Growth Strategy
that delivers
For Challenger Brands that defy conventions & demand results.




Digital campaigns we've worked on.





Paid media, re-engineered to perform.
Most paid advertising strategies are trapped in a cycle of mediocrity. Brands & agencies follow the same tired playbook: isolating paid ads from other channels, churning out generic ad creatives, and chasing short-term metrics while ignoring sustainable growth.
The result? Wasted budgets, forgettable campaigns, and a nagging feeling that there must be a better way.
We found it.
At 5&Vine, we rewrite the rules of marketing so that you can rewrite the rules of your industry.
We break the status quo with an experimentation framework that integrates paid ads into your holistic marketing strategy. No guesswork. No silos. Just measurable progress.
You don’t need another know-it-all agency. You need a partner who replaces rigid tactics with collaborative experimentation–because real growth isn’t luck. It’s engineered.
Where smarter strategy meets scroll-stopping creative.

Find the flaws in the status quo
We expose the cracks in your competitors’ playbooks — the emotional blind spots they’ve missed and the outdated category conventions they still cling to. By mapping frustrations and unmet needs, we craft an ad strategy that lets you capitalize on the white space.

Identify your 5 Stones & Slingshot
Instead of treating ads as standalone campaigns, we integrate them into a full-funnel strategy where all the pieces work together to amplify each other. We ideate fresh angles for your ads that break the mold and bring real results instead of chasing vanity metrics.

Strike with relentless precision
We pinpoint the advertising opportunities with the highest potential to win. Then, we test and refine the ads through rapid sprints and optimize them across audiences, creatives, copy & formats. Our campaigns have one goal: to move prospects from curiosity to action.
Before the Challenger Brand System
- Running ad campaigns in silos from other marketing touchpoints
- Playing it safe with tired digital advertising playbooks
- Scattered, spray-and-pray approach to paid advertising
- Chasing vanity metrics that look good on paper but don’t bring real business results
- Bland ad creatives & copy that fit within the industry status quo
- Wasted ad budget on campaigns that run forever and don’t deliver results
After the Challenger Brand System
- Running ad campaigns that integrate & amplify your other marketing touchpoints
- Breaking through industry norms with scroll-stopping ads
- Intentionally designed and targeted ads that actually hit home
- Strategic paid ad campaigns that drive real growth beyond just spreading brand awareness
- Mission-driven ads that break the mold and stop the scroll
- A growth-driven team that continuously tests, iterates, and refines your ad campaigns for better performance
See how our Challenger Brand System outsmarts the status quo
Ads rooted in organic insights

Against the grain advertising

Digital FAQs
A digital marketing agency is your partner in navigating the digital landscape to help your brand succeed.
5&Vine’s Challenger Brand Framework helps brands challenge category norms and win. Developed with first hand insight into the playbooks and blindspots leveraged by industry incumbents, alongside the successful (and often counter intuitive) strategies leveraged by challengers, we help you identify your unfair advantage, and win.
While our marketing strategies are customized to your specific needs, we assist clients in defining or refining their brand profile, voice, positioning, value proposition, Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) and target audience personas, brand pillars, manifesto, tagline, key marketing channels, strategic communications strategy, customer loyalty and partner experience, pricing, customer journey, and marketing funnel. These foundational efforts serve as a roadmap for the development of a digital marketing plan and guide all future strategic and marketing initiatives.
Once the digital marketing plan is in place, 5&Vine is well-equipped to support execution, including services like paid search, paid social, lead generation, content marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), and creative development.
We believe in the intersection between storytelling and data-driven marketing. Our approach to crafting paid ads is systematic yet designed to breed innovation.
A typical growth sprint involves creating and testing ad creatives, optimizing campaigns based on test results, and proposing new sprints based on analytics, curiosities, and inspiration. We document every step for future reference in the process of continuous improvement.
1) Impactful Brand First: We believe that holistic strategy is critical before delving into tactical execution. We always start by understanding your brand holistically and refining if needed before developing a paid advertising strategy.
2) Scientific Process to Iterative Testing: We embrace a scientific approach to testing and refining strategies, allowing us to uncover what truly works for your brand.
3) Sprint Process: We organize our efforts into growth sprints, each ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months. Before each sprint, we define what we're testing (e.g., creative, audience, goals, channels) and what we aim to learn from each test.
4) Active Daily Account Management: We actively account every business day for most of our clients, ensuring campaigns stay on track.
5) Reporting Insights, Not Just Data: Our reporting goes beyond raw data. We provide valuable insights that help you understand the performance of your campaigns.
Our growth sprints are tailored to our client's needs, however they do follow a general structure:
- Duration: Sprints can range from 2 weeks to 2 months, depending on your scope.
- Planning: Before each sprint, we determine what aspects we're testing (e.g., creative, audience, goals, channels) and what insights we hope to gain.
- Creative Development: We create any necessary ad creatives for the sprint, either at 5&Vine, leveraging internal client resources or partnering with influencers/UGC creators.
- Testing: We test creatives in a specific test campaign with no crossover to the performance campaign.
- Optimization: Creatives that significantly outperform the performance campaign are graduated into the performance campaign where they replace underperforming ads, while others are kept in the hopper for future use when needed.
- Analytics Review: We analyze test results and other noteworthy data to inform future strategies in an insight-driven dashboard tailored to each sprint.
- New Sprint Brief: Based on past sprint results, curiosity, inspiration, and analytics, we propose new sprints to drive ongoing growth.
Optimization frequency depends on the scope of work. For most clients, we verify accounts once every business day, with more substantial optimizations aligned with the sprint schedule. This proactive approach ensures your campaigns remain finely tuned for maximum effectiveness.
We have collaborated with many impactful brands to create digital marketing strategies and run paid advertising campaigns including Pura, Fresh N’ Lean, Dialogue, Instant Financial, Honed and The Logic.
Explore our portfolio or reach out if you’re curious about our experience in a particular sector or service.
We work with clients of various stages from startups to Fortune 500 in the following industries: Fashion, Fintech, Food & Beverage, Medtech, Proptech, Retail, SaaS, Smarthome, Subscription and Sustainability. Explore our work.
Complete the Contact form and we’ll be in touch within 3-5 business days for complimentary 30-minute consultation on your brand’s next chapter.
Complete the Contact form and we’ll be in touch within 3-5 business days for complimentary 30-minute consultation on your brand’s next chapter.
We don’t do “safe” or “status quo.” We push boundaries to build paid ads that actually move the needle. Ready to cut through the digital noise with ads that get noticed? Fill out the form below to connect with Rahul, our Founder & CMO.





