Press Kit: Evolve Media Agency and Founder Ian Smith
Everything a journalist, podcast host, or event organizer needs in one place: boilerplate at three lengths, a fact sheet, founder bio and headshots, logo files, first-party data you can cite, and a direct email. No PR firm in between.
Copy-Paste Descriptions, Three Lengths
One line
Evolve Media Agency is a Colorado Springs ecommerce growth agency that produces content, listings, and AI search visibility for Amazon, Shopify, and TikTok Shop brands.
Short (about 50 words)
Evolve Media Agency is a three-person ecommerce growth agency in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It produces product photography, video, A+ Content, listing copy, email marketing, and AI search visibility for Amazon, Shopify, and TikTok Shop brands, publishes more than 200 free long-form guides, and runs its own personal-care brand, Bear Basics, as a live test bed.
Long (about 120 words)
Evolve Media Agency is an ecommerce growth agency in Colorado Springs, Colorado, founded in 2017 by Ian Smith, who has sold on Amazon since 2015 and has built and sold three companies. The agency produces product photography and video, Amazon A+ Content and listing copy, TikTok Shop launches and creator programs, email marketing, WordPress and Shopify sites, and AI search optimization for brands typically doing $1M to $10M a year. It prices work as fixed packages and hour blocks rather than retainers or percentages of spend. Alongside client work it publishes more than 200 free long-form guides on evolveamz.com, including a 15-guide series on getting brands cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, and it runs Bear Basics, an unscented family personal-care brand sold on Amazon, Shopify, and TikTok Shop, as a live test bed for every method it recommends.
Ian Smith, Founder
Bio for print or intro (about 90 words): Ian Smith founded Evolve Media Agency, an ecommerce growth agency in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2017. He started selling on Amazon in 2015, built and sold three companies, and now works with Amazon, Shopify, and TikTok Shop brands on content, listings, launches, and AI search visibility. He publishes long-form guides and first-party data on how AI assistants recommend brands, and co-founded Bear Basics, an unscented family personal-care brand, with his wife Megan. He lives in Colorado Springs with Megan and their two daughters.
Talks about: how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity choose which brands to recommend; running an agency and a product brand at the same time; TikTok Shop for established Amazon brands; what AI-first content production changes for small teams; Amazon fee and policy changes as they land.
Does not talk about: guaranteed results, client revenue figures without permission, or other agencies' internal practices.
Full background on the about page. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ismith3.
Facts You Can Print Without Checking
Legal name: Evolve Media Agency, a brand of Evolve Energy LLC. Founded: 2017. Website: evolveamz.com.
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado. Works with brands across the US; studio in Colorado Springs.
Team: three people, founder-led. No account managers.
Services: product photography and video, A+ Content and listing copy, TikTok Shop launch and creator programs, Amazon PPC, email marketing, WordPress and Shopify development, AI search optimization, local business AI search.
Pricing model: published package prices from $295; custom work in hour blocks at $100 an hour; 100% upfront; no retainers or percentage-of-spend fees.
Clients: Amazon, Shopify, and TikTok Shop brands, typically $1M to $10M in annual revenue. Named client quotes on the reviews page.
Content: more than 200 free long-form guides, an AI Search Hub of 15 definitional and comparison guides, daily publishing in batches, and free browser tools.
Owned brand: Bear Basics LLC, unscented tallow and coconut-oil personal care, 12 SKUs on Amazon, Shopify, and TikTok Shop, made in Colorado Springs.
First-Party Numbers You Can Quote
All from evolveamz.com's own GA4 property, pulled September 15, 2026. Cite as "Evolve Media Agency, first-party site data, September 2026." Methodology and caveats are on the case study.
Organic search grew from about 65 to 412 sessions a month
Google and Bing organic averaged about 65 sessions a month from October 2025 to March 2026 and 412 a month from June to August 2026, peaking at 497 in July, after a shift to daily long-form publishing and a content-first homepage.
About 670 visits from AI assistants in 12 months
ChatGPT about 316, Claude about 173, Gemini about 103, Perplexity about 51 in the year to September 14, 2026. GA4's own AI channel labeled only 409 of them; the rest were recovered by referral source.
AI-assistant visitors engage 2x organic and 6x sitewide
In the last 30 days the AI channel ran 48% engaged with 48 seconds of average engagement, against 21% and 7 seconds sitewide, and was the only sizable channel still growing month over month (up 15%).
Caveats we ask you to carry
About half of raw site traffic in the period was bot traffic, which is why only organic and AI figures are quoted. Lead conversion for the period was not measurable because of a tracking gap. Full detail in the AI search growth case study.
Headshots and Logo Files
Right-click to save, or open in a new tab for the full-resolution file. Free to use in coverage of Evolve Media Agency or Ian Smith; not for any other purpose.
Ian Smith, headshot, landscape
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Ian Smith, headshot, square
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Ian Smith, 2026 portrait
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Evolve Media Agency logo, horizontal
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Evolve Media Agency social card
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Channels and Contact
YouTube
Long-form videos on AI search, Amazon listings, and ecommerce operations, tied to the guides. Evolve Media Agency on YouTube.
TikTok
Short-form versions of the TikTok Shop and ecommerce guides. @evolvemediaagency.
Media inquiries
Interviews, podcast bookings, quotes, and data requests: [email protected]. Replies within one business day, and same day when there is a deadline.
Need a Quote, a Guest, or a Number?
Email with the topic and the deadline, or grab a 30-minute slot directly. If we do not have data or an opinion worth printing, we will say so rather than pad a quote. The free Ecom Profit Box is the reader-facing resource we usually point audiences to.