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Head to head · Personal Care

Colgate Palmolive vs Glaxo Smithkline

In India's Personal Care category, Colgate Palmolive ads appeared 4,43,976 times and Glaxo Smithkline ads 5,22,900 times, counted across TV, radio, print, online and outdoor.

The numbers, side by side.

Metric Colgate Palmolive Glaxo Smithkline
Ads run in Personal Care 4,43,976 5,22,900
Top medium TV TV

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

Where each one advertises.

Media mix for Colgate Palmolive and Glaxo Smithkline, 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.

Colgate Palmolive Glaxo Smithkline
TV
98.3%
90.7%
Radio
0.5%
8.4%
Digital
1.1%
0.6%
Print
0.1%
0.3%

What the gap means.

The signals that separate Colgate Palmolive and Glaxo Smithkline in Personal Care, each drawn from our ad-monitoring sources.

01 The gap between them is 78,924 Personal Care ads.
02 Both put most of their Personal Care ads on TV: 98% for Colgate Palmolive and 91% for Glaxo Smithkline.
78,924

more Personal Care ads from Glaxo Smithkline than from Colgate Palmolive. The media Colgate Palmolive leaves empty is where the contest is really won.

The short answers.

Optimised for the questions people, and AI engines, ask about Colgate Palmolive vs Glaxo Smithkline.

How many Personal Care ads did Colgate Palmolive and Glaxo Smithkline run?

Colgate Palmolive 4,43,976, Glaxo Smithkline 5,22,900. 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 Personal Care 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.