Senior-led. Evidence-driven.
Most agencies sell you a senior in the pitch and hand you a junior after the contract. RankMedia was built to make that impossible: senior attention on every account, serious tooling underneath it, and a report you can actually read.
01 The story
From £5m a month to your high street.
RankMedia was founded by Ramial Aqeel, a deliberate generalist. The training ground was the full ladder: an SME-focused agency learning the craft from the ground up, then larger agencies running serious e-commerce budgets, then contracts managing Google Ads spend above £5 million a month for global pharmaceutical brands. Across that career: more than 500 client accounts, over £25m of ad spend, 50-plus industries and 10-plus countries, on monthly budgets from ten pounds a day to seven figures. The range is genuinely unusual, and it is exactly what lets us walk into almost any account and know what to do.
In May 2021 the agency went independent, on a deliberate bet: the techniques used at the elite end of Google Ads are exactly what small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) never get access to, because traditional agencies cannot profitably give smaller accounts senior attention. The answer was never a pyramid of juniors. It was systems.
Five years on, that is the operating model, with Magnus, our in-house AI engine, doing the heavy lifting that used to require a floor of analysts. The senior attention stays on your account; the engine does the scaling.
Lean is a choice, not a gap, and it comes with a fair question: what happens when one person is ill, away or full? Client numbers are capped rather than stacked, the engine sweeps every account each morning whether anyone is at a desk or not, and the process behind each account is documented rather than carried in someone's head. Holidays are planned around your account and flagged in advance. When we are full, we say so.
Founded by Ramial Aqeel
Trained on £5m/month. Applied to yours.
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02 Whose side we're on
In the corner of the small and medium business.
The best Google Ads talent in the country works for the biggest budgets. That is just economics, and it means the local clinic, the family firm and the ambitious challenger are usually handed the junior, the template and the monthly PDF nobody reads. We built RankMedia to break that trade-off: elite-level craft, priced and structured for the businesses that actually make up the UK economy.
Ramial has sat on both sides: the £5m-a-month pharma account and the £10-a-day start-up. The method is the same. The only thing that ever differed was who could afford the attention, so the agency's whole design, from staying lean to building Magnus, exists to make senior attention affordable at SMB scale.
03 How we operate
Four rules, no exceptions.
1. Results are the only metric.
Not impressions, not activity, not pretty dashboards. Revenue against spend, reported plainly every month. If we cannot move the number, we will say so and tell you what we would do instead.
2. Senior-led, always.
Every account is run by a senior specialist. The leverage comes from the engine, not from delegation down a pyramid. That is the structural difference between this agency and the one you may have left.
3. AI is a force multiplier, not a shortcut.
We built our own engine so every account gets big-budget depth daily. The judgement, the strategy and the accountability stay human and named.
4. Clear contracts. Evidence does the retaining.
Three-month initial partnerships with deliverables in writing: low risk to start, clear enough that you always know what you pay for. Clients stay for years because the ledger says they should.
04 The experience behind your account
The experience behind your account
One set of numbers, counted the same way throughout: founder Ramial Aqeel's career total, before and since founding RankMedia in 2021. Monthly budgets have ranged from £10 a day to over £5m a month.
05 The engine
The unfair advantage is named Magnus.
Every account here is watched daily by the engine we built in-house: anomaly detection, search-term classification at scale, budget pacing, PMax X-rays. It is how a deliberately lean agency covers every account in depth, and why yours never has a quiet month nobody noticed.
Work with seniors, not the pyramid.
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