About Bring

A note from our founder

I'm Matt Hodgson, and I've spent over three decades in digital. My career started when the internet still felt like the Wild West. I was there when SEO meant manually submitting websites to search engines, when keyword stuffing actually worked, and when analytics meant a hit counter.

Since then I've worked across just about every corner of the industry. I cut my teeth at Trellian, one of the original SEO software houses, took search to market in London with Harvest Digital, sold digital for Telstra Media, and spent years inside the data side of the business at Hitwise and Blix. Most recently I led the Australian arm of Similarweb, the global digital intelligence platform, where I more than tripled the business in three years working with brands like Qantas, News Corp, Coles, Virgin Australia and Tourism Australia.

That last role gave me a rare vantage point. I sat across hundreds of agency relationships and watched the same pattern on repeat: clients being sold complexity when they needed clarity. Flashy decks instead of grounded strategy. Plenty of noise, not much signal.

Bring is my answer to that. I didn't want to build another agency. I wanted to build the right kind of partner: one that's direct without being arrogant, that genuinely gives a damn about outcomes, and where good people can do great work, ask questions without hesitation, and enjoy the ride.

Matt Hodgson, Founder