The Best Digital Marketing Agency for Sports. Turn passion into lasting commercial value

We help sports clubs, teams, leagues, federations, academies, venues, event organisers, and athlete brands grow their audiences and revenues. Through sports SEO, performance marketing, analytics, reporting, content marketing, and outreach, we turn attention into memberships, ticket sales, registrations, merchandise revenue, and stronger sponsor value.

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Trusted by brands that want to grow fast and consistently.

Coca-Cola
Bilyoner
A101
Estee Lauder
Vodafone
Tatil Sepeti
BTCTürk | Hisse
ETSTUR
Yargıcı
Hepiyi Sigorta
Mavi
Medicalpark
Evidea
Jumbo
Toshiba
Vakko
Corendon Airlines
Petrol Ofisi
Suryapı
HDI Sigorta
Denizbank
Teknosa
Borusan Next

What brands achieve with Kriko

To date, we have achieved numerous successes with the brands we work with across many areas, from increasing visibility and traffic on traditional search and AI powered engines to performance marketing, data driven insights, conversion optimization, and content initiatives.

  • Petrol Ofisi case study
    254% increases in organic traffic
    373% increases in total sessions

    Our work for Petrol Ofisi resulted in a 373% increase in organic channel sessions.

  • A101 case study
    80% increase in total sessions
    61% increase in non-branded organic traffic

    A 165.72% increase in total sessions over the last six months compared with the same period in the previous year.

  • Greyder case study
    2x The CR across the entire purchase flow has increased.
    72% The CR from the checkout step to the purchase.

    Organic channel sessions increased by 100%, while conversions grew by 163.72%.

  • Sixt case study
    163% increased in organic revenue
    100% increased in organic traffic

    Organic channel sessions increased by 100%, while conversions grew by 163.72%.

  • HDI Turkiye case study
    104% Increase in non-branded traffic
    4 times all-time records broken

    A 104.8% increase in total non-branded clicks over the last three months compared with the previous year.

How do we work?

To date, we have achieved numerous successes with the brands we work with across many area

Expectations & Analysis

To date, we have achieved significant success with the brands we have worked with across a wide range of areas, from increasing visibility and traffic on traditional search engines and AI-powered platforms to performance marketing, data-driven insights, conversion optimisation, and content initiatives.

Competitive Analysis & Insight

We conduct thorough market and competitor research to uncover gaps, opportunities, and benchmarks that shape a winning strategy. Every insight is translated into actionable intelligence that gives your brand a measurable edge in an increasingly competitive landscape.

Team Assembly

We match each project with the right mix of specialists — strategists, creatives, analysts, and channel experts — assembled around your specific goals. This lean, purpose-built team structure ensures accountability, speed, and deep expertise at every stage of execution.

Communication & Project Management

Transparent communication and structured project management are at the core of every engagement. We keep stakeholders informed with regular reporting, clear timelines, and dedicated points of contact so nothing falls through the cracks and milestones are always met.

Data-Driven Strategy & Planning

Our strategies are based not on assumptions, but on real data, audience signals, channel performance, and market trends. We create precise media plans that direct budgets towards the areas delivering the highest returns and continuously refine our approach as new insights emerge.

Measurement & Improvement

We define clear KPIs from day one and measure everything that matters. Through ongoing performance analysis and iterative optimization, we ensure campaigns evolve in line with your business objectives, delivering sustained growth rather than one-time gains.

Don’t take our word for it, see what our clients say

4.8
(according to our customer surveys, based on 139 brands)

Many leading brands across different industries choose Kriko for their needs. You can draw inspiration from the success stories of brands growing with Kriko’s strategies and take action right away to build your own path to success.

GittiGidiyor sees strengthening its SEO and organic traffic as critical to sustaining growth above the market average; with confidence in Kriko’s experience and competencies in this field, it chose Kriko as its business partner and saw in a short time that it had made the right decision.

