Sleeping Giant Media: About us

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Our Mission: to awaken performance potential by providing expert-led digital marketing delivery, commercially-focused data insight, and outcome-oriented education.

Who are Sleeping Giant Media?

Sleeping Giant Media is an award-winning digital marketing agency based in Folkestone, Kent. Established in September 2008 by our founders, Luke Quilter and Anthony Klokkou, we now have over 70 passionate Giants who provide quality digital marketing delivery, insight, and education to businesses across the globe.

As an agency, we offer the core services of PPC, SEO, content marketing, social media marketing, website migration, and data & tracking. As a business, we integrate our core ‘CAPES’ values – Communication. Accountable, Positive, Effective and Self-Aware – into everything that we do, making sure these values shine through in all the GIANT work we deliver for our clients.

 

Inside the boardroom at Sleeping Giant Media, Luke and Ant sit at the table, smile, and look at their laptops while the business homepage is projected onto a smartboard behind them.
Some of Sleeping Giant Media's content team sit around a table and engage in discussion with laptops

How can we help your business?

As digital marketing experts, we have a solid range of specialist search advertising services and skills under our belt — from PPC, SEO, and Data to Content and Paid Social!

We can effectively strategise and manage your SEO or PPC accounts, helping your business to perform better on online platforms and positioning your brand in front of potential customers when they’re looking to convert.

As well as that, we can create unique content for your social media, write high–quality blogs and on-page copy, manage large website migrations, and even teach your team how to do it all themselves with our bespoke training offering.

Keen to work collaboratively to bring about success, our approach brings your industry expertise together with our marketing skills to make beautiful things happen. We’d be great together, we really would.

 

Our partners

We’re quite the friendly agency, making meaningful connections and partnerships in our field and beyond. Over the years, we’ve partnered with some fantastic organisations, taking care to choose partners that we feel best reflect our core values. See for yourself here:

Digital Media Partner

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Corporate Partner

We are also partnered with Dall, a group of top-performing digital agencies across Europe, hand-picked to form an international alliance of ambitious strategic partners.

Why work with Sleeping Giant Media?

So, your business wants to increase its website traffic, drive conversions, get in front of more relevant online audiences, build a social media following, and develop high-quality website content? We can do all that.

We know there’s hundreds of agencies out there and it’s almost impossible to choose one. So, what makes Sleeping Giant Media the best fit for you?

If you’re looking for industry expertise, excellent customer service, and unbeatable results, you’re in the right place. Aside from being an industry leader in the application of digital services, read on to find out what else we bring to the table:

Delighting clients

Leading innovation

  • Sleeping Giant Media has been a Google Premier Partner since February 2023, meaning that we have the knowledge, expertise, and skill to successfully help our clients ace search engine optimisation.
  • We’re part of the Diginus Microsoft Network and are also associated with well-accredited coaching networks such as Vistage UK, where Luke Quilter is an accredited speaker. So, it’s safe to say that we have our fingers firmly on the pulse when it comes to industry updates and developments.
  • We heavily invest in the research and development of our team, the processes they follow, and the tools they use.
  • We’re proud to be a multi-award-winning digital marketing agency (oh yeah), being recognised by local, national, and international bodies for our work and customer service. (Skip ahead to our awards)

Making marketing a breeze

  • We offer short-rolling contracts, making ourselves accountable for your success. This means that you can hop off if we aren’t achieving what you want us to.
  • We offer clients industry-leading training from our experts that is tailored to the unique needs and wants of your company.
  • We offer transparent reporting processes and project management, constantly collaborating live with clients, giving them up-to-date insight into our actions.
  • Our team is made up of friendly and highly competent account managers. trained in technical and customer service skills, to connect our clients with our specialist SEO, Content, PPC, Data, and Social teams. This means you’ll always get jargon-free, expert advice straight from us.
  • Lastly, we offer detailed data lead reporting, because without goals and KPIs, how would you know we’re doing such a good job?

Our Giants

We’re proud to have a diverse, passionate team of digital marketing experts here at Sleeping Giant Media, many of whom have spoken at national conferences including The London Business Show 2023 and BrightonSEO on multiple occasions. Our Giants have also delivered talks at world-class events like Figaro as well as featuring on a number of podcasts such as Engage For Success, Marketing Dribble, Women In Tech SEO, and Academy FM.

Aside from their expertise, however, our Giants also like to flex their creative muscles. In 2022, we did this monumentally with our very own game, Giant App Attack, which saw almost 70,000 games completed whilst live.

Our founders

Luke Quilter is the CEO and Director of Sleeping Giant Media, Giant Campus, and The Spark Agency. He is a multi-award-winning digital marketing entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in digital marketing. Luke regularly lectures, coaches, and teaches his expertise. Anthony Klokkou is the Managing Director and Secretary of Sleeping Giant Media and specialises in PPC Advertising.

Luke CEO of sleeping giant media and Ant MD of sleeping giant media on their laptops<br />

The GIANT Way

One thing that sets us apart from the rest is our people-first approach.

One thing that sets us apart from the rest is our people-first approach.

What’s an agency without its team, right? Our Giants are the ones who deliver our award-winning digital marketing services, so we invest heavily in them. And it pays off! Sleeping Giant Media has an employee rating of 5/5 stars on Glassdoor and offers numerous employee benefits, including (but not limited to):

  • Unlimited annual leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • A fun office environment including a ball pit, Lego wall, and bar with a view across the English Channel to France. Our office has even been featured on BBC News!

Using the Google 360 video, take a tour of what we like to call ‘Giant Towers’. We’ll leave this quote from Luke, our CEO, here: “Making sure our employees […] get a good work-life balance is all built into the structure of our business”.

Our awards

Since 2008, Sleeping Giant Media has won several awards for our excellence in customer delivery and digital marketing delivery, being recognised as a RAR Recommended Agency, as well as CIM Agency of the Year 2017 and finalist in 2018 & 2020.

We also received the 2014 Best Business in Kent Award, the Customer Service and Commitment Award by KEiBA in 2014, The Drum Recommended Business Award in 2018, and the Search Category for Agencies with Under 40 Staff at the 2015 Recommended Agency Register Digital Awards.

In 2017, Sleeping Giant Media also worked on the Google Digital Garage project, creating the content for many online advertising digital skills courses including: How to Increase Productivity at Work, The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing, and Improve your Online Business Security.

More recently, we’ve been nominated for the best use of search in the European Search Awards 2020, were awarded the Investors in People Award in 2021, and were finalists in the 2023 European Content Awards.

CIM – Agency of the Year 2017

KEiBA 2019 – Customer Service, Apprenticeship & Employer of the Year

Kent Invicta Chamber – Excellence in Customer Service 2019

CIM – Best Use of Data & Insights 2017

Natwest – Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2017

IoD – Director of the Year Awards 2018

Kent Invicta Chamber – Excellence in Customer Service 2016

RAR 2016 – Search & Social Marketing Awards

KEiBA 2016 – Employer & SME Business of the Year

The Drum – No. 1 in Client Satisfaction

Wirehive 100 – Digital Leader of the Year

KEiBA 2017 – Entrepreneur of the Year

Want results like these?

So, you’ve seen how we do it — and you know what we’re capable of. If your brand or business could benefit from results like these, get in touch with us today to unleash your potential.