Social Media Agencies in New Zealand
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 27 agencies with a New Zealand location.
Addigital
Addigital is an Auckland digital marketing agency based in Blockhouse Bay that focuses on local SEO and Google Business Profile management for small and medium-sized businesses. It operates as a digital marketing service of Anymedia Limited and draws on more than 15 years of experience through that parent brand supporting local companies and business brokers across New Zealand. Its SEO and online visibility service follows a three-step process: a site check for ranking blocks and missed opportunities, then fixing and optimising pages, improving content and strengthening local signals, then tracking ranking changes with monthly updates. The work also targets visibility in AI-powered search results. Google Business Profile management keeps contact details, hours, photos, posts, offers and reviews up to date, with suburb-level targeting for areas such as Blockhouse Bay, Mount Roskill, Albany and Manukau. Alongside search, Addigital provides social media management, video marketing, and branding and creative content such as blogs and newsletters. It has a dedicated offering for physiotherapy clinics. Pricing is flexible and set around each client's budget and goals, explained in plain language without jargon, and new clients start with a free SEO and Google Business Profile audit followed by a short call about next steps.
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.
Aro Digital
Aro Digital is a Wellington digital marketing agency founded in 2017 and named after the Aro Valley, with its main office at 232 Oriental Parade in Oriental Bay and a second office at 4 Ash Street in central Christchurch. Led by managing director Pearl Dupont, its team of around fifteen includes client strategy managers, performance and paid media specialists, creative production staff and a chief technology officer. Its services cover SEO to grow organic reach, paid search and Google Ads, social media campaigns, display and video advertising, media buying, analytics and insights, and marketing dashboards, and it runs digital marketing workshops tailored to in-house teams. It focuses on B2B lead generation, social enterprises and organisations working for the environment and communities, behaviour change campaigns, event marketing and ecommerce. Published case studies include lead generation for law firm Lane Neave, a behaviour change campaign for the Civil Aviation Authority and growth work for the Zealandia ecosanctuary, and clients shown on its site include World of WearableArt and CubaDupa. It describes itself as a results-driven, value-first agency that works as an extension of the client's team and puts weight on educating clients about their own digital platforms. Contact is kiaora@aro.digital or 027 948 9945.
Click Flow Digital Marketing
Click Flow Digital Marketing is a digital marketing hub based in Nelson, founded by Mike Graham, whose work began with Google Ads for a local business and grew into a team covering ads, websites, copywriting, social media and search. The team includes Nat Brown on SEO and marketing strategy, Leigh Becker on websites and graphic design, Chantel de Ru on copywriting, blogs and newsletters, and Dave Moloney on social media management. Its SEO service takes a phased approach, starting with keyword research and on-page optimisation of content, meta tags and internal linking, then moving into technical SEO for site speed, mobile-friendliness, crawlability and indexability, content strategy and regular performance monitoring. The newer Search Visibility plans combine monthly SEO with visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot, answer-first page restructuring with FAQs and schema, and citation and authority building, with published pricing from $250 a month. Google Ads management starts from $200 a month with no contracts, and Microsoft Ads, website design from $3,000, email newsletters and graphic design are also offered. Clients include NZ Fuel Cards, Brown & Associates Accountants, Kiwi Journeys, Cable Bay Adventure Park, Castle Trust and Southern Exposure Tours.
Cre8ive Marketing
Cre8ive Marketing is a Dunedin agency at 19 Royal Terrace that combines website design, branding, social media and search engine optimisation for South Island businesses and organisations. Its Web and SEO Audit service crawls a site for technical issues such as broken links, robots.txt, XML sitemaps and speed, then reports clear fixes aimed at better organic rankings without banned SEO tactics. The team also analyses keyword ranks, backlinks and competitor link profiles using specialised SEO tools, and helps with on-page optimisation and content decisions based on search volume. Beyond audits, Cre8ive runs SEO and digital marketing training through the Management Capability Development Fund, including courses on improving a website's online visibility. Day-to-day work spans brand identity, educational resource design, Meta advertising and ongoing organic social content for clients such as ENGAGE, Cancer Society Southern and local tourism groups. Businesses looking for a local Dunedin partner get direct access to Philippa and the team, with phone and email support from the Royal Terrace office.
