Most marketing is fog.
We do the bit that pays.

Brand, web, video and paid media for service-based businesses. We've turned £300 a week into 13× return for a yoga retreat, and ranked a one-man boxing gym above international chains. None of it was clever. It was measured.

What we actually do

We don't run campaigns. We generate leads.

Posting consistently is a hobby. Awareness is a vanity metric. Engagement isn't a business model. We do the marketing that ends in a booking.

Lead generation

We find the people about to spend money and put your business in front of them. Not the people who 'engage'.

Brand that holds up

Logos, voice, photography, the lot. Built so it still works when your business is twice the size.

Sites that book work

If your website is tidy but the phone doesn't ring, it's not working. Ours rings.

Video, properly

We shoot, write and edit it ourselves. No agency game of telephone. No stock-footage cop-outs.

Paid media, no waffle

Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Spotify, search, SMS. We'll tell you which channel won't work for your business.

We answer the phone

Most agencies stop at the click. We can pick up where the lead lands — and close them, if you want.

House rules

Six things we believe, plainly.

If you disagree with any of these, we are probably the wrong agency for you. That's fine — saves us both a meeting.

01

Awareness doesn't pay rent.

If a campaign isn't generating leads, it isn't generating anything. Don't dress 'reach' up as a result.

02

Posting consistently is a hobby.

A schedule is not a strategy. Volume without an offer is just noise on the timeline.

03

We will tell you what we won't do.

Half the value of hiring us is the channels we'll talk you out of spending on. We're not a charity for ad platforms.

04

We measure things.

Other agencies make things up. Numbers in this office come from spreadsheets, not from the founder's gut.

05

No 'thought leadership'.

No founder LinkedIn carousels. No 5am-club Twitter threads. We do the actual work and let the receipts speak.

06

We answer the phone.

It's quaint, we know. But the people who hire us tend to like it.

The Addling Brass team

Leeds, since 2014

Four people. No middle layer.

Bigger agencies have layers — a strategist who briefs the planner who briefs the creative who briefs the developer who eventually builds a thing nobody tested. We just build it. If it doesn't work, we build the next one on Monday.

Services

What we do

We handle the full picture. Strategy, creative, digital, paid, organic. Everything needed to generate real leads.

Strategy

Strategy

Strategy that fits on a page

Most strategy decks are 60 slides of nothing. Ours is one page you could read on the train and still understand on Monday morning.

The receipts

Real businesses, with the receipts.

If an agency won't show you actual numbers, they don't have any. These are ours.

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13× return for Rejuvenation Retreats on £300 a week.
Yoga retreats

13× return for Rejuvenation Retreats on £300 a week.

Full brand build, nurture campaign across every channel that mattered, and a sales pipeline that converted at scale. No magic.

10× return on high-ticket sales for Swing Intensive.
Dance camps

10× return on high-ticket sales for Swing Intensive.

Brand, video, photography, web and a lead campaign that filled week-long camps internationally. Their problem was visibility, not pricing.

AllAboutLocks: #1 average rank, CPA cut in half.
SEO

AllAboutLocks: #1 average rank, CPA cut in half.

Landing-page work that improved Google Ads quality score, halved the cost of every lead, and quietly outranked national chains.

What clients say

Honest reviews from people who paid us.

No "trusted by" logos here. If a logo really trusted you, they'd write a sentence.

"They didn't just run ads. They understood what we were selling and built everything around that."

Sarah Mitchell

Founder, Rejuvenation Retreats

"Within three months we went from struggling to book out to having a waiting list. The work was thorough and honest."

James Caldwell

Director, Swing Intensive

"They built us a website that actually converts. No fluff, just clean design that works."

Dan Sarkozi

Boxing coach, London

People

The four of us.

Built in Leeds. No account directors, no junior strategists, no "head of vibes". Just us.

Daniel Newton

Daniel Newton

Founder · Paid media

Runs the campaigns, watches the numbers. Will tell you the channel that won't work for you before you spend on it.

Richard Parker

Richard Parker

Developer

Builds the sites that load on a dodgy 4G signal. Writes the kind of code that's still good in three years.

Luke Newton

Luke Newton

Video & design

Shoots the footage, cuts the edit, sets the logo. Owns the cameras. Turns up early.

Ghazal Felan

Ghazal Felan

Copywriter

Writes words that sound like a human said them out loud. Cuts your draft in half and then in half again.

Numbers, not vibes

What the work actually does.

We measure everything because guessing is what got the industry into this state.

13×

Return on ad spend

Rejuvenation Retreats on £300/wk micro budgets

10×

Return on ad spend

Swing Intensive high-ticket dance camps

#1

Organic ranking

Dan Sarkozi Boxing — international high-intent terms

½

Cost per acquisition

AllAboutLocks — Google Ads quality score doubled

FAQ

Common questions

If yours isn't here, drop us a line — we answer plainly.

Faster than the agency promising you 'compounding brand equity over 18 months'. Paid campaigns light up in 1–2 weeks. SEO takes 3–6 months — anyone telling you otherwise is making it up.

Right then

Where do we start?

Tell us about your business in plain English. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help, or who can. Twenty minutes, no pitch, no slides.

Notes from the desk

Sharper than most marketing emails.

What we've learned this month spending other people's money on ads. Sent when there's something to say. Not weekly. Definitely not at 9am sharp on a Tuesday.

We respect your privacy and only send what matters.