box marketing campaigns and design experience for brands like Coca-Cola, Google, Airtel, Disney+ Hotstar, HDFC Bank, The Hindu, Saint Gobain, MTV, and TATA Capital. It is now looking forward to exploring uncharted sectors and becoming the trend-setters in the global and local creative space.
“Our journey of six years has been full of opportunities, breathing in a lot of innovative approaches and uninterrupted learning. We are and always will be an organization that seeks to create thought-provoking work globally. With our accomplished clientele, invaluable experiences in hand, and a new vision in mind, we look forward to pulling out all the stops to create a distinctive space in terms of innovative thinking and providing curated solutions,” said The Minimalist co-founder Sahil Vaidya.
The Minimalist co-founder Chirag Gander said, “The anniversary is an extra special one as we have survived a challenging year. Our new vision is on offering inventiveness is not just a word on the wall but a way of life at The Minimalist. This inventiveness will define what we are to achieve in the coming years and we aspire to be India’s most inventive company in the creative business.”
Keeping the current pandemic situation in mind, the agency has decided to extend its financial support to its team and their families as and when required, and prioritize their mental health via online sessions.
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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.
