BTL Marketing
Agency.

A BTL agency that treats trial as the product, sampling, pamphlet distribution and on-ground activations, targeted by dark store catchment and measured through to repeat orders.

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Godrej Pet Care

A BTL marketing agency built for how India buys now

Below-the-line used to mean a promoter at a mall gate and a stack of leaflets at a traffic signal. That still exists, and for most brands it is no longer where the money works. The buyer you want has already moved to an app, orders in minutes, and receives a bag at the door several times a week. A modern BTL agency has to reach that person in that moment, not in a corridor they walked through once.

That is the whole of our approach. We put your sample or your pamphlet inside quick commerce delivery orders in the catchments you choose, and we point the buyer at the listing where they can order again. On-ground demand, an online shelf to catch it, and a number at the end that reconciles.

What a BTL agency actually does, and what we do differently

Most BTL agencies sell you reach. Units distributed, footfall touched, people met. Those are activity numbers and they are almost impossible to argue with, because almost nothing about them can be checked after the fact.

We sell distribution you can audit. Every pamphlet run carries a platform barcode so the count is reconciled by the platform rather than reported by us. Every campaign returns integration images during the run and a day-wise summary at the end. If a catchment underperforms, you can see it by catchment rather than by city.

The second difference is that we do not stop at the drop. A sample that lands with nobody to receive the order is a cost. We check that your listings are live and in stock in the catchments being sampled before the campaign starts, because an activation into an out-of-stock pin code is money spent teaching somebody to buy a competitor.

BTL marketing services we run

  • Product sampling: your sample placed into quick commerce delivery orders, catchment by catchment.
  • Pamphlet and flyer distribution: printed pamphlets inserted into delivery bags, barcoded and reconciled.
  • Society and RWA activations: on-ground formats where the residential catchment is the target.
  • Modern trade visibility: in-store presence built around the outlets that actually carry you.
  • Catchment and pin code targeting: activation planned against the dark stores that serve your buyer.
  • Quick commerce linkage: every activation tied to your Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart and BigBasket listings.
  • Trial to order measurement: delivery counts, day-wise reporting and repeat behaviour, not footfall.

BTL activation agency: the formats, and when each one earns its place

As a BTL activation agency the job is choosing the format against the objective, not selling whichever one is easiest to staff.

Sampling is for a product that outperforms its own advertising. If the thing is genuinely better in the hand than on a page, put it in the hand. Pamphlet distribution is for an offer, a launch or a price message that needs to reach a defined area quickly and does not need the product itself to travel. Society and RWA formats are for categories where the household, not the individual, makes the decision. Modern trade visibility is for when you already have distribution and are losing the shelf.

Where a format will not work, we would rather say so before the plan than after the invoice.

BTL advertising agency, or a BTL agency that measures?

The phrase BTL advertising agency carries a habit from above-the-line: buy the impression, assume the effect. Below-the-line does not need that assumption, because the delivery is countable and the order that follows is traceable.

So we report what happened. How many units were delivered, in which catchments, on which days, and what your listings did in those catchments while the campaign ran. That is a harder number to present than a reach figure, and it is the only one worth having.

BTL agency in Delhi NCR

Our northern office is in Gurugram, at Unitech Cyber Park in Sector 39, and it runs the whole of the National Capital Region: Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad.

If you are searching for a BTL company in Delhi, one thing is worth saying plainly. We do not keep a Delhi address, we keep a Gurugram one, and for this kind of work that distinction is administrative rather than operational. NCR is a single quick commerce market with several hundred dark stores across it, and a campaign is planned against those catchments, not against municipal boundaries. South Delhi, Dwarka, Noida Sector 62 and Golf Course Road behave like four different markets, and a plan that treats NCR as one line is a plan that will average away the thing you were trying to learn.

That is what a BTL agency in Delhi should be able to show you before the campaign starts: which catchments, in what order, and why those first.

BTL agency in Bangalore

Our southern office is in Bengaluru, at WeWork on Infantry Road in Shivaji Nagar, and it covers Karnataka and the wider south.

The same principle applies as in NCR. If you are looking for a BTL agency in Bangalore, the postcode on our letterhead matters less than whether the team can plan Koramangala, Indiranagar, Whitefield and HSR Layout as separate catchments rather than as one line item called Bangalore, and whether they can tell you which dark stores serve each of them. Bengaluru is one of the densest quick commerce markets in the country, which makes it one of the few where catchment-level sampling can be read almost week by week.

Both addresses are on our contact page.

Where else we run BTL

We plan nationally from those two offices. Quick commerce catchments do not care which city your agency sits in, and the platforms we distribute through operate far beyond the two we are based in.

Coverage is deepest in the metros, where dark store density makes catchment-level planning meaningful: Delhi NCR, Mumbai including Thane and Navi Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. Beyond those, cities such as Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Indore and Surat are workable, with fewer catchments to choose between and less room to run a clean split.

