Digital Marketing Agency · New Zealand
A digital marketing agency
that publishes its prices.
Full-service digital marketing for New Zealand small and medium businesses. Websites, SEO, ads, and AI - with transparent pricing, no lock-in contracts, and a handover model that makes your team independent.
The NZ Agency Problem
Most NZ agencies won't tell you what they charge until you're in the room.
Go and look. Almost no New Zealand digital marketing agency publishes a price. You get "every business is different" and a booking link. Then a twelve-month contract, a monthly report full of impressions, and a website you discover you don't actually own when you try to leave.
None of that is illegal. It's just a business model built on information asymmetry, and it works best on owners who don't know what marketing should cost or produce.
We publish our prices, we don't use lock-in contracts, and you own everything we build. Everything below follows from that.
What We Do
Digital marketing services, end to end.
Most businesses don't need six specialist suppliers who blame each other when the numbers are flat. They need one team that owns the whole system.
Websites that rank from day one
Custom-built, search-engineered sites from $2,000. Not templates - 50 to 100 pages of structured content targeting every service and location your customers search for.
Website design →SEO and AI search
Technical foundations, content, and local signals - plus optimisation for ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews, where a growing share of buyers now start. From $500/month.
SEO services →Google and Meta advertising
Search, Performance Max, and paid social built around conversion data rather than vanity metrics. Flat management fees, so our incentive isn't tied to your ad budget.
Google Ads →Social media and content
Content that earns attention and builds the brand, run to a plan rather than posted when someone remembers. Managed for you, or built and handed to your team.
Social media →Marketing strategy
The plan that makes the rest work: who you serve, what you say, which channels, what a customer is worth, and what to do in what order.
Marketing strategy →AI marketing systems
AI wired into your content, reporting, and lead follow-up - and your team trained to run it. This is how a small business does the work of a much bigger one.
AI marketing →Why Us
Six things most NZ agencies won't do.
Our pricing is on the website
Websites from $2,000. SEO from $500 a month. You can read our prices before you ever speak to us. Most NZ agencies make you sit through a discovery call before they'll name a number, and that tells you how the rest of the relationship will go.
No lock-in contracts, on anything
Every service is month to month. Twelve-month minimum terms exist to hold clients who would otherwise leave - so we don't use them. We have to earn the next month, every month, and that keeps us honest.
You own everything we build
Website code, content, domain, ad accounts, analytics - all in your name from day one. Leave whenever you like and take the lot. No proprietary platform, no ransom fee to get your own site back.
We build and train as we go
Most agencies want you dependent, because the less you understand the safer their retainer. We do the opposite: we build the engine, explain it, and teach your team to drive it. Plenty of our clients need us less each year. That's the point.
AI-native, so you get more for the money
We use AI across development and content production, which collapses the hours that make traditional agencies expensive. The strategy and quality control are human. The result is big-agency depth at small-business prices.
Proof with numbers, not badges
Partner logos are bought with ad spend volume. We'd rather show you what happened to a real client's traffic and phone calls, with the Search Console screenshots to back it up.
Proof
63 Google clicks a month became 396. In two months.
Airmax had a basic WordPress site that had never produced a single lead. We rebuilt it as a 98-page, search-engineered website.
Two months after launch: search visibility up 29x, Google clicks up from 63 to 396 a month, organic users up 630%. In the owner's words: "Before you did what you did I'd be lucky to get 2 calls a day. Now I'm surprised if I don't get 10."
That's the standard we hold ourselves to, and the numbers are in the case study.
The Process
Strategy, build, hand over.
Clear deliverables at every stage, and an ending you control.
01
Strategy
Weeks 1–2
We map who you serve, what a customer is worth, where the demand actually is, and which channels will move the needle first. You get a written plan, not a workshop.
02
Build & Launch
Weeks 3–6
Website, campaigns, tracking, and content go live. AI-assisted production means you see real work every few days rather than a monthly status email.
03
Grow & Hand Over
Ongoing
We optimise monthly, report in plain English, and progressively train your team to run what we've built. You should need us less over time, not more.
Pricing
What it costs, before you call us.
Fixed-price and scoped upfront. Ad spend is paid direct to Google or Meta - we don't mark it up.
Website
From $2,000
A site built to rank and convert, handed over in full.
- • Custom design, no templates
- • SEO foundations built in
- • Training so you can edit it
- • Live in 2–4 weeks
Single Channel
From $500/mo
One channel run properly - usually SEO or paid ads.
- • Monthly content or campaigns
- • Ongoing optimisation
- • Plain-English reporting
- • Month to month
Full Service
From $5,000/mo
The whole marketing system, managed.
- • Strategy + SEO + ads + content
- • Website updates included
- • Quarterly strategy reviews
- • Built to hand over
Not sure which bracket you're in? Read our honest guide to what it costs to hire someone to do your marketing in NZ - including when the answer is to do it yourself.
Our Work
Work we've done for NZ businesses.
AI-assisted builds. Fast, search-optimised, and handed over so the owner can edit themselves.

