Creative Director · Brand · Growth · AI

Somay Bhatnagar

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01 — Selected Work

Recent
highlights

Brands I've shaped and growth I've driven across gaming, tech and consumer.

15+
Years leading brand & creative
200M+
Audience reach across Google, YouTube & Uber
10 → 52
Creative org scaled & led
40%
Faster delivery via AI-embedded workflows
02 — Experience

The track record

15+ years across gaming, tech, social commerce and the world's most-awarded agencies.

2025 — Now
Founding Creative Director & Brand Lead @ B POP Beverages
Own brand, creative, AI and partnerships end-to-end for a new-age FMCG brand that turns every bottle into a "mini-billboard" media surface. Built identity, packaging and go-to-market from zero; secured ~6 brand partnerships in the first ~6 months.
Bengaluru, IN
2022 — 2025
Creative Director @ Gameskraft
Led creative vision across 8 business units incl. RummyCulture (India's #1, 32M+ players). Scaled the creative org 10 → 52, embedded AI to cut turnaround ~40%, grew the Rummy business 3X at ~90% MoM retention, and launched Truco Patrão for LATAM. Delivered the celebrity-led 'Culture of Champions' campaign and a Guinness World Record tournament (215K+ participants). Represented the org as a thought leader across industry events.
Bengaluru, IN
2021 — 2022
Head of Creative @ Trell
Led product thinking, content strategy, brand and design at a social-commerce platform of ~50M+ MAU. Defined frameworks for 6 private-label brands, compressing launch cycles ~25% via reusable creative systems.
Bengaluru, IN
2019 — 2021
Creative Director @ Dentsu Webchutney
Agency-side brand & creative liaison for Google India, YouTube (India & APAC), YouTube Shorts & FanFest, Uber India, POCO, Glance and Airtel. Owned experience design for Google for India, Google Maps 15th Anniversary and the Google Discover launch — during Webchutney's run as Spikes Asia Country Agency of the Year (2019).
Bengaluru, IN
Earlier
Creative leadership @ Kubric · Total Environment · Myntra · Razorfish
Creative Director, Sr. Manager (Brand Design), Creative Lead and Sr. Art Director roles across consumer, retail and tech — clients including Myntra, ESPN, Star India, Maruti Suzuki, Airtel and Vodafone.
India
03 — About
Somay Bhatnagar

I build brands — and the teams that build them.

For 15+ years I've lived at the intersection of creative and commercial — leading brand creative, agency–client liaison and omni-channel communication for Google, YouTube, Uber, Airtel and category-defining gaming brands.

At Gameskraft I scaled a creative org from 10 to 52 and embedded AI into delivery to cut turnaround ~40% while protecting craft — managing the full loop from brand strategy to measurable revenue across India, APAC and LATAM.

Brand StrategyCreative DirectionBrand Architecture Omni-Channel CommsAI-Embedded WorkflowsContent LocalisationCross-Functional LeadershipThought Leadership & Speaking
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04 — Ways of working

Craft that scales

I don't just make the work — I hire the talent, build the systems and scale the org that makes it faster and better, pairing AI, tooling and partnerships with craft.

AI-embedded pipeline

Embedded AI across the creative delivery pipeline — cutting turnaround ~40% and reclaiming ~28% capacity, reinvested into IP and innovation.

Adobe partnership

Partnered with Adobe to bring their creative and generative-AI tooling into the team's workflow — upskilling the org and standardising a faster, higher-quality pipeline.

Scaled 10 → 52

Grew the creative organisation seven-fold without losing craft — building the team, the system and the standard that scaled with the business.

AI & tools stack
MidjourneyAdobe FireflyRunwayLuma AIBlenderChatGPTClaudeAdobe SubstanceTopazElevenLabs
05 — Recognition

Awarded & trusted

The work has reached hundreds of millions — and earned the industry's highest honours.

Cannes Lions

Part of India's most-awarded agency at Cannes during my Dentsu Webchutney years.

Spikes Asia '19

Country Agency of the Year — on the team behind Google & YouTube APAC work.

Guinness World Record

Creative for a record rummy tournament with 215K+ participants at Gameskraft.

Google Uber YouTube YouTube Shorts YouTube FanFest Gameskraft Airtel POCO Myntra Trell Maruti Suzuki Glance Publicis Groupe Dentsu
Open to select projects & advisory

Let's build
something real ↗

Have a brand to launch, reposition, or scale? I'd love to hear about it.