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MM Advertising’s roots go back to block printing before 1970. It has been accredited by the Indian Newspaper Society since 1998 and has been a partnership firm since 2014.

The second generation of the founding family runs MM Advertising today, and the third generation has joined.

Our office is at SF-8, ABC Complex, 6 Quinton Road, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Our clients’ plans are their business. We keep names private on our website and share references with serious enquiries.

Yes. Contact us and we will share relevant examples and references for your category.

MM Advertising is a 360° advertising agency in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It has roots in block printing begun before 1970, has been accredited by the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), New Delhi, since 1998, and has been a partnership firm since 2014. It plans, books, produces and runs BTL activations, outdoor and airport advertising, LED van campaigns, newspaper advertising and PR, TV, FM radio and cinema, events and sponsorships, branding and printing, and digital and AI campaigns. It proves its work with dated photographs of every site and activity, copies of published ads and broadcast confirmations.

Yes. MM Advertising plans and runs every medium with one team, so a campaign has one plan, one calendar, one set of creative and one report.

Tell us the cities, the dates and who you want to reach. We will come back with a plan across the right media, with rates. Call +91 93355 51113 or +91 93362 22242, or write to mm.advertising@gmail.com.

Check five things: accreditation (for newspapers, INS accreditation), what the agency does in-house rather than subcontracts, the range of media it can plan together, how it proves that the work ran, and references in your category. MM Advertising has been INS accredited since 1998, runs its own LED vans and branding workshop, plans every medium, and provides dated photographs of every site and activity.

An advertising agency plans which media will reach the people you want, books the media, produces the creative and the materials, runs the campaign and reports on it. A 360° agency such as MM Advertising does this across outdoor, print, broadcast, BTL, events, branding and digital.

It depends on the media, the number of sites or insertions, the dates and the production. A hoarding is priced by site and period, a newspaper ad by size, position and edition, and an LED van by vans and days. Share your goals and budget range and we will show what it can buy.

ATL (above the line) uses mass media such as television, radio and newspapers to reach many people at once. BTL (below the line) reaches people directly and in person through activations, sampling, roadshows, in-store branding and events. TTL (through the line) combines both.

Yes. We run work for national brands in other Indian cities, and we book newspapers and airport media across India.

Below-the-line (BTL) marketing reaches people directly and in person: activations, sampling, roadshows, in-store branding and events. Above-the-line (ATL) marketing uses mass media such as television, radio and newspapers. Most campaigns in Uttar Pradesh use both.

It depends on the number of towns and days, the formats, the size of the team, production and any permissions. Send us the towns, dates and audience and we will send a plan with rates.

Yes. We plan teams and routes town by town and run them in parallel, with one report for the whole campaign.

You get dated photographs of every site and activity, showing where and when, with the invoice, and daily reports while the campaign runs.

A van with a large LED screen and a sound system plays your video on a planned route, halting where people gather. It suits launches, admissions, real estate site visits and awareness campaigns across many towns.

Yes. MM Advertising runs its own fleet of LED vans and adds hired vans at peak times, so a campaign can cover more towns at once.

A landscape video with large text and clear sound works best. We check every file before the campaign and can adapt it for the screen.

You get dated photographs from the route and the halts, with the invoice, and reports while the campaign runs.

Yes. We created and produced our own ticketed show, the Raftaar Concert in Lucknow, in February 2023, and brands can sponsor it.

Yes. We manage sponsor deliverables at events in other cities, checking each promised item on the day and reporting with photographs.

Branding is made in our own workshop. Stage, sound and light come from specialist partners we manage, so one team is accountable for the whole event.

Market and mall activations, roadshows with LED vans, product sampling and demonstrations, in-store branding, society and campus activations, and events at haats and melas.

Neither is better on its own. ATL builds wide awareness quickly; BTL turns it into trials, enquiries and sales on the ground. Campaigns in Uttar Pradesh usually need both.

Count what happened (dated photographs of every location and day), who took part, who responded (leads, scans, calls) and, where you can track it, sales in activated areas.

Yes. Under the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000, a loudspeaker needs written permission from the authority, may not be used between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. except in closed premises or limited festival exceptions, and areas of at least 100 metres around hospitals, educational institutions and courts can be declared silence zones.

Market days, mornings and evenings when people are out, and around schools, offices and markets as they open and close. Plan each day’s halts around those moments.

Short enough to be seen in full at a halt, with the message in the first few seconds and the brand on screen throughout.

Tell us the areas, dates and audience. We shortlist approved sites with photographs and rates, you choose, we produce and mount the creative, and the site goes live on the agreed date. You get dated photographs as proof.

Lucknow Municipal Corporation (Nagar Nigam). No hoarding or sign may go up without prior written permission from the Municipal Commissioner or an authorised officer, and sites are allotted to media owners. Booking approved sites keeps a campaign within the rules.

Yes. We book metro media in Lucknow, and airport media at Lucknow and other airports across India.

Yes. A QR code or WhatsApp number on a hoarding or LED screen lets people act on what they see, and lets you count the response.

