Top Influencer Marketing Agencies in India

Last Updated: October 26th · 10 Agencies ranked

Steph Payas
Written by Steph Payas
Chief Marketing Officer
Brian Sorel
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An India campaign brief becomes useful when the audience is specific enough to cast against. Name the product need, the regions you want to reach and any language requirements. Then decide whether the agency's main job is to explain the product, support a launch or keep producing content for an ongoing programme.

We reviewed agencies with verified Indian offices or explicit campaign delivery in India. Their published work includes regional activations, product education and creator entertainment. Each involves a different relationship between the message, the creator and the audience, so the biggest reported view count is only part of the comparison.

Your shortlist should show how a team turns those choices into production. Ask for a sample brief and the reasoning behind the proposed creators. If you intend to test languages or creative approaches, establish how the agency will keep the results usable for your next decision.

We built this list around that buying task. Compare the work an agency has delivered with the audience you need, then examine the responsibilities, rights and measurement proposed for your campaign.

Overview
#AgencySpecialityScoreLocation (HQ)
2 Ogilvy logo Ogilvy New York Brand-scale creative 79 /100 New YorkNY
3 DEPT Agency logo DEPT Agency Location not disclosed AI marketing systems and social production 60 /100 Location not disclosed
4 M&C Saatchi logo M&C Saatchi London Influencer strategy and campaign activation 45 /100 LondonUnited Kingdom
5 Weber Shandwick logo Weber Shandwick New York Creator ideas with earned media 43 /100 New YorkUnited States
6 Burson logo Burson New York Creator campaigns with PR 35 /100 New YorkUnited States
7 Influencer.in logo Influencer.in Mumbai Creator content and local activations 35 /100 MumbaiIndia
8 Greenroom Now logo Greenroom Now Bengaluru Regional creators and social content 34 /100 BengaluruIndia
9 Grynow Gurugram Creator video campaigns in India 34 /100 GurugramIndia
10 Monk-E logo Monk-E India (campaign market) Branded creator shows and partnerships 34 /100 India (campaign market)
11 Finnet Media logo Finnet Media Mumbai Finance creator education campaigns 31 /100 MumbaiIndia
Ogilvy logo

Ogilvy

79 /100
New York, NY Global network agency, WPP

Ogilvy has a Mumbai office and provides influencer marketing within its wider creative and communications services. Its international cases are relevant to an India brief where the agency must give the product a clear role in the content, then carry that idea through the rest of the campaign.

Hellmann’s Smart Jar in the UK made food storage visible through a temperature-sensitive mayonnaise label. TikTok and Instagram influencers demonstrated the idea alongside brand fans and food-waste campaigners. The full programme earned more than 160 pieces of online and print coverage.

For LEVEL at Barcelona Pride, influencers joined social content, outdoor advertising and live event activity. The combined programme reported an 18% uplift in bookings. Its Pride guide recorded a 20% engagement rate, a separate measure tied to that specific content.

The common feature is a product or service idea that creators can show through an experience. That fits a buyer seeking a coherent campaign across content and communications. For an India assignment, the agency discussion should connect that creative direction to the intended audience groups and the people responsible for adapting and approving each version.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 24/25
Client Impact 24/25
Industry Recognition 16/25
Revenue & Growth 15/25

Services Ogilvy offer

  • Ambassador Program Management
  • B2B Influencer Programs
  • Community Management
  • Compliance & Disclosure Management
  • Content Repurposing & Editing
  • Crisis & Reputation Management
DEPT Agency logo

DEPT Agency

60 /100
Location not disclosed Digital agency with technology and marketing teams

DEPT has offices in Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai and manages creator strategy, sourcing and campaign delivery. Its BISSELL work offers a useful comparison for an India brief that needs different creators to explain a product while keeping its practical benefits consistent across content.

The BISSELL pilot ran in the Netherlands, Germany and France. Pet, family and cleaning creators received products suited to their lifestyles and used them in everyday situations. The programme reported 15.5M organic impressions. The production approach combined product education with room for creators to develop their own demonstrations.

DEPT’s eBay relationship shows a broader content operation. The social programme covers the UK and Germany, with creator work forming part of the approach. Within that relationship, the Love Island sponsorship programme reported 217M impressions across its combined activity.

These cases support different buying needs: a focused product-content pilot and creator delivery inside continuing brand work. DEPT suits a team planning to learn from initial creative before expanding the programme. For the India proposal, make the audience groups and language review explicit so those decisions can shape the pilot and its reporting.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 17/25
Client Impact 4/25
Industry Recognition 19/25
Revenue & Growth 20/25

Industries DEPT Agency serve

  • Retail
  • Fashion

Platforms DEPT Agency cover

  • TikTok
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
M&C Saatchi logo

M&C Saatchi

45 /100
London, United Kingdom Influencer strategy and campaign activation

M&C Saatchi has offices in Bengaluru and Delhi and offers specialist social and creator marketing. Its selected international work is useful for an India brief that starts with an audience interest, then needs a creator approach that can express the brand within it.

