MUMBAI: The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) of India has released its data for top advertisers and brands for the period between 4 January and 10 January, 2020 respectively.

The data reflects the top 10 advertisers and brands across genre on Indian television, including OOH screen, (U+R): 2+, Individuals NCCS All, demonstrating ads that were inserted the most in week 1 of 2020.

Top Advertisers:

Hindustan Unilever Ltd remained the top advertiser in the first week of 2020 as well. It made 163472 ad insertions on TV during the period. Reckitt Benckiser (India) Ltd took a splendid jump from ninth rank of last week to sit on second spot, with 67485 insertions.

Third in the list was last week’s sixth ranker Cadburys India Ltd. It recorded 38596 insertions. Following it was Procter & Gamble, which was on fifth spot last week, with 37318 insertions. Wipro Ltd also climbed up two spots, ranking fifth with 36481 insertions.

Other top brands in pecking order were as follows: Brooke Bond Lipton India Ltd, ITC Ltd, Ponds India, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd, and Colgate Palmolive India Ltd.

Top Brands:

Santoor Sandal and Turmeric, which was absent in the top brands list in the final week of 2019, made a refreshing comeback on top spot this week with 13980 ad insertions. Trivago slipped a spot to rank second with 13424 insertions.

Almond Board of California stayed on third spot, making 11385 insertions. Surf Excel Easy Wash also maintained its past weeks ranking on number fourth. It made 11019 insertions during the period. Santoor Beauty Soaps climbed up three spots to rank fifth with 10936 insertions.

The subsequent pecking order was as follows: Lizol, Lux Toilet Soap, Lifebuoy Toilet Soap, Policybazaar.com. and Attica Gold Company respectively.