Published by Sue Johns-Chapman
Published Date 03.03.2026 
At Starlight Digital, we’re paid media experts specialising in Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Social Media Ads and Amazon Ads.
We were founded in March 2021 by Steven Mikellides – a multi-award winning digital ads specialist with 15 year’s experience under his belt. Steven previously worked for some of the largest digital marketing agencies in the world and is now applying all his knowledge and expertise to his own agency and clients.
Starlight Digital is traditionally sector agnostic as we enjoy working with a wide variety of clients across different industries. We are also firm believers that you can enhance your skills and improve your knowledge when working across multiple sectors. Those skills and knowledge are then transferable across industries, ultimately meaning all our clients benefit.
With that in mind, we currently work with clients across Travel, ecommerce, luxury retail, home & garden, automotive, manufacturing, DIY , energy and heating, beauty, wellbeing and dating. So as you can see, a very wide range of sectors!
We also have a history of working with finance clients (insurance and investments), property and gifting clients.
We’re delighted to be nominated for the Travel Campaign of the Year award thanks to our incredible work for Big House Experience. Big House Experience are one of our longest-standing clients, having first onboarded them nearly five years ago, in June 2021. We run Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and Meta Ads for them and have been achieving +30% growth year on year for the past few years. In a particularly challenging economic climate in 2025, we still achieved a massive 35% growth year on year, exceeding the clients stretch target of 30%.
Gareth, the Founder and Managing Director had this to say: “Starlight have super-charged our paid media activity, surpassing all expectation…they’ve applied some really advanced strategies to deliver terrific results and they’re an absolute pleasure to work with.“
With regards to entering the awards, Steven our Founder has said: “For far too long we’ve flown under the radar. We produce exceptional work but fail to shout about it. In 2026 I made a conscious effort to change that and to start better promoting our achievements. If we don’t, who will? When I came across the UK Paid Media Awards I thought what better place to start than by entering some of our work. To be nominated as a finalist just goes to show that we genuinely are producing some of the best work in the industry, and it’s an honour to be in the finals alongside some heavyweight brands and agencies.”
Additionally, some further great news, as of February 2026, Starlight Digital is a Google Premier Partner. This means we are ranked inside the top 3% of all Google Ads agencies in the UK. There are over 6,000 Google Ads agencies, so to be inside the top 3% (i.e. the top 180 agencies nationwide) is a phenomenal achievement and testament to the exceptional work we deliver.
The Premier Partner status is based on a number of things, including client retention, client growth, new client acquisition, the subsequent growth of those new clients, and ensuring our team is fully qualified, amongst several other factors. Essentially, Google really examines which agencies are generating growth for their clients – those are the ones that get rewarded with the status of being a Google Premier Partner.
We’re also a Meta Business Partner, Microsoft Ads Partner and Shopify Partner.
Check us out on Linkedin here
You can also find our founder, Steven here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-mikellides/
And you can visit our website (please note, we have a fresh website and rebrand incoming
soon!): https://starlight-digital.com/
