Loukas Hambi

5 years ago, I quit my job in print to start Hambi Media.

Since then, we’ve helped 150+ DTC brands scale to 7 and 8 figures and spent over £150M on creative. We leveraged:

1. Compelling performance creatives
2. Ad campaigns that drive leads and sales
3. High-production studio for ecom brands (in-house)
5. Landing pages designed to convert
5. Social media management expertise

The road wasn’t always easy.

Hambi is now almost 20 people and we’ve grown at 400% in the past year.

2 years ago, I also co-founded For You Advertising - the fastest growing TikTok agency.

We’re one of the only agencies in the UK officially partnered with TikTok.

If you want to scale your e-commerce brand with a holistic partner who does everything creative for you, reach out at loukas@hambimedia.co.uk.

Co-Founder

2026 is about building systems that teach the algorithm who to find and how to convert them.

The top 10% of brands are already doing it.

We’ve pulled together exactly what they’re doing differently and how you can apply it in one resource:

🚨 THE 2026 D2C PLAYBOOK: The New Rules of Meta, TikTok, AI & Performance Creative

2026 is the reset year.

If your ads aren’t built for algorithmic feeds and personalised signals, you won’t scale.

Every platform is now fully personalised.

You’re not competing in interest groups anymore You’re competing inside each user’s unique feed.

And at the same time…

People crave connection more than ever.

They want emotion and authenticity, not just AI-fed precision.

So what wins in 2026? Brands that blend machine logic with human insight.

This is your roadmap to profitable, personalised growth across Meta, TikTok, Google, and AI workflows.
- What’s working
- What’s out
- What’s next

Get the playbook. Build for what’s coming:  https://lnkd.in/e2RZmsvs

If you'd like to work with us in 2026, you can get in touch with the team here: https://lnkd.in/eeaTd3cd

CEO of Hambi Media | Co-Founder of For You Advertising | CCO of Soar Hold Co | your DTC brand’s one stop destination for Performance Creative

🚨We're still taking applications for the UK’s first Creative Strategist Incubator role!

This is not a junior marketing role.
It’s not an internship.
It's a training ground for the next generation of elite Creative Strategists in e-commerce.

Over the last few years, we’ve trained and developed dozens of creative strategists inside Hambi Media / Soar With Us Group. What we’ve learned is simple:

Great creative strategists aren’t hired. They’re built.

What compounds isn’t just individual talent, it’s the network effect of strategists learning together, pressure-testing ideas, sharing context, and raising the bar collectively.

That’s what this Incubator formalises.

Think of it as the MBA for Creative Strategy:

✅ Real accounts

✅ Real performance pressure

✅ Real feedback

✅Real ownership

Compressed years of experience into months, inside one of the strongest creative strategy ecosystems in the UK.

If you’re early in your career, deeply curious, commercially sharp, and obsessed with how creativity actually drives performance, this is your launchpad.

More details here: https://lnkd.in/e6wta8Wp

Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eEGEw5c2

We’re not just hiring strategists. We’re building the next wave.

Elliot Scott

Content, Social Media & Marketing

Founder & CEO at ElliotDigital | Retention marketing for DTC brands | Email & SMS marketing

Hey, I’m Elliot — founder of ElliotDigital, a multi award-winning retention marketing agency helping leading eCommerce brands turn browsers into loyal customers through world-class email & SMS.

Since launching in 2021, we’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the most loved DTC brands on the planet, including:

- CRAFTD London
- Candy Kittens
- Magic Mind
- Untamed
- Cake Box
- Heights
- Free Soul
- SURREAL
- Days brewing

Too many brands treat retention as an afterthought. They pour time and budget into paid ads, but leave money on the table with clunky email design, shallow segmentation, or disconnected customer journeys.

That’s where we come in.

We combine data-driven strategy with beautiful, high-converting creative, to boost LTV, drive repeat orders, and make retention a brand-building channel.

Founder & Owner

Been looking back at our work in 2025…

Thousands of emails.
Dozens of launches.
Unbelievably cool brands.
(Some very full inboxes.)

Proud of everything we’ve shipped for our partners!
The strategy, the copy and the design.

It was hard to pick, but here are 24 of my favourite emails we sent in 2025 ✉️

Scroll through and tell me which one’s your favourite 👉

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#retention #emailmarketing #ecommerce #klaviyo #emaildesign

Retention marketing for DTC brands | Founder & CEO at ElliotDigital | Email & SMS marketing

ElliotDigital - Emails of the Year 2025

I studied Biomedical Science at university…

So it’s no surprise we have a real affinity for health & wellness brands at ElliotDigital.

When brands talk ingredients, mechanisms, claims, or compliance -
I genuinely love it.

It also means:
• We don’t oversimplify
• We don’t over-claim
• And we know how to turn science into clear, compelling email storytelling

Because great health & wellness marketing isn’t about hype.

It’s about trust, education, and long-term retention!

And if design matters to you as much as science does…

Here’s a look at some of the work we’ve done for leading health & wellness brands 👉 

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If you’re a health or wellness brand looking for email that respects the science and still converts - Shoot me a DM.

ElliotDigital | Retention Marketing Agency

#retention #emailmarketing #healthandwellness #ecommerce #klaviyo

Health and Wellbeing Design inspo - ElliotDigital

Every one of these started as a blank screen.

No templates. No shortcuts.

Our in-house strategy & creative teams really crushed it in January.

We shipped deep, long-term benefit breakdowns…

and simple, scroll-stopping product moments.

A few of my favourites from the month. But which one’s your pick? 👇

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#retention #emailmarketing #ecommerce #klaviyo #emaildesign

Churn will always catch up with you

But the brands that slow it down don’t just rely on reminders or discounts.

They build stickiness into the subscription itself.

That’s why it’s encouraging to see loyalty finally being treated as part of the subscription system - Not just a hopeful bolt-on.

When loyalty, credits, tiers and referrals all live inside the subscription portal.

1. Customers see the value as they manage their orders

2. You can surface rewards at the exact moment someone is considering cancelling (and what they lose if these do)

3. And you can actually measure how loyalty impacts CLTV and churn, not just points issued

That connection matters.

I’m also a big believer that referrals help break the subscription death curve - that moment where growth flattens and you’re just replacing churn.

Using subscribers as an acquisition channel is powerful.

And when referrals are native to the subscription experience, it becomes frictionless.

The more loyalty is embedded into how subscriptions work, the more resilient the program becomes.

Big shout out to the Skio team who just launched all of these features in their new Loyalty update!!

We’ve been quietly using Skio Loyalty with a few select brands over the last few months, and needless to say, we're rolling it out across more & more brands.

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Wanna talk subscriptions? DM me.

#subscriptions #retention #loyalty #ecommerce #skio

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