Brainlabs

Source dates: 2026-08-31

Explore Brainlabs's services, available pricing and client experience, then compare the details against your project. Use the source links to check the scope and date of reported results.

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Category

Paid media / PPC agencies — independent performance/media agency ('world's largest independent media agency' ambition); ranked #2 independent media agency globally per COMvergence data

SOURCE RECORDED

Services

Paid search, paid social, programmatic & CTV, retail media, influencer, performance creative, CRO/site experience, data/analytics/measurement (MMM, incrementality), Google Marketing Platform; named AI Visibility service line (SEO, digital PR, content strategy); proprietary Cortex AI / 'Hippocampus' trained on 2,500+ logged experiments (provider-claimed)

SOURCE RECORDED

Pricing

Pricing was not publicly available when we checked.

NOT VERIFIED

Founded

2012 per press coverage (own-site founder quote implies 2011 — conflicting)

SOURCE RECORDED

Team signal

~1,061 employees as of August 2026 (Crustdata third-party)

SOURCE RECORDED

Named practitioners

Daniel Gilbert — Founder (ex-Google)

SOURCE RECORDED

Named clients

Netflix · Hilton · AT&T · Klaviyo · Microsoft · Polaroid · AMN

PROVIDER REPORTED

Case-study claims

2,500+ logged experiments across hundreds of clients feeding Cortex AI

PROVIDER REPORTEDnumbers are the provider’s own; not independently verified

Lab note

Falfurrias Capital Partners investment valued Brainlabs at ~$320M; acquirer of Distilled's agency business (2020) — interlock with SearchPilot record

RESEARCH NOTE

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