NEW DELHI: The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) of India has released its data for top advertisers and brands for the period between 20 March and 26 March 2021.
The data reflects the top 10 advertisers and brands across genres on India’s television, 2+ Individuals, NCCS. All demonstrating ads that were inserted the most in week 12 of 2021.
TopAdvertisers:
Reckitt continued its run as the top advertiser of the week with 270097 ad AMA. HUL came in second with 198697 insertions.
ITC bagged the third rank this time with 51864 ad generations. Cadburys placed fourth with 38466 ad insertions.
Godrej Consumer Products and Brooke Bond secured fifth and sixth place with 35964 and 32649 ad views.
Other top brands in the pecking order were as follows: Colgate, Lakme, Guj Coop Milk Mkt Fed, and Pepsi Co.
TopBrands:
This week Lizol led the chart with 38420 ad impressions. Dettol Toilet Soaps came in second with 26964 ad views. Moov Gel secured the third position with 21647 ad insertions.
The fourth and fifth spots were acquired by Dettol Intense Cool Soap and Amazon with 17011 and 15909 ad AMA respectively.
Harpic Power Plus liquid antiseptic bagged the sixth spot with 14397 ad views.
Other top brands in the pecking order were as follows: Lalithaa Jewellery, Harpic Bathroom Cleaner, Mortein Smart, and Asian Paints.
NEW DELHI: The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) of India has released its data for top advertisers and brands for the period between 13 March and 19 March 2021.
The data reflects the top 10 advertisers and brands across genres on India’s television, 2+ Individuals, NCCS. All demonstrating ads that were inserted the most in week 11 of 2021.
TopAdvertisers:
For the second week, Reckitt Benckiser, now rechristened as Reckitt, continued to lead the top advertisers list with 235449 ad AMA. HUL came in second with 200102 insertions.
ITC bagged the third rank this time with 52487 ad generations. Cadburys placed fourth with 41237 ad insertions.
Godrej Consumer Products and Brooke Bond secured fifth and sixth place with 36995 and 33464 ad views.
Other top brands in the pecking order were as follows: P&G, Lakme, Colgate and Guj Coop Milk Mkt Fed.
TopBrands:
This week Lizol led the chart with 30454 ad impressions. Dettol Toilet Soaps came in second with 22782 ad views. Moov Gel secured the third position with 20041 ad insertions.
The fourth and fifth spots were acquired by Harpic Power Plus liquid and Lalithaa Jewellery with 15989 and 15823 ad AMA respectively.
Dettol antiseptic bagged the sixth spot with 14397 ad views.
Other top brands in the pecking order were as follows:, Dettol Intense Cool Soap, Amazon, Asian Paints, and Harpic Power Plus 10X MAX CLEAN.
NEW DELHI: The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) of India has released its data for top advertisers and brands for the period between 6 March and 12 March 2021.
The data reflects the top 10 advertisers and brands across genres on India’s television, 2+ Individuals, NCCS. All demonstrating ads that were inserted the most in week 10 of 2021.
Top Advertisers:
After many months, Hindustan Unilever (HUL) ceded the top spot to Reckitt Benckiser, which was the biggest advertiser in week 10 with 233634 ad AMA. HUL finished a distant second with 207714 insertions.
Cadburys bagged the third rank this time with 42919 ad generations. ITC came in fourth with 40556 ad insertions.
Brooke Bond and Godrej Consumer Products secured fifth and sixth place with 35751 and 34356 ad views.
Other top brands in the pecking order were as follows: P&G, Lakme, Colgate and Ponds India.
Top Brands:
This week Lizol led the chart with 25961 ad impressions. Dettol Toilet Soaps came in second with 21759 ad views. Moov Gel secured the third position with 19029 ad insertions.
The fourth and fifth spots were acquired by Dettol antiseptic liquid and Harpic Power Plus with 18177 and 15836 ad AMA respectively.
PolicyBazaar bagged the sixth spot with 15058 ad views.
Other top brands in the pecking order were as follows: Lalithaa Jewellery, Dettol Liquid Soap, Harpic Bathroom Cleaner, and Harpic Power Plus 10X MAX CLEAN.
