LokalLokal
Local news & community · Multi-language

Every story, in 5–6 languages — cast for each region.

Lokal sends one story. We produce it across every language market they serve, each version cast with the face and voice that lands in that region.

Videos per editor, per day (2 → 10)
5–6Languages per story, from one brief
1Sheet — brief to delivery
The challenge

Localizing every video, by hand, across every market.

Lokal serves audiences across many Indian language markets, and the same story has to land in each one. That meant producing every video five or six times over — once per language — and the version that works in one region doesn't work in another. The face, the voice, the presenter that resonates in one language isn't the one for the next.

Done by hand, that's one video multiplied five or six times, plus the judgment of casting each version for its region. At Lokal's volume and speed, manual localization simply couldn't keep up.

How we work with them

One row in, every market out.

Lokal briefs us from a Google Sheet they already live in. They fill a row; we produce every localized version and write the finished videos straight back — no tools to open, no prompts to write, no per-language production on their side.

1
They brief us from a Google Sheet
The team adds the story to a sheet. That's the entire handover — no app to open, no prompt to write.
2
We produce all 5–6 language versions
The story is produced across every one of Lokal's target markets at once, so a single brief covers all of them rather than one at a time.
3
We cast each region separately
Every language version gets its own set of characters, matched to what resonates in that region — the right face and voice per audience, not a one-size-fits-all presenter.
4
Finished videos come back to the sheet
Every localized cut is written straight back into the same sheet, so the team has the full set in one place, ready to review and ship.
The impact

Every market covered, from a single row.

One entry in a Google Sheet now produces a full set of localized videos — five or six languages, each cast for its region — delivered right back to the sheet. What used to be the same job done five or six times over, plus a manual casting round for each, is now a single brief.

The team works entirely in a tool they already live in. One video editor's output went from 2 videos a day to 10, producing region-perfect video across every market instead of one at a time.

“My video editor was able to ship 2 videos a day, now he can ship 10 a day with SurgeGrowth.”

JA J AbrahamCreative Head, Lokal
What we produce for Lokal
Multi-language localizationRegion-specific castingTalking-head videoFull edit & assemblyCharacter swapSheet-based delivery

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