Romuald Fons's Biography: the SEO who filled YouTube with marketing

Billing more than a million euros in one week selling a YouTube course sounds like an invented headline, but El País checked it with documents in January 2021. Romuald Fons, the most visible SEO consultant in the Spanish-speaking world, achieved it after going broke twice with earlier businesses. This biography of Romuald Fons explains who he is, how he went from studying architecture to founding BIGSEO, what lies behind CreceTube and his book Crece y hazte rico, and why his name appears so many times next to the word «scam» on Google.

Who is Romuald Fons?

Romuald Fons is a Spanish web positioning consultant, entrepreneur and YouTuber, born in Barcelona in 1977. He is known for founding the BIGSEO agency and its BIGSEO Academy school, for the CreceTube course and for the book Crece y hazte rico (Planeta, 2022). In 2026 he remains at the head of BIGSEO and of his YouTube channel, one of the biggest about digital marketing in Spanish.

Romuald Fons's personal details

Field: Detail

Name: Romuald Fons

Year of birth: 1977

Place of birth: Barcelona, Spain

Age (2026): Around 48 years old

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: SEO consultant, entrepreneur, YouTuber, author

Studies: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB)

Company: BIGSEO (agency), BIGSEO Academy, BIGSEO Capital

Instagram: @romualdfons · more than 260,000 followers

YouTube: Romuald Fons · between 800,000 and 1.5 million subscribers depending on the source

Website: romualdfons.com

Romuald Fons's childhood and early years

Romuald Fons was born and grew up in Barcelona. Little is known about his childhood: he does not use it as material and the media have focused on his adult period. It is documented, on his own website, that he studied at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), the architecture faculty of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. There is no record of whether he finished the degree.

What shaped his path was not architecture but failure. In interviews such as the one he gave to Noticias de Gipuzkoa in 2022, titled «Chasing my dreams I went broke twice», he recounts that he set up several businesses that went bust and left him without money before he was forty. It was at that point when, self-taught, he got into SEO: he says he was pushed by the videos of the American Pat Flynn, who claimed to earn 30,000 dollars a month positioning websites. That story of ruin and reinvention is the backbone of his personal brand.

Romuald Fons's professional career

The BIGSEO agency is the first pillar of his career. Here the sources do not agree: BIGSEO's corporate website places the founding in 2012 and Fons's personal website in 2015, so at Famosix we talk about «the first half of the 2010s». According to the company itself, it has worked with more than 150 brands in 65 countries, among them Danone, Shopify and Glovo, with a team of more than 50 people and annual revenue above three million euros towards 2022.

The second pillar is YouTube. His channel, with long videos about how to appear on Google, made him the most recognisable face of SEO in Spanish; BIGSEO declared 800,000 subscribers and 47 million views in November 2021. On that audience he built BIGSEO Academy (2018) and BIGSEO Capital (2020), according to his own timeline.

The media leap came with CreceTube. At the end of 2020 he launched that course about how to grow on YouTube at 700 euros and, according to documentation he showed to El País, he sold it to some 1,500 people in one week: more than a million euros. The report went round the Spanish-language media. In 2021 Forbes Spain included him among its Best 100 Influencers and on January 19, 2022 he published, with Planeta, Crece y hazte rico.

Verified milestones:

• 2012 or 2015 (depending on the source): he founds BIGSEO in Barcelona.
• 2018: he launches BIGSEO Academy.
• 2020: he creates BIGSEO Capital.
• December 2020: he launches CreceTube and passes a million euros in one week (El País).
• 2021: Best 100 Influencers of Forbes Spain.
• January 19, 2022: he publishes Crece y hazte rico (Editorial Planeta).
• 2022: recognised as Top Business Influencer by Eshow.

Romuald Fons's leading projects

Romuald Fons's personal life

Romuald Fons keeps his private life away from his public presence. In reference media there are no statements about a partner or children, and at Famosix we do not fill that gap with rumours. What he does expose is his relationship with money and failure: he presents himself as someone who went broke twice and who now teaches others not to repeat his mistakes, a narrative that convinces his followers and annoys his critics.

And critics he has. «Romuald Fons scam» is one of the searches associated with his name, fed by YouTube videos, threads on forums such as ForoBeta and reviews on blogs. The complaints concentrate on two points: the price of his courses and a very optimistic communication style about what a student can earn. It is worth being precise: none of that criticism comes from an established news outlet and there is no documented complaint or sanction. What is verified is his revenue, his agency and his recognitions; the rest are users' opinions.

Fun facts about Romuald Fons

• Before devoting himself to digital marketing he went broke twice with businesses that failed, as he himself has recounted.
• He learned SEO on his own, watching videos by Pat Flynn, an American who said he earned 30,000 dollars a month with web positioning.
• He studied architecture at the ETSAB in Barcelona before ending up talking about Google on YouTube.
• His CreceTube course cost 700 euros and some 1,500 people bought it in one week.
• Forbes Spain put him on its Best 100 Influencers list in 2021.
• His book Crece y hazte rico is sold in bookshops in Peru and Colombia, although he has not held confirmed in-person events in the region.
• Not even the measurement tools agree about his channel: 800,000 subscribers according to his agency, more than 1.5 million according to VidIQ.

Romuald Fons in 2026

In 2026 Romuald Fons remains at the head of BIGSEO and of his YouTube channel, where he publishes content about SEO, artificial intelligence applied to marketing and digital businesses. The agency keeps on its website the figures of 150 brands served and a team of more than 50 people, although those data correspond to 2022-2023 and have not been publicly updated.

His audience in Latin America grows because of the language, not because of physical presence: there are no confirmed events in Peru, Mexico or Colombia in 2025-2026, but Crece y hazte rico is distributed in bookshops in the region. For anyone looking for local reference points from the same world, the Peruvian Cristian Arens does something similar with personal finance. If you are interested in more creators who live off their audience, check the ranking of Peruvian YouTubers.

Sources consulted

• Forbes España: Romuald Fons: «Quiero poner el marketing digital al servicio de la gente»
• La Nación (reportaje de El País): Romuald Fons, el youtuber que ganó un millón de euros en una semana con un curso de posicionamiento en Google
• Noticias de Gipuzkoa: Romuald Fons: «Persiguiendo mis sueños me arruiné dos veces»
• PlanetadeLibros: Romuald Fons, autor
• BIGSEO: About us
• Official site: Romuald Fons, CEO and founder of BIGSEO

Conclusion

Romuald Fons is the proof that in digital marketing the personal story sells as much as the method: two ruins, a YouTube channel and a million euros in one week. He is worth following in order to understand how Google works, and worth approaching with caution when buying courses, as with any paid trainer. If you want to get to know other reference points who talk about business in Spanish, explore the biographies of entrepreneurs on Famosix.