A Leeds agency that trains Leeds teams
Our digital marketing training in Leeds is a half or full day for one organisation’s team, covering social media, content, PR, SEO and AI. A half day costs £1,200 and a full day £1,800 for up to six people, excluding VAT, at your office, our Leeds studio or online. Everyone gets a certificate of attendance.
Where do you run training in Leeds?
Usually in your office, because for private team training that is where the work is. Your accounts on your screens, your objectives on the wall, and nobody spends the morning travelling. That covers the city centre, Holbeck, Kirkstall, Headingley and out across West Yorkshire to Bradford, Wakefield, Harrogate and York.
If you would rather get the team out of the building we can arrange a room in the city centre instead, or run it live online in shorter blocks. We are based in Leeds ourselves, so there is no travel charge and no reason for a session to be squeezed into somebody’s train times.
What marketing training can you run in Leeds?
Five disciplines, all delivered by people who do the work for clients the rest of the week. Pick one for a day, or combine two across a longer session.
Social media
Strategy, content, paid social and measurement. The core of what we do. See social media strategy training.
Content marketing
Planning, producing and distributing content that earns attention. See content marketing training.
PR and communications
Media relations, storytelling and crisis. See PR training.
SEO and AI search
Ranking, and getting cited by AI answers rather than losing the click. See SEO and AI search training.
AI for marketing teams
Copilot, content, policy and the press office. See AI training.
Video and LinkedIn
Two of the most requested single day sessions. See video production training. The LinkedIn day is listed with every course we run.
What we do not do. We do not run PPC, Google Ads, email marketing or Mailchimp training. If that is what you are after, an open digital marketing course will serve you better than we would (there’s one named below), and we would rather say so now than take the booking.
Is this a digital marketing course?
Not in the college sense. It’s training for one team that already does marketing, using your own accounts. If you’re choosing for yourself, Leeds has other routes, and the right one depends on where you’re starting.
A degree, if you’re starting a career. Leeds Beckett, Leeds Trinity and Leeds Arts University all run digital marketing degrees, paid for through tuition fees.
An apprenticeship, if you already work in marketing. Leeds Trinity University’s Digital Marketer Degree Apprenticeship leads to a BA (Hons) Professional Practice in Digital Marketing and typically takes three years part time. You need a relevant job of at least 30 hours a week, and the apprentice pays no fees (checked October 2026).
An open short course, if one person needs the whole toolkit. M Training’s two day digital marketing course in Leeds costs £595 plus VAT for one delegate, £995 for two and £1,295 for three, and covers Google Ads, email and analytics, which we don’t (checked October 2026). For one person that is usually cheaper than us.
Funded training, if you live in West Yorkshire and qualify. Think Employment runs a twelve week Level 3 Certificate in Social Media for E-Commerce with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, free for eligible learners aged 19 or over.
Team training, if several of your people need the same skills. That’s what we do: up to six people for £1,200 a half day, which is £200 a head, with the day built around your channels and a ninety day plan at the end.
How much does training in Leeds cost?
| Format | Length | Group size | Price excluding VAT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private half day, your office or ours | 3 hours | Up to six | £1,200 |
| Private full day, your office or ours | 6 hours | Up to six | £1,800 |
| Live online | Split into blocks | Up to six | From £1,200 |
| Each extra person | Same day | Seven or more | £250 each |
That’s £200 a head for a half day and £300 a head for a full day, for a team of six. The price is for the group, so it pays off when several people need the same skills. There is no travel charge, because we’re based in Leeds.
What does a day look like?
| Time | Block | What comes out of it |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Your channels and your numbers, honestly reviewed | An agreed list of what to keep doing and what to stop |
| 10:30 | Audience and positioning | Who you are talking to, written down and agreed |
| 11:30 | The main discipline you chose at scoping | Real work produced in the room |
| 13:30 | Second block, or deeper on the first | Paid, video, LinkedIn, PR or AI depending on the team |
| 15:00 | Measurement and reporting | A report format you will still be using in six months |
| 16:00 | Ninety day plan | Owners, dates and a calendar before anybody leaves |
Half days keep the review, one block and the plan. That is the combination most teams need first, and it is the most common booking.
Why does being a Leeds agency matter?
Because the examples are our own and current. When we talk about what worked for a Yorkshire brand, it’s usually a campaign we ran.
