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About

We exist to make things succeed.

An Aid to Achieving. Not a tagline. An operating principle that governs how we show up for every client, every campaign, and every piece of work this agency produces.

The Rallinca Media team.

The agency

A team that answers to a number.

Strategists, writers, media buyers, producers and community leads, working across the continent. A revenue growth team, not a creative department. Everyone on a piece of work knows the commercial target it exists to move, because that is the first thing we agree and the last thing we report on.

What we believe

Four convictions about how brands actually grow.

01

PR is not publicity.

Publicity is noise. PR, done properly, is the deliberate and sustained management of how a brand is perceived by the audiences that matter most to it. It is the long game of trust.

02

Marketing is not promotion.

Promotion is announcing. Marketing, done properly, is the strategic alignment of a brand's offer with an audience's real needs, communicated in a way that makes the audience feel that the brand understands them.

03

Trust is not built in a campaign.

It is built across every interaction a person has with that brand. Each interaction is either a deposit or a withdrawal. Our job is to design as many deposits as possible, over as long a period as possible, until the trust account is deep enough to withstand mistakes, competition, and time.

04

African markets run on community credibility.

Brands grow here through community credibility before individual persuasion. Word of mouth, community endorsement, and social proof carry weight that paid media cannot buy.

Why the agency exists

Communications that produce commercial results.

Rallinca was built on a conviction most agencies avoid: that communications should be measured by what it moves commercially, not by how it looks in a report.

So every engagement starts with the commercial question. What are you trying to sell, to whom, by when. The constraint gets diagnosed before anything is recommended. The intervention gets built around the target. The system gets handed over.

No vanity metrics. No activity reports dressed as strategy.

Where we work

Built for how business actually works on this continent.

Community credibility before individual persuasion. Offline channels alongside digital ones. Relationships that took years to build, put to work on a commercial target.

  • JohannesburgCorporate, mining, financial services, retail.
  • LagosConsumer brands, technology, venture backed growth.
  • NairobiEast African expansion and regional media.
  • Across AfricaMulti country campaigns and market entry.

Part of the Emergent Group

Build. Fund. Grow. Connect.

Rallinca Media is the growth engine of the Emergent Group, an ecosystem designed to help African businesses at every stage. A founder who builds with Entrepreneur Genie, raises with Funding Genie, and opens markets with Access Genie arrives at Rallinca with the commercial context already in place. That is the advantage: growth work that starts from what the business is actually trying to do.

Talk to us

Start with the number.

The fastest way to a useful answer is to tell us what you are trying to move. If you would rather write, the inbox is read every day.

What number are you trying to move?