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ZEE5’s new TVC asks viewers ‘ZEE5 TV Dekha Kya’
Mumbai: ZEE5 has introduced its latest AVOD brand campaign, “ZEE5 TV Dekha Kya”, to increase the adoption of connected TVs. The latest TVC highlights the availability of AVOD content on smart TVs, which is currently on air across broadcast, streaming, and digital platforms. Launching this new campaign, ZEE5 reaffirms its commitment to educating users about the flexibility and convenience of watching their favourite TV shows on ZEE5’s AVOD proposition, ZEE5 TV Apna TV.
The TVC humorously addresses the scenario of missing out on TV shows due to the constraints of traditional broadcasting schedules. The promos feature a disgruntled wife and mother who missed her TV show and is introduced to the concept of watching ZEE5 on a connected TV by her child. The child explains how ZEE5 allows users to move beyond the limitations of scheduled TV programming, offering a wide array of content that can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
Speaking about the campaign, ZEE5 India chief business officer Manish Kalra stated, “We aim to connect with our audience in innovative ways to reinforce ZEE5’s AVOD identity through ‘ZEE5 TV, Apna TV’. The ‘ZEE5 TV Dekha Kya’ campaign reflects our dedication to offering a seamless and enjoyable entertainment experience to our audiences at their convenience. With the rise of connected devices, this TVC gives viewers the flexibility to enjoy their favourite content directly on their smart TVs, anytime, leading to an on-demand, high-quality viewing experience.”
The campaign will be available in multiple languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Bangla, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam to reach a wider audience. This inclusive approach ensures that viewers from different regions across India can enjoy the benefits of ZEE5’s extensive library of content, tailored to their preferences and languages.
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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.
