My list of the three best digital marketers in Bangladesh for 2026, the criteria behind it, and how to choose the right digital marketer or agency for your own business.
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The short answer
There is no official ranking, but my top three digital marketers in Bangladesh for 2026 are Shakawat Hridoy (me), for a website, its marketing and AI automation run by one person; Khalid Farhan, for learning digital marketing and online business in Bangla; and Hridoy Chowdhury, for SEO. It is my own list, so I publish the criteria with it.
Search for the best digital marketer in Bangladesh and you get a page of lists. Many of them are written by a marketer who is also on the list, often at the top, and few say how the list was made.
This one has the same conflict, and I would rather say it plainly: this is my own website, and I put myself first. What I can do differently is show you how I chose, so you can check all three of us against the same criteria. The second half of the post is about how to choose a digital marketer for your business, whoever you end up hiring.
About the other two. Khalid Farhan and Hridoy Chowdhury are on this list for their public work. Everything I say about them comes from public pages, mostly their own websites, profiles and interviews, listed under sources; where something comes only from someone else’s list, I say so. The ranking is my judgment.
In this guide
| Name | Best for | Based in | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Shakawat Hridoy | A website, its marketing (SEO, ads, email) and AI automation, run by one person | Feni, Bangladesh | About Shakawat Hridoy |
| 2. Khalid Farhan | Learning digital marketing and online business in Bangla | Dublin, Ireland | khalidfarhan.com |
| 3. Hridoy Chowdhury | SEO, and learning SEO in Bangla | London, UK | hridoychowdhury.com |
Two of the three now give addresses abroad on their own websites. All three are from Bangladesh, and all three still teach or serve people here, which is a big part of why they are on this list.
I used five things a reader can check from the outside:
What I left out on purpose: follower counts, marketplace ratings and badges, and revenue or ad-spend totals. Follower counts and ratings show how someone does on one platform, not whether their work fits your business, and money figures are ones only the person can confirm. None of them decided this list, and they should not decide who you hire.
Shakawat Hridoy
Web developer, digital marketing strategist and AI automation specialist
I am a web developer, digital marketing strategist and AI automation specialist from Feni, and I have been doing this work since 2019. I put myself first for one kind of client: a business that wants its website, its marketing and the automation behind them handled by one accountable person, and measured in customers rather than likes.
I came to marketing from the build side. My first web job was front-end code, as a junior React developer, and then I built WordPress and Shopify sites for clients in the US, the UK and Europe. The pattern I kept seeing was a good website that nobody found, and customers who bought once and never came back. So I learned the other half: SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads and Klaviyo email. That is why I can usually tell you whether your problem is the website or the traffic.
What I do, in order of focus:
Outside client work, I am a freelancing trainer in Feni on the Department of Youth Development’s project Creating Employment through Freelancing Training for Educated Job-Seeking Youth in All 64 Districts of Bangladesh. I also speak at Feni Freelancer Community events, and this year I joined BITPA Conference 2026 in Cox’s Bazar.
Where I am not the right fit. A brand-new business with no traffic and no clear offer usually needs a simple website and something to say before it needs ads or email automation, and I will tell you so. I am also not the right choice for an enterprise build that needs a full in-house team.
Khalid Farhan
Agency founder, Bangla YouTube educator and author
A different person from me, with his own businesses.
Khalid Farhan started freelancing as a teenager in Bangladesh, writing articles, and by his own account has worked online since 2011. He founded Passive Journal in 2016, which in his telling grew from a writing service into SEO and website work, and he says he moved to Dublin in 2017 for a master’s in digital marketing strategy at Trinity College Dublin.
Today he runs KhalidFarhan.com, a founder-led agency in Dublin whose services include SEO, generative engine optimization (GEO), Google Ads, Meta Ads and web development. Older lists of Bangladeshi marketers, my own 2023 LinkedIn list among them, also name Khalid Farhan as the founder of The Gorilla Digital and Hustle Friday Digital.