GittiGidiyor sees strengthening its SEO and organic traffic as critical to sustaining growth above the market average; with confidence in Kriko’s experience and competencies in this field, it chose Kriko as its business partner and saw in a short time that it had made the right decision.

As GittiGidiyor, we continue to move forward every year by growing far above market growth and gaining a greater share of the market. In order for this growth to continue in a healthy way, strengthening our SEO and organic traffic every day is critical for us. When choosing the business partners we will work with in this field, we always prefer to work with the best in their areas. With the trust we have in their experience and competencies, we chose Kriko as our business partner for our SEO operations, and even in the short time we have spent together, we can see that we made the right decision.

Feyza Dereli Fedar GittiGidiyor / eBay Türkiye - CMO
Kriko helped us make significant progress in a short time through the value it added to our website and digital channels. For us, it is not just an SEO company, but a companion to our website and a digital brand assistant.

Kriko helped us make significant progress in a short time through the value it added to our website and digital channels. For us, it is not just an SEO company, but a companion to our website and a digital brand assistant.

Since the first day we started working together, Kriko has supported us in making significant progress in a short time through the benefits it has provided to our website and digital channels. Therefore, it would be a big mistake to evaluate Kriko only under the title of an SEO company. For us, Kriko is a companion to our website, a consultant in every area we need, and a digital brand assistant that will always be needed for support in the world of search engines.

Melih Pazarlıoğlu Corendon Airlines - Ecommerce Manager
The team’s strong synergy, its commitment to maintaining its SEO focus, and its support as an always-accessible consultant for developments in the digital world were influential in our decision to choose Kriko.

The team’s strong synergy, its commitment to maintaining its SEO focus, and its support as an always-accessible consultant for developments in the digital world were influential in our decision to choose Kriko.

We met Mr. Ugur during a training he delivered and later had the opportunity to work together. The reasons we chose Kriko include the synergy Mr. Ugur reflects to you, their decision to stay within their own area of expertise, SEO, rather than focusing on every branch of digital, and the fact that although he positions himself as an SEO expert, he is always like a consultant just a phone call away, someone you can ask for ideas on developments in the digital world. We hope they continue with this professional perspective and amateur spirit, and that we continue to be their companions on this journey.

Volkan Arslan Alarko-Carrier - Marketing Director
Kriko accurately analyzed our brand and challenging industry dynamics, providing a comprehensive and actionable roadmap based on the right methodologies rather than generic recommendations.

Kriko accurately analyzed our brand and challenging industry dynamics, providing a comprehensive and actionable roadmap based on the right methodologies rather than generic recommendations.

From our very first meeting with Kriko, what they added to us was “applying a versatile and comprehensive roadmap with the right methodologies, instead of a word salad made up of commonly repeated generic information.” Their accurate analyses of our brand, which is positioned in a challenging vertical and has customer behaviors that are somewhat different from what is generally known, and of its dynamics, once again proved that we were not wrong in this view.

Metin Okur Sefamerve - CEO
Since the first day we started working with Kriko, we have had complete confidence in their SEO decisions, quickly implementing even the most critical business requirements and achieving positive results every time.

Since the first day we started working with Kriko, we have had complete confidence in their SEO decisions, quickly implementing even the most critical business requirements and achieving positive results every time.

Just as it can be frustrating to constantly question your doctor’s decisions while keeping in mind the possibility that they might make a mistake, it is equally frustrating to have to constantly review the decisions of the SEO consultant you work with. Since the first day I started working with Kriko, I have not had the slightest doubt about their decisions. It brings an incredible sense of peace of mind and focused calm. We implement even the most radical business requirements without delay, and each time we achieve positive results.

Ömer Deveci Şikayetvar - CEO
SHERPA Blog chose Kriko because of its ability to quickly adapt to the product management methodology, its expertise in SEO-friendly content production, and its data-driven approach; visible progress was achieved in SERP results within a short time.

