Brands
Redmi Note 6 Pro most advertised in BARC week 47
MUMBAI: The Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has released its data for top advertisers and brands between 17 November 2018 – 23 November 2018.
The data is a reflection of top 10 advertiser and brands across genre on Indian television (U+R): 2+ Individuals.
The data demonstrates ads that were inserted the most in week 47 of 2018.
Top Advertisers:
For week 47, Hindustan Unilever Ltd stays on first position as the top advertiser and led with 126482 ad insertions on television. HUL's products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents, personal care products and water purifiers.
Reckitt Benckiser Ltd, maker of Dettol, Veet, Durex condoms, Strepsils, Air Wick, Harpic came in second with 69309 ad insertions followed by ITC Limited with 37322 insertions.
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd stood fourth followed by Procter & Gamble India with 33192 and 30981 insertions respectively.
Top Brands:
Surprisingly, Redmi Note 6 Pro took the first spot with 16020 insertions. Trivago stood second followed by Flipkart.com with 12504 and 11319 insertions respectively.
Axis Bank Credit/ Debit Card took the fourth position with 11270 insertions followed by Santoor Sandal and Turmeric with mere 10590 insertions.
Brands
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.
