Siege Media

Published 2026-09-07 · Updated 2026-09-07

Contents

Background
Services
Pricing
Terms and buyer protection
Reputation
Delivery evidence
Operational footprint
Value for money
Penalties
Category evidence
Frequently asked questions
History
See also

Siege Media is a United States content marketing agency selling digital PR, link building and content retainers.¹ The company describes a remote organisation with its headquarters in Austin and hubs in three other American cities.¹ ² Its current Public Evidence Score appears in the infobox for round 2026-09-pes1, dated 7 September 2026.

Background

The company states that Ross Hudgens founded Siege Media in 2012 and leads it as chief executive.¹ Clutch verifies the entity as Siege Media, LLC, formed on 10 January 2013 under California registration 201306810641 with active status.³ Named leadership also includes Melissa Holmes as chief operating officer and two vice presidents.¹ The about page lists offices in Austin, Chicago, New York and San Francisco alongside a remote working model.¹ LinkedIn records a 2012 founding date, an Austin headquarters and 109 listed employees as of September 2026.² No first archive date was established because the archive lookup returned no usable capture.¹

Services

As of September 2026, the company offers content marketing retainers, digital PR campaigns, link building services and search optimisation.⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ Digital PR covers creation and promotion of newsworthy content pitched to journalists for earned media placements.⁵ Link building centres on organic content-led placements, with an average Domain Rating above 40 stated for most industries.⁶ As of September 2026, the company also names artificial-intelligence visibility work across its homepage and about page.⁴ ¹ As of September 2026, named industries include software, ecommerce, health, travel, real estate and insurance.¹ ⁸ ⁹

Pricing

As of September 2026, content marketing retainers start at 8,000 dollars per month through a quote route.⁷ The same page describes twelve-month contracts with a thirty-day exit clause and unit-based scoping.⁷ As of September 2026, digital PR starts around 12,000 to 15,000 dollars per month when creation and promotion run together.⁵ A smaller retainer is possible when the client supplies content in-house, still arranged by quote.⁵ Clutch lists a minimum project size above 5,000 dollars and hourly rates between 100 and 149 dollars as of September 2026.³ The link building page cites effective costs under 250 dollars per link as an outcome, not a listed product.⁶ No cart or checkout route was found, so every stated price requires direct enquiry before purchase.⁷ ⁵

Terms and buyer protection

No public terms of service page was found, with the expected address returning an error page.⁷ The review covered the content-marketing page, with the expected terms address returning an error.⁷ As of September 2026, no refund term and no replacement or restore term appear on public pages.⁷ No turnaround promise and no dispute route were found on the public site as of September 2026.⁷ The one stated protection is a thirty-day exit clause inside twelve-month content marketing contracts.⁷

Reputation

The Clutch profile shows 44 verified client reviews averaging 4.9 with no integrity flag as of September 2026.³ A third-party page cites a 5.0 rating from 5 G2 reviews in September 2026, as the G2 page blocked direct reading.¹⁰ No matching Trustpilot profile for the company name or domain was found.¹¹ A Maps view in September 2026 showed a 5.0 rating without a visible review count, so no Google count was established.¹² Recency shares for the last twelve months were not published on the profiles read for this round.³ ¹⁰ The combining and smoothing of ratings across platforms is described on the methodology page.

Delivery evidence

The company states that outreach earns placements and that it never buys links or mentions for clients.⁵ The Hippo case study reports 105 earned media placements and 106 links in one version of the page.⁹ A later version cites more than 225 media placements during 2025 and a 450 percent visibility rise since 2023.⁹ Named outlets include Forbes, Yahoo Finance and the Washington Post, though live links were not opened.⁹ The Embroker study claims a 24,000 percent traffic rise with a 460 percent increase in links.¹³ It also describes an interactive statistics asset with more than 900 links and national press features.¹³ No live third-party sample with a visible link was opened during evidence gathering for this round.⁹ ¹³

Operational footprint

As of September 2026, LinkedIn shows 51 to 200 employees as its size range, with 109 listed profiles.² The about page names 20 team members as of September 2026 and lists offices across four American cities.¹ Contact runs through a strategy-call form, a contact page and telephone number 8586099118 listed on Clutch.¹⁴ ³ LinkedIn gives Austin as headquarters, matching the Austin street address on the about page.² ¹ No turnaround promise or service-level statement was found on the pages read for this round.¹ ¹⁴

Value for money

No per-link unit price with an authority floor was published, so no basket comparison was possible.⁷ ⁵ Published retainers describe monthly scope rather than priced guest-post or niche-edit placement units for buyers.⁷ ⁵ Where providers publish unit prices, the methodology page describes the standard price-basket comparison used.

Penalties

No public route letting buyers approve placement domains before publication was found as of September 2026.⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ¹ The digital PR page refuses guaranteed mention counts and cautions against firms offering such guarantees.⁵ No headline promise was found contradicted by footer or legal text on the public site.⁷ ⁵ The company describes an earned-media model and states that it never buys links or mentions.⁵ ⁶ No evidence of provider-controlled sites sold as editorial placements was established in this round.⁵ ⁶ No consumer alert or integrity flag was recorded on the review profiles read for this round.³ ¹¹ The default link attribute for placements could not be established because live placements were not opened.⁵ ⁹

Category evidence

A dedicated digital PR page states scope and monthly pricing beside named case-study samples.⁵ ⁹ A dedicated link building page describes earned placements, citing effective per-link costs as an outcome.⁶ The homepage names artificial-intelligence visibility work, with the Mentimeter case study citing 250,000 ChatGPT visits.⁴ ¹ A dedicated ecommerce page was reachable, while software rests on general pages because its dedicated page returned an error.⁸ ¹ ⁵ Health, travel and real estate appear as industry names without dedicated pages, prices or samples.¹

Frequently asked questions

What does Siege Media sell, and where is it based?

Siege Media is a United States agency selling digital PR, link building and retainers.⁴ Digital PR means creating newsworthy content and pitching it to journalists for earned placements.⁵ The company works from Austin, with offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco.¹

How much does Siege Media charge?

As of September 2026, content retainers start at 8,000 dollars monthly through a quote route.⁷ Digital PR starts around 12,000 to 15,000 dollars monthly with creation and promotion together.⁵ No cart or checkout route was found, so every stated price requires direct enquiry.⁷⁵

Can buyers approve placements, and are links dofollow?

No public route lets buyers approve placement domains before publication as of September 2026.⁵ The default link attribute could not be established because live placements were not opened.⁵ The stated model is earned media, and the company never buys links or mentions.⁵

What refund or replacement terms apply?

None were found: no refund term and no replacement term appear on public pages.⁷ No turnaround promise and no dispute route were found anywhere on the public site.⁷ The one stated protection is a thirty-day exit clause inside twelve-month content marketing contracts.⁷

What do public reviews show about Siege Media?

Clutch shows 44 verified reviews averaging 4.9 with no integrity flag as of September 2026.³ A third-party page cites 5.0 from 5 G2 reviews, as direct reading was blocked.¹⁰ No matching Trustpilot profile for the company name or domain was found.¹¹

How is Siege Media scored?

The current Public Evidence Score for the provider appears in the infobox beside the article lead. The methodology page describes how published evidence across the stated criteria forms the single published figure shown beside the lead. Readers comparing providers find the same published method behind each provider figure displayed here.

History

This article was created from the evidence gathered for scoring round 2026-09-pes1 during September 2026. The revision log beside the article records later changes with their editors and reasons.