We book media at Lucknow and the other Adani-run airports (Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Jaipur, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangaluru), across airport inventory sold by Times OOH, and at Ayodhya, Gorakhpur and Noida (Jewar) airports. Other airports can be arranged when a campaign needs them.

As early as you can. Good sites at busy airports are often booked well ahead, especially before festive seasons. Share your dates and we will check what is open.

Airports offer both static and digital formats, and the options change over time. We check the current inventory at Lucknow airport for your dates and share what is available.

Yes. We produce the creative to each airport's specifications and coordinate installation with the airport's media team.

As few as possible: a short line, one image, the brand and one way to respond, such as a phone number or QR code. People read a hoarding in a few seconds from a moving vehicle.

A unipole is a hoarding mounted on a single tall pole, so it can be seen from far away on highways and wide roads.

Airport operators sell media themselves or through media companies they appoint, so the seller depends on the airport. An agency can plan and book across several sellers for one campaign.

It depends on the goal: departures after security for longer messages and premium products, arrivals and baggage halls for local services and real estate, approach roads for wide reach around the airport.

Look at passenger traffic (published by the Airports Authority of India), the mix of travellers, the zones available, and the dates of festive seasons and events in each city.

Yes. MM Advertising has been accredited by the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), New Delhi, since 1998.

Yes. We book display ads, classifieds and notices in Hindi and English dailies across Uttar Pradesh and India, edition by edition.

Yes. We book legal, tender and public notices in the papers and editions you need, and send you a copy of the published notice.

A few days ahead is usually enough for a standard display ad. Front pages, special positions and festive dates fill early, so book those as soon as the date is fixed.

Yes. We plan and book FM radio spots and sponsored segments in Lucknow and other cities of Uttar Pradesh, and confirm when they ran.

Yes. We book cinema screens across Uttar Pradesh, town by town, for ads before the film and in the interval.

Yes. We plan and book regional and national TV, including Doordarshan, around the programmes your audience watches.

Accreditation by the Indian Newspaper Society recognises an advertising agency with member publications, gives it access to facilities such as credit from those publications, and holds it to the Society’s rules on payment and discounts.

By publication, edition, size, position, colour and day, usually per square centimetre or per column centimetre for display ads, from the publisher’s rate card.

Ask your agency for a copy of the published page, or the e-paper page, for every edition and date booked.

Yes. We survey outlets, make the branding in our workshop and install it, with dated photographs of every outlet.

Yes. We can design the branding or work from your artwork, and adapt it to each size.

It depends on the number of outlets, the sizes and the locations. Tell us the outlets and dates and we will share a schedule.

Yes. Our in-house team creates content in Hindi and English and adapts it for each platform.

We use AI tools in the studio to explore ideas, make versions for each format and language, and speed up production. People on our team review everything before it goes out.

Yes. We plan them together. QR codes and WhatsApp numbers on outdoor, LED vans and activations lead people to your page or a conversation, so you can count the response.

Teasers usually start a few weeks before launch, with the most weight in launch week and the first weekends of site visits. We plan the calendar around your launch date and approvals.

UP RERA requires the project's RERA registration number and the UP RERA portal in big, bold type in a prominent place on every advertisement, and, since July 2024, the project's UP RERA QR code in brochures and advertisements.

Yes. We make it in our own workshop and install it with our teams, with dated photographs of every installation.

Before board results, so the institution is known when families start comparing. Spending usually peaks in the weeks after results and continues while applications are open.

Yes. Vans can cover several feeder towns on a planned route, halting at markets, coaching centres and schools where allowed.

Yes. As an INS accredited agency since 1998, we book legal notices in Hindi and English dailies, edition by edition, and send a copy of the published notice.

Yes. We plan and run awareness activations and camps in markets, colonies and villages, with trained teams and dated photographs of every camp.

Yes. LED vans, activations and outdoor in district towns and villages, planned district by district, with dated photographs as proof.

Dated photographs of every site and activity, copies of published ads, reports by district and date, and matching invoices.

Yes. We plan, book and manage airport media for brands based outside India, with one point of contact and dated proof of every site.

Yes. We adapt sizes, formats and language, including Hindi versions, for each medium and city.

The festive season from Navratri to Diwali and Chhath in October and November is the biggest window. Weddings, harvest income in March and April and in October and November, and the results and admissions season from April to July also matter, depending on what you sell.

UP Board results usually arrive in April. From 2026, results of the first CBSE Class 10 board exam also come in April, with an optional second exam in May, and CBSE Class 12 results usually arrive in May. Check each year’s announcements.

Many families avoid large purchases during Pitru Paksha, the fortnight of remembering ancestors that falls in September or October, and buy after it ends, in Navratri.

Evidence that a booked ad or activity actually ran as agreed: dated photographs for outdoor and activations, published copies for newspapers, broadcast logs for TV and radio, and platform reports for digital.

Ask for dated photographs of every site with its location, at the start, during and at the end of the campaign, and after dark for lit sites, and match them to the invoice.