Results, not hours.
We don't bill by the hour. Hours don't win customers or move rankings. We charge for outcomes, so we want exactly what you want.
About Metro Media
Built for businesses that refuse to blend in.
Founded in 2018. Based in Atlanta. Working with clients across the U.S. and Europe. Quietly making the brands you've heard of look like the brands you can't ignore.
Our story
Est. 2018Started in 2018. Built differently.
Metro Media started the way most agencies do: one person, a laptop, and a stubborn belief that there was a better way to do this work. Our founder, Sharod Minton, had spent enough time in the industry to know exactly what he didn't want to build: another bloated agency selling retainers nobody could measure.
So we built the opposite. A small team. Senior people doing senior work. Clear pricing. Honest reporting. The boring stuff bigger agencies stopped doing because boring stuff doesn't scale.
Eight years later, we're still small on purpose. We turn down more work than we take on. Every project gets the founder's attention. The clients who work with us tend to stay, and tend to send their friends.
That's the whole story. No origin myth. Just a team that decided to build the agency we'd want to hire.
What we believe
06 principlesPrinciples we don't compromise on.
Every agency has a values page. Most read like they were written by committee. These are ours. We say no to clients and projects that break them.
Senior people on every account.
No junior account manager babysitting your project while the real experts are three layers away. Senior strategists, developers, and writers, every time.
Honest over comfortable.
If your strategy is broken, we'll tell you. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you that too, and point you to someone who is.
Specific over impressive.
No "thought leadership." Specific recommendations with specific timelines and specific numbers. If we can't explain it in plain English, we shouldn't be doing it.
You see what we see.
Live dashboards, real-time reports, full tracking. The data is yours, the access is yours, and reporting fits your schedule, not ours.
Long-term over quick wins.
We turn down work that's set up to fail, like promising 3-month transformations that take 12. We'd rather build something that grows for years.
The people
Atlanta · GermanySmall team. Senior work.
Sharod founded Metro Media with a simple idea: small businesses deserve the same quality of strategy and execution that big brands take for granted. The price should be different. The quality of thinking shouldn't.
He still writes the strategy briefs himself, sits on every kickoff call, and runs the weekly reviews that keep campaigns honest. His rule: if a strategy isn't specific enough to act on by Monday morning, it isn't a strategy.
Sarah anchors our European work from Germany, running discovery calls in three languages and handling content for U.S. and European audiences. Between the two, clients in any time zone get a reply the same day. Around them is a network of senior specialists in development, ads, creative, and content, brought in based on what each client actually needs.
Sharod Minton
Founder & Strategy Lead- Based inAtlanta, GA
- FocusStrategy & SEO
- Since2018
Sarah Ohlmeier
EU Lead & Content- Based inGermany
- FocusContent & EU clients
- SpeaksEN · DE · ES
By the numbers
Since 2018- 2018Founded
- 50+Businesses helped
- 100%Clients who stay
- 2Continents
Clients
See the work- Salandria
- Igor Presman
- Dante Law
- Accident Advantage
- Auto Relief Assistance
- + many more
Let's talk
Find out if we're a fit.
Book a 30-minute call. We'll listen, ask sharp questions, and tell you honestly whether we're the right partner, or whether someone else would serve you better.