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Media Revenue Growth & Acquisitions

We grow traditional media company revenues and we also acquire digital marketing agencies.

Two businesses, one set of skills. More than 22 years of building advertising revenue for media companies, now also applied to the agencies we buy and run.

22+
Years in media and digital
350+
Media businesses worked with
20+
Countries we operate in
11
Languages our teams work in

Which one are you here for?

Most visitors arrive for one of two reasons. If you run a media company and need more advertising revenue, that is our long-standing consultancy business. If you own a digital marketing agency and are thinking about selling, we are a direct buyer. The two paths below go to different places, so pick the one that fits.

Growing traditional media revenue

This is what NRS Media has done since 2004: help media companies sell more advertising, more consistently, to more local businesses.

Our research shows most media companies lose around 30% of their advertisers a year while new advertiser acquisition grows by only 9%. That gap is the problem we were built to solve, and we solve it with structure, discipline and process rather than a one-off training day.

Programmes run in your market, in your language, alongside your own team. Our Account Directors have all worked in media sales themselves.

How We Grow Revenue
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Structure, discipline and process - built alongside your team, not handed to it.

Acquiring digital marketing agencies

Two decades of selling advertising taught us how a good agency actually makes money. So now we buy them.

We are a direct buyer, not a broker. There is no listing, no auction and no chain of intermediaries. You talk to the people who make the decision, you find out early whether your agency is a fit, and if it is you get a written offer you can genuinely assess.

We buy to own and operate. The brand stays, the team stays, and the agencies we own get access to the same commercial capability our media partners have used for years.

Sell Your Agency
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What we buy

We also consider content and media sites, ecommerce and DTC brands, SaaS and subscription businesses, marketplaces and lead generation, newsletters and audience businesses, and advertising and adtech. See our full criteria →

Media businesses we have worked with

Over 22 years NRS Media has grown revenue for more than 350 media businesses in over 20 countries. That operating experience sits behind both sides of what we do.

ABC Radio
Algoa FM
C103
Fairfax
Corus Entertainment
Communicorp
Media24
Primedia
Times Colonist
Highland Radio
Galway Bay FM
Metroland Media
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Whichever side you are on, start with a conversation.

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