SHERPA Blog chose Kriko because of its ability to quickly adapt to the product management methodology, its expertise in SEO-friendly content production, and its data-driven approach; visible progress was achieved in SERP results within a short time.

Kriko’s ability to quickly adapt to the SHERPA Blog team’s product management methodology, and its know-how in producing search engine-friendly content rather than relying solely on the power of mainstream SEO toolsets, played an important role in SHERPA Blog’s decision-making process. Seeing data-driven decision-making discipline as a core element of its management philosophy, SHERPA Blog achieved visible progress in SERP results through its still short-term collaboration with Kriko, led by Uğur Eskici.

Yakup Bayrak Sherpa - Founder & CEO

Awards

International Award-Winning Digital Marketing Agency

ETZ 2025

Best SEO Agency

Mena Search Awards

Best Small SEO Agency

GPTW 2024

Special Award: Diversity

GPTW 2024

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GPTW 2026

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Frequently Asked Questions

Sports Digital Marketing Agency

Sports organisations operate in a market where attention can change immediately according to fixtures, results, athletes, tournaments, and cultural moments. Supporters may follow a team for life, while participants, parents, sponsors, and event audiences each have different reasons for engaging. A large social following does not automatically create ticket revenue, memberships, merchandise sales, or measurable partner value. As a sports digital marketing agency, we help organisations connect audience enthusiasm with clear commercial outcomes. Our strategies combine SEO, performance marketing, analytics, reporting, content marketing, and outreach across the complete sports calendar.

Sports SEO Built Around Audience Intent

Sports SEO should reflect what supporters, participants, parents, and commercial partners are actively trying to find. Search demand may relate to sports clubs, academies, fixtures, tickets, memberships, training programmes, events, venues, athletes, or merchandise. We build search structures around competitions, teams, locations, age groups, disciplines, schedules, and audience needs. Technical work may include website architecture, structured data, metadata, mobile performance, page speed, indexation, and internal linking. This makes important information easier to discover while creating clear routes towards registration, purchase, or enquiry.

Fan Growth and Community Acquisition

Fan growth requires more than increasing follower counts across social platforms. Sports organisations need to understand which audiences regularly engage, attend events, purchase products, join memberships, or influence others within the community. We develop acquisition strategies around geography, team affinity, sporting interest, family participation, previous behaviour, and engagement level. Campaigns can introduce the organisation to new audiences while giving existing supporters stronger reasons to remain involved. Success is measured through identifiable audience growth, engagement quality, database development, and progression towards valuable actions.

Ticketing and Sports Event Marketing

Sports event marketing must generate demand before the fixture while responding quickly to availability, timing, opponent interest, and sales velocity. We manage search, social, video, display, and remarketing campaigns designed to support individual matches, tournaments, competitions, and season packages. Campaigns can be adjusted according to remaining inventory, seating category, location, audience segment, and time before the event. Landing pages should make schedules, pricing, venue information, and purchase options immediately understandable on mobile devices. Performance is evaluated through ticket revenue, conversion rate, attendance, acquisition cost, and the number of new buyers introduced to the organisation.

Membership and Sports Academy Recruitment

Clubs and sports academies require consistent recruitment beyond major seasonal registration periods. Prospective members and parents may compare location, age groups, coaching quality, facilities, schedules, fees, development pathways, and safeguarding information. We create local SEO structures, paid campaigns, programme pages, and enquiry journeys around these decision criteria. Forms can collect useful information about the participant’s age, discipline, experience, location, and preferred programme without creating unnecessary friction. This helps organisations generate more appropriate trial bookings, membership applications, and academy registrations.

Sponsorship and Commercial Partner Value

Sponsors increasingly expect evidence showing how a sports partnership reaches and influences relevant audiences. We help organisations measure branded content, campaign exposure, audience interactions, referral traffic, promotional participation, and selected commercial outcomes. Digital assets can be planned so that sponsorship activity feels relevant to supporters rather than being added as disconnected logo placement. Reports can separate performance by partner, platform, content type, campaign, audience, and activation period. This creates stronger renewal conversations and gives commercial teams more credible evidence when presenting future partnership opportunities.