We would rather tell you a city is thin than sell you a national plan that is really eight cities and a rounding error.

Choosing between BTL agencies

Four questions worth asking any BTL marketing company before you sign, ours included.

  • How is the delivery count verified, and by whom? If the answer is the agency's own report, it is an estimate.
  • What is the unit of targeting? A city is not a unit. A catchment is.
  • What happens if the product is out of stock in a catchment mid campaign?
  • What does the report look like at the end, and can it be read by catchment and by day?

Most BTL agencies can answer the first two. The last two are where the difference between an activity supplier and an operator shows up.

If that is the kind of BTL you are after, tell us the category, the cities and the volume you have in mind, and we will come back with the catchments, the split and the schedule.

[ 01 ]   What this is

Awareness is cheap. Trial that converts is the job.

We are a BTL marketing agency for brands that sell in India now, which means the shelf is an app and the catchment is a dark store. As a BTL activation agency we run sampling, pamphlet distribution, society and modern-trade activations at catchment level, then wire each one to your Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart and BigBasket listings so the trial has somewhere to convert. Every campaign comes back with a delivery count and a day-wise report, not a footfall estimate. We work from Gurugram and Bengaluru and plan nationally.

How we operate.

Five steps. Every one run in-house, nothing handed to a junior or a tool.

01

Plan & catchment

We map high-intent catchments around your quick commerce dark stores and modern-trade outlets.

02

Hyperlocal targeting

We focus activations on the catchments and pin codes your dark stores actually serve, so spend lands where you can fulfil.

03

Quick commerce link

Every activation pushes buyers to your Blinkit, Zepto and Instamart listings, with availability checked first.

04

Hyper-personalised follow-up

First-party data, RFM segments and lifecycle journeys turn first triers into loyal, repeat buyers, not one-time samples.

05

Scale responsibly

We expand the winning formats city by city, holding CAC and protecting margin, never burning cash for vanity reach.

[ 02 ]   What's included

Sampling & activations

In-store, mall, society and RWA sampling that drives trial.

Hyperlocal targeting

Catchment and pin-code activations around your dark stores.

Quick commerce linkage

Activations wired to Blinkit, Zepto and Instamart availability.

Hyper-personalised follow-up

Segmented, one-to-one journeys that convert triers to repeat.

Trial-to-order attribution

Every activation measured to real orders.

Responsible scaling

City-by-city expansion with CAC and margin discipline.

11

Years operating

50+

Platforms & marketplaces

250+

Brands onboarded

45

Services, end to end

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

A BTL agency runs targeted, on-ground marketing rather than mass media: sampling, pamphlet and flyer distribution, society and RWA activations, and modern-trade visibility. The point of below-the-line is that it reaches a defined audience in a defined place, so the result should be countable rather than estimated.
Two things. Delivery is reconciled by the platform through a barcode rather than self-reported, and we check that your listings are live and in stock in a catchment before we sample into it. An activation into an out-of-stock pin code teaches somebody to buy a competitor.
We run Delhi NCR from our Gurugram office at Unitech Cyber Park, Sector 39, and that covers Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad. We do not hold a separate Delhi address, and for this work the distinction is administrative: NCR is one quick commerce market and campaigns are planned by dark store catchment, not by municipal boundary.
Yes. Our Bengaluru office is at WeWork, 36 Infantry Road, Shivaji Nagar. Bengaluru is one of the densest quick commerce markets in India, which makes it one of the few where catchment-level sampling can be read almost week by week.
Coverage is deepest in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata and Ahmedabad, where dark store density makes catchment-level planning meaningful. Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Indore and Surat are workable with fewer catchments to choose between.
Yes, and a launch is the case where format choice matters most. Sampling suits a product that is better in the hand than on a page. Pamphlet distribution suits an offer or a price message that has to reach a defined area quickly. We will say which one fits before the plan, not after.
Product sampling, pamphlet and flyer distribution through quick commerce, society and RWA activations, modern-trade visibility, catchment and pin-code targeting, quick commerce linkage, and trial-to-order measurement.
Above-the-line buys reach and infers an effect. Below-the-line puts something in a specific person's hands in a specific place, so delivery can be counted and the order that follows can be traced. That is why we report delivery counts and catchment-level performance rather than impressions.
By dark store catchment, not by city or pincode alone. A pincode is a postal object and can be served by several dark stores, while one dark store serves parts of several pincodes. Planning at catchment level is what makes the spend land where you can actually fulfil.
Integration images during the campaign, then the final delivery count and a day-wise summary at the end, read against what your listings did in those catchments. Delivery counts are reconciled by the platform rather than reported by us.
It is scoped per project or as a retainer, sized to your category, cities, format and volume, and quoted after we map your catchments. Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with a plan.

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