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TAM AdEx: Top 10 brands contributed 10 per cent share of TV ad volumes
Mumbai: TAM AdEx India has released a television advertising half-yearly report for Jan-Jun’24.
Jan-Jun’24 saw a minor three per cent drop in ad volumes on television over Jan-Jun’23.
In Jan-Jun’24, ‘food & beverage’ (24 per cent) was on top followed by ‘personal care/personal hygiene’ sector with 16 per cent share. ‘BFSI’ is the only newly entered sector in the top 10 list during Jan-Jun’24. The top 10 sectors contribute nearly 90 per cent of the ad volume share in Jan-Jun’24.
The top 10 categories together added 32 per cent share of ad volumes in Jan-Jun’24. In the period from Jan-Jun’24, the categories ranked third, seventh, eighth, and ninth showed a positive shift in rank compared to the same period in 2023. ‘Rubs and balms’ was the new entrant among the top 10 categories during Jan-Jun’24. Categories on rank three, seven and ten were from the ‘food & beverages’ sector.
The ‘milk beverages’ category saw the highest increase in ad secondages with growth of 24 per cent followed by ‘rubs and balms’ with 40 per cent growth during Jan-Jun’24 compared to Jan-Jun’23.
‘HUL’ topped the list followed by ‘Reckitt’ during Jan-Jun’24. The top 10 advertisers together added 45 per cent share of ad volumes during Jan-Jun’24. ‘Reliance Jio Infocomm’ observed a positive rank shift along with ITC and Wipro.
The top 10 brands contributed 10 per cent share of television ad volumes. During Jan-Jun’24, total 7.8K plus brands were present on television.
Five out of the top 10 brands were from ‘Reckitt Benckiser’ and two were from ‘HUL’.
During Jan-Jun’24, ‘GEC’ outperformed ‘news’ channels as the leading genre for advertising, similar to the same period in 2023. The top five channel genres accounted for more than 90 per cent share of ad volumes during both Jan-Jun’24 and Jan-Jun’23.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
