Social Media Agencies in Christchurch
Social media marketing covers publishing and paid promotion on social platforms, including TikTok when that is the service an agency offers. Organic posting and paid social are different scopes, and media spend is usually separate from the fee. Agencies here publish a social or TikTok service. Compare which platforms are included, who owns the ad accounts, and whether community management is part of the fee.
This page compares 5 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.
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 Social media agency
- Which platforms are in scope, including paid social or TikTok if that is the brief?
- Is the work organic publishing, paid media, or both?
- Who owns the ad accounts and the creative?
- What is reported besides reach?
- How are comments and community management handled?