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BJP, FMCG companies in BARC’s top 10 list
BENGALURU: Once again following the trends of the first four weeks of 2017, FMCG advertisers hogged most of the ranks (9 out of the top 10 ranks) among the top 10 advertisers list on television in terms of ad insertions (advertisers list) for week 5 of 2017. Also, the national ruling political party – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – was ranked first among the top 10 brands list in terms of brand ad insertions on television (brands list) in week 5 of 2017 (Saturday, 28 January 2017 to Friday, 3 February 2017) as per Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) data for top 10 advertisers Across Genre: All India (U+R): 4+ Individuals.
The lone non-FMCG player in the top 10 advertisers list was music company Super Cassettes Industries (SCI) which was ranked 7 with 18,154 (6.49 percent of sum of insertions by top 10 advertisers) insertions. SCI was also present in the advertisers list for week 4 at rank eight with 18,804 insertions and in week and rank 9 in week 2 of 2017 with 17,250 insertions.
Maintaining their respective ranks in the advertisers list at the first three positions were FMCG players Hindustan Level Limited (Lever) with 95,638 (34.17 percent of sum of insertions by top 10 advertisers) insertions; Baba Ramdev’sPatanjaliAyurved Limited (Patanjali) with 31,761 (11.35 percent of sum of insertions by top 10 advertisers) insertions and Reckitt Benckiser (India) Limited (Reckitt) with 25,912 (9.26 percent of sum of insertions by top 10 advertisers) insertions. Please refer to Figure A below for the advertisers list for week and Figure B below for the advertisers list for weeks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 below.
As mentioned above, the national ruling political party – the BJP tops the brands (in terms of number of television insertions) list in week 5 of 2017 with 11,563 (14.47 percent of sum of insertions by top 10 brands). The number of insertions by three Mobile services/devices brands had the largest chunk of insertions in the brands list with 26,314 (32.94 percent of sum of insertions by top 10 brands) in week 5. Four FMCG brands followed slightly behind with 25,349 (31.73 percent of sum of insertions by top 10 brands) in week 5. One brand each from politics (BJP), associations (Petroleum Conservation Research Association – 11,053 insertions) and online (OLX.in, 5,613 insertions) genres completed the top ten brands list in terms of television ad insertions per week list. Please refer to figure C below for the top 10 brands list in terms of television ad insertions in week 5 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.
