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Telugu is two states, and your dealers may only be in one of them.

Our television advertising page explains how spots, bands and telecast logs work on any channel. This one is about a market, because a Telugu buy is a decision about Andhra Pradesh and Telangana before it is a decision about language.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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In one paragraph

Telugu television advertising buys spots on channels whose feed covers Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, sold in ten-second units against a time band rather than an audience you choose. GullySales plans the channels and bands your buyer watches, coordinates the booking with the broadcaster or their agency, and reads the telecast log against the order.

The two states do not shop alike. Hyderabad is a metro with its own rates, while a manufacturer selling through the Godavari districts reaches people on channels a Hyderabad plan would skip. If your network stops at the state border, a feed that crosses it is money spent on households that cannot buy from you.

Sankranti is the date the whole market plans around. Families travel home, the big films release, everybody is in front of a television, and the good bands are committed months before it. A Sankranti plan made in December is a plan made too late.

Who it is for

This is written for you if these sound familiar.

  • Brands with dealers or branches across both states, or across a set of districts inside one
  • Makers of consumer durables, building materials and agricultural inputs who sell through a district network
  • Hospitals and education groups in Hyderabad or Vijayawada drawing patients and students from the districts
  • Businesses whose Hindi or English commercial means nothing inside a Telugu household
  • Advertisers who tried a national buy, paid for twenty states and sell in two

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Businesses with no stock or service in the districts the feed covers, where the demand created walks to a competitor
  • Anyone without a film in Telugu, since airtime with nothing worth playing in it is the most expensive mistake on this page
  • A handful of scattered spots, which spends real money and is noticed by nobody

The problem

Does this sound like your business?

What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.

  • “We dubbed the Hindi film and it fell flat”

    A voice that does not sound local places the brand somewhere else within three seconds. The words sit badly on the mouth and the joke stops working.

  • “Half the spend went to districts we do not serve”

    One feed covers two states. Without a district view of your own sales, a state-wide buy pays for a market where nobody stocks you.

  • “Sankranti was gone by the time we rang”

    The festive bands sell out early and at their own rate. A plan built in December on off-season numbers does not survive the answer that comes back.

  • “Nobody could confirm our spots went out”

    Spots are bought against a schedule and the telecast log is the only record of what was actually aired. Unread, a dropped spot is never claimed back.

What we do

Everything that is included.

Each deliverable, and what it gets you. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Market drawn before channel

    Which districts your dealers can genuinely serve, set against what each channel's feed covers, so the buy stops where your distribution does.

  2. Channel and band plan

    News for daytime weight, entertainment for prime against the serials, movie channels for the weekend film block, with the reason each one is in or out.

  3. Spot count in ten-second units

    How many spots, in which bands, across how many weeks, written as a pattern so a burst stays a burst and does not thin into a scatter.

  4. Festive position taken early

    Sankranti, Ugadi and Dasara bands asked for months ahead, priced at what the season actually costs rather than what the plan hoped.

  5. A film made in Telugu

    Script, voice and casting in the language, checked by a Telugu speaker for idiom and for how your brand name sounds when said aloud.

  6. Supers and a campaign number

    The dealer address, the branch and a number held on screen long enough to be read and written down, changed by region where the schedule allows.

  7. Telecast log read against the plan

    Every spot checked against what was booked, with make-good spots claimed from the broadcaster for anything that did not go out.

How the result is measured

  • Spots telecast against spots booked, from the log
  • Rate negotiated against the opening quote
  • Calls to the campaign number during the burst
  • Dealer walk-ins and enquiries by district, before and during
  • Branded searches across the two states through the flight

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

How it works

How the telugu TV advertising work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Draw the market from your invoices

    We start from where your orders come from now and where you could serve next quarter. That map picks the channels, not the other way round.

  2. 2

    Choose the hour, then the channel

    A farmer, a housewife in Hyderabad and a shop owner in Guntur watch different things at different times. The plan follows the hour.

  3. 3

    Book the season ahead of it

    Festive and film-release weeks are asked for well in advance through the broadcaster's sales team or their agency, and the rate is negotiated before the band fills.

  4. 4

    Make the film properly

    The commercial is written and voiced in Telugu and cut to the slot lengths bought, with the name and number on screen long enough to register.

  5. 5

    Run it, log it, report it

    The telecast log is checked and missed spots are claimed. Calls to the campaign number and dealer walk-ins are reported against the weeks the spots ran.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Is one Telugu channel enough to cover both states?
The feed covers the geography, but coverage and relevance are different things. A channel weighted to Hyderabad and one strong in the coastal districts reach different households, so a plan meant for both states rarely sits on a single channel.
Can we simply dub our Hindi commercial?
You can, and viewers hear it. The words fit the mouth badly, the accent places the brand elsewhere, and whatever was funny in Hindi lands flat. Rewriting in Telugu and recording a local voice costs less than wasting the airtime around it.
How early should we book for Sankranti?
Months, not weeks. The films release into it, families are home, and the bands are committed long before the festival is in view. Late buyers get what is left, at the rate that is left.
Can television tell us how many enquiries it produced?
No. There is no click and nothing records who watched. We hold a campaign number on screen, then read calls, dealer walk-ins and branded searches district by district before and during the burst. That shows a direction, not a count.
What proof do we get that our spots ran?
The telecast log from the broadcaster, read line by line against the schedule. Spots do get dropped for a news break or a programme overrun, and make-goods are claimed from the log rather than from anyone's memory.
How is this priced?
There is no published price. Rates move with the channel, the band, the season and the length of your commitment, so the media cost follows the plan we agree. Our fee is settled after we have read your brief and spoken to you, separate from the airtime and from making the film.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.

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