Samsonite’s continuing programme, published within the agency’s Americas work, brought travel and lifestyle creators into the brand’s social content. The campaign reported more than 7.3M social impressions and a 16% increase in brand searches. The work made travel experience central to the product presentation.

For Visit Iceland, the agency invited reality-show personalities to travel through the destination while fans followed their story. The programme’s social posts recorded 19.6M views. Its audience connection came from an existing entertainment interest.

M&C Saatchi fits a buyer deciding which relationship between creator and audience best serves the campaign. A continuing travel partnership and a timely personality-led trip require different production plans. Those examples can ground the India discussion in the audience you want to reach, with the local team specifying how the content and approvals will be handled.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 17/25
Client Impact 8/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 20/25

Platforms M&C Saatchi cover

  • TikTok
  • Instagram
  • Snapchat
Weber Shandwick logo

Weber Shandwick

43 /100
New York, United States Global communications agency

Weber Shandwick has a Bengaluru office and manages creator work within a wider communications practice. Its published cases suit an India marketing brief where the agency needs to turn a product attribute into a visible experience, with creators helping people understand or explore it.

For SKITTLES Littles, the agency used a New York micro-apartment to express the product’s small size. A design creator remade the space and an apartment-tour creator showed it to viewers. The giveaway offered a year of free rent and generated more than 17K applications, connecting the idea with a defined audience action.

Brawny used influencer collaborations within a programme that combined paid and organic social with earned media. The earned campaign reported 1.8B impressions. That result measures the broader distribution around its cleaning-service concept.

The agency’s strength in these examples is the planning around the content: an experience worth filming and a story that can travel through other channels. Weber Shandwick is relevant when an India launch needs that coordinated creative and communications work. Choose the audience action first, then assess how the proposed team would adapt the idea and manage the creator execution.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 20/25
Client Impact 6/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 17/25

Industries Weber Shandwick serve

  • Food and beverage
  • Household goods
Burson logo

Burson

35 /100
New York, United States Global communications agency

Burson has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru and offers managed influencer work alongside public relations. Its selected international cases show creators performing an active role within a launch, giving a buyer concrete options for entertainment production and pre-launch content.

For Activision Blizzard in the UK, the agency built a filmed challenge around a recreated Call of Duty safehouse. The programme used creator and brand channels, streamer activity, press and paid social. It reported 12.6M organic views and 374K+ campaign engagements.

Starbucks’ Harry Potter collection in Thailand used another model. Influencer seeding introduced the collection before a media and blogger event. The full campaign reported over 5.3M engagements and nearly 18M reach, combining anticipation with coverage of the launch experience.

Burson is suited to a buyer whose India brief needs production and communications to follow a common launch plan. The cases show how a competition and a product collection can each give creators a reason to participate. That makes the proposed creative format, casting and distribution responsibilities useful points of comparison when choosing the agency team for your audience.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 17/25
Client Impact 9/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 9/25

Industries Burson serve

  • Gaming
  • Food and beverage
Influencer.in logo

Influencer.in

35 /100
Mumbai, India Creator marketing agency and platform from Social Beat

Influencer.in is a managed creator agency and platform from Social Beat, with offices in India. Its selected cases focus on consumer discovery through creators, including a restaurant programme tied to named cities. That makes the work relevant to buyers who can define where the customer action should happen.

For Smoke House Deli in Delhi and Bangalore, the agency used creator content to present the restaurant experience. The case reports 80K+ reach, 70K+ views and 7K+ engagements. Those are separate campaign measures, each useful for discussing how the content was distributed and received.

For Go Colors, the agency worked with mom creators in an India campaign. It reported 365K+ reach and 15K+ engagements. The casting gave the apparel brief a specific audience perspective through the people making the content.

Influencer.in suits a shortlist for a city activation or a consumer product aimed at a defined audience group. Its cases provide direct Indian delivery examples to examine, with the customer setting visible in the work. Compare the proposed creators with the locations and audience interests in your brief, then agree the content and customer response the programme should support.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 13/25
Client Impact 11/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 11/25

Industries Influencer.in serve

  • Apparel
  • Food & Beverages

Platforms Influencer.in cover

  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Greenroom Now logo

Greenroom Now

34 /100
Bengaluru, India Content and influencer studio for brand programmes

Greenroom Now is a content and influencer studio based in Bengaluru. Its selected work includes a South India programme for Horlicks Women’s Plus and an apparel campaign for XYXX. The portfolio is relevant when the agency brief needs varied creator formats within a common consumer message.

