Small team. No layers.
You won't find any account managers at Ernst Media. There's no junior varsity, either. When you call, you get someone who has run accounts like yours for years and will be the same person next month. That's the whole business model: stay small enough that every client gets the senior person, and price it so we never have a reason to push you to spend more.
The people who run your account.
Paid media and SEO for businesses across the US, from Spokane, Washington. Every one of us has managed seven-figure budgets.
Riley RuddClient success managerPaid search and paid social for service businesses. Finds the wasted spend first, then rebuilds around what converts.
Jennifer PhillipsDigital strategistRuns Meta and Google accounts end to end, and writes the monthly reviews clients actually read.
Nick ErnstCo-founderCo-founder. Runs every first conversation himself, then stays on the account.
Zachary StephanDigital strategistSEO, analytics, and the technical side of getting found, in search engines and in AI assistants.
Kait BowersSocial strategistPaid social creative, audiences, and the testing cadence that keeps Meta and other social accounts improving month to month.
Chase PlischkeDigital strategistShopping, Performance Max, and ecommerce accounts. Feeds, tracking, and margins before bids.
Evan ErnstFounderFounder of Ernst Media. Fifteen years running paid search and paid social for small and mid-size businesses, and still the person who builds the audits by hand. Writes here about what actually moves accounts.
Six decisions, made on day one, never changed.
- No account managers. There is no one between you and the work. The strategist running your campaigns is the person you email, the person on your monthly review, and the person who picks up when you call.
- Senior strategists only. Everyone here has years of agency or independent experience and has managed seven-figure budgets. There is no junior bench to hand smaller accounts to, so every client gets the senior person.
- Never a long-term contract. Month to month, since 2018. Clients stay because the numbers say so, not because a document does.
- Never a percentage of spend. A flat $95 an hour for every service. If trimming your budget improves your results, we trim it. We have no financial reason to do anything else.
- Your accounts, your data. We work inside ad accounts you own. Every campaign, audience, and report stays with you. You can leave any time and take everything. Clients rarely do.
- One thing, done well. Paid media and search. No websites, no logos, no social content calendars. We turned down that revenue so we could be excellent at the thing that drives yours.
The full argument, including what this model costs you, is on the Why Ernst Media page.
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“We've worked with a lot of agencies. Ernst Media is the first one where the person on the call was the person doing the work.”
“It's been great working with Ernst Media for the past year. We work with many different partners and Ernst Media continuously stands out as a partner we can fully trust and rely on.”
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We read every message the same day. If it looks like a fit, the next step is a 30-minute call, not a sales sequence.