It also means the relationship doesn’t end at five o’clock. Teams we’ve trained ring us afterwards, and every course comes with four weeks of support by phone, so a follow-up question actually gets answered.
Who runs the day?
I am Chris Norton and I run most of these sessions myself. I founded Prohibition, the PR, social and content agency behind this site, based in Leeds. I have worked in public relations for more than twenty years and I have been running training since 2009. I co-authored Share This Too, the social media handbook published by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Where a session needs a specialist alongside me, a paid social buyer or a video producer, they come to the room rather than being described in the third person.
Who have you trained?
Teams we’ve trained include Bannatyne Group, Freeths, Usdaw, the NEU, Durham University, Alzheimer’s Society, Bango, myaware, Luxair Cooker Hoods, Skipton Building Society, Interflora, Barbour, Savills, Transport for the North and Engie. We’ve also run AI in media relations training for WWF International.
Prohibition, the agency behind the training, is rated 4.9 out of 5 from 19 reviews on Clutch, across all its work. It has won more than 45 industry awards, most recently the Charity and Not for Profit Award at the PRCA DARE Awards 2026 for The Build with Martin House Children’s Hospice. That matters here for one reason: the case studies on the day are ours, so we can tell you what went wrong on them as well as what worked. Chris Norton’s podcast, Embracing Marketing Mistakes, is about exactly that, and it reached number 1 in the Apple Podcasts marketing chart.
Training in Leeds, questions we get asked
How much does digital marketing training cost in Leeds?
With us, a half day is £1,200 and a full day £1,800 for up to six people, excluding VAT, so £200 to £300 a head, and £250 for each extra person. An open two day classroom course in Leeds is £595 plus VAT for one person. Degrees are paid through tuition fees.
Do you run digital marketing training in Leeds?
Yes, in the parts we do for clients every week: social media, content marketing, PR, SEO and AI search. For PPC, Google Ads, email marketing or Mailchimp, an open course is the better choice, and we’ll tell you so on the scoping call.
Do we come to you or do you come to us?
Whichever suits. Most teams host it, because the day works better with your own screens and nobody travelling. We can arrange a city centre room instead if you would rather get people out of the office.
How far in advance should we book?
Two to three weeks is comfortable. That leaves time for the scoping call and for us to look properly at your channels beforehand, which is most of what makes the day useful.
Can you train more than six people?
Yes. The price covers up to six, and each extra person is £250. Past about twelve the practical exercises thin out, so bigger teams usually do better with two sessions.
Do you work with public sector organisations?
Yes. We’ve trained teams at Durham University, Alzheimer’s Society and the NEU, where social is often spread across several teams and nobody has agreed how it works. See higher education training.
Is it tailored or off the shelf?
Tailored. The scoping call sets the blocks and the exercises use your channels, your competitors and your objectives. There is no standard deck that everybody sees.
What do people take away?
The slides, the work produced in the room, a certificate of attendance and a ninety day plan with owners and dates. The certificate isn’t an accredited qualification. The plan is the part that stops a good day fading by the following month.
Do you train agencies as well as brands?
Yes. Tell us when you enquire and we’ll build the day around client work rather than brand work.
Is digital marketing still worth learning in 2026?
Yes, but the skills worth paying for have shifted. Video is one of the days teams ask us for most, and SEO now has to cover AI answers as well as Google. Learn the parts that get your organisation found and trusted, and measure them honestly.
Which digital marketing course is best?
It depends where you’re starting. A degree suits a school leaver, an apprenticeship suits someone already in a marketing job, an open course suits one person who needs the whole toolkit, and team training suits a group that needs the same skills at once.
Is a three month digital marketing course worth it?
It can be, if you’re changing career and want a qualification. We don’t run one. In West Yorkshire, Think Employment’s twelve week Level 3 course is free for eligible learners. For a team already doing the work, a focused day on what’s holding you back moves faster.
Where else do you deliver?
Manchester
Fifty minutes away and regular. See social media training in Manchester.
London
Travel included. See social media training in London.
Anywhere else
UK wide or live online. See every course we run.
Tell us who needs training and what they are stuck on
Half day £1,200, full day £1,800, up to six people, excluding VAT. At your Leeds office, our Leeds studio, or online.
Delivered across Leeds, West Yorkshire and the North, alongside Manchester and every course we run. Last reviewed October 2026.
