FiND Media Analytics
Air India continues to lead news share of voice for 2nd quarter
India’s national carrier Air India led the news share of voice (SoV) among major airlines for the second quarter in a row. On the other hand, the news SoV for Interglobe Aviation remained at the second position in the June 2018 quarter. Meanwhile, Jet Airways and SpiceJet’s news SoV for the quarter stood at third and fourth positions respectively.
[Image 1: Top 4 airlines’ web news share of voice]
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Bharti Airtel gets more aggressive with new product launches: FiND media study
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has accelerated the pace of new product launches in the past 3-months to fight competition from rivals like Reliance Jio, Vodafone, and Idea.
FiND media coverage study showed that Bharti Airtel topped the product launch related news flow among major telecos consistently for the past 3-months. Moreover, the product launch related news updates from India’s largest telecom operator for the current quarter touched the highest level in the past 4-quarters.
[Image 1: Monthly product launch news volume for the leading telecos]
Our analysis showed that Bharti Airtel has ramped up new product launches significantly following the launched of postpaid plan by Reliance Jio on May 10. India’s largest telecom operator has launched new prepaid plans; various data and unlimited calling offers; affordable 4G smartphones; and Apple Watch 3 LTE during the past month. As a result, Bharti Airtel’s product launch news volume touched a multi-year high in May 2018.
[Image 2: Daily product launch news volume for Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio] Read the rest of this entry »
IndiGo most affected airline by disruption in flight services: FiND media study
An analysis of media coverage on the leading air carriers in India has shown that Interglobe Aviation was the most affected airline by the disruption in flight services during the past 5-months.
Interglobe Aviation, the operator of IndiGo Airlines has dominated disruption related news flow among major Indian airlines in the past 5-months. It was followed by Air India and Jet Airways. On the other hand, SpiceJet attracted fewer news items related to disruption.
[Image 1: Compare news volume by sentiment and/ or category]
Technical issues, engine failure (A320 Neo planes), and flight delays & cancellations have disrupted operations of IndiGo Airlines during the past 5-months. Read the rest of this entry »
These 3 drugmakers’ news sentiment consistently remains below industry average
FiND study showed that the news sentiment for 3 drug-makers from top 25 pharma companies consistently remained below the industry average for the past 12-months. FDC, Sun Pharma Advanced Research and Caplin Point Laboratories were 3 companies whose short-term, medium-term and long-term news sentiment consistently stayed below the industry average for the past 12-months.
In our view, below industry average news sentiment for a prolonged period of time does not augur well for the company. Corporate communications team can step up media engagement at the appropriate time by picking up early signals for deteriorating news coverage.
[Image 1: Short-term news sentiment (50-DMA)] Read the rest of this entry »
Maruti Suzuki tops product launch news share of voice helped by Brezza, Ertiga
Maruti Suzuki topped the share of voice for product launch news coverage among the leading automakers in the past 30-days. At the same time, India’s largest passenger car manufacturer has also led the share of voice for web news coverage during the same period.
[Image 1: Web News Share of Voice]
The media frenzy around new car launches helped Maruti to lead the share of voice for the product launch news. Brezza and Ertiga dominated the product launch related news flow for Maruti in the past 30-days.
[Image 2: News Mentions for Maruti’s Car Models] Read the rest of this entry »
Negative news flow outpaces positive coverage for these 5 companies
Negative news flow has outpaced positive coverage for 20 companies from BSE 200 index during April 2018, FiND media study showed. ICICI Bank, Wipro, Idea Cellular, IDBI Bank and Suzlon were top 5 companies receiving extremely negative media coverage in April 2018.
[Image 1: Positive to Negative News Ratio (The ratio value above 1 indicates mostly positive media coverage. On the other hand, the ratio value below 1 signals broadly negative media coverage.)] Read the rest of this entry »
Infosys leads media share of voice, but TCS takes the cake
India’s second largest IT firm, Infosys led the media share of voice (both web and social) among the top 5 software companies during the fourth quarter earnings season. It was followed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest software company in India.
[Image 1: Share of Voice (as on Apr. 26, 2018)]
Though Infosys topped the media share of voice, TCS has performed better on the tonality of news coverage.
TCS received extremely positive media coverage after India’s largest IT firm reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings. Meanwhile, positive earnings coverage has lifted TCS’s news sentiment 100-day moving average (DMA) to the highest level in the past 9-months.
On the other hand, underlying news sentiment for India’s second largest software company was mostly negative due to lukewarm Q4 earnings and disappointing guidance for FY19. As a result, Infosys witnessed a drop in news sentiment 100-DMA after disclosing quarterly results.
[Image 2: Compare screen – News sentiment 100-DMA chart]
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