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Head to head · Food & Beverages

Coca Cola vs Hindustan Unilever

In India's Food & Beverages category, Coca Cola ads appeared 5,04,585 times and Hindustan Unilever ads 15,56,441 times, counted across TV, radio, print, online and outdoor.

The numbers, side by side.

Metric Coca Cola Hindustan Unilever
Ads run in Food & Beverages 5,04,585 15,56,441
Top medium TV TV

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

Where each one advertises.

Media mix for Coca Cola and Hindustan Unilever, 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.

Coca Cola Hindustan Unilever
TV
96%
99.4%
Digital
1.9%
0.3%
Radio
2.1%
0.1%
Print
none
0.2%

What the gap means.

The signals that separate Coca Cola and Hindustan Unilever in Food & Beverages, each drawn from our ad-monitoring sources.

01 The gap between them is 10,51,856 Food & Beverages ads.
02 Both put most of their Food & Beverages ads on TV: 96% for Coca Cola and 99% for Hindustan Unilever.
10,51,856

more Food & Beverages ads from Hindustan Unilever than from Coca Cola, about 3.1× as many. The media Coca Cola leaves empty is where the contest is really won.

The short answers.

Optimised for the questions people, and AI engines, ask about Coca Cola vs Hindustan Unilever.

How many Food & Beverages ads did Coca Cola and Hindustan Unilever run?

Coca Cola 5,04,585, Hindustan Unilever 15,56,441. 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 Food & Beverages 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.