Media Lawyer Marketing Agency From a midnight search to a booked media-law consultation.

Google Ads runs 10% of your monthly ad budget, floored at $600/month, and that fee never scales up based on what you spend with Google — no markup either way. SEO is billed at $50 per page per month, 10 pages minimum to get started. A website is a single, one-time build, not a subscription — pricing runs $1,500 to $20,000+ across eight packages depending on scope (see /websites for the full breakdown). There's no setup fee, you can cancel any month, and a 30-day guarantee sits on top of all of it. Send us a few details about your firm and you'll have real numbers back within a business day.

If newsroom retainers and press-freedom hotlines are your only source of new matters, and you couldn't point to which channel actually produced last quarter's client, that's usually a sign it's worth bringing one in. We take on the site, ads, SEO, and follow-up that reach journalists and creators directly, freeing your time for the matter itself instead of guessing where the next one comes from. A firm whose referral pipeline already fills the calendar with the right kind of work has less urgency here.

It's the team running every channel that brings a journalist, publisher, or creator to your firm on their own, without a referral in between. SearchPod builds the site, manages the ad accounts, works the search and AI-search rankings, and sets up follow-up sequences — one team, not five vendors passing the work between them.

Ask for proof they can trace an inquiry back to the specific page or ad that produced it, and confirm your site, ad accounts, and data stay registered in your firm's name, not theirs. Steer away from agencies that market a First Amendment practice the same way they'd market a plumbing company, or that make leaving difficult. The right benchmark to ask about is qualified matter conversations — not a raw leads counter.

Search ads can be sending you calls within days — which matters when a podcaster just opened a cease-and-desist letter and can't sit on it for a week. Organic and AI-search rankings build slower, realistically three to four months before placement is consistent, but those inquiries keep arriving afterward without a per-click cost attached. Most firms do better starting both at once instead of waiting on one before the other.

Your site, ads, SEO, AI visibility, and email all run out of one build, not five separate contracts with five different account managers. Rates are posted publicly, we don't tack a markup onto your ad spend, and there's no setup fee to start. Leave whenever you want — your website, ad accounts, and records leave with you.

We filter. Someone submitting a form because they're upset about a headline isn't the same lead as a documentary filmmaker who just got handed a subpoena for their raw footage. Our intake and follow-up are built to tell the two apart, so your team spends time on calls that are genuinely media-law matters instead of sorting through the rest.

Yes. Some firms want to deepen the newsroom retainer relationships they already have; others want the freelance journalists, documentary filmmakers, and newsletter writers who've never had counsel on speed dial and are searching cold for the first time. We'll build toward either — or both together, if that's where you want to grow.

No. We never name a client, the outlet involved, or any detail of a live dispute, subpoena, or cease-and-desist letter in anything we build. Credibility online comes from a clear explanation of what your firm handles and how the process runs — never from a case study that could put a live matter in jeopardy.

Yes, from day one. Calls and form fills get tagged back to the exact ad, page, or search term that produced them, so you know your real cost per inquiry — and whether defamation defense, prepublication review, or First Amendment litigation is where your best matters are actually coming from.

Yes. Calls, forms, and campaign data flow straight into whatever intake system your firm already runs — Clio or something else — so nothing sits stranded in a separate tool your staff has to remember to check.

Your firm does, entirely — the site, the brand work, the ad accounts, every record. We don't build on a locked platform, and nothing about the build is designed to make leaving hard. If you ever move to a different agency, all of it goes with you.

Two to four weeks is typical for pages covering defamation defense, prepublication review, and anti-SLAPP work — faster if content and approvals come back quickly, longer with more custom design involved. You'll get a realistic timeline before we start, not a surprise partway through.