For Horlicks, Greenroom ran an ongoing programme using regional creators, television personalities and a culinary creator. The work combined calcium-awareness content with familiar lifestyle and food settings. The agency reports approximately 3.7M views across the programme, with 299K+ likes and 3.1K+ comments.

XYXX used vox-pop content and regional creators to present the apparel brand. Its campaign reported 1.37M views. That is a separate content approach, using audience-facing conversation alongside creator interpretation of the brief.

Greenroom is a useful candidate for a team that wants to buy the creative production around regional casting. Horlicks shows a continuing programme with distinct types of contributors, while XYXX shows another way to develop consumer content. These examples let you discuss the role of each format in the India brief and how product accuracy and creator expression will be reviewed together.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 15/25
Client Impact 9/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 10/25

Industries Greenroom Now serve

  • Nutrition
  • Apparel

Platforms Greenroom Now cover

  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Grynow

34 /100
Gurugram, India

Grynow operates from Gurugram and manages influencer campaigns across creator tiers. Its selected consumer work shows different reasons for viewers to engage: a fashion-store experience for PUMA and nostalgic stories for Paper Boat. Those formats give an India buyer concrete creative approaches to compare.

For PUMA’s Propah Lady collection, creators visited outlets and captured moments for social content. Personalised notes connected the gifting to the collection’s celebrity association. The agency reports 800K+ achieved views and a roster of 60 KOLs for the campaign.

Paper Boat’s campaign asked creators to tell nostalgic stories and encouraged viewers to share their own memories in comments. The case reports 2.8M under an average-views label. That measure retains its published basis, distinct from the PUMA campaign’s achieved-view total.

Grynow suits a product brief where the creator experience should give viewers something to respond to. A store visit makes the apparel tangible; personal memories give the beverage story an emotional context. The choice between those approaches should follow the audience and product role in your own brief, with casting and production organised around the content you want to make.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 13/25
Client Impact 12/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 9/25

Platforms Grynow cover

  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Monk-E logo

Monk-E

34 /100
India (campaign market) Creator management and branded video production company

Monk-E is a creator management and production company whose selected work includes branded shows for Mountain Dew and IKEA India. Its portfolio is useful when the brief needs a format viewers can return to, with the product or brand playing a role across a programme.

Mountain Dew’s nationwide podcast and story programme reported 140M+ YouTube views and 11M+ total engagements. Those are cumulative programme results. The content gave the brand a continuing storytelling format through creator participation.

IKEA’s My Happy Space series covered Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. It reported 14M+ YouTube views and 100K+ engagements. The home setting gave creators a subject to explore while the brand appeared within the experience being shown.

Monk-E fits buyers considering a branded series, a creator partnership or a larger video-production assignment. Its cases make the programme format the central buying decision. A team choosing this approach can assess how the creator carries the story, how the product appears over repeated content and what production responsibilities the agency will own. The reported totals should be read at that continuing-programme scope when planning the measurement for your own work.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 16/25
Client Impact 7/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 11/25

Industries Monk-E serve

  • Food & Beverages
  • Home & Living

Platforms Monk-E cover

  • YouTube
Finnet Media logo

Finnet Media

31 /100
Mumbai, India Creator partnerships with content strategy and production

Finnet Media is a Mumbai agency combining creator partnerships with content strategy and production. Its selected ClearTax and CRED cases give an India marketing manager direct examples of finance creators explaining a product or a customer task through social content.

For ClearTax, the agency targeted Indian taxpayers through finance-focused creators on Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. The campaign reported 14M+ total views across 39 activations, alongside 600K+ likes. The activations are the agency’s reported delivery unit, while views and likes describe the audience response.

The CRED Pay Days campaign used finance and fintech content on Instagram and YouTube. It reported 1M+ views and 200K+ likes. This provides a separate product example for reviewing how the agency connects a financial service with creators who discuss the subject.

Finnet suits a shortlist when the buying task is product education and subject relevance matters to the casting. The selected work gives you practical content to examine for clarity, product accuracy and the customer action being presented. A proposal can then define how your team will review the explanation and what response the campaign is intended to measure.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 12/25
Client Impact 9/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 10/25

Industries Finnet Media serve

  • Fintech

Platforms Finnet Media cover

  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn

How to choose an agency for your India campaign

Begin with the audience groups your product can serve. List the relevant regions and languages, then explain the customer situation the content should address. A broad national objective can still require different creative treatments. Give the agency enough detail to recommend how those treatments should differ. Avoid asking for a large creator roster before agreeing what the content needs to communicate and how people can act on it.

Match the agency's production experience to the job. Product education requires creators who can explain and demonstrate accurately. A store launch needs content connected to a place and a moment. A continuing branded show needs an idea that can sustain attention across repeated publishing. Read cases for those delivery details as well as results. Ask the proposed team to describe the decisions that shaped the work and how they apply to your brief.

