Sweet sixteen! Today we celebrate Ballyhoo’s 16th birthday, after being founded in 2009. Ballyhoo has grown and evolved over the past sixteen years, achieving remarkable success and building lasting relationships. Join us as we take this opportunity to reflect on our journey.
Who Are Ballyhoo?
Ballyhoo is a creative and inclusive team passionate about the potential of website design and the Internet. By drawing on many years of experience, knowing our industry inside out and by paying attention to emerging trends and technologies, we create successful websites that help our clients to continually grow and succeed in their goals.
Throughout our 16 years, we’ve built a welcoming environment to help our clients with everything that they need, and continue to score a 80% customer satisfaction rate through our quarterly Net Promoter Score surveys.
“We’re proud to have worked with Ballyhoo from the very beginning of our online business. Their commitment, adaptability and knowledge have helped us grow from an initial idea to where we are today. It has been a pleasure to have had them develop our very first website, then our second company website and now looking at launching our third unique site. We are excited to continue our partnership into the future as well.” – Dave, Snowcompare
Key Milestones
Our key milestones over the last sixteen years include:
- Maintaining our status as a certified Google Partner for Ads and as Google Workspace resellers.
- Accredited Living Wage Employer since 2022.
- Green Hosting Certified with all of our client websites running on renewable energy.
- Over 3,200 trees funded and 270 tonnes of CO2e emissions avoided to date through Ecologi.
- Supporting multiple charities, including B30 Foodbank, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorns Hospice.
Additionally, we’re extremely proud to continue to work closely with loyal clients, 10 of whom have been with us since the very start, helping them grow and evolving with them over the years.
Notable Projects
Some of our recent notable projects include:
“Ballyhoo have been our web partner since day dot and have been instrumental in our continued growth from our initial launch as Discount Fire Supplies to where we are today as Huvo! Happy 16th birthday and we look forward to continuing on this journey together.” – Tariq, Huvo
Award Winners
In the last 12 months we are thrilled to have won numerous awards and accreditations, including:
- Ethical Business Excellence Award 2025
- Best Family-Run Design Agency 2025 Midlands
- Fair Payment Code Gold Award by the Office of the Small Business Commissioner (OSBC)
- Top Creative Company
- Bronze Award in Ecologi’s “For Our Planet” Awards
“Since Eurofyre’s beginning in 2007, Ballyhoo has been an exceptional partner and one of our longest-standing suppliers. Our continued loyalty is a testament to their consistently professional service, friendly team, and comprehensive expertise in developing, maintaining, and managing numerous versions of our website and online marketing efforts.” – Mark, Eurofyre
Evolution of Services
Over the years, we have continually evolved our services to help our clients to not only succeed, but to ensure they meet industry standards and online regulations.
Cookie Consent
One such service is our Cookie Consent service to help our clients’ websites to remain compliant with GDPR laws, to allow users and customers to browse with confidence. Partnering with CookieYes, we create tailored cookie consent banners for client websites, ensuring user data is accurately collected.
Website Policies
It is paramount that websites have the correct, up-to-date policies to remain legally compliant, protecting your business from liability, and building trust with customers. We provide website policies to accompany our clients’ websites, including Privacy, Cookie, Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policies.
Website Design Evolution
With Growth Driven Design, we provide regular updates to our clients’ websites in sprints, helping to spread the investment and improving their sites so that they stay relevant and up-to-date, in addition to providing customers with a continually evolving great experience.
Client Success Stories
Our agency has helped clients to achieve some incredible goals. Here are a few success stories from the last 12 months.
Supporting High Volumes
In the last 12 months, we have assisted one of our e-commerce clients to achieve an increase in transactions of 38%, and increased turnover of over 116% reaching £1.6m. This demonstrates our ability to collaborate with clients, our knowledge for seamless user experience and our commitment to driving tangible results.
Increasing Website Events & Bookings
Over the past year, we have delivered exceptional results for a client with a booking system, achieving a remarkable increase in online bookings totalling £1.55m. This surge in user engagement demonstrates the effectiveness of our strategies in driving engagement and conversions by optimising online platforms.
Promoting Projects
After successfully launching one of our clients’ websites earlier this year, we’ve played a crucial role in enabling them to showcase their projects to prospective customers online. Their website now serves as an engaging space for customers to gain an insight into the quality, innovation, and expertise behind our client’s work.
“I’m incredibly proud of the journey we’ve taken as a team. The work we’re producing today is truly our best yet, and it’s a testament to the dedication and talent within our team. We’ve had some stunning successes this past year, and those achievements are a direct result of our collective effort. A massive thank you to our long-standing clients; your trust and collaboration have been invaluable, and we eagerly anticipate many more years of creating amazing things together.” – Anthony Chaffey, Managing Director
Thank You
Celebrating Ballyhoo’s birthday gives us the opportunity to celebrate our team who have been a part of the journey, including two team members who have been here for 13 and 11 years respectively, and have been an integral part of Ballyhoo’s growth and success in addition to our clients’ success.
We’d like to say a big thank you to our clients, past, present and future, for supporting Ballyhoo and continuing to trust us with projects and the ongoing management of their websites.
The Future
We will continue to provide exceptional service and work with our amazing clients to help them grow and succeed online, through building and maintaining their websites, improving them continually, and providing marketing support. We are committed to staying at the forefront of trends and emerging technologies to create solutions for our clients, in addition to enhancing efforts with sustainability to reduce our impact on the environment.
We are looking forward to the future and we hope that you’ll stick around to come on this journey with us! Follow us on Instagram or sign up to our newsletter to see what we get up to behind the scenes.
