BEN IQRA
About
About

I'm Ben Iqra.

Social media strategist. I run the content for established businesses and public figures, from the strategy to the moment it posts.
Ben Iqra

What I do

My job is to turn a business's content into an audience, and that audience into customers. The method starts with the person watching rather than the business, which is why it has never been tied to one kind of company. The same thinking has worked for a halal butcher, a US pain specialist, a used-book retailer and a global education charity.

I do the strategy and the scripts myself. My editor cuts the videos, I coach clients to film themselves, and everything goes out from one plan. I keep the roster small on purpose, because the work only holds up when I'm properly inside each business.

I've been doing this full time since 2022, through my company Ben Iqra Ltd. Before that it was something I did every evening around a full-time job, because I wanted to know why one video gets watched and the next one doesn't. That is still the most interesting question in my work.

The numbers

490,000+
followers across client accounts
35 million+
views on client content in the last 12 months
500 million+
views on client content since 2020. I last counted a while ago.
5 silver, 2 gold
YouTube play buttons on channels I've grown
Ben Iqra holding a YouTube silver play button
One of the silver play buttons. Channels I've worked on hold five of these and two gold ones.

Work with me

If you run an established business and want me to run your content, start on the home page. If you'd rather have a straight answer about your own account first, there's the content audit.

Where I've been
  • NorthamptonshireGrew up in a market town near Northampton.
  • 2020Started making videos during lockdown and got obsessed with why some get watched and most don't. A charity hired me one day a week to grow their TikTok.
  • 2022Went full time. Clients had replaced the salary, so there wasn't much to decide.
  • 2024 to 2025Ran the business from Bursa in Turkey, then from Bahrain.
  • 2026Back in the UK. Based in Bolton, in a shared office with three other business owners.