London’s Brainiest digital marketing agency
Award-winning digital marketing services that help companies grow faster.
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with digital marketing that works.
The Brains is an award-winning full service digital marketing agency based in London. We’re known for our straightforward, honest approach, our brilliant (and friendly) Brains, and for being laser-focused on delivering exceptional results.
Unlike some big-name marketing agencies in London, we won’t tie you in with long term contracts, or try to sell you services that aren’t right for your business.
We pride ourselves on getting to know each and every client’s business as well as an internal marketing team would, so that we can understand your audiences, set up successful campaigns, and deliver unbeatable ROI.
Why choose The Brains over other London marketing agencies?
- The fastest growing full service digital marketing agency in London
- Dedicated account teams led by highly experienced seniors
- Proven digital marketing strategies that deliver incredible results
- Joined up, multi-channel marketing campaigns
- Flexible, collaborative terms
- Results-driven & laser focused on ROI
- Up to 50% cost savings compared to traditional media & agency set ups
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Talk to us about your marketing plans
Fancy some free advice from our digital marketing experts? Go ahead and request a free consultation. Unlike other agencies we won’t pressure you into making a decision.
Our digital marketing services
SEO
Need to improve your rankings and drive more organic traffic to your website? Our SEO services are designed to improve your results effectively over time, and span everything from content writing to technical optimisation and digital PR.
PPC
We’re home to London’s foremost experts in paid search advertising. Need to implement new strategies and maximise the ROI of your Google Ads, YouTube, display, Google Shopping or Amazon Ads campaigns? Our award-winning PPC team can help.
Strategy
Our digital marketing consultants provide strategic services to help you achieve your growth goals. From one-off consultations to adhoc and ongoing consultancy agreements, we collaborate flexibly on terms that suit you.
Social Media Advertising
We specialise in social media advertising on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. If you need to reach wider audiences via social networks, and convert that traffic into revenue, our social media advertising team can help.
Our email marketing experts have crafted hundreds of highly successful cold email and nurturing campaigns to help you move prospects further down the funnel and re-engage customers.
Web Design & Development
The Brains is home to London’s leading web design and development experts. We help fix CRO and UX issues, improve website layout and drive more conversions with enhanced designs and user journeys.
We’re proud to be a full service digital marketing agency. Not seeing the service you’re looking for? Talk to us – we can tailor a package to suit you.
Partnerships & Affiliations
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Client Testimonials
The Brains behind our operation
Once upon a time, our co-founders Larry and Jonathan met at a Venture Capital event in London. Two countries, three offices and 150 clients later, here we are.
Larry Kotch
Founder & Automation Guru
Larry has helped over 400 companies with their Digital Strategy. He recently ranked #3 in B2B Marketing’s Global 30 under 30 and is a regular speaker on London’s marketing circuit. Larry is an automation evangelist and is on a mission to empower all great businesses with the tools to generate amazing leads.
Jonathan Lemer
Founder & Lead Legend
Jonathan is obsessed with running #NoBS marketing campaigns that deliver on commercial objects for clients and has helped tech start-ups & FTSE 100 behemoths do just that. Prior to co-founding The Brains Jonathan worked with the likes of PepsiCo, Kraft Foods and the NHS to validate and launch new ventures.
Our senior leadership team
James Speyer
Senior SEO Strategist
Heading up our SEO operations, James is an incredibly skilled and talented organic search strategist with over ten years of experience. When he's not busy bending Google to his will, James bakes incredible cakes, enjoys a spot of gaming and completes an improbable number of Lego Harry Potter sets.
Seb Shaw
Finance Director
With over 10 years of corporate finance experience, our Finance Director Seb is an expert in all things ROI and revenue. When not balancing the books, Seb dabbles in quantum physics. His two best friends are Excel and Python.
Viktor Bakardzhiev
Lead Programmer
Viktor is our Lead Programmer with 8+ years of experience in the field. He specialises in front-end and back-end development, complex tracking and integrations, technical SEO, and oversees the entire development process.
