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Vidyut Jammwal signs on as new face of MuscleBlaze
NEW DELHI: Sports & fitness nutrition brand MuscleBlaze has signed on actor & martial artist Vidyut Jammwal as its brand ambassador for the next two years. Along with endorsing the brand’s innovative range of products, Vidyut will be seen promoting fitness as a phenomenon in the country.
MuscleBlaze founder Sameer Maheshwari said, “MuscleBlaze’s respect for fitness and understanding of its consumer needs has established us as a leading player in the Sports Nutrition industry. We are amidst a fitness revolution where staying fit is becoming a basic need and joining hands with Vidyut will help us in shaping this revolution. His body of work is based on the values of passion, discipline and quality, which echo both with our consumers and us.”
Vidyut Jammwal said, “MuscleBlaze is a home-grown brand and its vision of promoting clean, international grade nutrition while being vocal for local completely aligns with my beliefs. I feel MuscleBlaze is already a top choice amongst fitness fans and I hope to further strengthen this equity and work with them to improve the Indian fitness scene.”
MuscleBlaze business and marketing head Kaustuv Paliwal said, “Both MuscleBlaze and Vidyut have grown on the foundations of cherishing the spirit of fitness, Make in India and international grade quality, which is why he is a perfect fit for the brand. His appeal and credibility amongst the fitness buffs will help us grow and reinforce our dedication to the fitness community and help us take the #MakeinIndia and #FitIndia mission to the next level.”
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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.
