Advertising Should Work
for Everyone.
We started ADbuddy because local businesses deserved a better way to reach their customers: one that is affordable, easy to measure, and hard to ignore.
A simple observation.
Walk into any salon. Look around. Every customer is sitting in a chair, waiting 30 to 60 minutes. Their hands are busy. Their phone is in their pocket. They are relaxed, bored, and looking for something to watch.
Now think about where local businesses spend their advertising money. Billboards people glance at for 3 seconds while driving. Social media ads that get scrolled past in 1 second. YouTube ads that get skipped the moment the button appears.
The problem was never the product or the brand. The problem was that nobody was paying full attention.
We thought: what if we put a smart TV in that salon, ran local business ads on it, and gave advertisers 60 uninterrupted minutes with a real customer who has nowhere to go and nothing else to look at?
That single observation became ADbuddy.
“Make advertising work for every local business, one screen at a time.”
Big brands have agencies, large budgets, and full marketing teams. A tailor in Adajan or a clinic in Vesu has none of that. ADbuddy exists to level the playing field and give small businesses the same consistent, measurable, local reach that big brands take for granted. Affordable. Simple. Genuinely effective.
Two things. Done well.
We keep it focused. Two services, one city, real results. Everything else comes later.
Digital Signage Network
We install smart TV screens in salons across Surat. Local businesses book ad slots on those screens and play their ads to customers who sit there for 30–60 minutes, with no way to skip or look away. Simple concept. Powerful result.
Book a CampaignCreative Services
We create the ads too. Video production, graphic design, social media management, website development, print design: everything a local business needs to look professional and communicate clearly. We make it, you own it.
See ServicesA designer who taught himself to build the whole machine.
Kishan's first job wasn't design. It was teaching.
In 2012, while studying for his BCA, he taught Photoshop, CorelDRAW, and Microsoft Office part-time at a computer institute in Surat. A year later he was on the other side of the screen, designing logos, web banners, and app layouts for a local tech startup.
After graduating in 2015 he joined Supremo India as a remote graphic designer and stayed six years: logos, product catalogues, websites, social media, and WordPress builds. Six years with one brand teaches you what design is really for. It is not decoration, it is selling.
In 2021 he started ADbuddy as a design studio. It could have stayed one. But salons kept showing up as the perfect ad space nobody was using: customers sitting still for 30 to 60 minutes with nothing to look at.
Alongside ADbuddy, from 2024 to 2026 he designed for The D2D Experts, the US sales-training company led by Sam Taggart: Instagram content, motion graphics, event marketing, web visuals, brochures, and trade-show signage for an American audience, on American deadlines.
Meanwhile, ADbuddy built the network itself, with no signage vendor or outside software agency. The TV player and Android kiosk app, the cloud CMS, the proof-of-play reports, and the apps for salon owners, customers, and advertisers were all built in-house, with Kishan leading product and design. Today it runs on 25 salon screens across Surat.
In June 2026 the company became ADbuddy Digital Media Pvt. Ltd., now a DPIIT-recognised startup. The design studio never went away: the same team still creates brands, websites, and campaigns for clients in India and worldwide.
- 2012Teaching
Part-time computer faculty in Surat: Photoshop, CorelDRAW, Office.
- 2013First design job
Logos, banners, and app layouts for Unlockstore (SpaceHash).
- 2015Graduates & goes pro
BCA from VNSGU. Joins Supremo India as a remote designer for six years.
- 2021ADbuddy begins
Starts ADbuddy as a design studio in Surat.
- 2024Designing for the US
Graphic designer for Sam Taggart's The D2D Experts: social, motion, event, web, and trade-show work.
- 2026The network goes live
ADbuddy Digital Media Pvt. Ltd. incorporated and DPIIT-recognised; 25 salon screens live.
Work we've actually done.
Client design work from our Behance portfolio, plus live products our team built and runs. Click any card to see it.
RMR Innotech: Engineering CAD Services
Website for a SolidWorks CAD firm serving panel manufacturers worldwide
A website for RMR Innotech, an engineering firm providing SolidWorks design and CAD services to electrical panel manufacturers in the USA, Canada, Europe, and beyond: built to explain a technical B2B service clearly and turn visits into enquiries.
Aayojan Architect
WordPress portfolio website for an architecture practice
A WordPress website for Aayojan Architect (Ar. Haresh Mahadevwala) that showcases commercial and residential architecture projects with large, image-led project galleries.
Logo Design Collection
Logos for restaurants, pharma, fitness, real estate, trading, and non-profits
A set of logos for clients across very different industries: Zenmai (Asian dining), Benz Pharma, Todd Story, Kaushal Corporation, Active Fitness, Sampati Real Estate (Devanagari wordmark), Krishna Trading Corporation, Gold Kartoos, and Happy2Help. Each shown with its colour palette and light / dark versions.
Sky Salon: Salon Software Branding
Branding and brochure for a salon management app
Brand and marketing collateral for Sky Salon, a salon management software product, including the product brochure that presents the app on a point-of-sale device, in a dark-and-gold premium style.
Catalogue & Brochure Design
Travel, industrial, and product catalogues
Multi-page catalogues and brochures for travel packages (Turkey, Sri Lanka), Shakti Elevator's industrial goods lifts, and Supremo's portable-toilet product range. Each with its own layout system for photos, specs, and contact details.
Café Menu Design: Depresso
Chalkboard-style café menu with custom illustrations
A two-sided café menu for Depresso, with a chalkboard look, hand-drawn illustrations, playful copy, and clear price columns for coffee, shakes, mocktails, soups, and desserts.
Standee, Banner & Hoarding Design
Roll-up standees and large-format banners
Roll-up standees and banners for OneSpace interiors, a home-decor showroom, and a Neon Holi event: designed to be read from a distance, with one clear offer per piece.
Travel Blog Website: Sincerely A Traveller
Responsive travel blog design
A photo-led travel blog website for Sincerely A Traveller, designed to work across desktop, tablet, and mobile, with featured stories, destination categories, and a "must read" section.
PixPause
Product-claim checking site: "check the claim before you buy"
A consumer site that checks product marketing claims against linked evidence across phones, PCs, SaaS and AI tools, games, movies, cars, and more. We designed the brand and interface, built the site on Cloudflare, and run its SEO, structured data, and content automation.
SwapSages
Eco-product comparison site for the US market
An eco-friendly product swap site for US shoppers: a recommendation quiz, product comparisons, and buying guides that check ingredient lists and cost-per-use. We built the brand, the site, the admin hub and API, programmatic comparison pages, and branded Pinterest graphics.
ADbuddy Salon Screen Network
Digital signage network + salon owner, customer, and advertiser apps
Our own salon-screen ad network in Surat. We built all of it: the TV player and Android kiosk app, the content management system, a salon-owner app with bookings and a walk-in token queue, a customer app, and an advertiser portal with play-count reports.
More work: Behance portfolio · Brochure archive (Google Drive) · Upwork profile & reviews · LinkedIn
This is just the beginning.
We started in Surat. Next, we want to take salon screens to more cities in Gujarat and across India, so any local business can advertise where its customers already are.
Salon screens live in Surat. Local businesses advertising to captive audiences every day. Real campaigns, real results.
More cities. More reach. More formats. ADbuddy grows with every partner, every advertiser, every screen we add.
A platform built for every business, not just the ones with big budgets. Advertising that actually works, for everyone.
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Whether you want to advertise, need a creative, or want to know more about what we are building, we are always happy to talk.