Design Juice
Design Juice is a Tauranga design and marketing agency at 1/17 Banks Avenue in Mount Maunganui, led by creative director Michaela James. Its multi-disciplined team of designers, brand strategists and digital marketers brings branding, websites and marketing together under one roof for Bay of Plenty businesses, from new start-ups to established brands. Search engine optimisation runs as a two-step process: an initial phase of website and competitor analysis, keyword research and strategy, plus Google tool set-up or optimisation of existing content, meta tags and internal linking, followed by two to six months of maintenance that adds new content, performance monitoring and customised Google Analytics reporting, with three months usually recommended as the minimum. Alongside SEO the agency runs Google Ads, paid and organic social media, and email campaigns, and builds WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace and Wix websites. It also handles brand identity, print, packaging, signage, vehicle graphics and video production. The team says much of its work arrives through referrals and word of mouth from existing clients. Contact is info@designjuice.co.nz or 07 574 9018.
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 Stream
Digital Stream is a Hamilton-based digital marketing and web design agency that has helped New Zealand businesses grow online since 1999. Its Hamilton office sits at Level 6, 11 Garden Place, with a second studio at 300 Richmond Road in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Alongside custom websites and branding, the agency offers local SEO packages aimed at ranking higher in search without heavy spend, plus Google Ads, Facebook Ads, email marketing, live chat and digital strategy. Portfolio work spans trade services, builders and property development, professional services, and government or international organisations. Clients book a free thirty-minute growth strategy session, and the site positions the team as digital strategists, designers and marketers focused on leads and sales rather than brochure sites. Local SEO is presented as a core package for businesses that need nearby visibility, while paid search jumps the queue for immediate first-page presence. Contact runs through hello@digitalstream.co.nz and an 0800 number shared across both offices.
Digitella Marketing
Digitella Marketing is a Wellington digital marketing agency at 17 Garrett Street in Te Aro, working mainly with New Zealand SaaS and ecommerce businesses. It describes itself as channel agnostic, combining Google Ads, search engine optimisation, web analytics, paid social media, email marketing and custom marketing dashboards into cross-channel strategies aimed at sustainable long-term growth. Its SEO service is tailored to each client: the team first researches the industry and growth targets, then works across key ranking factors such as site structure, content quality and keyword targeting, and every SEO client gets a dedicated dashboard showing the work being done and the results it drives. Analytics projects bring data together across touchpoints to guide marketing decisions. Clients quoted on the site include Addressfinder, Netsafe, Locomo, Curio Publisher, Mitchells Nutrition, Flatpack and RealESmart, with testimonials citing growth in traffic, revenue and customer sign-ups, and Google Ads accounts rebuilt on tight budgets. The agency positions itself as an extension of in-house teams that explains its work in plain language. Contact is admin@digitella.nz or +64 27 822 3293.
Enquire Marketing
Enquire Marketing is a Tauranga-based digital marketing agency that works with businesses across New Zealand and internationally. It is run by director Hannah Lovatt, who has almost ten years in marketing, alongside second-in-command Gwyn Murdoch, and clients deal with one of the two of them from day one, with specialists handling technical work behind them. Every enquiry starts with a free audit of the website, search visibility and local competitors, delivered within five business days and followed by a short call before any price is discussed. Its SEO work covers keyword research based on what converts, technical fixes, on-page optimisation, local SEO and Google Business Profile management, content and blog support and plain-English monthly reports, plus an SGEO service aimed at visibility in AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Prices are published in NZD excluding GST: SEO setup is $799, then $750 a month for ten keywords, $1,080 for twenty and $1,425 for thirty, and bundles combine SEO with Google Ads, Meta Ads, hosting and website care. It also builds websites and runs email marketing and social media for clients in trades, manufacturing, retail, ecommerce and professional services. Contact is hannah@enquiremarketing.com or 021 061 8185.