NEW DELHI: Cricket is the by far the best media vehicle for any brand if it intends to connect with masses at a pan-India level. The game cuts across all socio-economic boundaries, age-groups, geogrpahies and reaches to 196 million households with television sets. The brand can further amplify its reach by connecting with its audiences on the mobile screens. Be it IPL, T-20 leagues, one day matches or ICC World Cups, all of them have been able to deliver great results for the brands.
Currently, we are in the first week of IPL season 13 and going by reports, more than 200 million people tuned into watch the game on day one. The tournament has created history and is already delivering reach for brands. While the bandwagon of the teams, BCCL, and the broadcaster has a large number of traditional players, an equal number of digital first new age brands are also on the roster.
The count of the latter is growing year-on-year. These brands are spending big money around IPL to get more downloads, website visits, referals, impact, and what not. Spokespersons of many of these brands have mentioned that the viewership and reach of IPL is increasing year-on-year and the tournament helps them increase their brand recall and reach. IPL, which is also known as the advertising festival of the Asian subcontinent pushes the brand saliecy to the next level. It is important for these brands to strengthen their community and engage with newer audiences that sample its products or services
Brands across edtech, fintech, food delivery, fantasy sports, financial accounting, and healthcare are advertising across IPL season 13.
Here are some of the campaigns released by the digital first brands that are running during IPL.
Dream11
The fantasy app brand has taken the title sponsorship for the tournament. It has released a campaign #YeApnaGameHai that urges people to download the app, sample the game and continue with it. The brand leads the fantasy sports category with over 90 per cent market share.
Policybazaar
The fintech brand has launched its new television campaign “AapKiSideHai” that features its brand ambassador, Akshay Kumar highlighting the brand's promise of embracing a holistic customer-centric approach while helping to bridge the insurance protection gap in India. The new ad series also highlights the brands unparalleled support to customers, while providing them with the ease of comparing and buying term and health plans online with guidance at each and every step.
Swiggy
The online food discovery brand is urging people to order more during the IPL times and is offering discounts around it. The brand is running a strong media plan and is known for coming up with interesting ads during the IPL.
PhonePe
The Bangalore-based digital payments company is running TVCs featuring Bollywood stars Aamir Khan and Alia Bhatt. It has released five 20-second ads that tied together made one complete story: The guide to PhonePe. The ads tell us the story of Alia Bhatt who’s at the police station for her brother Tyson who’s behind bars because of an ambiguous road mishap. Inspector Desai (Khan) instructs her to pay a fine and she uses the PhonePe app to do so; the conversation from Desai’s instruction to Bhatt’s action is the sum of the five ads.
Khatabook
Khatabook, a business app that helps MSMEs streamline business transactions online has released it ad on the IPL. The ad features M.S Dhoni in different attires from Sharmile Sharmaji to Techno Tawde in the ads and showcasing distinct features of the app.
OkCredit
The brand has partnered with Delhi Capitals and running TVCs with the tagline – ‘Digital India ka Digital Bahi Khata’. It is a free-to-use accounting and ledger app that helps small businesses in India keep track of their digital transactions. The brand aims to engage with small, local brands and entrepreneurs for its expansion.
Byju’s
Byju’s is pushing its new offering – Byju’s Classes – to parents across the country through their IPL campaign spearheaded by its long term brand ambassador Shahrukh Khan. The ad highlights the key features of the product and Khan plays the role of a teacher to a group of parents and discusses the common worries they have regarding their children’s after-school tutoring needs. The campaign aims at redefining the concept of tuitions in an otherwise fragmented after-school tutoring market.
Great Learning
This IPL Great Learning released its first ever multi-film ad campaign featuring brand ambassador, Virat Kohli consisting a series of films titled, ‘Power Ahead – Jo Seekhta Hai Wahi Aage Badhta Hai’. The ad focuses on the importance of lifelong learning, and showcases how upskilling is a necessary step for students and professionals to move ahead in their careers.
