Robert Brill

Robert Brill is the founder and CEO of Brill Media, a Los Angeles-based advertising and marketing agency created for founders who have built a great business based on deep expertise and quality work.

Brill Media is for great businesses that need to stop relying on referrals and are done gambling with marketing that never seems to pay off.

Since 2003, Robert has been working in advertising. He’s managed over $100 million in ad spend. Through that time Brill Media has been recognized 11 times across the Inc. 5000 Regionals and Financial Times 500 list of America’s fastest growing private companies.

Across his 23-year career, Robert has worked for the largest agencies in the world, including Universal McCann and Starcom, working on clients such as Bacardi, Toshiba, PetSmart, Sizzler, Best Buy, Lexus, and Sony Pictures. At Universal McCann, his media plan for the film “When a Stranger Calls” won Best in Show at the 2006 Media Plan of the Year Awards.

In 2013, Robert founded Brill Media to make it easier for businesses to grow using the same tools, tactics, and proven systems that large brands use. Most professional services firms, B2B companies, and local businesses are built on referrals and reputation, and these are the industries that the ad industry serves the worst. There’s too much jargon, too many black boxes, and budgets that just vanish without proof.

Brill Media works differently for professional services firms, B2B, and local businesses. Strategy comes first before spend. Systems are developed for scale. Marketing is deployed that de-commoditizes a business until it becomes the inevitable choice in its category.

For agencies, Brill Media is the white label media buying partner that makes media profitable, serving creative agencies, general marketing firms, and companies that need to add a media buying profit center to their already stellar work.

Robert writes about advertising for Fast Company, Forbes, and Inc. His work has been featured by American Express, HubSpot, PBS’s Next Avenue, and industry podcasts. He is a member of the Forbes Business Council and talks about current marketing strategies with 600-plus episodes on YouTube.