Strategy, Creativity and Media for Brands Ready to Scale
For brands at a moment of acceleration — whether you're launching, scaling users, expanding into retail, or building the fame that outpaces your category. And Rising is a a simple, plug-in solution for scaling brands.
Scaling is about three things
We've spent a decade learning that things work better when they're built together, by the same people, in the same process. So that's what we offer.
Strategic Clarity
Most brands at a scaling moment try to do too much. More channels, more messages, more activity. The ones that break through do fewer things, better. We identify the one or two moves that will shift your trajectory — then we commit to them completely.
Compounding Creativity
The evidence is unambiguous: creative quality accounts for up to 90% of campaign effectiveness. Yet most scaling brands under-invest in it. What actually compounds results is your brand or product made clear, compelling and consistent.
Integrated Media
We plan and buy media — digital, social and out-of-home — strategy, media and creative happen in the same room. No misaligned briefs. No wasted spend. One team, one ambition, every channel pulling in the same direction.
Out-Of-Home, a channel so important, we specialise in it
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IPA research shows no other medium builds stature, drives retail footfall, and reaches the audiences that performance channels can't in quite the same way.
The evidence was clear, so we doubled down on it—a team with direct access to the entire UK outdoor network — every format, every location, every media owner. Not a slice of it. All of it.
Planned bespoke against your objectives, tracked end-to-end. Hyper-local around key stockists or national large-format for broader reach — a it's the complete media picture for a brand that's scaling.
Poster Max - 3x the effect of a traditional campaign
Poster Max is our add-on for brands running out-of-home. We take a portion of the plan and create a specific a support digital budget, even deploying "video-ready" poster sites — locations designed for movement, light, and social capture. Turn posters into content and content into reach.
The result: your poster campaign becomes the raw material for a fully integrated campaign. For 10% incremental spend on supporting digital, you can multiply the impact of every pound you spend on OOH — typically delivering around 3x the overall effect of a traditional poster-only buy.
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A Focused Programme for the Moment You're In
Whether you're preparing for launch, gearing up for a retail push, or ready to scale fame beyond your current digital audience — we tailor a focused programme around your specific growth moment. Four stages. Four to eight weeks. No fluff.
1. Grounding
An intensive session with your extended team to align on where you are and where you're going.
2. Connecting
Strategic and creative development built around your specific priorities — whether that's brand positioning, campaign thinking, media planning, or all three working together.
3. Growing
Refinement, production, and asset building. Creative routes become finished work. Media plans become live buys. Everything moves from thinking to doing.
4. Rising
Evaluation and results. We hand over, upskill your team, and measure what matters — then stay close to help you keep rising.
And Rising Builds the Future's Favourite Brands
From fintech to FMCG, digitally native to retail-ready — we work with brands at every stage of scaling, from first launch to national fame. What they share: ambition that outpaces their category, and the need for a growth partner, not just an agency.
If you can scale brand love, the growth follows
Our range of experience runs deeper than most, from food and drink to fintech, from home to healthcare, learning to finance, entertainment to education, wellness to workspaces.
Justin Basini, Co-Founder, CEO
ClearScore
Tech Nation Alumni
Kene Ezeji-Okoye, Co-Founder
Pollypay, Millicent
Tech Nation Alumni
Ruth Fittock, Managing Partner
Pop Chips, Simply Roasted, Tomorrow Brands
Taymoor Atighetchi, Co-Founder, CEO
Papier
Sunna Van Kampen, Founder
Tonic Health
Kyle Dardashti, Founder
Heali, Medical Nutrition Tech
Ryan Ginsberg, Co-Founder, CEO
Served by Ellie Goulding
Build What's Next
A focused 4–8 week programme. Strategy, creativity, and media — discrete tasks fit to needs or as integrated plan from the start. We have to be selective about who we work with because the model only works when we go deep.
We are official brand development partners for start-ups taking part in Tech Nation, the UK's leading growth platform for founder-led tech companies and 100X Impact Accelerator by London School of Economics, supporting social enterprises globally.
We've been duly recognised over many years by industry awards, including IPA Effectiveness Awards and D&AD for creative excellence.
Strategy + Creativity 🤝
Building a brand is not hard, but keeping the role of brand building simple and effective is. Finding things that are different and better, that are hard for other brands to do. The choices a brand makes is what creates its clarity, impact and real-world results.
Marketing has to drive growth which means 'fitting' the brand into a mosaic of different places and channels, each with their own objectives and demands. Great brands are like lighthouses—seen, trusted and ever-present.
This tension between being flexible and holding firm to enduring brand values is where strategic choices become critical. Success lies in knowing when and what to change without diluting what its brand stands for amid the noise. Brands are now continuously balancing the short-term demands of engagement with the long-term pursuit of brand equity at scale.
And Rising was the UK's first creative agency B Corporation—a movement of companies that actively balance people, profit and planet towards a more equitable and sustainable society.
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If this sounds like your moment, let's talk
Let's accelerate your growth by ensuring your brand has all it needs. And Rising is a dedicated team of select experts, we're always careful to make sure we have the right resource and runway to be able to help. First step is just a simple conversation by emailing below or calling Adrienne on +44 (0)7457 405253.