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Four brands enter the most advertised brands list in week 10 of 2017
BENGALURU: Four brands entered the list of top 10 brands in terms of television ad insertions for week 10 (Saturday, 4 March 2017 to Friday, 10 March 2017) of 2017. The new brands to enter the list of most the 10 advertised brands per week on television in week 10 were: One brand from the phone/phone services/apps genre(Vodafone Play App); Reliance Trends from the Apparel genre, a genre that entered the top 10 brands list for the first time in the top 10 lists; and two brands from the Automobile (2 wheeler) genre- Hero Duet, and Hero Splendor Range.
This paper must be read with a caveat: It deals only with the players present in Broadcast Audience Research Councilof India (BARC) top 10 lists of advertisers and brandsper week. The sums/percentages of other advertisers/brands other than those indicated in BARC’s top 10 lists have not been considered/mentioned in this paper during the period under consideration and those numbers could be more/higher.
Further, Phone Services brands such as Reliance’s JioDigital Life, Phone Wallets of Phone Banking Services brands such as Airtel Payments Bank, Phone App brands such as Vodafone Play App, Phone devices brands such as Vivo V5 Plus have been grouped under one genre – Phones. Jewellery and Apparel genres have been indicated separately.
Three brands each from FMCG and phone genres, two brands from the automobile genre, and one brand each from the apparel and the jewellery genres made it to BARC’s weekly top 10 most advertised brands list in terms of television spots.
Jio Digital Life was the most advertised brand in week 10 of 2017 with 11,303television ad Insertions or spots replacing Airtel Payments Bank which was the most advertised brand in week 9. Airtel Payments Bank was the second most advertised brand in week 10 with 9,412 Insertions, followed by the new player to list the of most advertised brands in a week – Vodafone Play App with 8,796 ad insertions. FMCG brand Colgate Dental Cream with 8,198 ad spots was at fourth place in the list for week 10.
Please refer to the chart below for the list of most advertised brands in week 10 of 2017:
Analysis of BARC’s weekly lists of the top most advertised brands during the first 10 weeks of 2017 shows that five FMCG, three Phone and one each from Politics and Online genres brands were the most advertised during the period.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the most advertised brand during the first ten weeks of 2017 with combined 71,450 insertions and appeared for five weeks (frequency 5) during the first 10 weeks of 2017 in the list of top 10 brands across genres. Surf Excel Easy Wash with combined ad insertions of 38,382 and a frequency of 6 appeared in the list to top 10 brands per week in terms of ad insertions for the most number of times.
Airtel Payments Bank was the second most advertised brand during the 10 week period with a frequency of 5 and total of 45,818 insertions. Please refer to the list below for the list of Top 10 most advertised brands across genre in weeks 1 to 10 of 2017.
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UK’s OnlyFans seeks US investor at $3bn valuation after owner’s death
The adult video platform is seeking stability after the death of its billionaire owner
LONDON: OnlyFans is looking for a new partner. The London-based adult video platform is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake of less than 20 per cent to Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm, in a deal that would value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).
The move is driven by an urgent need for stability. Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died of cancer last month at the age of 43, leaving the future of one of Britain’s most profitable privately held businesses suddenly uncertain.
The choice of Architect Capital is not arbitrary. The firm has deep expertise in financial services, which aligns neatly with OnlyFans’ ambitions to offer banking products to its creators, many of whom have long struggled to access basic financial services because of the nature of their work.
The numbers behind OnlyFans are, by any measure, staggering. The platform posted revenues of $1.4bn in the year to 30th November 2024, with a pre-tax profit of $684m, up four per cent on the prior year. Payments to creators totalled $7.2bn over the same period, a rise of nearly ten per cent. Radvinsky personally collected $701m in dividends from the business in 2024 alone, on top of more than $1bn in such payments he had already received. The platform, run through its parent company Felix International, hosts 4.6m creator accounts, with performers keeping 80 per cent of subscription proceeds and the platform pocketing the remaining 20 per cent. It has 377m fan accounts in total.
The current minority stake talks represent a notable scaling back of ambitions. In January, OnlyFans was reported to be in discussions with Architect about selling a majority stake of 60 per cent. Before that, the company had explored a sale to a consortium led by Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Neither deal materialised.
OnlyFans has built an enormously lucrative business on content that mainstream finance has long refused to touch. Now, with its owner gone and a $3bn valuation on the table, it is looking for the kind of respectable institutional backing that might finally persuade the banks to take its calls.
