UMM Digital (Formerly UMM Studios) is a creative agency, founded 10 years ago with a mission to provide various innovative marketing services through design, branding, web services and digital marketing. UMM has evolved to proffer one-stop-solution for brands, bridging the whole tech to marketing cycle with a mix of services that range from consumer insights and strategy to creativity, technology, and media. The company has its offices in Belgium, Dubai, and Chennai with 75+ employees. Recently, the company’s technology division got taken over and merged into a new brand called Ideomind.
About the Brain Child behind UMM – ‘A Proprietor of four Businesses’
Santhosh Palavesh, Founder and CEO of UMM Digital, is a hardcore believer of “Everything started as nothing.” The proverb always boosts him with a positive attitude, impelling him to become a serial entrepreneur who grew three more businesses (Ideomind Pvt. Ltd., (www.ideomind.io)The Cookie Digital (www.thecookie.in) and Takeoff Marketing Communications (www.wetakeoff.in)). He transformed them from startup to successful medium scalebusinesses through effective business planning, innovative marketing, creative and quality services.
He did Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical and Master of Business Administration in General Management from Anna University, Chennai. Santhosh hasexpertise in areas ranging from business administration to marketing and services to media and web technology fields.
He’s recognized by his clients and colleagues as a consummate professional with a high degree of personal integrity. He is known for a contagious passion for excellence, a talent for resourceful business solutions, and a capacity of Motivational Leadership.
Santhosh has won 12+ awards in various verticals: Quality Brand Awards 2012-14, RashtriyaUdyogRatna Award, Indira Gandhi Purashkar Award, Mother Teresa Excellence Award, European Quality Award, Nominee – European Business Assembly, Bharat SevaRatna Award, Janakalyan Award, Quality Grade Awards Of Business Excellence, and Gaurav Chakra Purashkar Award. He was also nominated for the GLOBAL ACHIEVER AWARD – DUBAI 2016, and the NFED AWARD 2015.
The Inception Story of UMM
As a second-year student of mechanical engineering in Velammal College of Engineering, Santhosh Palavesh and seven other friends made short films on the Handycam as a hobby. The films received praises from those who saw them, and the hobby turned into serious fun when the team began to enter every competition and won each one of them. And, before they knew it, they began making visual effects for ad films and Tamil movies, all the while learning the tricks of the trade from the Internet—right from how to mix sound to animation.
Today, eightyears later, 27-year-old Santhosh employs 60+people, and his company, UMM Studios, has 80+ clientele, which include big names such as Larsen and Toubro Ltd, Royal Bank of Scotland Plc., HCL Technologies Ltd and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. He has been focusing on Innovative branding & advertising, Web Technologies, Application Development, Custom Software, and Digital Marketing & Result Based Online Marketing Campaigns.
“I was a good student, and I had been placed in Caterpillar for a package of Rs.7.5 lakh, but I knew what I wanted,” recounts Santhosh. Having received Rs.75, 000 for an ad film they had just made, the choice was clear for him.
Services Propound
UMM defines designs and delivers integrated online marketing solutions that help businesses in scaling their digital visibility. UMM offers a unique performance driven marketing approach, where the focus in on driving business metrics and not just likes, comments, share. “Whats the use of a million likes or shares, when it doesn’t sell your product?” Asks Santhosh Palavesh
Thriving Digital
UMM believes that detailed research and prioritization of the key objectives of organizations are intrinsic to an effective strategy. Thus, its Google certified strategists help clients to devise their complete digital presence – from developing digital assets to monitoring their marketing efforts.
Every digital marketing service of the company, including Search Engine Marketing, email, Online Marketing, SEO and Social Media Marketing, function on the same belief. Their marketplace analysis, digital acquisition, asset development, digital media planning & optimization, and advanced analytics are the additional perks that portray the company as a one-stop-shop for all the digital marketing needs.
Our tech division “IDEOMIND” caters to Enterprise Mobility Management, Agile development, ERP/CRM/HRM, IoT and Application Development & Integration.
UMM takes pride in building strategic long-term client relationships. They achieve real business results that allow their clients to transform. Their clients experience their requirements being met on time, within budget and with high quality; greater efficiency and responsiveness to business; and the ability to shift investment to strategic initiatives rather than tactical functions. UMM help brands to create customer experiences and also thrives the digital economy, and helps companies enable to achieve their business goals and transformation objectives.
They spend their time to providebetter understanding to the client’s organization, before helping them to build a digital business strategy. UMM believes in adding value by looking at the larger perspective of the business and client’s position in it. Pureply by driving performance UMM got itself reclaimed as one of best digital marketing and branding agencies in Chennai & also to mention UMM got itself accredited as India’s top 20 digital agencies by Silicon India.
Future Insights
Santhosh believes in the power of Internet and technology and the influence it makes on daily lives. He says, “My interests lie in the innovative marketing, and I focus on marketing brands using creativity & technology in appropriate ratios. The combination of right as well as the left brain works!”
“My vision is to create the most performance driven digital agency in India driving branding & sales for brands. Digital future is big. As in the corporate world, where investors or public are looking forward to betting their investment, they prefer to invest on the winning horse that runs fast, and I love to be that horse,” assures Santhosh Palavesh.
UMM Digital: A One-Stop-Solution of Marketing Cycle with a blend of Services