Athlete and Team Brand Development

Athletes and teams can build significant commercial value through their identities, expertise, stories, and relationships with supporters. We create digital strategies that clarify positioning, organise content, strengthen search visibility, and support appropriate brand partnerships. Athlete branding may include personal websites, social content, media visibility, audience analysis, campaign measurement, and commercial enquiry journeys. Team branding can connect heritage, location, values, performance, community, and supporter culture through a consistent digital narrative. Every activity should strengthen credibility and long-term relevance rather than depend entirely on short-term sporting results.

Sports Content Marketing

Sports content must maintain audience attention between fixtures, competitions, announcements, and peak seasonal moments. We create strategies around athlete stories, training insights, match preparation, interviews, community programmes, academy development, historical content, and supporter participation. Articles, short videos, documentaries, live formats, newsletters, and social series can each serve different audience and commercial objectives. Content can also support ticketing, memberships, merchandise, sponsorship, recruitment, and database growth when every asset has a defined role. This creates an always-on publishing system rather than a schedule driven only by results and immediate news.

Performance Marketing Across the Sports Calendar

Sports demand changes according to seasonality, fixtures, performance, player announcements, tournament stages, and external events. We plan media budgets around these fluctuations instead of applying the same campaign structure throughout the year. Paid search can capture active ticket or membership intent, while social and video campaigns can build demand before audiences begin searching. Remarketing can reconnect with previous visitors, buyers, members, and engaged supporters through relevant next actions. Campaign performance is measured against revenue, registrations, qualified audiences, and incremental commercial value rather than impressions alone.

Merchandise and Ecommerce Growth

Sports merchandise allows supporters to express identity while creating an important revenue stream for clubs, teams, athletes, and leagues. We optimise product discovery, category structures, launches, paid campaigns, product feeds, remarketing, and ecommerce measurement. Campaign planning can reflect kit releases, player products, special collections, tournament moments, gifting periods, and regional demand. Analytics can show which audiences purchase, which categories produce stronger value, and how sporting events influence sales behaviour. This helps merchandise activity operate as a structured commercial channel rather than a series of isolated product announcements.

Analytics Across the Supporter Journey

A supporter may discover an organisation through social media, visit a fixture page, watch several videos, purchase a ticket, and later become a member or merchandise customer. Standard platform reports often divide these interactions and assign value only to the final conversion. We implement measurement structures covering content engagement, registrations, ticket purchases, memberships, store transactions, event attendance, and sponsor interactions. Where systems allow, website, ticketing, ecommerce, CRM, membership, and media data can be connected through consistent identifiers and definitions. This gives the organisation a more complete view of supporter behaviour and long-term audience value.

Reporting for Revenue and Engagement

Sports reporting should help teams understand both immediate campaign performance and the development of their audience over time. We create dashboards that can analyse results by event, team, campaign, channel, membership type, product category, geography, and supporter segment. Metrics may include ticket revenue, registrations, attendance, merchandise sales, membership growth, acquisition cost, repeat purchase, engagement, and sponsor exposure. Reports also identify tracking gaps and areas where follower growth is not progressing towards commercially useful actions. This supports more informed decisions across marketing, ticketing, commercial, ecommerce, academy, and management teams.

A Connected Sports Growth Strategy

Sports marketing performs best when audience development, ticketing, memberships, content, sponsorship, ecommerce, analytics, and reporting operate as one connected system. Search insights reveal what supporters and participants need, while content strengthens the relationship between sporting moments. Performance campaigns convert current demand, and outreach expands the organisation’s visibility within relevant media and communities. Analytics identifies which interactions become purchases, registrations, and lasting supporter relationships, while reporting connects those outcomes with commercial value. The result is a stronger sports brand with a growing audience, more dependable revenue, and clearer value for partners.

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