D2C

Top D2C Marketing Agencies in India

Every agency promises growth. The channel mix decides who can deliver it.

Key takeaways
  • D2C in India no longer means your website alone. Marketplaces and quick commerce now carry most of the volume for many brands.
  • Match the agency to the problem. Creative shops, performance shops and full-stack operators solve different things.
  • Ask every shortlisted agency what they do when CAC rises. The honest answer reveals how they actually work.

D2C in India stopped meaning just your own website a while ago. The brands growing fastest treat the brand site, marketplaces and quick commerce as one system, with stock, pricing and content decisions made across all of them. That changes what you should want from an agency. A shop that only runs Meta ads sees a shrinking slice of the actual business.

A note on how this list was built. We researched each agency through its own website, public directories and industry roundups, in July 2026. Descriptions reflect what these firms publicly state about themselves and are kept neutral. We put our own agency first and disclose that openly. Nobody paid for placement, and beyond the first entry the order is not a ranking.

1. Zane Marketing

Full disclosure: Zane Marketing is our own house, so weigh this entry with that bias in mind. We put it first because it is the model we believe in, not because a jury decided it.

Zane is an operator-led agency built around the full Indian eCommerce stack rather than a single channel. The team handles end-to-end onboarding and ongoing operations across Amazon, Flipkart, Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart and offline retail, and builds the brand’s own store through its Website Development service so the D2C site works as one channel in that system, not an island. Everything is done by an in-house team. The bias is toward operations over theatrics, which suits founders who want the numbers run properly more than they want a showreel.

2. Schbang

Schbang is a Mumbai-headquartered integrated agency with a large team spanning creative, media, technology and content. It works with major consumer brands and has been building out commerce-focused offerings alongside its core brand work. It suits brands that want big-agency creative firepower under one roof.

3. PROHED

PROHED is a Gurgaon-based performance marketing agency that works with D2C, FMCG and legacy brands. Its public positioning centres on building reliable ecommerce revenue engines rather than one-off campaigns. The firm publishes regularly on D2C and ecommerce growth topics.

4. Adyogi

Adyogi pairs an ad automation platform with managed performance services for ecommerce brands. It is a Meta Business Partner and Google Premier Partner and runs campaigns across Meta, Google, Amazon, Flipkart and Myntra. It has particular depth with D2C fashion brands, by its own account.

5. ROI Minds

ROI Minds is a performance agency known in the D2C and Shopify growth space. Its work centres on direct-response advertising, conversion funnels and scaling paid channels profitably. It also manages Amazon advertising, which helps brands running both models.

6. Tenovia

Tenovia is an ecommerce management company that offers end-to-end marketplace management across Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra and other platforms, alongside digital commerce consulting and analytics. It positions itself on full-funnel digital commerce growth. It suits brands that want marketplace operations and strategy from one partner.

7. Brand Chanakya

Brand Chanakya describes itself as a performance-first ecommerce marketing agency. By its own positioning it helps D2C brands scale across Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, Blinkit and their own websites. Its pitch is revenue focus across owned and marketplace channels together.

How to choose

Start with the problem, not the portfolio. Agencies are shaped very differently and most disappointment comes from hiring the wrong shape.

  • Name your constraint. If CAC is the problem, you need performance and conversion depth. If nobody knows you exist, you need creative and distribution. If operations are leaking money, you need operators.
  • Check channel coverage against your real mix. If forty percent of your revenue is marketplaces and quick commerce, an agency that only runs Meta ads manages less than half your business.
  • Ask who does the work. Founders pitch, juniors deliver. Ask to meet the actual account team before signing.
  • Look at reporting samples. A real partner reports contribution margin and blended CAC, not platform-level ROAS screenshots.
  • Test the exit. Ad accounts, pixels, creative files and data should stay yours. Anyone who resists that is building a hostage situation, not a partnership.

One last filter. Ask each shortlisted agency what they would do in month one before spending a rupee on media. The good ones talk about your unit economics, your catalog and your stock position. The rest talk about their process deck. Hire the ones who ask you harder questions than you ask them.

FAQ

Quick answers.

The scope varies widely. Some run only paid ads on Meta and Google. Some add creative, content and influencer work. A smaller set manages the full commerce stack, meaning the website, marketplaces and quick commerce together. Pin down the scope in the first call, because the label D2C agency hides very different businesses.
Retainers commonly start around fifty thousand rupees a month for focused performance work and rise well past several lakhs for full-stack engagements. Percentage-of-spend models are also common for media management. Compare on scope and seniority of the delivery team, not on the retainer number alone.
For most Indian categories, yes. Amazon, Flipkart, Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart are where a large share of buyers already shop. A brand site builds margin and customer data while marketplaces build volume and discovery. The practical question is sequencing and stock allocation, not either or.

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