About Us
We blend strategy, creative, and production to deliver a creative advantage.
On-point, beautifully executed branding and campaigns, and all without a trip around the houses.
It is quite simple: I really enjoyed working with you! Fast, creative, with a lot of understanding for the situation I was in. And then the rapid, uncomplicated additions when the media team changed their minds. A really very good experience! Nothing to complain about at all!
Rainer Brock
Head of Content and Platform, Kaspersky
What we do
We're thinkers and makers. Strategically precise, creatively ambitious, and technically driven.
Creating ad campaigns, brand identities, and custom production apps that give us and our clients an uncompromised creative advantage.
Original ideas. High-quality craft. Engineered to land.
Our setup
We got fed up watching thinking pulled apart from execution. The bigger the team, the more distance between the idea and what’s produced.
We're two people – Emma, strategist, writer, and operations; and Ross, creative director, filmmaker, and developer – with a book built from Ogilvy, Saatchis, Founded, and more.
Years of senior experience, paired with a tech setup most studios ten times our size don't have. That’s how we can promise a better creative experience.
Ross and Emma are an incredible complementary team, able to build trust fast, and reward that trust with challenge, ideas and innovation, beyond my experience of any other marketing agency. I was confident I would love the new position for my company – my vision, finally articulated to the world
Robin Barker
CEO, People Unlimited
I would highly recommend The Smugglers as an agile, strategic and, of course, creative force to work with. Looking forward to more ideas.
Martin Troughton
Marketing Director, Safestyle PLC
How we work
We're not technologists who learned about creativity.
We're creatives who build.
Our tech infrastructure is in-house: hardware, software, and agents engineered for local, sovereign processing. No cloud dependencies. No third-party data sharing. No superficial wrappers, and no off-the-shelf software where a better tool can be built.
Fast, frictionless, average digital landfill is no way to sustain a brand. We're building a way out of that. Developing new apps and plugins to eliminate the baked-in limitations of trad production tools and open new creative possibilities.
Smuggling ideas into people's hearts and minds, smashing a few barriers in the way.