Mike Moodie
Paid Media Director
With over fifteen years of industry experience, Mike has built our PPC team from the ground up and seen triple-digit growth in the department. When he's not deep in analytics, Mike loves a good surf session and/or mountain hike.
Charly Chow
Strategy Director
Heading up our strategic operations, Charly has a particular specialism in creative content strategy, persona targeting and conversion rate optimisation. When she's not maximising ROI for our clients, she spends her spare time writing children's stories and songs for YouTube.
Yuliya Kostadinova
Design & Development Director
Yuliya leads the Design and Development team at The Brains, and has an extensive background in design and a passion for UX and web development. When she's not helping our clients communicate their brand, she enjoys old-school RPGs.
Domenic Staelberg
Client Services Director
The steady hand on our ship's rudder, Client Services Director Dom goes above and beyond to ensure every client receives an exceptional level of service. When he's not busy being Brainy, Dom shares his supercar photography with over 120k Instagram followers.
Hannah Else
Content Production Manager
Tackling all things content, Hannah leads a talented team of copywriters in the production of landing pages, blogs, email marketing copy and all the rest. When she's not taking clients through in-depth persona workshops or writing conversion-ready blog posts, Hannah switches gears slightly and writes poetry instead.
Digital marketing case studies
London’s Brainiest full service digital marketing agency.
How do you make your digital marketing campaigns work harder, deliver unbeatable ROI, AND lower marketing costs by up to 50%? With our revolutionary, data-driven approach to marketing, you can easily track and optimise performance across channels without blowing your budget – now that’s Brainy.
Whether you want to maximise the ROI of your social media advertising campaigns, generate more organic traffic for your website with SEO, or implement a true multi-channel marketing strategy that helps you drive brand awareness and conversions, The Brains is an ideal marketing partner.
We’re passionate about over delivering and fully committed to the success of our clients’ campaigns; often going above and beyond to make sure results are exceptional.
With hundreds of successful campaigns under our belts and three major industry awards to our name, we’ve accomplished a heck of a lot in just five years of operation. We may not be the most established digital agency in London (yet), but we’re certainly the most ambitious.
The Brains is transparent, reliable and committed to your success.
Our core values
Total transparency
We pride ourselves on being totally transparent with our clients on all aspects of campaign performance and account management. You’ll always know how things are going, what the plan is, and when the next check in meeting is.
Clear communication
Each client has a dedicated account manager who provides a single point of contact and is always happy to help. This gives you peace of mind, and helps us to serve you in the most efficient way. All clients get monthly reports and regular check-ins.
Dedicated to your success
No other agency is quite as passionate about your success as The Brains. We pride ourselves on delivering unbeatable results and won’t rest until your campaign is over delivering on ROAS.
Flexible, collaborative relationships
We will never tie you into an uncomfortably long agreement that doesn’t feel right to you. Our priority is to foster positive client relationships that are beneficial or all parties.
Fancy some free advice from London’s Brainiest digital marketers? Why not book a free consultation, or give us a quick call – we’re always happy to help.
Digital marketing resources
The Brains Blog
Our digital marketing blog is full of helpful articles about marketing strategy, campaign management and more.
Brainy Marketing YouTube Videos
Digital Marketing and Lead Generation training videos from Larry & Jonathan.
eBooks
Download our latest digital marketing eBooks, for in-depth advice on advanced areas of online advertising.
Our latest thinking: Blog posts from The Brains
What Can a Digital Marketing Consultant Do For Your Business?
Businesses today are in constant pursuit of strategies to enhance their online presence, reach target audiences effectively, and ultimately drive revenue. Now, the only real way to remain competitive is to understand, and learn to manipulate, the busy online landscape...
Unlocking the Power of Data-Driven Marketing: Strategies to Turn Analytics into Actionable Insights
From its humble beginnings, data-driven marketing has grown into a pivotal force in the marketing landscape, ushering in a new era of precision and personalisation, and empowering today’s marketers with a wealth of customer insightsInitially, marketers relied on broad...
