Clicky Group is a founder-led, active holding company. Three operating companies — Clicky Media, Amplify Ads, and Sprint Studio (in formation) — running off one centralised operating spine, with the founder in the room on every consequential call. Now in our 20th year, still on the tools.
Each company runs with its own brand, team, P&L and clients — but they all plug into one centralised operating spine. Shared engineering, infrastructure, finance, hiring, and the founder in the room on every call that matters. Active holding, not passive ownership.
The flagship — building digital marketing platforms, websites and growth engines for ambitious, high-growth brands. SEO, paid media, brand and engineering. Designed to perform, built to last.
clicky.co.ukPerformance media that pays back. Paid search, social and programmatic, run with cash-flow discipline.
amplifyads.coAI-native dev studio, in the works. Production-grade software at startup speed — senior engineers paired with agentic tooling.
sprintstudio.co — soonWe add a company when there's a real reason to. If you've got a thesis worth backing, we'd like to hear it.
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On the tools since 2007
Oli Yeates · Founder & Group MD
Oli founded Clicky in 2007 from a kitchen table in the North of England, and has run it personally for every year since. Now in the company's 20th year, he's still the founder, still on the tools, and still the name on every consequential call across the group.
The original brief was simple: build digital work that performs, for clients you'd want to keep working with for a decade. Twenty years and three operating companies later, the brief hasn't changed. What's changed is the surface area — Clicky Media for marketing and engineering, Amplify Ads for performance media, Sprint Studio (in formation) for AI-native product — all running off a single operating spine that Oli still owns the shape of.
He spends his weeks where the work is: engineering reviews, founder calls, hiring loops, the kind of trade-off conversations that don't make it into a board pack. No fund-appointed CEO. No growth-at-any-cost mandate. No second-line decision-makers in another city. Just the founder, the companies, and the next one being shaped.
Oli runs the group, but he doesn't run it alone. The leadership team owns the operational craft alongside him — commercial, operations, finance, and the systems that keep every studio running.
Head of Operations & Delivery
Owns hiring, training, culture and delivery across the group. Every specialist working on a Clicky account has been through her recruitment bar and ongoing development plan — the reason average tenure runs north of four years.
Commercial Director
Owns commercial strategy across the group — pricing, scoping, escalation. The phone-call when something needs an executive ear, and the brain on every consequential pitch.
Agency Systems Manager
Runs the systems the agency runs on — analytics, dashboards, the data layer underneath every retainer. GA4, Looker, and the operating instrumentation that the rest of the group plugs into.
Head of Finance
Heads finance across the group — books, payroll, capital allocation, the spreadsheet that keeps every studio honest about how its work actually pays back.
The whole group operates from a single floor in central Manchester — partners, engineers, ops, finance, and the founder, all sat together. Centralised by design, not by accident.
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Inside the group
An active holding company. Centralised operations, centralised thinking, and the same founder in the room on every consequential call. The companies grow inside one operating spine — not around it.The Clicky Group operating note
Clicky started in 2007 as a web shop in the North of England, founded by Oli Yeates from a kitchen table. Now in its 20th year, it's an active technology holding company — same founder, same allergy to fluff, same long view on every relationship.
Active holding, not passive. The companies don't run alone — they share centralised operations, finance, engineering and hiring, with the founder in the room on every consequential call. There's no roll-up, no exit deck, no growth-at-any-cost mandate from a fund in another city. We grow by standing up the next company when a real customer problem demands a sharper team.
The thread that runs through all of it: sweat the craft, pick up the phone, do what you said you'd do.
