A Chicago digital advertising agency built for local and regional service businesses. Based in Villa Park, IL — serving Chicagoland and beyond.
BRD Media LLC is a Chicago-based digital advertising agency headquartered in Villa Park, IL, built specifically to help local service-based businesses grow through measurable, accountable marketing. We do not chase trends, we do not sell activity, and we do not send reports that hide behind vanity numbers. Every engagement is built around one question: is this actually moving the business forward?
Before launching BRD Media, Chris DeWilde worked in and helped grow multiple businesses, which gave him a direct look at one of the biggest problems in local marketing: the massive disconnect between what agencies sell and the results they actually deliver. Owners were being pitched big promises, glossy reports, and endless tactics, while still being left without real tracking, real accountability, or a clear path to growth. The more he saw it, the more obvious it became that businesses did not need another vendor — they needed a partner who could build a marketing system that actually made business sense.
That is exactly why BRD Media was created. Not to sell activity, but to build growth systems that can be tracked, improved, and tied back to revenue. Every part of the stack has to work together — ads, landing pages, follow-up, CRM automation, reporting, and conversion tracking — or the business ends up paying for disconnected effort. BRD Media was built around a simple standard: if it cannot be measured and it does not help drive growth, it does not belong in the strategy.
That is why every BRD Media engagement is built around the same standard: if it cannot be tracked, improved, and tied back to business growth, it does not belong in the strategy.
Every campaign, landing page, call tracking setup, and follow-up sequence should move a prospect closer to becoming a customer. If it cannot be measured against revenue, it does not deserve budget.
Ad platforms do not operate in a vacuum. Google Ads without conversion infrastructure wastes spend. SEO without lead tracking wastes traffic. A CRM without automation wastes leads. Growth happens when the entire stack works together.
Our clients have access to their GA4, ad accounts, CRM, call tracking, and reporting. No black-box dashboards. No hidden numbers. No filtering performance to make bad campaigns look better than they are.
Chicago is not one market. Buyer behavior changes from suburb to suburb, and strategy should reflect that. What works in Oak Brook is not always what works in Schaumburg, Naperville, or Villa Park.
We turn down businesses that are underfunded, refuse proper tracking, or want shortcuts instead of real systems. Good marketing only works when the fundamentals are in place, and we are honest about that from the start.
BRD Media works best with established local and regional businesses that are serious about growth and ready to invest in the systems required to support it. Our client base currently includes:
We work with med spas, IV therapy providers, wellness clinics, and GLP-1 operators building patient acquisition and retention systems. That includes brands like Premier IV Wellness, Forever Young Medical Spa, and other operators running Meta Ads, Google Ads, membership campaigns, and structured follow-up automation.
We support law firms that need stronger local visibility, higher-quality leads, and better control over intake. One example is Chris J. Aiello P.C., a Villa Park-based civil litigation, probate, and estate planning practice focused on local SEO and geo-targeted advertising across DuPage County.
We work with roofing companies, contractors, and other Chicago-area service businesses that need lead generation tied to real business outcomes. That includes brands like Stergo Roofing Corp and other local operators running Google Ads, local SEO, and streaming audio campaigns.
In addition to direct client work, we support a broader network of independent operators through Tip the Scales, providing white-label and co-branded advertising services that extend our strategy, execution, and systems into aligned partner businesses.
We are not the right fit for everyone. If you are looking for the cheapest ad manager available or a vendor who will blindly execute without challenging the strategy, we are probably not your shop. If you want a team that tells you the truth, protects your budget, and builds marketing systems designed to compound over time, that is where we do our best work.
Chris DeWilde founded BRD Media after seeing the same problem over and over again: strong local businesses were investing in marketing, but very few actually had a system they could trust. During his time working in real estate under Coldwell Banker Realty, he got a close look at how businesses were being sold advertising without real accountability, clear reporting, or a plan tied to revenue. Too many owners were spending money across different platforms without knowing what was working, what was broken, or where leads were being lost.
BRD Media was built to fix that. Chris now helps local and regional businesses create marketing systems that are measurable, integrated, and built for growth — from paid ads and SEO to streaming audio, retargeting, CRM automation, and lead tracking. His focus is on helping service businesses stop patching together random vendors and start running a real acquisition system. Based in Villa Park, Chris leads BRD Media with a simple standard: if it cannot be tracked, improved, and tied back to business growth, it does not belong in the strategy.
Chris is based in Villa Park, Illinois, and also operates Dewilde LLC as a licensed real estate agent serving Chicago’s north and western suburbs.
We review your GA4, ad accounts, CRM, and lead flow to identify what is driving results and what is draining budget.
We build a focused 90-day plan around the right channels, the right budget allocation, and clear conversion targets.
We develop the campaigns, landing pages, tracking, and automation needed to go live the right way from day one.
We make weekly adjustments based on actual performance data, not assumptions, opinions, or platform spin.
Once a system proves it can produce results, we increase spend with confidence and expand what is working across the rest of the stack.
BRD Media is a Chicago digital advertising agency built for local and regional service businesses that need more than disconnected freelancers and partial solutions. We manage the full growth stack under one roof — paid media, SEO, streaming audio, landing pages, CRM automation, and conversion tracking — so owners can stop guessing, start measuring, and build marketing that compounds over time.
BRD Media is headquartered at 322 Ardmore Ave, Villa Park, IL 60181. We work with businesses across Chicago, the Chicagoland suburbs, and select out-of-state markets.
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BRD Media was founded by Chris DeWilde in Villa Park, Illinois, as a full-service digital advertising agency built for local and regional service businesses.
BRD Media provides Google Ads, Meta Ads, SEO, streaming audio advertising across platforms like Spotify, Pandora, podcasts, and programmatic audio, along with web design, landing page development, CRM setup, marketing automation, and complete lead generation systems.
We primarily work with medical aesthetics and wellness brands, legal practices, and home service businesses. We also support select clients in automotive, dental, chiropractic, and other local service categories.
No. Most of our clients are based in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, but we also work with select out-of-state businesses when the fit is right. Premier IV Wellness, for example, operates across two Texas locations.
Book a free 30-minute strategy call. We’ll review what you’re running now, what’s actually working, and what the next 90 days should look like.