Strategy, Creativity
and Media for Brands Ready to Scale
For brands at a moment of acceleration — whether you're launching, signing up users, expanding into retail, or building the fame that outpaces your category.
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.
Focus beats breadth
Most brands at a growth 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.
Brands are more important than ads
The evidence is unambiguous: creative quality accounts for up to 90% of campaign effectiveness. But most 'creative' is optimised for the wrong things — standout, entertainment, awards. What actually compounds is creative that brings out what's unique about you, persuades, and builds your identity into every touchpoint.
Media should multiply the impact
We plan and buy media — digital, social and out-of-home — with strategy and creative in the same room, not briefed separately. No wasted spend. One team, one ambition, every channel pulling in the same direction.
Out-of-home is the most effective offline channel for brands moving from digital traction to real-world presence.
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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 — it's the complete picture to ensure effective payback.
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 OOH plan and create a dedicated digital support budget, deploying video-ready poster sites — locations designed for movement, light, and social capture.
Turn posters into content and content into reach.
By combining traditional poster sites with digital and video-ready formats, we turn your OOH campaign into a content engine — typically delivering around 3x the overall impact of a 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 build awareness 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
We sit with your team for a day. Not to present — to listen, and find the things everyone half-knows but haven't defined yet. By the end of the session, you'll have a sharper picture of where the brand actually is, not where the deck says it is.
2. Connecting
We take what surfaced in Grounding and build from it — strategy, creative directions, media thinking, whatever the brief demands. You'll see the work develop, not just receive it. This is where the real choices get made.
3. Growing
Creative routes become finished work. Media plans become live buys. Assets get built to a standard you can actually use, not a mood board you'll never open again. Everything moves from thinking to doing.
4. Rising
Launch, delivery, and measurement. We hand over, upskill your team so the capability stays with you, and track what matters. Then we stay close — because the best work compounds after launch, not before.
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 growth, 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, growth follows
We're recognised for building brands in food & drink and fintech — two categories where the gap between product quality and brand maturity is often widest. But the principles transfer. We've worked across healthcare, education, property, consumer, entertainment, and corporate, and what we've found is that the patterns of scaling are remarkably consistent. The specifics change. The discipline doesn't.
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're selective about who we work with because the approach only works when the fit is right.
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.
And Rising was the UK's first creative agency B Corporation—a movement of companies that actively balance people, profit and planet.
If this sounds like your moment, let's talk
If you're at a moment where the brand needs to catch up with the ambition, we should talk. First step is just a simple conversation by emailing below or calling Adrienne on +44 (0)7457 405253.