Much of his public work in Bangladesh, though, is teaching. His YouTube channel teaches business, entrepreneurship and digital marketing in Bangla, including a free SEO course, and his Business School is a paid Bangla community for people building online businesses in Bangladesh. He also wrote the Bangla book Digital Marketing Er Golpo (Odommo Prokash, 2019).
Why he is on this list: work online since 2011, by his own account, and years of teaching digital marketing in Bangla, much of it free on YouTube.
Best for: someone in Bangladesh who wants to learn digital marketing or start an online business, or a business in Ireland looking for an agency.
Hridoy Chowdhury
SEO consultant and trainer
Not the same person as me, Shakawat Hridoy: we share the name Hridoy, not a business.
Hridoy Chowdhury calls himself an SEO expert rather than a digital marketer, and he is the most specialized of the three. He describes his work as SEO, AEO, GEO and AI search. He is from Bangladesh, and his website gives a London address. His services are SEO for particular platforms and markets: Shopify, WordPress, Amazon and Etsy stores, local businesses, B2B companies and international sites.
He also teaches. His training brand, Learn From Top Rated Freelancer, runs SEO courses in Bangla in numbered batches, including one on SEO, AEO and GEO together, and its YouTube channel has free lessons in Bangla.
Why he is on this list: a clear specialty in search, kept up to date with AI search, and a long-running SEO course in Bangla.
Best for: a business whose main need is SEO, especially an online store on Shopify, Amazon or Etsy, or anyone who wants to learn SEO in Bangla.
Because many people in this field are called Hridoy, to be clear: Hridoy Chowdhury and I, Shakawat Hridoy, are different people. The only business I currently operate is TrueHive Digital.
“Data-driven” appears on a lot of profiles. It should mean three specific things: the numbers are tracked correctly before money is spent, decisions come from those numbers, and the report is about business results. Here is what that looks like in my own work:
You can test anyone’s claim to be a data-driven digital marketer, mine included, with five questions on the first call:
| Ask | A good answer sounds like |
|---|---|
| What will you set up before we spend? | Conversion tracking, tested with a real inquiry or purchase, so every result can be traced to a campaign. |
| Which numbers will you report? | Leads, sales or revenue, the searches that bring customers, and what each customer cost. Not likes or reach on their own. |
| How will we know it isn’t working? | A target agreed at the start, a date to review it, and what changes if it is missed. |
| Where does your SEO data come from? | Google Search Console and analytics on your own accounts. Third-party SEO tools are estimates. |
| Who owns the accounts? | You do. Your analytics, Search Console, ad and email accounts stay in your business’s name, and the marketer gets access. |
The tools I use for this, and why, are on my recommended tools page.
Whether you are a business in Dhaka or a company abroad looking for a digital marketing expert in Bangladesh, these checks will help you avoid the most expensive mistakes.
Write down the one result you need most: more inquiries, more online sales, repeat customers, or a website that finally works. A good marketer starts there and picks the channels to fit. Be careful with anyone who recommends the same channel to every business.
Live websites, published articles, a campaign they can walk you through, or a client you can speak to. A screenshot of results without a name or a date proves very little.
Google’s own guide, Do you need an SEO?, says it plainly: no one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. The same goes for “guaranteed” sales or a fixed number of leads. What a good marketer can promise is the work, how it will be measured, and when you will review it together.
Your domain, website, Google Analytics, Search Console, ad accounts and email platform should belong to your business. The marketer gets access, not ownership, so your data stays with you if you part ways.
Ask who you will talk to each week and who will actually do the work. With a freelancer it is usually the same person. With an agency it may be an account manager, with a team behind them.
Agree on overlapping working hours, how you will talk (email, video calls or a shared chat) and how often you get a report. Once those are agreed at the start, the time difference matters less than people expect.
