Our industry awards

We don’t do the work for trophies, but it’s good when the judges agree. Ten specialists, six awards placings. We won Best Search Marketing Campaign at the 2024 Prolific North Marketing Awards, beating far bigger agencies, and have been a finalist five times since. Find out more about our awards below.

Best Search Marketing Campaign at the 2024 Prolific North Marketing Awards

Judges cited both the approach and the results when naming Hot House Digital the winner of this competitive industry award. 

 

Discover more here

Search Engine Land Awards – Small SEO Agency of the Year 2025

Finalists for the second time for one of the most prestigious awards in the world of searc engine optimisation.

Judges do a deep review of a particular client’s performance and look at the whole range of SEO tactics implemented. For 2025 we entered our work for Aevi, which covered technical, on-page, content, and digital PR.

You can read more about our work for Aevi on our case study page here.

Entrants are also need to show strong agency-wide performance to be shortlisted.

Search Engine Land Awards – Small SEO Agency of the Year 2024

Our first time being shortlisted for one of the most prestigious awards in the world of SEO.

As well as having our whole agency’s performance reviewed, the judges took a look in detail at the work we did for TOG24 across technical, on-page, content, and digital PR before deciding we’d made the shortlist.

You can read more about the work we’ve done for TOG24 on our case study page here.

Search Engine Land Awards – Best B2B Search Marketing Initiative

This award focused on the work we’d done to deliver a 276% increase in Sales Qualified Leads to Aevi. The judges saw how Hot House Digital had established a solid technical setup and then produced well-optimised content that both brought traffic to the website, and transformed that traffic into customers. 

STEM Marketing Awards – Best PR Campaign

We’re really proud of our PR work for Aevi. Payment technology isn’t always immediately obvious as something that will generate widespread media interest or public engagement. So when our campaign focusing on the role of biometric technology in payments generated over 600 pieces of coverage, we were excited to make it the cornerstone of our award entry.

The judges were impressed, and we made the shortlist for this prestigious industry award.

STEM Marketing Awards – Best Use Of Research & Insight

Focusing on the wider SEO and content marketing work we completed for Aevi, this award considers the outstanding use of research and data analysis in marketing campaigns for STEM products or services.

We particularly looked at the use of the client’s proprietary data in a series of whitepapers that drove significant new business for the client, and established a solid pipeline of leads for them.

I’m James. Hello.

My background in marketing and PR started right after I graduated from Lancaster University. After working as a consultant at a national accountancy firm, I soon found where my passion was: SEO.

This passion was tested to its limits once Google rolled out its first algorithm update on poor-quality links. This was a big one. So big, in fact, that it meant the entire accountancy website was taken out of Google.

The agency that managed the SEO of the website was sacked, and it was up to me to remove the penalty that was losing the business tens of thousands of pounds per week. No pressure.

Over six months of intensive work, I got the penalty removed. The website was back owning the SERPS, and I was ready for the next challenge.

That’s when I became an SEO specialist at iProspect for some of the UK and Europe’s biggest brands. As well as working on additional Google Penalties and on all areas of SEO, my venture into digital PR meant securing one client a three-page spread in The Sun.

Three years on, I was SEO Lead for Thomas Cook and Pets At Home, growing their annual organic search revenue to over a quarter of £1 billion for the former.

I met Patrick and it was love at first sight on the train into work. We talked about developing an offer that could really work with clients to grow their businesses. Countless late nights, long weekends and much coffee drinking later, we had a plan. We launched Hot House Digital. The rest is history.

Hi, I’m Patrick.

It was a pretty winding road that led me to launching Hot House Digital. And that started with telesales. Not a job for everybody.

After completing my Master’s in creative writing, I took an internship at a surveyor company.

They set up a directory for surveyors and my job was to write punchy web copy. I basically smashed out article after article on industry topics to help them rank higher on Google.

Despite not knowing it at the time, I was doing hardcore SEO. And I absolutely loved it.

Fast forward a few years (which included a year of teaching English in South Korea), and I became an SEO Manager at iProspect in Manchester. It was here that I got to know James, Hot House Digital Co-Founder.

We both wanted something ‘more’. Sure, the work was enjoyable – and we were great at it. But we missed being close to the clients – you guys.

Eventually, the opportunity to do some work for a specialist food marketing agency arose. Our second client soon followed, and after months of working evenings and weekends, we were ready to launch full time.

Good things come to those who wait. And apparently, also to those who work in telesales.

Fair play, but just in case you’re on the fence, here’s how our services can drive big successes for your brand.

SEO

If you’re not getting the results you want, it’s because your customers can’t find you. Rank high in the SERPS and get ahead of the competition with our 360 approach to search optimisation.

Content

Gaining consumer trust calls for authentic content that offers true value to audiences. We’ll dive into trending topics and keywords to ensure every page makes people want to stick around.

Digital PR

One of the biggest drivers of organic search visibility is links, and we know how to build them. Showcase your expertise on the very best online publications with our strategic PR campaigns.