YORK'S growing digital sector has attracted a young agency to the city three years after it was founded on the North Yorkshire coast.

Website and mobile application designer Netsells and its team of ten staff have relocated from Scarborough to newly converted offices in Skeldergate.

The move follows growth over the past three years for the business, which was founded by two graduates from the University of Hull's Scarborough Campus.

Bosses said that after outgrowing their seaside premises they were drawn to the growing digital sector in York and decided to make the "short trip down the A64" to take residency in a converted sawmill, which offers room for further expansion of the business.

Brannan Coady, managing director of Netsells, which now counts a number of household names among its customers, said: "We have been discussing moving the business to York for over a year, and with the walls to our Scarborough office at bursting point we decided now was the right time.

"We are really excited to be working in the heart of such a fabulous city, and have already extended a hand to some of the great agencies already based here with some fabulous potential partnerships in the making."

With plans to extend their services to offer a comprehensive digital marketing solution within the next six months, Mr Coady said he was excited to "join the ranks of some of the other digital agencies who are thriving in York" and "helping to cement York's place on the map as a digital pioneer for the North of England".

Netsells works with businesses in more than 30 countries to provide mobile applications and websites.

The agency began while its founders, Brannan Coady and Sam Jordan, were students at the University of Hull Scarborough Campus, and now employs 10 people with an average employee age of just 23.

Netsells expected revenue to be in the region of £600,000 in the current financial year, and has doubled revenue figures each year for the last three consecutive years.

In 2014, Netsells was shortlisted as small business of the year in the Scarborough Business Awards, while Mr Coady took the prize of Young Entrepreneur of the Year.