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Industry profile

Miscellaneous Advertising in India

TLDR

We track 65,303 Miscellaneous advertisers in India, and Reserve Bank of India runs more ads than any of them. Radio carries 38% of the category's ads.

Advertisers tracked
65,303
Category leader
Reserve Bank of India
Top medium
Radio (38%)
Peak month
February
01

38% of Miscellaneous ads run on radio.

02

Social Advertisements-Govt makes up 51% of the category's ads, Short Program 24%.

The category runs the most ads in February.

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.

Where its ads run.

Miscellaneous splits its measured ads across 4 media. Radio leads at 38% 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
Radio
37.7%
TV
33.4%
Digital
18.6%
Print
10.3%

Reserve Bank of India leads Miscellaneous.

4,13,302

ads from Reserve Bank of India, more than any other Miscellaneous advertiser.

What this means

This is the number of Miscellaneous ads each advertiser ran.

Govt carries the category.

Share of measured Miscellaneous ads by product group.

51% Social Advertisements-Govt
24% Short Program
10% Film Trailor
6%
5%

Where miscellaneous runs locally.

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

CityAds run
New Delhi
2,04,446
Mumbai
1,82,021
Ahmedabad
1,45,417
Pune
1,44,643
Lucknow
1,37,683
Bangalore
1,29,206

The short answers.

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

Who is the biggest advertiser in Miscellaneous?

Reserve Bank of India ran the most ads here.

Which medium dominates Miscellaneous advertising?

Radio leads at about 38% of the category's ads.

Case studies

Campaigns we have run in Miscellaneous

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

Dhash · Diversified

A tree plantation drive built as a content campaign

A corporate plantation drive is easy to announce and hard to make anyone care about, so this one was built as content from the start. Prana Vanam was produced as a film campaign, with public figures brought into the shoot and the invitation framed as a line anyone could repeat, that we plant life together. The assets were cut for social distribution rather than for a press release, which is where a purpose message either travels or dies.

What it delivered

Producing the drive as film first gave it something to be shared, and bringing recognisable faces into the shoot gave social audiences a reason to stop. The output stays useful beyond the planting itself, as a library the brand can run against for the length of the initiative.

Format Video content campaign
Initiative Prana Vanam plantation drive
Distribution Social
Prana Vanam plantation campaign film still carrying the Dhash branding
Public figure appearing in the Prana Vanam content for Dhash

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.