Firebrand
Firebrand is a full service design, marketing and digital agency that began in Ōtepoti Dunedin and works from 4 Dowling Street, with a second office at Hargest House in Invercargill. Led by managing director Georgina Guthrie-Murray, its team of designers, developers and marketing strategists helps New Zealand organisations decide what needs to change and then builds the work to deliver it. Its search work focuses on how search engines and AI answer systems find, understand and cite a business: GEO audits that test the questions buyers ask and record where the organisation appears, AI search strategy covering entities, authorship and content priorities, and structured data and schema markup for people, services and locations. Websites are built with crawlable links, semantic structure, descriptive metadata and strong performance so they are ready for search from launch. Firebrand also delivers web design and development, e-commerce, custom integrations and applications, website support, marketing strategy, content and organic marketing, paid media across Google Ads, Meta and LinkedIn, graphic design and brand identity. Projects include work for Port Otago, the Highlanders, Mercy Hospital, Oritain, Great South, Southern Way and Te Atamira, across private businesses, public and regional bodies, health, education and community organisations.
FizzyPop
FizzyPop is a Napier digital marketing agency at 27 Tennyson Street that specialises in search engine optimisation and performance-led acquisition for New Zealand businesses. SEO is where the team started, and the service covers technical SEO audits, on-site content optimisation, white-hat link building, Google Business Profile management and local SEO for map pack and local search visibility. Work is tied to measurable outcomes such as leads and sales rather than vanity traffic, with forecasting and channel planning across organic search, paid search, display, YouTube and email. The agency is a Google Partner with accreditations in Search, Display, Video and Shopping Ads, and often pairs SEO with paid search gap analysis so organic and paid results reinforce each other. Website design, development, conversion rate optimisation and fast hosting are offered alongside search work so technical fixes that unlock rankings can be implemented in house. Clients have included industrial, agricultural, professional services, retail and tourism businesses across Hawke's Bay and further afield, with a free on-site SEO audit tool available for a first-pass health check before any engagement begins.
Hands Free Marketing
Hands Free Marketing is a Napier, Hawke's Bay web design and digital marketing business run by Jevon Quirk. The site positions the studio as based in Napier and serving Hastings, the wider Bay and clients further afield, with LinkedIn listing headquarters in Napier and an office in Onekawa. Work centres on websites built to generate leads rather than act as brochures, with Standard and Premium packages that include on-page SEO foundations, mobile optimisation, contact forms and location details, plus e-commerce builds. A dedicated Hawke's Bay SEO service covers site audits, indexing, structured data, security and speed work, keyword research and on-page content so local businesses can improve visibility and organic traffic. Paid media covers Google Ads and Meta campaigns aimed at tradies, service businesses and smaller online stores. Jevon's background includes helping grow an international digital business before focusing on local clients; testimonials describe hands-on delivery since 2020. Contact is published as jevon@handsfreemarketing.com and 027 590 9421, with free short consultations offered on the SEO pages.
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.
Next Wave
Next Wave is a Hamilton digital marketing agency based at 526 Victoria Street, Hamilton Central, that describes itself as New Zealand's first AI-powered digital marketing agency. It is a Google Partner and works with businesses across New Zealand, serving Hamilton and the Waikato as well as clients in Auckland, Tauranga and Christchurch. Its SEO work pairs AI tools for trend analysis with hands-on strategy. It covers local SEO through Google Business Profile, local keywords and reviews; technical SEO for speed, crawlability and schema; ecommerce SEO for category and product pages on Shopify and other platforms; full SEO audits with a prioritised fix list; share-of-voice tracking against competitors; and generative engine optimisation aimed at being cited in Google's AI Overviews and tools such as ChatGPT. Beyond SEO, Next Wave manages Google Ads across Search, Shopping, Display and remarketing, managed weekly and reported in plain English, and runs social media campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok. Its Hamilton team also designs and builds Webflow, WordPress and Shopify websites, develops iOS and Android apps, sets up and integrates HubSpot CRM, and helps businesses adopt practical AI where it saves real time. New clients can start with a free audit report or a free consultation.
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.
