PPC & Google Ads Agencies in Auckland
PPC and Google Ads are paid search: you pay for clicks from ads on search and related placements. The work covers account structure, keywords, ads, bidding and conversion tracking. Media spend is separate from the management fee. Agencies here publish Google Ads, PPC or SEM. Compare who owns the account, which campaigns are in scope, and how conversions are defined.
This page compares 6 agencies with a Auckland location.
Adhesion
Adhesion is an Auckland digital marketing agency based at 110 Mt Eden Road in Mount Eden. Founded in 2007, it runs a 100 percent in-house Kiwi team and has delivered search and paid media work for New Zealand businesses for more than 18 years. Its SEO offering is built around clear programmes rather than opaque retainers: a three-month foundation sprint covering a technical audit, keyword strategy, on-page work and local search foundations from $1,199 plus GST, a six-month growth programme that adds content and link building from $1,999 plus GST, and ongoing monthly management with keyword and content updates, technical monitoring and Google Business Profile work. The agency also runs Google Ads, Meta ads, Bing and LinkedIn advertising, email automation, Shopify and custom websites, and copywriting, and it holds Google Partner, Meta Partner, Microsoft Advertising Partner, Shopify Partner and Klaviyo Partner status. Clients span ecommerce, automotive, education, hospitality, tourism and professional services across Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, with international work as well. Contact is via info@adhesion.co.nz or 0800 234 374.
Kiwi Web Design
Kiwi Web Design is an Auckland digital marketing agency based at 147 Great North Road in Grey Lynn, founded by Charlie Chao, who worked across digital marketing and web projects in Auckland before starting the business. It works with service businesses, professional firms, tradies, restaurants, cafés, clinics and local brands, and clients deal with Charlie directly from strategy through launch rather than through account managers. Its approach combines three parts aimed at steady enquiries: a conversion-focused website, local SEO and AI SEO that build Google and Maps visibility over time, and Google Ads for buying-intent traffic while organic rankings grow. The SEO work covers Google Business Profile optimisation, local citations, map pack rankings, geo-targeted keyword research, technical fixes such as site speed, Core Web Vitals and schema markup, on-page optimisation, SEO content and link building from relevant New Zealand sources, with monthly reports tied to real enquiries. It describes itself as an AI-native studio that uses AI-assisted workflows to keep costs down; quotes are scoped to each business, contracts are month to month with no lock-in, and most websites launch within two to three weeks. It also runs Meta Ads and ChatGPT Ads and offers WordPress maintenance and ecommerce builds. Contact is hi@kiwiwebdesign.co.nz or 021 039 6580.
NZ Digital
NZ Digital is an Auckland digital marketing agency founded in 2011, with its office at Level 10, 23 Customs Street East in the city centre. The team specialises in Google Ads, Meta campaigns, websites, search engine optimisation and digital strategy for ambitious businesses that want more customers and better leads. Its SEO work improves visibility in Google and Bing through technical SEO, local search and content matched to what customers actually search for, with transparent reporting and no vanity metrics, and it runs dedicated campaigns for Christchurch and Canterbury businesses as well as Auckland clients. Websites are built on WordPress, Shopify, Shopify Plus and SilverStripe, and paid media covers Google, Google Merchant, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok ads plus remarketing. The agency also offers content and social marketing, Mailchimp and Klaviyo email, conversion rate optimisation and analytics. Published client results include 154 new memberships and $284k revenue for Howick Golf from a location-focused strategy, a 57 percent rise in new users for Design Builders, and a 14x return on ad spend for Wool.Life. Contact is hello@nzdigital.co.nz or 09 601 8963.
SEO Monkey
SEO Monkey is a founder-led SEO and digital marketing agency based at 278 Beach Road, Campbells Bay, on Auckland's North Shore. Founder Jakob Leech runs every campaign personally, so clients deal directly with the person doing the work rather than an account manager. The agency works with New Zealand service businesses, including tradies, health clinics, salons and beauty clinics, cafes and restaurants, home services and professional firms, in Auckland and across the country. Services cover local SEO aimed at the Google 3-pack and Maps for the suburbs a business serves, national SEO across New Zealand, Google Business Profile management, content written for Kiwi searchers, conversion rate optimisation, review generation and AI search visibility, alongside Google Ads, Meta Ads and mobile-first web design. Engagements run on one flat monthly fee with a three-month start and then month-to-month terms, backed by a written 30-day deliverables guarantee: if the agreed work is not shipped, the next invoice is held until it is. Clients receive a plain-English monthly email covering leads, calls, rankings and ad spend. Published results include an Auckland clinic moving from an average Google position of 19.5 to 4.9 over seven months. New clients start with a free 18-minute review call.
TooGood
TooGood is an NZ-owned digital marketing agency based in Auckland, with its office on Cheshire Street in Parnell. The team specialises in performance SEO and paid media, measuring success in revenue and leads rather than vanity rankings. SEO work covers technical SEO, content written answer-first for Google and AI citation, link building, local SEO for geographic markets, ecommerce SEO for Shopify stores, and AI SEO or GEO so brands show up in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Google Ads, Meta advertising, analytics setup and website builds sit alongside organic work so the full journey converts. Clients deal directly with the technical experts doing the work rather than account managers, and retainers start around two thousand dollars a month with no fixed-term contracts. Industries highlighted on the site include ecommerce, lead generation, healthcare, dentists, beauty and wellness, trades, construction, real estate, tourism and hospitality, and financial services. The founders positioned the agency after years inside large NZ shops managing major Google Ads accounts, with a focus on honest advice when spend is not working.
Webpress
Webpress is a performance marketing and engineering agency based at the Quad 7 Building on Leonard Isitt Drive, Auckland Airport, working with businesses across New Zealand. Director Shubham Goyal runs most accounts himself, and the agency describes itself as a small, senior team that caps client numbers so the people who pitch are the people who do the work. Its SEO service starts with a technical audit of crawling, indexing, rendering, site architecture and Core Web Vitals, then moves to entity and schema modelling, location and service page builds, content written around search intent, local SEO with Google Business Profile and citation consistency, AI answer visibility, and migration planning. Alongside search it runs Google Ads, Shopping, Performance Max and paid social, plus conversion research, A/B testing, GA4 and server-side tracking, website and app development, and AI-driven lead follow-up. Webpress is a Google Partner and Meta Blueprint certified, works on month-to-month terms, and keeps ad accounts in the client's name. Published case studies cover Quick Towing, Top Cash For Cars and Cash For Cars Now, the last reporting a 26 percent conversion rate. Contact is info@webpress.co.nz or 0800 400 294.
What to ask a PPC and Google Ads agency
- Which accounts will you manage, and who owns them?
- How is budget split between search, shopping and other campaigns?
- What conversion actions will you track, and who sets them up?
- How often are search terms and negatives reviewed?
- What fee structure applies, and what media spend is separate?