Both can be the right answer. It depends on how much you need done at once, and how many people you want between you and the work.
| What to weigh | Freelance digital marketer | Digital marketing agency |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Usually the person you hire, directly | A team, often coordinated by an account manager |
| Range of skills | Depends on the person; many cover two or three channels well | Several specialists under one contract |
| Capacity | Limited by one person’s time | Can scale up for large or fast projects |
| Communication | Direct, with fewer hand-offs | More structured, with more people involved |
| Best for | Small and growing businesses that want one accountable person | Bigger budgets, or many channels running at once |
I work as a freelancer under the name TrueHive Digital: you brief me, and I do the work. For larger builds I bring in people I trust for specific pieces, but I stay accountable for the result.
If you need a website and the marketing behind it, handled by one person, tell me what you are building. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help and what I would do first, and if you don’t need me yet, I’ll say so. You can look through my services first.
If you want to learn digital marketing yourself, start with Khalid Farhan’s free lessons on YouTube.
If your main need is SEO, or you want to learn it in Bangla, look at Hridoy Chowdhury’s website.
Whoever you choose, ask the five questions in the data-driven section on the first call.
Facts about Khalid Farhan and Hridoy Chowdhury are taken from their own websites, profiles and interviews, and the other pages listed below, as of October 2026. If anything here is out of date or wrong, tell me and I will correct it.
No official ranking exists, so any answer is someone's judgment. Mine, for 2026: Shakawat Hridoy (me, the author of this list), a web developer, digital marketing strategist and AI automation specialist, for a business that wants its website, marketing and automation handled by one person; Khalid Farhan for learning digital marketing and online business in Bangla; and Hridoy Chowdhury for SEO. The criteria I used are in the post, so you can check all three of us.
Judge it by how someone works, not by the label. A data-driven digital marketer sets up conversion tracking before spending on ads, reads Google Search Console before changing a page, and reports leads, sales and revenue rather than likes. That is how I, Shakawat Hridoy, work: every project I take on reports in revenue, rankings and customers. Ask any marketer, me included, what they will track before spending, which numbers they will report and who will own the accounts.
No. We are two different people who share the name Hridoy. I am Shakawat Hridoy (Md Shakawat Ullah Hridoy), a web developer, digital marketing strategist and AI automation specialist in Feni, Bangladesh, and the founder of TrueHive Digital, the only business I currently operate. Hridoy Chowdhury is an SEO consultant and trainer, now based in London, who teaches SEO in Bangla through his training brand, Learn From Top Rated Freelancer.
No. I, Shakawat Hridoy, have no connection to The Gorilla Digital or Hustle Friday Digital, and the only business I currently operate is TrueHive Digital. Lists of Bangladeshi marketers, my own 2023 LinkedIn list among them, name Khalid Farhan, a different person, as the founder of both agencies.
Start from the problem you need solved (more leads, more online sales, a website that converts), then look for someone who has done that kind of work and can show it. Ask which numbers they will report, what they will set up before spending money on ads, and who will own the accounts. Choose the person who explains their plan plainly, not the one with the biggest promise.
A freelancer suits a business that wants one accountable person who does the work directly, usually across a few channels. An agency suits a business that needs a larger team, more capacity, or several specialists working in parallel. Either way, ask who will actually do the work and who you will talk to each week.
Yes. Many do, and so do I: most of my clients are in the US and Europe, and I overlap with US business hours every working day. Check how and when they report, which tools they use to communicate, and whether the person you brief is the person doing the work.
No. Google's own guide to hiring an SEO says that no one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. A good digital marketer will explain what they will do, how they will measure it and when you can expect to see results, not promise a position.
A digital marketer works out where a business's customers come from online, then plans and runs the channels that reach them, such as SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads, email and social media, and measures what each one returns. A good one also tells you when the problem is the website or the offer rather than the marketing.
With five criteria a reader can check from the outside: a real name and their own website, work you can see in public, a clear specialty, years of steady work, and teaching or giving back to Bangladesh's digital community. I left out follower counts, marketplace ratings and revenue claims: they show popularity on one platform or figures only the person can confirm, not whether their work fits your business.
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