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Svetlaya Dacha

A countryside hotel

2025–2026

Opening a countryside hotel from nothing

A hotel in the Leningrad region opening from nothing: no social channels, no content, no brand book, no booking history. We were assembling the brand and the sales channel at the same time as the hotel itself was opening.

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The brief

A new countryside property has no reviews, no recognition and no audience behind it — a guest has nothing to lean on in choosing it. The first months of a project like this are the hardest and the most expensive.

We had to give the brand a face on social and stand up the paid channels at once, so that the first season could already be counted in enquiries rather than impressions.

What we did

01

Created the channels and the strategy

We built a marketing strategy around the property's location and its season, and set up the Instagram, Telegram and VK profiles from nothing.

02

Introduced the identity and the tone of voice

We dressed the accounts, wrote down how the brand speaks and filled the feeds with content before any paid traffic began.

03

Arranged the production

We ran shoots on site. The photographs live in the content and in the advertising on every platform, so the brand looks the same everywhere.

04

Set up analytics before the advertising

We connected Yandex Metrica and tagged every stage of a booking as a goal, the on-site module included: without that there would have been nothing to optimise against.

05

Launched Yandex Direct and the maps

The weight went on Search and the ad network against specific and competitor queries, plus points on Yandex Maps and 2GIS, created from nothing and updated regularly.

06

Connected the OTAs and paid social

Sutochno and Avito — listings filled out, advertising running and a price calendar in place. Alongside the start of the social work came promotion of the posts and of the VK community.

9K

Users on the website

30%

Enquiry-to-booking rate

+90

Enquiries in four months

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A living room with an orange sofa
A house at sunset
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Yaroslav Lasch

Co-founder

Yaroslav Lasch

Co-founder of the studio: strategy, media and business development — from the first conversation with a client to the media plan review.

Over eleven years in marketing, ten of them in the advertising industry. Founder of Saint-Digital, co-founder of AdTonic; Acting CCO at Hybe.io. Sits on the state examination board of the Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg University.

Clients: VTB (₽4bn+ in media budgets), CDS, Growfood, Samsung, Nike, Novartis, Sandoz, The Coca-Cola Company, Alfa-Bank, MOEX, Binance, Uber, Revolut, Burger King, Glorax, Gazprom Neft, more.tv, Samokat.

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Ilya Gushchin

co-founder

Ilya Gushchin

Co-founder of the studio. A serial entrepreneur: he builds and launches businesses, from a communications agency to a law firm.

Co-founder of the communications agency Pravda, of AdTonic and of the law firm Gushchin and Partners. Over ten years in marketing and advertising.

A marketing degree from Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University, and a seat on the state examination board of the Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg University. Recorded a strategic marketing course for the Polytechnic University.

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Andrey Simakov

product

Andrey Simakov

Builds products that solve a real user problem and return measurable value to the business.

A product manager with an engineering background: he worked his way up from design engineer to running products.

Owns the product at every stage — researches what users need, shapes and prioritises the backlog, ships the MVP and grows the solution one iteration at a time. Leans on product analytics: decisions come from the data, and what shows a result is what gets scaled.

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Valentina Dubrovina

performance

Valentina Dubrovina

Sees to it that advertising does more than reach the right people — that it pays. Which is why CPL, ROI and cost-of-sale come first, not CTR and CPC.

Ten years in digital marketing. Four of them spent promoting concerts and festivals: she started as a copywriter, worked with content and partners, and grew into running projects. Then she realised what she liked most was paid search and paid social.

Works in media planning and analytics. She knows that behind a successful campaign are not magic and a lucky creative but dozens of spreadsheets and hundreds of rows of carefully segmented keywords and ads.

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Ekaterina Zantman

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Ekaterina Zantman

Sees to it that the social strategy does not stay in the deck but turns into content people want to watch, save and buy from.

A social media specialist with over six years behind her. She makes the content, puts the strategy together, writes the copy, and keeps every channel working on a business goal rather than merely being "run".

Produces shoots end to end — from the idea and the references to the crew, the location and the finished content — and works with influencers: finds the creators, negotiates, briefs them, tracks the results. She does not believe in collaborations for reach: if a creator doesn't fit the audience or the brand's goal, pretty numbers don't impress her.

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Igor Kolesnik

design

Igor Kolesnik

Makes the whole site — from structure and layout through markup to deployment, with no hand-off halfway.

A web and product designer who came into design from engineering. The habit stayed: understand how the thing works first, open the layout second. He works at both ends — award-worthy creative sites, where everything rests on the idea and the motion, and complex interfaces and design systems, where everything rests on the rules.

Builds in Astro: static sites that open fast and can be edited afterwards without a developer. He owns more than the layouts and the code — the build, the fonts, the weight of images and video, caching and compression on the server, the enquiry forms. This site was made the same way.

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Darya Bashmakova

graphic design

Darya Bashmakova

Owns the way the studio and its clients look: identity, layouts, banners — everything the eye reaches before the text.

A graphic designer. She builds the identity and the way it lives on in layouts: logo, type pairings, colour, grid — and the rules that keep it standing once she is not in the room.

Draws the ad layouts, the decks and the content packaging for each channel. She holds that design works not when it is beautiful but when the message lands at first glance.

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Kristina Shmeleva

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Kristina Shmeleva

Sees an idea through into something real: she gathers the people, the tasks and the resources into one system and carries the project through to the result.

She can talk to everyone — the owner and the client, the designer, the developer, the contractor. She takes the chaos apart, puts it in order and tells the team exactly what we are making, why, and by when.

She holds the whole project — from the first idea and the breakdown of the work through to launch and the final numbers.

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