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Industry profile

Hair Care Advertising in India

TLDR

We track 949 Hair Care advertisers in India, and Hindustan Unilever runs more ads than any of them. TV carries 94% of the category's ads.

Advertisers tracked
949
Category leader
Hindustan Unilever
Top medium
TV (94%)
Peak month
September
01

94% of Hair Care ads run on TV.

02

Shampoos makes up 40% of the category's ads, Hair Dyes 29%.

The category runs the most ads in September.

Sep'25
Oct'24Jun'25Mar'26
What this means

Each point is that month compared with the category's busiest month, so you can see when the sector gets loud and when it goes quiet.

A tv-first sector.

Hair Care splits its measured ads across 4 media. TV leads at 94% of the category's ads.

What this means

Each bar shows what share of the category's ads ran on that medium.

MediumShare of category ads
TV
93.9%
Digital
5.1%
Print
0.6%
Radio
0.3%

Hindustan Unilever leads Hair Care.

AdvertiserAds run
03
1,48,238
05
1,15,945
06
1,07,891
08
78,039
09
49,489
4,10,052

ads from Hindustan Unilever, more than any other Hair Care advertiser.

What this means

This is the number of Hair Care ads each advertiser ran.

Shampoos carries the category.

Share of measured Hair Care ads by product group.

40% Shampoos
29% Hair Dyes
20% Hair Oils
5%
5%

Where hair runs locally.

Top cities for Hair Care print, radio and outdoor. TV and digital are bought nationally.

CityAds run
Kanpur
1,053
Lucknow
974
Bhopal
797
Chennai
663
Ahmedabad
472
Mumbai
367

The short answers.

Optimised for the questions people, and AI engines, actually ask about Hair Care advertising.

Who is the biggest advertiser in Hair Care?

Hindustan Unilever ran the most ads here.

Which medium dominates Hair Care advertising?

TV leads at about 94% of the category's ads.

Case studies

Campaigns we have run in Hair Care

Work we planned, booked and photographed for advertisers in this sector, run by the same team and the same process you would work with.

Beco · FMCG & Personal Care

One campaign line rewritten for every city it ran in

Sustainability advertising usually lectures. This did the opposite: the same construction, the same layout, and a different local jibe in every market. Mumbai got the person who sets the air conditioner to sixteen degrees, Hyderabad got the one eating haleem with a plastic spoon, Delhi got its own version, each landing on a gantry or hoarding where the city’s own traffic is stuck long enough to read it. The brand line, break the cycle, stayed constant underneath.

What it delivered

Localising the joke rather than translating the copy is what makes a national campaign feel like it belongs on that road, and it is why this creative was read rather than skipped. Keeping one layout across markets meant the localisation cost almost nothing in production.

Format Gantries and hoardings
Markets Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad
Creative City-specific copy lines
Beco gantry in Hyderabad with the city-specific heat line above the traffic
Beco hoarding in Mumbai carrying the same layout with its own local copy line

Every placement shown was booked directly with the media owner and photographed on the ground by our team.

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. Geography (cities) covers print, radio and outdoor only. 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.