Make language review part of production. Agree who writes the source brief and who checks each version for meaning and product accuracy. Creators should understand which claims are fixed and which parts they can express in their own style. Request examples of regional adaptations when they matter to the assignment. The review plan should explain how your internal team approves the work without forcing every creator into identical wording.

Scope any testing before you commission the full programme. State what you want to learn, such as which product explanation or content format earns a useful response. Keep the reporting definitions consistent enough to compare the variations. Ask how the agency will account for differences in audience and distribution when interpreting the result. A useful test ends with a decision about the next brief, supported by the evidence collected during delivery.

Check the casting and distribution plan together. Ask for audience geography and subject relevance for each proposed creator, then identify where paid media will support the content. Confirm how the agency handles creator availability, product delivery and replacements. If the work includes a physical location, agree who coordinates access and permissions. These practical responsibilities affect the content you receive and should be visible before you approve the scope.

Compare costs against the same deliverables. Separate agency management, creator fees and production, then include translation or local review where required. Define what counts as a new concept, an edited variation and a reshoot. Rights should cover the channels and uses you expect, with paid distribution identified in the quote. Ask how additional regions, languages or publishing periods change the price so expansion is a planned choice.

Use the final discussion to test reporting discipline. Have the agency show how it separates cumulative programme reach, individual post views and customer actions. For sales or acquisition claims, ask for the measurement basis and the wider activity involved. Delay the appointment if the proposed creators don't match the audience, language approvals have no owner or the quote leaves production and rights unclear. Resolve those points before the campaign starts consuming your team's time.

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Start with the audience groups and the content job. Define regions and languages where they affect the work, then review cases that resemble the planned campaign. The proposed team should explain creator selection, production ownership and how it will report against your objective.

Decide that from the message and intended audience. Ask the agency which elements can stay consistent and which need a local creative treatment. Product claims should remain accurate across versions, while the creator should have room to communicate in a way their audience understands.

Compare proposals against a shared scope covering creator work, management, production and rights. Add language review, location filming and paid distribution where needed. Ask how the fee changes when you add a region or commission a new concept. Published campaign outcomes do not establish an agency price.

Look for examples showing how creators used or explained the product. Ask who checks technical details and how scripts are reviewed before filming. A useful proposal connects the demonstration to the intended customer question and identifies the action the content should support.

Define the decision you want the test to inform before production. Keep the measurement clear and document differences in audience and distribution. The agency should explain what it learned from the response and show how that finding changes the next set of content.

Keep those measures separate. Reach concerns the audience reported as exposed, while views concern recorded viewing activity under the source definition. Cumulative reach can include repeated audiences. Check whether a case reports a programme total, an average or an individual post result before comparing figures.

NeoReach appears first because it is the publisher and Featured agency. It is neither ranked nor scored. Our international cases describe their original audiences and programme results. Competitors follow the fixed Influencer Power Index order.

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Ranking methodology explained

Every agency on a NeoReach ranking is scored out of 100. On this list that is four dimensions worth 25 each: three read off public records, one judged against a written rubric. A low score means the public record behind an agency is thin, which is not the same as saying its campaigns are weak. Plenty of good agencies publish very little.

We reviewed agency services, office evidence and live creator case studies. Competitors qualify through a verified office in this market or explicit published campaign delivery here, alongside results for distinct named clients. The case geography is stated separately from the agency location. Competitors follow the unchanged Influencer Power Index, with equal weight on Creative Quality, Client Impact, Industry Recognition, and Revenue and Growth. NeoReach is the publisher and appears first as Featured. NeoReach is neither ranked nor scored on this list.

Why these 4 for this list

Creative Quality examines how the idea becomes useful creator content. Client Impact considers evidenced campaign delivery and results. Industry Recognition adds awards and external coverage. Revenue and Growth considers business scale and continuity. Combine these measures with the audience, language and production requirements in your India brief.

Creative Quality /25
Campaign originality, content innovation and creative execution, read off published case studies, the awards a body of work has taken and the campaign formats an agency actually runs
Client Impact /25
Measurable results delivered to clients: return, engagement, reach, revenue. Counted from the named brands an agency has published work for, how many of its cases carry a quantitative result, and how many client categories that work spans
Industry Recognition /25
Validation from outside the agency: awards weighted by tier, platform partnerships, tier-one press and conference presence
Revenue & Growth /25
Business scale and trajectory: team size band, years in market and office footprint

What is not counted

Anything an agency will only say in a pitch. Unpublished results, client logos with no campaign behind them, and awards entered but not won. Where an agency has nothing a dimension can count, it lands on that dimension's floor, and its entry says so.

The rubric is fixed, not set against whichever agency happens to lead. The same record earns the same points for every agency on the page, NeoReach included.