Hurst Media Company - London

Charlotte F.

We've worked with Hurst on a few package options now, and
Danielle Gray has always provided a great service: friendly, professional and knowledgable. We're able to tailor the media buys to publications & articles that really work for us, and when articles haven't gone live as planned, Danielle has quickly worked to find us a suitable alternative!

Five M. B. U.

Danielle was very attentive and gave great customer service, making sure all elements of our campaign were appropriate, and following up to see how it had worked. Production were very good and responded well to all my queries. I was pleased with the process compared to other media companies who just want you to sign up to advertising space and don't give good customer service. Would recommend.

Laura B.

I've been working with Danielle for a few months now and she has provided us with some great deals with health and retirement features for our home care company. Friendly yet professional, and always great to communicate with. We've had some great successes with our campaigns so far, so hopefully we can continue with this next year!

Samuel G.

Hurst Media have helped us with our first attempts in printed national media over the last twelve months. Our account manager Sujan Jesuraja has been very helpful and informative and the wider team has been brilliant. We see Hurst as a part of our own marketing team and the results we've had in a number of publications have given a return on investment that we have never achieved elsewhere. From some hesitancy in the beginning to a huge increase in our business twelve months later I couldn't recommend Hurst Media more to help with marketing campaigns. We've agreed our next ones today.

Samantha V.

I thought Syed was a delight to talk to - friendly and gentle with his approach but effective. The rest of the process, involving others, was full on, speedy and a bit disconcerting! To the point where I suddenly wondered whether it was a scam!? It wasn't and I appreciate I got a good price because it was last minute, hence the speed, but even so, I did find the sales tactics and the speed of things a bit much. I am sceptical as to whether the article itself will generate much ROI, but I do think our ability to promote the association with the Times is probably worth the discounted amount I paid.

Philip W.

Wxcellent service provided, working with the design team was clear and straightforward, advert looked terrific, thanks - Director, Online Security Products Ltd.

Grant W.

As a sales and marketing professional myself I have no issue with a hard sell (creating urgency) to close a deal. However, I do have a massive issue with mis-selling, blagging and effectively conning people for a service they will not receive which is what has happened here.

A few months back we trialed a print campaign in the Times. It was hard to tell what the performance was but regardless they delivered what we paid for. However, it wasn't a clear benefit and so what I was really after were backlinks to increase our domain authority and SEO rankings.

I was called up and pitched with a last minute deal that would secure us a permanent backlink that will boost our DA and SEO rankings. I was aware the article in the back end of nowhere amoung a few other sponsors was unlikely to generate a direct ROI but the SEO benefits might pay off long term.

Immediately after I was pitched and hard sold on another print article. This time I turned off all other marketing for that weekend and it had a QR code but we got zero traffic or leads so a total waste.

I decided to go ahead, weeks later no backlink showing in Google console from The Times as I was promised and no backlink or increase in DA in Ahref or other seo platforms. My seo guys checked for me and confirmed as it is a advertising link it has no SEO value at all.

In the interest of fairness I asked if this could be changed to a plain link as promised but the answer was no.

Given I was totally mis-sold I asked what they would do to put this right, expecting a refund of something along these lines.

That email has been totally ignored and so I am sharing this review to warn others.

I was also asked by a member of staff a few month back to leave a 5* review in exchange for a reciprocal review.

I did leave a 5* review as they delivered what I had paid for and I had no reason to complain but I did not get the reciprocal review and it makes me wonder how many of their other reviews are friends, family or bought

Lee B.

A great experience from start to finish. We had an opportunity to work with Seb at Hurst Media who guided us seamlessly through the advertising process. We have had a really good response from our ad exposure and will definitely work with Seb and the team again in the future!