PPC Foiling

ZeroJet

Agilis Jettenders

Tectrax

Manta5

Hidden Springs Retreat

Trailer World

Empower Software
Common questions.
How much does a digital marketing agency cost in NZ?
For small and medium NZ businesses, full-service retainers typically run $1,500 to $10,000 a month, and websites $2,000 to $15,000. Our pricing is published: websites from $2,000, SEO from $500/month, and our Full Service Accelerator from $5,000/month. Everything is fixed-price and scoped upfront. If an agency won't give you a number before a discovery call, that's a choice they've made about transparency.
What does a digital marketing agency actually do?
A good one owns the whole system rather than one channel: the strategy, the website that converts, the traffic (SEO and paid), the follow-up that turns enquiries into customers, and the reporting that tells you what's working. Agencies that only do one piece leave you coordinating the rest yourself.
What's the difference between a digital marketing agency and a marketing consultant?
A consultant advises and plans; an agency does the work. If you have a team that can execute and you need direction, a consultant is cheaper and often better - see our digital marketing consultant service. If you need the work actually done, that's an agency engagement. We do both, and we'll tell you honestly which one your situation calls for.
Do you work with businesses across all of New Zealand?
Yes. We're based in Kihikihi in the Waikato and work with businesses from Auckland to Christchurch and everywhere between. Digital marketing is remote work by nature - the deliverables are rankings, leads, and revenue, not meetings. We travel for kickoffs and major strategy sessions when it matters.
How do I choose a digital marketing agency in NZ?
Five questions sort them fast. Who exactly will do the work, and where do they sit? What will exist after 30 days that doesn't exist today? What's the contract term? Can I see a result with real numbers for a business like mine? And if I leave in six months, what do I take with me? The answer to that last one should be 'everything'.
What size businesses do you work with?
Typically $500K to $20M revenue - big enough to invest in marketing properly, small enough that senior attention makes a real difference. We work with sole traders through to 50-person teams. If you're a corporate running a national brand campaign, a bigger agency will genuinely suit you better and we'll say so.
How quickly will I see results?
It depends on the channel. Google Ads can produce enquiries within days. SEO takes 3 to 6 months to build and 12+ to compound, though our clients' new sites have ranked on page one within 2 to 3 weeks of launch because they go live keyword-researched and indexed. We'll give you a realistic timeline for your situation rather than a vague 'marketing takes time'.
Do you use AI to do the work?
We use AI heavily in production - development, content drafting, analysis - which is why we can deliver depth that used to cost tens of thousands. The strategy, the positioning, and the quality control are human. Generic AI content doesn't rank; content built on real keyword research and edited by people does.
Case Studies
Real results from real businesses.
View all →Testimonials
Don't take our word for it.
“The team deliver results at more than twice the pace and impact than normal marketing executives. A real hands on do and deliver team. Jumping from strategy to execution and results in days. The best marketing exec I have ever worked with.”
Mark Robotham
CEO, Manta5
“Louis has a rare and hard-to-find talent for reaching and engaging a target market. He made marketing a core competency of our business. I'm still blown away by the reach and engagement we had on social media and the thousands of enquiries we received over the years.”
Guy Howard-Willis
Founder, Torpedo 7
“The foiling industry is super competitive, and standing out isn't easy. We've made huge progress - we're selling more to end consumers and signing up dealers faster than we ever have. It's momentum.”
Sam Loader
Founder, PPC Foiling
“The team at King Tide are great people to work with. They strike a rare balance between big picture strategic thinking and sharp execution to ensure they deliver actual results, not just glossy reports. Highly recommend.”
Greg Johnston
37 South Capital
“Louis and Ella at King Tide are incredible, after a full brief, intel gathering and outlining our current frustrations and what we were looking for, these guys delivered!! Not only were they incredibly responsive, but they were also intuitive to tap into our Industry to produce result quickly, collaboratively and without fuss - would 100% recommend.”
Cherrie Wheeler
Presto Resourcing
“We've been using King Tide for 12 months as a general advisor for all marketing. The improvement we've seen in our business is off the charts and I see no other reason for it. They're awesome to deal with, incredibly knowledgeable, and their advice works. Can not recommend enough.”
Jake
RB Thomas Building
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