About authentic digital

Marketing analyst typing on laptop

Award winning digital marketing agency with unrivalled results.

authentic digital is a senior-led digital marketing agency providing AI Optimisation, SEO, Google Ads & Meta Ads for multi-location brands, SMEs, and enterprises in New Zealand and Australia.

We exist to maximise your brand’s visibility wherever people and machines search.

We’re a 12-time Google Premier Partner agency that’s been around since 2005, but our team has over a century of combined experience at major brands, tech startups, and their own companies. 

We bring this hands-on experience to competitive industries like e-commerce, professional services, and SaaS. 

Businesses find us after being burned by hotshot agencies with flashy promises. They stay with us because we deliver results and support with maturity, clarity, and guts. 

We don’t sugar-coat. We do the work properly, solve problems, and provide strategic direction for long-term growth.

If you want more customers from search, we’re the last agency you’ll need.

Get in touch.

blue line illustration of website analytics

Unrivalled Results

We continuously deliver solid service and results to clients. We create true business success – not just impressions and clicks. We obsess over the details that make a major difference overall so you can see tangible value from your Digital Marketing spend. We don’t do average or cookie cutter work. Our clients are in competitive industries so we have to think innovatively if they're going to succeed online.

Icon for group of people, stars above them, blue line illustration

Effective Experts

Our 100% local team are all passionate, senior-level experts, certified in multiple disciplines by the top global authority. You won’t receive filtered information from a charming sales person that doesn’t understand Digital, you will get immediate, expert advice and problem-solving from your certified Account Strategist and you will personally meet everyone involved with your account.

blue line art handshake icon

Competitive Industries

We work with clients for whom digital is mission critical; those in the most competitive industries where digital is fundamental to success and the last 10% of skill, expertise and effort makes all the difference to business results. We have aided the growth of companies in a range of competitive industries such as eCommerce, Travel and Accommodation, SaaS, Charity and Dealer Networks.

blue line illustration of teamwork, people icons and puzzle shapes

Premier Google Partner with Superior Software

authentic digital is one of an exclusive group of agencies who have earned Premier Google Partner status. Working with a Premier Google Partner gives you an unfair competitive advantage as we have direct support from Google, exclusive reporting on competitors and access to tools and features before they are publicly released. We use superior software such as BrightEdge and Google Analytics.

blue line icon pages

Transparent Work & Reporting

Our clients are drawn to the transparency and accountability of our data-driven approach. We communicate clearly and honestly so you have full comprehension over your digital marketing. We provide simple, actionable reporting showing live data that clients can access 24/7. Each client is unique, so we create reports which align with their individual goals and only show data that is insightful and actionable.

Icon for cost widgets

Honest Pricing

We will not charge a percentage of your marketing spend; that creates mixed incentives. Our rates are set by project and agreed in advance to keep things simple and transparent.

Happy Clients

How we work

Icon for group of people, stars above them, blue line illustration

Extension of Your Team

We can become an extension of your team providing an on tap resource of ideas, expertise, empirical knowledge and cutting edge technology.

blue line illustration of teamwork, people icons and puzzle shapes

External Solution

We can work in the classic Agency structure as your Agency of record taking full responsibility of your Digital Marketing.

blue line illustration of website analytics

Training

We get internal marketing teams up to speed on new tools, technologies and opportunities, enabling them to takeover their Digital Marketing.

Icon for cost widgets

Advice

With decades of combined Digital Marketing experience, we have deep exposure to all channels. We provide strategic advice and check the critical stuff that often falls through the cracks such as site speed and technical structure.

blue line icon illustration, growth, bar chart, reticle

Strategy

We build Strategy into every service we offer. Research and planning are the pillars of any successful marketing campaign and our strategic research and planning stage is the best in the market.

blue line art handshake icon

We Play Well with Others

We collaborate with Design Agencies, Ad Agencies, Developers and Content Creators to ensure websites and content is created with Digital Marketing in mind rather than as an expensive afterthought.

Why we do it

Our Purpose is to create clarity in online marketing, enabling clients to make confident, fact-based decisions and see measurable results.

Our Mission is to be a specialist provider to a select stable of motivated clients and to be acknowledged as a leading company for honest, data-driven online marketing.

We are driven by Values:

  • Care about making a positive, measurable difference
  • Structured, systematic, skilled and effective
  • Take ownership, accountability and responsibility for our work and actions
  • Value trust and honesty and do the right thing for the right reason
  • Direct, clear communicators who tell you what you need to hear
  • Strive to educate and mitigate risk
authentic digital team member working on laptop in Auckland office