About FORJ

Proven expertise across industries and the country's largest brands. A UK digital marketing agency built in Shrewsbury by senior practitioners.

Seventy-five years of combined senior experience across brands like Netflix, Emirates and Confused.com, now pointed at the businesses that need it most. We started FORJ to do the work the way we always thought it should be done: with care, in plain English and with your growth in mind.

A free 15-minute chat about your marketing.

The FORJ difference
The agency you've had
The agency we built
Pitched by seniors, handed to juniors
Senior people, end to end
Platforms in agency ownership, obstructive & non-transparent
Your data, your platforms, your ownership
Channels locked in siloed retainers
Growth not hindered, right channel at the right time
Decks, jargon and dashboards you can't trust
Plain English and numbers you can check

“A trusted partner in supporting our global marketing efforts.”

“FORJ Digital has consistently delivered effective PPC management for our campaigns in the UK, Europe and Mexico. Their expertise in digital advertising and a data-driven approach have helped improve visibility and generate quality leads across multiple markets.”

Michael Wester
MOCAP, Director of Global Marketing
Brands we've worked with

Big-brand experience. Independent thinking.

Our core team and specialist network have spent decades on the front lines for major global brands. That means senior-level experience on every account, hands-on strategy and deep industry expertise brought straight to your business.

The core team

Senior people who care about your growth.

You get senior leadership across strategy, search, paid media, CRO and analytics from day one. When briefs scale, we bring in proven specialists in content, design and technical setup. We only bring in experts we've built campaigns with in the past, ensuring high standards every time.

Jo Martin
Head of People & Operations

Jo Martin

Associate CIPD with nine years of experience building learning and operational structure inside high-growth agencies. Jo has led L&D at a global digital marketing agency through five acquisitions and an international rollout, designing the systems that let senior teams move quickly without losing the things that make them work.

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People Operations Human led HR Learning & Development
Sophie Mullard
Paid Media Account Director

Sophie Mullard

A career rooted in retail and luxury, with paid media work spanning Timberland, Paul Smith, LK Bennett, Omega, Whittard of Chelsea, One&Only, Claridge's and Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines. Sophie's specialism is translating brand-led commercial pressure into paid social that performs at scale, without diluting the tone the brand has built.

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Paid Media Social Strategy Account Leadership
Jon Crowe
Founder · Paid Media

Jon Crowe

Twenty years of experience in paid media built across Confused.com, Moneysupermarket, IWG and Emirates. JC is a performance-first practitioner who runs accounts around the customer journey rather than the platform's defaults, with a habit of telling clients plainly what is working and what isn't.

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Media Strategy Paid Search Paid Social
Katie Faulkner
Optimisation Strategist

Katie Faulkner

Nine years of experience in scientific research and ecology before moving into CRO, Katie brings a hypothesis-driven approach to optimisation. She lets user behaviour set the testing agenda, pairing qualitative research with rigorous experimentation so insight builds without programmes losing momentum.

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CRO User Research Experimentation Scientific Rigour
Chris Knight
Organic Consultant

Chris Knight

Twenty-five years experience across SEO, performance marketing and digital experience, with brand work spanning retail, fashion, healthcare, telecoms, luxury, automotive, publishing and finance. Chris is known for treating organic as a long-term programme rather than a one-off audit, joining content, platform and data into a single source of compound growth.

SEO & GEO Content Strategy Tech SEO Digital Experience
Jon Ditchburn
Founder · Operations

Jon Ditchburn

A digital operations leader who built and ran a 160-person business unit. Ditch's career has spanned paid search, paid social and the operational discipline of running multi-location teams, keeping the work accountable to the commercial line without losing the pace clients expect.

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Operations Paid Media Leadership
Chris Ford
Founder · Data & Analytics

Chris Ford

A former Head of CRO and Analytics at a global agency, Chris has spent his career making marketing data answer the questions that actually matter. His work has shaped measurement and optimisation programmes for RSPCA, IWG, HyperOptic, Footasylum, Equifax and EventBrite, joining platform metrics to the commercial outcomes they're meant to deliver.

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Analytics Measurement Strategy CRO at scale
Our trusted partners

When the brief grows, we know who to call.

We regularly collaborate with two independent, Shropshire-based specialist agencies. We know their work, trust their team, and seamlessly bring them in whenever our clients need that extra layer of expertise

Technical SEO & performance

Wobblebox Digital

Technical SEO, Core Web Vitals and page-speed specialists based in Bridgnorth. Distinctively, they also run website carbon-emissions audits, useful for clients who care about sustainability reporting. We bring Wobblebox in when an organic programme needs deep technical foundation work or a serious performance rebuild.

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Web design & development

Monument Digital

A website should look like the quality of the business behind it and bring in the work. Monument is one of the few teams we trust to do both. They plan foundations, search architecture and design as one brief from day one. We bring them in for builds, rebuilds or to plug into existing site teams.

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Why we started FORJ

Our philosophy.

A few simple principles that guide our strategy, our culture, and how we deliver for our clients.

One

Senior people, every day.

We're a small team on purpose. When you brief us, you're speaking directly to the senior specialists actually executing your strategy.

Two

Plain English. Plain numbers.

We keep our reporting plain-spoken, transparent and actionable. You get simple, meaningful insights and clear next steps.

Three

Your platform. Your name.

Ad accounts, analytics, BigQuery, the testing tool, the CMS: all yours. You will always own what should be yours.

Four

Honest about what's working.

And what isn't. We'll tell you when something has stopped earning its place.

How we go about it

The way we work, day to day.

A few practical things about how the team is set up and what working with us looks like in practice.

  • Where
    Based in Shrewsbury, working with brands across the UK and internationally. We like to kick off projects and review big milestones face-to-face. Beyond that, we work asynchronously and document everything clearly - saving your team time and keeping projects moving fast.
  • Who does the work
    Senior practitioners, end to end. The person in your kick-off is the person in your account, backed by a wider network of trusted specialists we can call on when a brief grows: paid practitioners, content writers, designers and analytics implementation. Every one of them someone we've worked with before.
  • Disciplines
    Paid media, paid social, organic (SEO + GEO), CRO, analytics, lifecycle and creative direction. One team, talking across the funnel in the same room rather than through forwarded emails.
  • Engagement
    Project work for specific briefs, audits, framework builds and migrations, or a monthly retainer when you'd like an embedded analytics, paid or CRO function without the overhead of a full in-house team.

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Get in touch for an honest conversation about your marketing. We'll take the time to understand your goals and tell you exactly what we’'d do in your position. No sales pitch, no pressure.