The Adservex brand: what we stand for.

Adservex is a performance-led digital marketing agency in India. This page is the long version — where we came from, what we're trying to build, and the client work that proves it.

01 — Our story

Started because the handoff was broken.

Adservex began in 2017 with two people, a Mumbai desk and a stubborn idea: performance marketing and brand craft should not live in different rooms. Every founder we met was paying one agency to make the work beautiful and another to make it convert — and both were quietly blaming each other.

So we built the version we wanted to hire. One pod. Media buyers sitting next to designers, an analyst in the same standup, a strategist who owns the number rather than the deck. It made the work slower to sell and much faster to improve.

That model held as we grew into fintech, BFSI, edtech and B2B SaaS — categories where the buying journey is long, compliance is real and vanity metrics get expensive fast. Today we run studios in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi NCR for 100+ brands.

We've managed over ₹420Cr in ad spend. The number we're actually proud of is different: the share of clients who stay past year three because the growth kept compounding.

  1. 2017
    First campaigns

    Adservex begins as a two-person paid-media team running D2C launches out of Mumbai.

  2. 2019
    Full-stack growth

    SEO, analytics and creative fold into one pod so strategy stops getting lost between vendors.

  3. 2021
    Incorporated

    Adservex formally incorporates and expands into fintech, BFSI and B2B SaaS mandates.

  4. 2023
    Four studios

    Teams in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi NCR support pan-India brands.

  5. 2026
    100+ brands

    ₹420Cr+ in managed ad spend and an average 8.4× ROAS uplift across active accounts.

02 — Mission

Make growth accountable for Indian brands.

Our mission is to give ambitious Indian companies a growth engine they can actually audit — where every rupee of media is traceable to a business outcome, and every creative decision is made with the same rigour as a media one. We want marketing to be the most measurable department in the company, not the least.

Revenue is the only scoreboard

Impressions, likes and reach are diagnostics. We report on pipeline, payback and profit.

Senior hands, always

The strategists in the pitch run the account. No junior handover, no account-management theatre.

Brand and performance are one team

Creative quality is a performance lever. We refuse the split that makes both weaker.

Show the math

Open dashboards, shared experiment logs and a monthly note on what failed as well as what worked.

03 — Client case studies

The work, and what it moved.

Gravity India

+312% ROAS in 6 months
D2C · Performance marketing
Challenge
Blended ROAS had flattened at 2.1× with rising CAC on Meta and no reliable attribution.
What we did
Rebuilt the account structure around contribution margin, launched a creative testing cadence of 20 concepts a month and moved to server-side tagging.

StartupSahay

4.1× qualified leads
Fintech · Growth
Challenge
High lead volume, low lead quality — sales was rejecting most inbound applications.
What we did
Scored leads at the form level, fed offline conversions back to Google Ads and rewrote the funnel around qualified applications.

Power2SME

₹38Cr pipeline added
B2B · Demand generation
Challenge
Long, multi-stakeholder buying cycles with no view of which channels created pipeline.
What we did
Built an account-based demand program across LinkedIn and Search with CRM-linked reporting on stage progression.

Zensar Technologies

92% LinkedIn engagement lift
Enterprise · ABM
Challenge
Enterprise buying committees were unreachable through generic thought-leadership content.
What we did
Segmented target accounts by industry and role, then ran narrative-led LinkedIn sequences with tailored creative per tier.

Slice Small Finance Bank

2.3M app installs
BFSI · Brand + performance
Challenge
Install volume was capped by category trust and heavy competitive bidding.
What we did
Paired a brand campaign on trust and safety with an always-on app-install engine tuned to post-install activation, not raw installs.

Jaro Education

−47% cost per enrolment
Edtech · Full-funnel
Challenge
Cost per enrolment kept climbing as competitors bid up the same programme keywords.
What we did
Shifted spend to intent-rich long-tail and counsellor-led remarketing, with landing pages built per programme cohort.

Want the detail behind any of these? See the full case study index or read how we run a performance marketing agency India engagement end to end.