MUMBAI: Integrated entertainment and retail marketing company Interactive Television, in collaboration with IPSOS-MEDIA CT, released its CAM report for December 2014. The detailed trends and tracker are for the movie PK.

The highlights are as follows:

With 415, there were a high number of brands active on cinema in the last 17 rounds of CAM. This is also the first time that CAM has observed a high number of national brands being present on cinema. A total of 106 new brands tested cinema as an advertising medium for the first time with the movie PK during the month of December 2014. There has been a 54 per cent increase in number of brands active on cinema with the movie PK in December as compared to the CAM round held in November. There has been a major increase in spending of consumer durables category from 32 per cent in November to 85 per cent in December.

A maximum number of 7402 spots played with PK which was Bollywood’s highest grossing film of all time. In the automobile category it increased from18 per cent in November to 71 per cent in December 2014. Finally for the travel accessories category, spending increased from 4 per cent in November to 68 per cent in December 2014.

Choc On has been number one brand on cinema for the last one year. Manyavar garments increased its spending and surpassed Choc on to become number one brand during the December CAM Round. Interestingly the second spot among the top brands is equally distributed among four brands namely; Chocon, High Sierra, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Syska LED Lights at par with 59 per cent.

Olx has a 19 per cent higher brand recall than Choc on with 13 per cent in spite of screen presence of Choc On with 118 screens being more than Olx, which had 86 screens. It was also noticed that the majority of top spenders play 30 seconds ad on cinema. Food and beverage continues to be the top category on cinema in the last one year and has emerged as a biggest spender on this medium.