In a nutshell: Smith Brothers Media is a full-service creative agency.
We help our clients grow and achieve success via marketing, creative work, branding, business strategy and some very smart tech solutions.
But that’s just what we do. What about the weird and wonderful mix of gears and gaskets that really make SBM tick…?
it all started with two brothers...
The SBM story began with James and Tom, brothers who knew they could do marketing The Smarter Way™.
Smith Brothers Media was born, going from just one room with a couple of bean bag chairs to a tiny office down in Chelsea. From there, we made the move to a larger space in Cheltenham, expanding our service offering as we went.
But we weren’t done growing – not by a long shot.
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We expanded our in-house team in 2016, welcoming the video production folks at 77 Productions.
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The branding and design gurus from SAS Creative and Designer Websites added their skills to SBM.
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The full force of our very own Development team joined us in 2019.
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Creative agency Follow became our Brisbane representatives in 2021.
Now a full-service agency offering growth marketing, creative, content and tech services, SBM has still never lost sight of the original goal: to put people first and do things The Smarter Way™.
Our Values.
“WE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT HELPING GROW AND IMPROVE GREAT BUSINESSES.”
Fine-sounding words. And we mean every single one of them.
The SBM team is here to grow alongside you and your business in meaningful conversation and partnership.
We’re here to listen, understand and get to work on the right solution, not something pre-made, all wrapped in plastic and picked off a shelf.
Helping great businesses grow and improve isn’t a tagline, or a marketing slogan.
It’s our guiding principle. It’s how we see past the numbers to what makes a business truly great: people and passion.
you’ve got a great business
LET’S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND HELP IT GROW.
The Team.
Meet the folks at SBM.
Without them, we’d just be an empty building.
(and nothing would get done)
James
CEO
“Try, Learn, Try Smarter.”
Tom
Co-founder / Developer
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
Jude
Development Manager/Mentor
“Being a programmer is like magic: no one knows how you do it but everyone expects it to be marvellous.”
Kale
Marketing Manager/Mentor
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.” – Alan Watts
Campbell
Video Strategist
“I needed to think. So I galloped into a wooded glen, and after punch-dancing out my rage and suffering an extremely long and very painful fall, I realized what has to be done.” – Hot Rod
Justin
Senior Digital Designer
“Every day you seem to know less and less about more and more.”
Christian
Content Manager/Mentor
“What would Taylor Swift do?”
Stuart
Senior Content Specialist
“Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space, I’ve never met anybody who wasn’t important before.”
Ross
Senior Growth Strategist
“You can rationally defeat your intuition, but you cannot intuitively defeat rationality.” – Joscha Bach
Martyn
Business Development Manager
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”
Sara
Design Manager/Mentor
“There’s a thin line between destruction and creation.” – Oliver Jeffers
Cameron
Campaign Director
“Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating. You know you can’t bore people into buying your product, you can only interest them into buying it.” – David Ogilvy
Jess
Creative Producer
“$20 can buy many peanuts.” – Homer
Hazal
Marketing Producer
“Nothing good comes from your comfort zone.”
Jade
Copywriter
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” – Robin Hobb
Rachel
Accounts Assistant
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
Sara
Midweight Digital Designer
“They don’t know that we know they know we know.”
Dominic
Digital Infrastructure And Security Manager
Spirit animal: Toyota Hilux
Shan
Account Manager
“Oh, Martyn Coomber!! I’m going to get you!”
Michael
Full Stack Developer
Everybody’s just a person.
Henry
Digital Designer
“Live, Laugh, Love”
Brianna
Office Administrator
“I am an early bird and I’m a night owl so I’m wise and I have worms” – Michael Scott
Junhan
Full Stack Developer
“There are different ways of doing the thing that you stuck on, so don’t worry.”
Matthew
Tech Producer
“Developers like to solve problems. If there are no problems available, they will create their own.” – Scott Adams
Sam
Copywriter
“What’s another word for Thesaurus?” – Steven Wright.
Alicia
Director of Production
It’s fine. I’m fine. Everything is fine.
Hannah
Marketing Strategist
“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” – Michael Scott
Jasper
Digital Marketing Graduate
One day we will all die, Snoopy’ – Charlie Brown
‘Yes, but on all the other days we will live’ – Snoopy
Tamika
Digital Designer
‘Stay curious’
Alex
Marketing Producer
‘Never tell me the odds’ – Han Solo
Harry
Motion Designer
“Big forehead, bigger dreams.”
Kiara
Digital Marketing Graduate
“More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.” – Carmela Soprano
Analia
Senior Digital Designer
“If you can’t make it better, try not to make it worse.”
Kath
Digital Marketing Graduate
“There are only four rules you need to remember: make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails, throw away the plan.” – Captain Cold
Denis
Full Stack Developer
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
Michael
Full Stack Developer (Mid)
“The WiFi went down today so I had to talk to my family. They seem like nice people.”
LEONARD
React Developer
“It is, what it is”
John
React Developer
“People are often fearful of the things they don’t know, so let’s know the unknown.”
John
FULL STACK DEVELOPER (GRADUATE)
“Mindset over skillset”
SBM’s Office Dogs.
Alice
Brisbane Office Representative
“Okay, so, basically, I’m fabulous.”
Indi
Brisbane Office Representative
“I don’t always chew shoes. But actually, I do. All the time.”
Frasier
Melbourne Morale Officer
“She said that my argument was bourgeois…which I happened to find jejune.”
Hero
Melbourne Morale Officer
“Behind every cloud is another cloud.” – Judy Garland