About Olander Group

Experts in Every Channel.
Masters of the Mix.

For more than 25 years, we’ve planned and bought media for brands and organizations of all kinds. We bring deep, hands-on expertise to every channel, and the strategic depth to orchestrate them as one plan, so every channel lifts the others. Senior people on every account, real numbers behind every decision, and full visibility into all of it.

Olander Group office — strategic paid media planning
Our Story

25 years in the making

Olander Group was founded in 2004 on a simple belief: every serious advertiser deserves the strategic depth the world’s largest brands take for granted.

We built this agency to deliver exactly that. Senior in experience, direct in access, and fully accountable to the results that matter to your organization. Our principals have worked in media since 1999.

How We Work

One plan, one set of numbers, one person accountable.

Every account is run by a senior strategist — someone who has managed campaigns at the highest level and brings that experience to your organization directly. Not handed off to a junior team. Not templated. Built from your actual numbers.

We model your economics before we touch a campaign, and we decide the allocation across channels before anyone opens a platform. We instrument measurement so every decision rests on data you can trust — and where you operate under HIPAA or a state consumer-health-data law, we build that measurement so it does not create exposure. Then we show you everything: what we see, what we spend, and exactly why we make the calls we make.

The result is media that compounds. Cleaner signals feeding platform AI. Better data informing better bids. A plan that moves budget toward what is working instead of defending last year's split.

  • Every channel planned as one system, so each one lifts the others
  • Targets built from what a new customer is actually worth to you
  • Budget allocated across channels deliberately, and revisited as results come in
  • Full transparency into spend, performance, and every decision
  • Reporting tied to revenue and growth — not impressions and clicks
  • Privacy-safe tracking and measurement from day one, including under HIPAA
Our Principles

Six principles we never compromise on

01

Strategic Depth

Every engagement starts with the math. We work out what a new patient, student or customer is actually worth, set targets against it, and allocate budget across channels accordingly — before a single campaign goes live.

02

Full Transparency

You see what we see. You know what we spend. You understand every decision we make and why we made it. No black boxes. No surprises. Ever.

03

Hands-On Execution

We are in the accounts daily — not monitoring dashboards, but making decisions, pulling search terms, testing creative, and optimizing bids in real time. We are operators, not reporters.

04

Built on Systems

Every workflow is documented and every process is repeatable, so the quality of your results never depends on memory or luck.

05

Platform-Deep Expertise

We’ve run campaigns on the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards and the Olympics. We ran one of the first ad campaigns on Twitter as a beta partner, and were among the first advertisers on Facebook, Spotify and TikTok. Now we’re among the first able to place ads on ChatGPT, for the same reason: the advantage is largest before a channel is crowded.

06

Concierge Service

You will always know where things stand. You will always have direct access to the strategist running your account. And you will always get our best thinking — not a handoff to someone reading from a playbook.

Our Process

From review to results — a proven 5-stage process

Each stage builds on the last, creating a compounding cycle of better data, sharper strategy, and stronger performance over time.

01

Discovery

We start from your Media Review, go deep on your accounts and tracking, and agree on the numbers that will define success.

02

Foundation

We build the campaign architecture and the privacy-safe measurement underneath it — the foundation every channel runs on.

03

Launch

Campaigns go live in stages, with clean tracking and close monitoring, so every platform starts learning from accurate data.

04

Optimize

We manage bids, budgets, creative and audiences daily against your targets, and tie every decision back to your numbers.

05

Grow

We scale what’s working, move budget to where it earns the most, and add channels where the opportunity is real.

Our Experience

Twenty-five years. Every channel. Categories most agencies will not touch.

We have managed media for Fortune 500 companies, global brands, major universities, regional health systems, and fast-growing direct-to-consumer brands. We have been in the room — and in the accounts — at every level of this industry.

That breadth is what we bring to every engagement. Pattern recognition built across verticals, budget levels and market conditions does not come from running one type of account.

It also means we are comfortable where others are not. Healthcare advertising carries a real constraint: tracking on a health system's website can disclose protected health information, and neither Google nor Meta will sign a Business Associate Agreement for their ad products. Most agencies respond by turning tracking off or leaving exposure nobody has written down. We know the third option, and we will walk your compliance officer through it directly.

25+ Years in Paid Media
$100M+ In Media Managed
100+ Clients Served
Olander Group — paid media strategy at work
Media Review

Got thirty minutes? Let’s talk about your media.

Tell us what you’re running and what it’s producing. We’ll come back with a clear read on the demand in your market, a look at what your competitors are running, and where we see room to improve performance and get more from every dollar. No deck. No homework. Just a good conversation about what’s working, what isn’t, and how to make it all work harder.