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Automobile Sector advertising on TV in the year 2006
(6 March, 2007)

Key Findings:

  • 37 per cent rise in ad volumes of Automobile sector on TV in 2006 over the previous year.
  • Q4 saw the maximum advertising by Automobile sector on TV across 2005-2006.
  • Cars/Jeeps garnered half of the ad volumes of Automobile sector on TV in 2006.
  • Most of the ads of Automobile sector on Hindi News and Regional GEC.
  • Tata Motors topped advertising on TV.
  • Cars/Jeeps saw the maximum new brands launched in the year 2006.
  • General Motors and TVS Motor had the maximum share of endorsement advertising by Celebrities on TV.
  • Automobile sector saw maximum share of endorsement by Aamir Khan in the year 2006.

This week, AdEx India looks at the advertising trends in the Automobile Sector in the year 2006.

Growth in advertising of Automobile Sector on TV in 2006 compared to previous year.

  • 37 per cent rise in ad volumes of Automobile sector on TV in the year 2006 compared to 2005.

Quarterly advertising trend of Automobile Sector on TV across the years 2005-2006.

  • Automobile sector used maximum ad volumes in the fourth quarter across the years 2005-2006 on TV.

Share of sub-categories in Automobile Sector on TV in the year 2006.

  • 50 per cent of the ad volumes in Automobile sector were contributed by Cars/Jeeps followed by Motorcycles with 35 per cent share on TV in the year 2006.
  • Scooterette and Commercial Vehicles had a share of 7 per cent and 4 per cent of ad volumes respectively.

Sub-categories in Automobile Sector with the maximum growth in ad volumes on TV in the year 2006 compared to 2005.
  • E-Moped saw the highest 19 times rise in ad volumes on TV in the year 2006 compared to the previous year.
  • Commercial Vehicles and Scooterette also saw high growth in ad volumes in the year 2006.

Share of advertising by Automobile sector in National and Regional channels on TV in the year 2006.

  • Advertising skewed towards National channels with 78 per cent share of ad volumes in the year 2006.
  • Among the Regional zone, Southern channels had a high 14 per cent share of advertising followed by Northern channels with 4 per cent share.

Channel Genres used by the Automobile sector on TV in the year 2006.

  • Top five channel genres contributed 58% share of ad volumes of the Automobile sector in the year 2006.
  • Hindi News channels and Regional GECs had the maximum 17 per cent and 15 per cent share of Automobile sector advertising respectively.

Top advertisers of Automobile sector on TV in the year 2006.

  • Tata Motors topped advertising in Automobile sector with 16 per cent share on TV in the year 2006.
  • Close competition between TVS Motor and Maruti Udyog for the second position with equal 12 per cent share.

Share of sub-categories of Automobile in new brands launched on TV in year 2006.

  • 40 per cent of the new brands launched on TV in the Automobile sector belonged to Cars/Jeeps in the year 2006.
  • Motorcycles and Commercial Vehicles had 21 per cent and 14 per cent share in new brands launched on TV.

Top New Automobile brands launched on TV in year 2006.

  • Among the Top 10 new brands on TV in the year 2006, six of them belong to Motorcycles and rest four belong to Cars/Jeeps.
  • Tata Indica V2 Xeta Petrol topped among the new Automobile entrants on TV followed by TVS Apache.

Top Advertisers using Celebrities for endorsing their Automobile brands on TV in year 2006.

  • Top five advertisers contributed 87% share of advertising endorsed by Celebrities on TV in the year 2006.
  • Maximum share of Celebrity endorsed advertising by General Motors and TVS Motor Company.
  • Other three Top advertisers are Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Hero Honda Motors and Ford India.

Profession of Celebrities endorsing Automobile brands on TV in year 2006.

  • Film Actors (7 are film actors out of 14 celebrities) had the maximum 52 per cent share in endorsing of Automobile brands on TV in the year 2006.
  • Film Actresses had a share of 26 per cent followed by 22 per cent share by five of the Sports celebrities.

Top five Celebrities endorsing Automobile brands on TV in year 2006.

  • Top five Celebrities contributed 66 per cent share of advertising in Automobile sector on TV in 2006.
  • Aamir Khan was on Top endorsing brands of Toyota Innova with 15 per cent share.
  • Equal share of endorsement by Preity Zinta (endorsing TVS Scooty Pep+), Saif Ali Khan (endorsing brands of General Motors and Yamaha Motor India) and Rani Mukherjee (endorsing brands of General Motors)

Watch out for forthcoming interesting analyses in future.

(Analysis from AdEx India - A Division of TAM Media Research)
 
 
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