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Garnier Men renews deal with Rajasthan Royals for IPL
MUMBAI: Garnier Men, which deals with skincare for men, announced its partnership with IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals as their official grooming partner at IPL this season.
The Pink city’s cricket warlords, both Indian and International, will be using personal skin care and grooming products from Garnier Men. Garnier Men understands the grooming needs of men on the field and offers a range of effective, high-quality products that are extremely relevant to them.
Continuing their association for a second year in a row, Garnier Men along with the Rajasthan Royals plans to increase their engagement with consumers in Jaipur through online and on-ground activations closer to the IPL 2013. Fans of the Rajasthan Royals team will have some great opportunities to meet the cricketers in person and get fantastic grooming tips from Garnier Men at the same time.
L‘Oréal India director, consumer products division Satyaki Ghosh said, “We are proud to be associated with IPL – one of India’s most loved and followed sport properties. Garnier and IPL share synergies as both of them have been pioneers in their own space. In the second year of its partnership, with our robust marketing and digital outreach, we aim to reach out to the cricket crazy audience in India in general and Rajasthan in particular.”
Garnier GM Nathalie Gerschtein said, “This is the second time that we have associated Garnier Men with the Rajasthan Royals as their official grooming partner as we understand the importance and significance of skin care that these top class players require while playing cricket in various parts of the country in extreme weather conditions. We believe that our easy to use product range is the most apt package to take care of the players’ grooming needs on and off the field.”
Rajasthan Royals CEO Raghu Iyer said, “2013 will mark Rajasthan Royals’ second year of partnering with a widely recognized and leading brand Garnier Men. We thank them for their support as our official grooming partner. We look forward to creating ever growing value for the brand this year as well.”
Cricketers are always on the move and weather conditions keep changing from time to time. Be it Jaipur or Chennai, the cricketers need to pay special attention to their skin and body care needs, due to the extreme weather conditions in our country. The constant exposure to heat, sun, dust, dirt and pollution causes several issues like skin tanning, oily skin, dark spots, body sweat and odor.
Garnier Men offers an extensive product range of face washes, moisturizers and deodorants that is the perfect solution for the above problems. Garnier Men caters to the players’ grooming needs, thus leaving them feeling fresh all day long.
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Content India 2026 opens with a copro pitch, a spice evangelist and a £10,000 prize for Indian storytelling
Dish TV and C21Media’s three-day summit puts seven ambitious projects before an international jury, and two walk away with serious development money
MUMBAI: India’s content industry gathered in Mumbai this March for Content India 2026, a three-day summit organised by Dish TV in partnership with C21Media, and it wasted no time making a statement. The event opened with a Copro Pitch that put seven scripted and unscripted television concepts before an international panel of judges, and by the end of it, two projects had walked away with £10,000 each in marketing prize money from C21Media to support development and international promotion.
The jury, comprising Frank Spotnitz, Fiona Campbell, Rashmi Bajpai, Bal Samra and Rachel Glaister, evaluated a shortlist that ranged from a dark Mumbai comedy-drama about mental health (Dirty Minds, created by Sundar Aaron) to a Delhi coming-of-age mystery (Djinn Patrol, by Neha Sharma and Kilian Irwin), a techno-thriller about a teenage gaming prodigy (Kanpur X Satori, by Suchita Bhatia), an investigative crime drama blending mythology and modern thriller (The Age of Kali, by Shivani Bhatija), a documentary on India’s spice heritage (The Masala Quest, hosted by Sarina Kamini), a documentary on competitive gaming (Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution, by George Mangala Thomas and Sangram Mawari), and a reality-horror competition merging gaming and immersive fear (Scary Goose, by Samar Iqbal).
The session was hosted by Mayank Shekhar.
The two winners were Djinn Patrol, backed by Miura Kite, formerly of Participant Media and known for Chinatown and Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, with Jaya Entertainment, producers of Real Kashmir Football Club, also attached; and The Masala Quest, created and hosted by Sarina Kamini, an Indian-Australian cook, author and self-described “spice evangelist.”
The summit also unveiled the Content India Trends Report, whose findings made for bracing reading. Daoud Jackson, senior analyst at OMDIA, set the tone: “By 2030, online video in India will nearly double the revenue of traditional TV, becoming the main driver of growth.” He noted that in 2025, India produced a quarter of all YouTube videos globally, overtaking the United States, while Indians collectively spend 117 years daily on YouTube and 72 years on Instagram. Traditional subscription TV is declining as free TV and connected TV gain ground, forcing broadcasters to innovate. “AI-generated content is just 2 per cent of engagement,” Jackson added, “highlighting the dominance of high-quality human content. The key for Indian media companies is scaling while monetising effectively from day one.”
Hannah Walsh, principal analyst at Ampere Analysis, added hard numbers to the picture. India produced over 24,000 titles in January 2026 alone, with 19,000 available internationally. The country now accounts for 12 per cent of Asia-Pacific content spend, up from 8 per cent in 2021, outpacing both Japan and China. Key exporters include JioStar, Zee Entertainment, Sony India, Amazon and Netflix, delivering over 7,500 Indian-produced titles abroad each year. The top importing markets are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and the Philippines. Scripted content dominates globally at 88 per cent, with crime dramas and children’s and family titles performing particularly strongly.
Manoj Dobhal, chief executive and executive director of Dish TV India, framed the summit’s ambition squarely. “Stories don’t need translation. They need a platform, discovery, and reach, local or global,” he said. “India produces more movies than any country, our streaming platforms compete globally, and our tech and creators win international awards. Yet fragmentation slows growth. Producers, platforms, and tech move in different lanes. We need shared spaces, collaboration, and an ecosystem where ideas, technology, and people meet. That is why we built Content India.”
The data, the pitches and the prize money all pointed to the same conclusion: India is not waiting for the world to discover its stories. It is building the infrastructure to sell them.
