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Brainlabs

brainlabsdigital.com · London, UK

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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
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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)
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Pricing
Pricing was not publicly available when we checked.
NOT VERIFIED
Founded
2012 per press coverage (own-site founder quote implies 2011 — conflicting)
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Team signal
~1,061 employees as of August 2026 (Crustdata third-party)
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Named practitioners
  • Daniel Gilbert — Founder (ex-Google)
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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
LAB VERIFIED

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All sources accessed 2026-08-31. Spot an error? Submit a correction — reviewed by a human, logged publicly.

  1. https://www.brainlabsdigital.com/ (accessed 2026-08-31)
  2. https://www.brainlabsdigital.com/brainlabs-secures-investment-on-path-to-becoming-worlds-largest-independent-media-agency/ (accessed 2026-08-31)
  3. https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/brainlabs-valued-at-320m-following-new-investment-from-falfurrias-capital-partners/ (accessed 2026-08-31)
  4. https://profiles.crustdata.com/company/brainlabs-1062202 (accessed 2026-08-31)