Mastering Semantic SEO: A Comprehensive Guide to Boosting Your Website’s Relevance
In marketing - and more specifically, in SEO - staying ahead requires more than just keeping up with trends. It’s all well and good updating your website to perform better from a technical perspective and knowing when the next algorithm update will hit, but what about...
The Brains agency FAQs
What kind of marketing agency is The Brains?
The Brains is a full service digital marketing agency that provides multi channel services, from SEO and PPC to email marketing and Google Shopping. We analyse the behaviours and preferences of your target audiences before recommending the right channels and approaches for your campaigns. Whether you’re looking to stand out on social media, gain additional organic traffic with SEO or retarget your website visitors with compelling display advertising, our digital marketing experts can help.
Which marketing agency services do you offer?
As a full service digital marketing agency, The Brains provides any and every service you could need to succeed online, including:
- Lead generation marketing – LinkedIn, Facebook and/or email-based lead generation
- Website design and development – creating beautiful, bespoke, SEO optimised websites
- Online advertising services – amplifying your online presence to generate sales & leads
- PPC strategy and campaign management – Google Ads, Google Shopping, Amazon, Bing
- SEO marketing – technical, content and digital PR + strategic planning and auditing
- Social media marketing – LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, paid and organic
- Marketing automation services – to optimise, maximise and organise your campaigns
- CRO conversion rate optimisation – enhancing your website to improve conversions
- Content marketing and strategy – creating compelling content to drive conversions and engagement online
Not sure which services you need? No problem – we offer a free initial consultation in which to discuss your digital marketing requirements.
Where is The Brains agency based?
The Brains is a London-based digital marketing agency in the heart of Shoreditch. Within a few minutes’ walk of Liverpool Street station, we’re easy to access and happy to meet you in person (restrictions allowing!) or work remotely on your campaign.
What happens during the free initial marketing consultation?
The Brains offers a free initial digital marketing consultation to all prospective clients. During this 1 hour session we discuss your needs, objectives, requirements and budget, carefully assessing which approach will be right for you and help you to achieve your ambitions. You’ll be sent a questionnaire to complete and given the free, expert advice you need to make an informed decision about whether we’re the right digital agency for you.
What makes The Brains one of the best agencies in London?
The Brains was founded by award-winning entrepreneurs who had grown frustrated with the lack of available digital marketing services for fast-growth companies. We exist to help you grow faster, and our proven techniques are pioneering, disruptive and incredibly effective. We take the time to get to the root of your growth problems, identify what’s holding you back from achieving your ambitions, and directly address any issues that could hamper the performance of your campaigns.
Which sectors do you specialise in?
The Brains is a collective of digital marketing experts with vast experience across a wide range of sectors. Because our skill set and expertise is diverse, we are able to provide ROI-beating digital marketing services that span a wide range of sectors, including:
How do you partner with clients?
We believe in the power of partnership and collaboration. Our team often operate as an extension of our clients’ internal marketing teams, supplementing skill sets, supporting on campaign strategy and taking on the time-intensive work that otherwise eats up too much of your time. We are flexible and happy to work on mutually beneficial terms that complement your approach – some clients prefer an ad hoc set of hours to be used flexibly across areas, while others enjoy workshopping, brainstorming and idea sharing within a set monthly retainer. Whatever your requirements or preferred working style, we’ll be as hands on (or off) as you like.
What is it like to partner with The Brains?
Our clients often tell us they appreciate how flexible, approachable and friendly we are. As a digital agency that prides itself on transparency, we never hide behind vagaries or bamboozle you with long winded reports and unnecessary jargon.
When you partner with us, you will benefit from:
- A flexible, fun and collaborative partnership
- Convenient payment terms and quarterly contracts (no long or complex tie-ins)
- Access to the best and brightest digital marketing brains in the business
- Clear, honest and transparent reporting, every month, without fail
We’d be delighted to speak with you further about a possible partnership and get to know you better – simply request a free marketing consultation and we’ll be in touch!
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