Ripple Effect Digital Marketing
Ripple Effect Digital Marketing is a Mount Maunganui-based SEO and Google Ads agency serving Tauranga, the Bay of Plenty and businesses throughout New Zealand. It was founded in 2010 by Dave Manville as Write Ahead Ltd, a name built around its two original services, copywriting and SEO, and was later renamed Ripple Effect. Dave still owns and runs the business with a small team of specialists, and clients deal with one person, the same person who does the work. SEO is the core of the agency's work. Campaigns start with website and competitor analysis, keyword research and ranking checks, followed by on-page optimisation and monthly measurement of organic search and Maps rankings and traffic. Its local SEO service covers Google Business Profile setup, verification and optimisation, citations, customer reviews and on-page local relevance for businesses such as motels, dentists, plumbers, retailers and restaurants. The agency also offers SEO audits, SEO copywriting and SEO training. Ripple Effect is a Google Certified Partner and manages Google Ads, Google Shopping, display and remarketing campaigns, along with Facebook and Instagram marketing. Clients are not tied to signed contracts and decide month to month based on results, with detailed reporting on all work carried out. Webflow and Shopify web design is available through the team.
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.
The Launch Agency
The Launch Agency is a Hamilton marketing agency at Level 1, 127 Collingwood Street, founded by Ben Langton-Burnell, an Olympic-level athlete who started the business as a photographer and videographer and has grown it to a team of more than 30 specialists. It combines a performance marketing team, a creative studio and commercial advisory under one roof, and says it has worked with over 200 brands across New Zealand and Australia. Its SEO service covers technical and local search: a consulting-led onboarding checks whether SEO, especially local SEO, suits the business, then the team sets up website conversion and technical SEO foundations such as on-page optimisation, meta tags and link structures, optimises the Google Business Profile and runs review-generation strategies to lift local visibility. The agency reports an average 200 percent rise in clicks from local SEO work. Alongside search it runs Meta, Google and TikTok ad campaigns, social media management, brand positioning and website design and development, with seven full-time videographers and photographers plus animators producing content. Clients quoted on the site include The Waitomo Experience, Whole Nutrition and Modern Building Solutions. Contact is hello@launchagency.co.nz or 027 274 6064.
The Marketing Studio
The Marketing Studio is a Nelson marketing consultancy established in 2004, working from Suite 2, Level 1, 244 Hardy Street and led by director and marketing consultant Chris Butler with an in-house graphic and web design team. It helps owner-operators and managers who lack the time or experience to plan their own promotion, combining marketing strategy with production across web, print, social media, radio and TV. Its search engine optimisation service covers on-page work, identifying the most important key phrases for a site, updating content and building internal links, plus off-page link building, Google Analytics setup and training on how to read the data. Conversion optimisation reviews calls to action and usability so visitors turn into enquiries, and the team also sets up and manages Google Ads and Facebook ads campaigns. Three published SEO audit packages, from a quick overview for DIY websites to a detailed e-commerce report, review websites, keywords, blogs and social visibility, and the studio can implement the recommended changes for time-poor clients. Other services include website design and build, email marketing, social media, copywriting, PR and event management. Clients include Nelson Day Surgery, Metalcraft, the Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce, Tile Direct Nelson and Milnes Beatson Accountants.
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.
Unbound
Unbound is a Hamilton digital marketing agency based at 1/1 Ward Street, focused on growth marketing for local and ambitious New Zealand businesses. It is a Google Premier Partner for 2026, a status that places it in the top 3% of agencies across New Zealand and Australia, and several clients have worked with the team for more than a decade. Its SEO service starts with a full site audit and an initial phase of one-off fixes, followed by ongoing on-page optimisation, fresh content and link building through online PR, guest posting and existing relationships, avoiding black-hat techniques. The service also covers local SEO through Google Business Profile optimisation, consistent business details and local content, as well as ecommerce and technical SEO, with monthly reports on rankings, organic traffic and conversions. Beyond SEO, Unbound runs Google Ads across Search, Shopping, Performance Max, Display and YouTube, social media ads on Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and Pinterest, programmatic, audio and digital out-of-home campaigns, plus conversion rate optimisation with A/B testing, analytics and a creative studio for video, animation and design. Sectors include industrial, health, B2B, rural, SaaS, ecommerce, retail and automotive businesses.
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.
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- 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?
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