MyTeam11
Their IPL campaign “India Ki Apni Fantasy App” aims to promoting the message of “Indian Brand for Indian People”. It aims to bring more people to commuinty and sample the game. The ads emphasize on taking pride in playing one’s favorite fantasy cricket game on a homegrown application which promises to bring the users closer to the experience of the actual matches of the league. The films witness several cricket experts recommending and creating their own teams in the MyTeam11 app.
Jio
Mukesh Ambani owned fiber brand Jio released its latest ad in the Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan series. This time it features Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh with several cricketers such as Virat Kohli, AB De Villers, among others. The Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan tune first arrived on the IPL advertising scene in 2017.
White Hat Jr
The edtech app that teaches coding to children is in vogue. People have been talking about it on the internet and the brand was recently acquired by Byju's for 300 million dollars. The online learning brand is running a TVC campaign across IPL to increase awareness and create brand saliency.
MediBuddy
The digital healthcare platform has launched its first TV campaign – ‘Aapka Health Buddy’ to communicate that MediBuddy is a friend that everyone can trust to address any healthcare need – 24*7, for the entire family. The TVC encapsulates the lives of families and seeks to impart the important message of not neglecting one’s health.
My11Circle
The fantasy sports app endorsed by former Indian cricketer and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly is asking people to come on the platform. The campaign is aimed at increasing the size of the community and getting more and more people to sample the product.
Amazon
The online shopping portal has started its festive season campaign with IPL. Their campaign #HarPalFashionable is focused towards pushing people to start their festive shopping from the platform. Over the years, the brands has been clocking massive GMVs during this time. It will be interesting to see how people reach to this years festive season.
Myntra
One of the biggest online fashion brands of India has joined the IPL bandwagon for the first time and partnered with Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and Chennai Super Kings.
NEW DELHI: Policybazaar.com has launched its new television campaign “AapKiSideHai”. The ad campaign features Policybazaar’s brand ambassador, Akshay Kumar, highlighting the brand's promise of embracing a holistic customer-centric approach while helping to bridge the insurance protection gap in India.
“While we continue to highlight the importance of Health & Term life Insurance through our marketing campaigns, with the brand promise of Policybazaar AapKiSideHai, we also intend to position Policybazaar as a customer-centric brand, that is committed to stand by its customers, both pre and post-purchase”, said Policybazaar.com. head of brand marketing Samir Sethi.
The new brand campaign reinforces Policybazaar’s core value of putting the customer first by delivering on its promise of providing a trusted platform for all types of insurance products. The brand is committed to guiding the customer throughout the insurance journey, starting from recommending the right products at affordable pricing, ensuring that the policy issuance process is smooth and fast, and, to providing services and claims assistance when needed.
The new ad series highlights Policybazaar's unparalleled support to customers while providing them with the ease of comparing and buying term and health plans online with guidance at each & every step.
Speaking about the TVC launch, Policybazaar.com COO Sharat Dhall said, “Our ultimate aim is to provide 360-degree assistance to customers that start from when the policy is bought, to provide assistance when the claim is paid out, should such a situation arise. Winning and maintaining customer trust is a strong ethos within the company and this campaign reflects that. At a time when the world is grappling with a crisis like no other, the brand intends to instill confidence in the customers’ buying decisions by assuring them the protection of their futures with the right insurance products & thorough assistance throughout the journey.”
The new brand campaign in its series displays moments of indecision that people may have while investing in protection products. It addresses these queries & emphasizes the importance of nurturing a bond with the consumers thereby creating customer delight.
MUMBAI: Discovery Channel’s ‘India Startup Stories’ narrates the journey of Indian start-ups who have made giant strides forward and have made a mark on the Indian ecosystem. The 8-episode series, starting December 14, at 7:00 pm on Discovery Channel and Discovery Channel HD, will cover leading start-ups including Car24, Designcafe, Games24x7, Ixigo, Licious, Medlife, Policybazaar, and Paisabazaar.
Discovery South Asia Ad-Sales head Vikram Tanna said, “India’s Startup Stories will shine light on the ‘vision’ behind successful start-ups and uncover the fascinating Stories behind their inception. We will uncover how an idea led to the formation of a venture which went on to significantly impact business scenario in the country while making lives of consumers simpler with technology backed concepts.”
