Ideas that travel.
Brands that move.
Uprisal is a full service, integrated creative, advertising and marketing agency based in Bangalore with networks across the world. Strategy to execution, ideas to awards, and midnight inspirations to head-turning content, we wrap everything in our obsession for churning out award-winning work. Talk to us today if you don't want to settle for mediocrity.
Our story
What pushed us over the edge
There is a specific hour, somewhere around eleven at night, when the house has gone quiet and the phone has finally stopped, and you get to think about the actual work. The founders had been meeting each other at that hour for years, and when we eventually talked about it, the conversation lasted about four minutes and ended with both of us agreeing that it was a slightly ridiculous way to work.
So we built somewhere that eleven o'clock at night could happen at eleven o'clock in the morning, and we called it Uprisal, because calling it a revolution felt a bit much when nobody is shooting at anybody.
What we are rising against
Not a company, a building or anybody's job title. Beige. The slow and entirely well meaning process by which an idea that made a room sit up gets sanded down over four rounds of feedback until it is smooth, safe, agreeable to everyone and capable of moving nobody. Every one of us has watched it happen. Once or twice, we were the one holding the knife.
The uprising, such as it is, is small and well mannered
- Craft ahead of process.
- Fewer hands, closer to the work.
- Senior people doing the work, not supervising it.
- Nothing sanded down that shouldn't be.
- Yes to a project because it is interesting, not because it fits a target somebody invented in another time zone.
- The good stuff done in daylight.
We make brands worth talking about.
Then we make them talk.
What we do
Full circle, so you only have to brief once
01Brand strategy and positioning
The unfashionable business of working out what you actually stand for, written plainly enough that a media planner can act on it.
02Visual identity and design systems
Logos, type, colour, and the rules that stop them falling apart by the third vendor.
03Campaigns
Ideas built to survive a conversation with the P&L, then travel across film, print, outdoor and social without losing the plot.
04Content and social
A calendar that isn't forty-five quote cards wearing a trench coat.
05Websites and digital experiences
Content, UX and design for sites that sell, rank, and get quoted by whichever AI your customers now ask first.
06Video, motion and production
Film, stills, 3D and motion, edited in-house. And the AI assisted sort, when the budget insists and the craft still agrees.
07Performance and media
Numbers that go up, accompanied by an honest account of why they went up.
08Personal brand management
For founders and leaders who have things to say and no time to say them. We do the saying. You do the being right.
And some of the time you don't need an agency at all. You need two hours with somebody who has already made the mistake you are about to make. We do that too.
How we work
Core, Cloud, Craft.
Core
A small senior team of strategists, writers, designers, editors and account leads who stay on your business for the length of the relationship. They are the people you meet in the pitch, and the people who do the work.
Cloud
Around the core sits a vetted network of specialists we have worked with for years, across time zones: 3D and motion artists, developers, photographers, translators, SEO people. They come in for what a project needs and step out when it doesn't.
Craft
The thing the other two exist for. Every piece of work gets a senior pair of eyes before it leaves the building, and nothing is sanded down to make a meeting shorter.
Every project has a founder on it. Not in the credits, on the calls.
Pedigree
The receipts
Brands, across consumer, retail, technology, healthcare, education and institutions.
Industry awards, including Effies, and several we would love to be more specific about and currently cannot.
In media budgets managed.
Years of advertising experience across the core team.
Singular obsession, and it is craft.
Some of the names
Brands we have worked with, before Uprisal and since
Consumer, retail, education
Technology, health, industrial, institutions
Work by the founders and the core team, across agency and brand-side roles, in India, the Gulf and the US.
Before you write to us
Do a reality check
This works
- If you want senior people doing the work rather than supervising somebody junior doing the work.
- If you would rather have three ideas that are right than thirty that are merely available.
- If you like the idea of one team across strategy, creative and production instead of three vendors and a group chat nobody reads.
This probably doesn't
- If the cheapest quote wins.
- If you need forty people sitting in your office.
- If you want a team to execute a strategy that was decided somewhere else.
Say hello
Talk to us
Clients, partners, freelancers, press. Pick the closest reason and we will take it from there.