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Castrol vs Hindustan Petroleum Corp

In India's Fuel / Petroleum Products category, Castrol ads appeared 21,555 times and Hindustan Petroleum Corp ads 15,609 times, counted across TV, radio, print, online and outdoor.

The numbers, side by side.

Metric Castrol Hindustan Petroleum Corp
Ads run in Fuel / Petroleum Products 21,555 15,609
Top medium TV Radio

The arrow marks the leader on each metric. These are counts of ads run, not money spent, and they cover Fuel / Petroleum Products advertising only, so they are smaller than each brand's national total.

Where each one advertises.

Media mix for Castrol and Hindustan Petroleum Corp, side by side. Each pair of bars shows what share of each brand's ads ran on that medium.

What this means

Each row compares the two brands on one medium; a wide gap means one leans on it far more than the other.

Castrol Hindustan Petroleum Corp
TV
87.1%
33%
Radio
none
55.2%
Digital
12.9%
6.6%
Print
none
5.2%

What the gap means.

The signals that separate Castrol and Hindustan Petroleum Corp in Fuel / Petroleum Products, each drawn from our ad-monitoring sources.

01 The gap between them is 5,946 Fuel / Petroleum Products ads.
02 They buy different media: Castrol leans on TV, Hindustan Petroleum Corp on radio.
5,946

more Fuel / Petroleum Products ads from Castrol than from Hindustan Petroleum Corp. The media Hindustan Petroleum Corp leaves empty is where the contest is really won.

The short answers.

Optimised for the questions people, and AI engines, ask about Castrol vs Hindustan Petroleum Corp.

How many Fuel / Petroleum Products ads did Castrol and Hindustan Petroleum Corp run?

Castrol 21,555, Hindustan Petroleum Corp 15,609. Both are counts of ads recorded, not rupees.

Methodology & notes

Built from 18 industry-standard ad-monitoring and research sources. Every figure is a count of ads recorded, not rupees, because ad cost is not comparable between TV, radio, print and online. Counts here cover Fuel / Petroleum Products advertising only, so they can be smaller than a brand's national total. Updated monthly. Full methodology →

Coverage: these figures reflect the advertising we were able to track across our data sources, a large sample but not every ad placed in India. Treat them as a directional, relative picture, not an absolute or complete record.

Updated March 2026.