The ZainCo story

Since 2015

A YouTube channel, a marketing student’s curiosity and one simple idea: help good businesses be seen. This is how that idea became an award-winning agency, an academy and an AI studio.

  1. 2015

    It started on YouTube

    Before India’s digital revolution, when few businesses took online video seriously, our founder Shakir ZainCo started a YouTube channel, Zain TV, to understand how the platform and its audience really worked.

    He was studying for an MBA in Marketing at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad at the time, and Zain TV became his live classroom. After his studies, he also qualified the NET for PhD.

    Shakir ZainCo, founder of ZainCo Digital Consultancy
    Shakir ZainCo · Founder, who started Zain TV in 2015
  2. 2016

    ZainCo is born

    In 2016, Shakir founded ZainCo. The name comes from the Arabic word zain, meaning good: ZainCo simply means Good Company. It is a promise we still try to keep with every client.

    From Calicut, the team began helping local businesses with branding, design and the new world of digital marketing.

    زين zain · good
    ZainCo = Good Company
  3. 2021

    From Kerala to the GCC

    After the Covid pandemic, India went through a real digital revolution, and businesses everywhere needed to be online. ZainCo grew with it and expanded into the GCC, opening our Oman branch as NextaOne.

  4. 500+

    Brands that trust us

    Since then we have worked with more than 500 brands across India and the GCC. They include established names like Elaria Soap, with Mammootty as brand ambassador, Tasty Food in the UAE, Technozone KSA and Santec Chemicals in Kerala.

    See our work
    Elaria Soap campaign featuring brand ambassador Mammootty, by ZainCo Santec Chemicals brand identity by ZainCo
    Elaria Soap · Santec Chemicals
  5. 2021

    A team that wins

    Our people started collecting awards of their own. Jiyad ZainCo has been recognised for branding and creative design, and Rashid VK for video production.

    The same year, we started 360 Digi Academy to train the graphic designers and digital marketers our agency needed. It grew far beyond that: today it has trained 1,000+ students across 2 branches in Kerala, and its graduates work as professionals in Malta, the UK, the UAE and beyond.

    Jiyad ZainCo, award-winning branding and creative designer Jiyad ZainCoBranding & creative design
    Rashid VK, award-winning video producer at ZainCo Rashid VKVideo production
    360 Digi Academy logo
    Award-winning team · 360 Digi Academy
  6. 2024 · 2026

    Best Marketing Agency in Kerala

    As the marketing partner for South India’s largest retail expo, we were named Best Marketing Agency in Kerala in 2024 and again in 2026, after first being recognised for the expo in 2022. The awards came from results: thousands more retailers, hundreds more stalls and sponsors who earned back far more than they spent.

    How we won
    ZainCo team receiving the Best Marketing Agency in Kerala award, 2026 ZainCo receiving the marketing award at South India Retail Expo 2024
    2026 · 2024
  7. Now

    Building the tools businesses run on

    Today ZainCo is growing into software. Through ZainCo Intelligent Studio, we build CRM, ERP and other business products, so the companies we help market can also run better behind the scenes.

    Explore CRM development

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