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Industry profile

Mobile Services Advertising in India

TLDR

We track 3 Mobile Services advertisers in India, and VODAFONE runs more ads than any of them. Outdoor carries 100% of the category's ads.

Advertisers tracked
3
Category leader
VODAFONE
Top medium
Outdoor (100%)
Peak month
October
01

100% of Mobile Services ads run on outdoor.

The category runs the most ads in October.

Oct'24
Feb'24Jul'24Dec'24
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 outdoor-first sector.

Mobile Services splits its measured ads across 1 medium. Outdoor leads at 100% 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
Outdoor
100%

VODAFONE leads Mobile Services.

AdvertiserAds run
01
VODAFONE
327
02
Bharti Enterprises
322
03
Bsnl
22
327

ads from VODAFONE, more than any other Mobile Services advertiser.

What this means

This is the number of Mobile Services ads each advertiser ran.

Where mobile runs locally.

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

CityAds run
Kolkatta
72
Lucknow
70
Mumbai
60
Delhi Ncr
54
Bhubaneshwar
53
Bangalore
30

The short answers.

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

Who is the biggest advertiser in Mobile Services?

VODAFONE ran the most ads here.

Which medium dominates Mobile Services advertising?

Outdoor leads at about 100% of the category's ads.

Case studies

Campaigns we have run in Mobile Services

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

Apple iPhone · Electronics & Mobile

Metro door panels for an iPhone launch offer

A launch offer has to be read, not glimpsed, and a metro commuter is stationary for the length of the journey. Door panels were taken inside and outside the coaches, carrying the iPhone 17 line-up with the reseller’s EMI and cashback terms, so a rider standing at the door had the model, the price route and the store in one field of view. The exterior panels did the recruitment on the platform, the interior panels did the detail in the coach.

What it delivered

Splitting the buy between exterior and interior lets each panel do a different job: attention on the platform, reading time in the coach. Carrying the finance terms rather than only the product turned an awareness format into a store-visit prompt.

Format Metro interior and exterior panels
Product iPhone 17 line-up
Message EMI and cashback offer
iPhone launch branding on metro coach interior door panels
Exterior metro door panels carrying the iPhone offer at the platform

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.