PPC & Google Ads Agencies in Christchurch
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 8 agencies with a Christchurch location.
Digital Influence
Digital Influence is a Christchurch digital marketing agency based at 336 Durham Street in the central city. The team acts as a collaborative growth partner rather than a remote vendor, combining search engine optimisation, local SEO, Google Ads, Meta advertising and social content so local and national brands get found and convert. Case studies on the site include helping The Loft sell out a sports bar event, modernising Letton Kerb and Channel through social, Google Ads and website work, and lifting Novus Glass bookings dramatically with a campaign-led approach. Clients such as Saint Row credit the agency with stronger organic visibility and more efficient Ads management, while law firm and trade reviews praise long-running partnership and practical strategy. Services listed include local SEO so businesses appear when nearby customers search, Facebook and Instagram advertising, Google Ads, and social media content marketing, supported by website work and high-performance marketing reviews. Transparent communication, regular recommendations and hands-on account leads are part of how they run accounts from their Christchurch office.
Digital Presence
Digital Presence is a Christchurch web design and SEO agency for small and medium-sized businesses, led by founder Simon Mullinger, a web designer and SEO specialist with more than 15 years of experience across media, advertising and digital marketing. The business is 100% locally owned and operated in Christchurch. Its best-known offer is subscription websites with no upfront cost, with plans from $95 a month that include hosting, SSL security, basic SEO and monthly edits, plus custom, ecommerce and redesign projects. Its SEO service covers local SEO and Google Maps visibility through Google Business Profile optimisation, review management and local citations, along with E-E-A-T-focused service pages and blog content, on-page optimisation and technical fixes for broken links, slow pages and mobile issues. Campaigns follow three steps: an audit and roadmap comparing the client's site with competitors, a fix-and-build stage with content and local backlinks, and monthly plain-English reporting on rankings, traffic and enquiries. Work is also optimised for AI search tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini. SEO runs month to month with no lock-in contracts, and Digital Presence also manages Google Search, Display, Remarketing and Performance Max campaigns. Clients include a Christchurch law firm, a florist and a dental practice.
EightySix Digital
EightySix Digital is a Christchurch digital marketing agency run by founder Stu Clark, who brings more than 15 years in the trades and over a decade running his own Christchurch business to his search work. Clients deal directly with Stu rather than a call centre or account manager, and the agency serves businesses across Christchurch and Canterbury as well as Dunedin, Queenstown, Hamilton, Tauranga, Auckland and Wellington. Its SEO service covers keyword research and strategy, on-page SEO, technical SEO including speed, mobile, indexing and schema, local SEO through Google Business Profile management, citations and map pack optimisation, content and copywriting, and link and authority building. Answer engine optimisation for Google AI Overviews, featured snippets and voice search is included in every plan, and generative engine optimisation for tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini is available as an add-on. Pricing is published: a Small Business plan from NZ$600 a month plus GST for local-focused work, and a Full SEO plan from NZ$750 a month that starts at five hours of work and scales by the hour, all with no lock-in contracts and plain-English monthly reporting. EightySix Digital also builds hand-coded, mobile-first websites and manages Google Ads, with a particular focus on plumbers, electricians, trades and construction firms, and tourism operators.
Melia Marketing
Melia Marketing and Design is a Christchurch digital marketing agency led by director Gareth Melia, with an in-house team of copywriters, pay-per-click and SEO specialists, web developers, graphic designers and a project manager. Its local SEO service targets Google rankings for the searches customers make near them, covering keyword research, organic traffic growth, backlink strategy and keyword-led website content, and it treats web design and SEO as one job because page structure affects how a site ranks. Google Ads campaigns cover search advertising, pay-per-click strategy, retargeting and monthly performance reporting. The agency also builds websites, designs brands, writes copy, produces video and photography, and sets up AI chatbots and marketing automation. It says it has onboarded more than 130 clients, and its about page reports 38 million impressions, 521,000 clicks and 312,000 leads generated across advertising platforms in a year. Testimonials on the site come from clients including The Old Vicarage and Formance, and recent projects include websites for Elite Built, Silver Wave and Get Leaf. Contact is enquiries@meliamarketing.com or 03 365 0468.
