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The Popular Agency is a design and digital marketing agency powered by bold ideas, market data and an unapologetic obsession with popular culture. Based in the UK, working globally.
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DTC and ecommerce brands, hospitality venues, lifestyle and entertainment. Most of our work sits in those four sectors because that's where our team has the deepest operating experience. If you're outside them but the work is interesting, ask anyway.
Both. Brand and web tends to start as a project. Paid, content, SEO and lifecycle live in a retainer because the work compounds. The right shape usually becomes clear in the first call.
Paid social and Google Ads can show movement in 30 days if the foundations are right. Lifecycle and CRO usually pay back within 60 to 90. Brand and SEO are the long bets, with the biggest compound returns past month six. Honest answers, not promises.
Edinburgh, working with brands across the UK and beyond. Most of the work is remote with regular video, written updates and a shared workspace. If you're close, we'll come to you. If you're not, we still find ways to be in the room when it matters.
Book a discovery call. We'll talk through where you are, what you're trying to do and where the gaps are. If we're the right fit, we send a proposal within a week. If we're not, we'll tell you who is.
We work better when the destination is concrete. Revenue target, audience growth, brand outcome, opening week, fundraise milestone. Vague briefs make vague work. Tell us the number and we'll work backwards from it.
Whether it's a founder, a marketing lead or no one yet, we adapt. What we need to know is who can sign off creative, who can approve spend and who keeps the wheels turning between meetings. The fewer hand-offs, the faster the work.
We don't have a minimum, but the answer changes the strategy. If you're at zero, we'll build the foundation before scaling. If you're already at £20k a month, we'll audit and optimise first. Either way, we won't recommend more spend than the channel can take.
Most teams want both. Almost no one can resource both at the same intensity at the same time. We'll help you pick what to push first, in what order, and what to delay without losing momentum on the other.
The best work happens when there's pace on both sides. We move fast, ask quickly and don't sit on decisions. If you're in a slower season or a long approval chain, the work suffers. Tell us upfront so we can plan around it.
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