Every month, YouGov identifies the brands generating the strongest surge in Ad Awareness scores in India.

Using data from YouGov BrandIndex, our daily brand tracking solution, we measure Ad Awareness, the percentage of consumers who have seen an advertisement for a brand in the past two weeks. The brands featured here recorded the largest increase in Ad Awareness in the latest month compared to the previous month.

Top 10 India Advertisers of the Month: May 2026

State Bank of India (SBI) – 5.7 percentage-point increase (from 42.6% in April to 48.3% in May)
Malabar Gold & Diamonds – 4.8 percentage-point increase (from 36.0% in April to 40.8% in May)
Blinkit – 4.5 percentage-point increase (from 30.9% in April to 35.4% in May)
Vivo smartphones – 4.5 percentage-point increase (from 24.8% in April to 29.3% in May)
Fortune – 4.5 percentage-point increase (from 22.5% in April to 27.0% in May)
Zomato – 4.4 percentage-point increase (from 50.8% in April to 55.2% in May)
SonyLIV – 4.4 percentage-point increase (from 17.0% in April to 21.4% in May)
Levi's – 4.2 percentage-point increase (from 34.5% in April to 38.7% in May)
Flying Machine – 4.0 percentage-point increase (from 10.3% in April to 14.3% in May)
Shopify – 3.9 percentage-point increase (from 7.9% in April to 11.8% in May)

Methodology:

YouGov BrandIndex collects data on thousands of brands every day. Ad Awareness is based on the question: “Which of the following consumer brands have you seen an advertisement for in the past two weeks?"

Rankings in this article are based on change in Ad Awareness. To qualify as top improvers, a minimum base size of 300 (n) is required. In cases where the change in scores is the same between two brands, the current scores are used as a secondary metric to determine their ranking.

Brands tracked across multiple sectors are ranked based on their highest-performing sector. Both parent and child brands, such as Google and YouTube, are included to allow for greater granularity in performance tracking.

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India Advertisers of the Month 2026