Muritai Group
Muritai Group is a Christchurch digital marketing company based at Unit 1, 21 Humphreys Drive, Ferrymead, working with businesses in Canterbury and across New Zealand and Australia. Its core offer is Muritai SEO, a set of monthly SEO packages with transparent pricing and ongoing support, sized for businesses from sole traders to larger firms. On-page work fine-tunes keywords, messaging, code structure and site errors so Google understands what a business does. Off-page work builds backlinks every month to grow site authority, while local search optimisation covers Google Business Profile, consistent business details across the web and positive reviews, so nearby customers find the business first. The team also optimises sites for AI-driven search results. Alongside SEO, Muritai offers online marketing strategy, website design, social media marketing, email marketing and digital advertising, so a business can run its search, site and campaigns through one provider. Prospective clients can request a free SEO report with keyword research before committing, and the company can be reached by phone on 03 376 6061 or through its Christchurch office.
Thinkroom
Thinkroom is a digital marketing agency that started in Christchurch in 2012 and runs its New Zealand office from a coworking space in Ferrymead, where Martin leads the Christchurch branch and its client book while the founder, whose first business began in the city in 2003, is now based in Australia, with further offices on the Sunshine Coast, in Perth and in London. It works with established Canterbury businesses, including service, trades and B2B firms, and keeps a deliberately capped client list with no lock-in contracts. Its SEO work runs under one senior strategist and covers technical SEO and site health, keyword research and on-page work so a site's own pages do not compete with each other, content written with a genuine point of view, backlink outreach and local SEO, plus the website and user experience changes that turn rankings into enquiries. It also treats answer engine optimisation as part of the same job, aiming for citations in Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity by keeping pages indexed, useful and trusted. Alongside search it manages Google Ads, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn advertising, email marketing and website development, and reports results in plain English each month. Contact is martin@thinkroom.com or 021 0216 7777.
Traction Marketing
Traction Marketing is a Christchurch digital growth agency headquartered on Level 5, 200 High Street in Christchurch Central. It started in 2015 as Stratigence Ltd, giving Kiwi tech companies senior marketing help from a shared co-working space, rebranded as Traction Marketing in 2020 when it built an in-house team, and by its tenth year in 2025 had grown to 14 people. Co-founder and CEO Jordana Clarke brings more than 20 years in export strategy and digital marketing. Its Christchurch-based SEO team handles on-page and off-page SEO, technical SEO, local SEO for Google Maps, content optimisation and link building for local, national and international audiences, and it also offers answer engine optimisation. Paid work covers Google Ads, display, YouTube, Performance Max, Bing and LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram advertising, with conversion rate optimisation, A/B testing and market validation alongside. Published case studies include LMA Timber, which it says lifted inbound enquiries by 86 percent through SEO and AEO, plus RedSeed, Nutrient Rescue, Millpond and Ryman Healthcare. Contact is hello@tractionmarketing.nz or 03 384 0101.
Velocity Websites
Velocity Websites is a Christchurch digital marketing agency at 1/28 Cranmer Square in the central city. Trading since 2012, it combines custom website design and WordPress development with search engine optimisation, local SEO, content marketing, ecommerce builds on WooCommerce and Shopify, social media and video marketing. Its SEO pages position the team as small-business search specialists who design and optimise sites so they earn organic traffic from Google, then keep pages fresh as ranking signals change, with affordable SEO packages and a free online SEO audit tool on the site. Web design packages are published from $1,495 plus $39 per month hosting. The agency works Mon to Sat, 9am to 5pm, and publishes case studies on website and SEO traffic results for Christchurch startups and remade sites. Phone is 03-926-5272 and email is sales@velocitywebsites.co.nz.
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?