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Head to head · Personal Care

Glaxo Smithkline vs Reckitt Benckiser (India)

In India's Personal Care category, Glaxo Smithkline ads appeared 5,22,900 times and Reckitt Benckiser (India) ads 8,16,255 times, counted across TV, radio, print, online and outdoor.

The numbers, side by side.

Metric Glaxo Smithkline Reckitt Benckiser (India)
Ads run in Personal Care 5,22,900 8,16,255
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 Glaxo Smithkline and Reckitt Benckiser (India), 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.

Glaxo Smithkline Reckitt Benckiser (India)
TV
90.7%
99.6%
Radio
8.4%
0.2%
Digital
0.6%
0.1%
Print
0.3%
0.1%

What the gap means.

The signals that separate Glaxo Smithkline and Reckitt Benckiser (India) in Personal Care, each drawn from our ad-monitoring sources.

01 The gap between them is 2,93,355 Personal Care ads.
02 Both put most of their Personal Care ads on TV: 91% for Glaxo Smithkline and 100% for Reckitt Benckiser (India).
2,93,355

more Personal Care ads from Reckitt Benckiser (India) than from Glaxo Smithkline, about 1.6× as many. The media Glaxo Smithkline leaves empty is where the contest is really won.

The short answers.

Optimised for the questions people, and AI engines, ask about Glaxo Smithkline vs Reckitt Benckiser (India).

How many Personal Care ads did Glaxo Smithkline and Reckitt Benckiser (India) run?

Glaxo Smithkline 5,22,900, Reckitt Benckiser (India) 8,16,255. 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.