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Digital Marketing Agency · Gold Coast Sydney · Est. 2013

The digital marketing agency Gold Coast brands trust to run every channel as one.

SEO, Google Ads, Meta, web, CRO and AI — one senior Gold Coast team running every channel off a single strategy. Digital marketing on the Gold Coast is the rare market where you sell to locals and visitors at the same time, so the channels have to talk to each other to capture both. 13 years, $650M+ generated, white-hat only.

$650M+
Revenue generated for clients
8.7×
Average return across channels
13 yrs
Full-service, Gold Coast to national
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Google Premier Partner · Meta Business Partner
Top 3% AU agencies

Trusted by teams at

Integrated
One team across SEO, paid, web and AI

No briefs lost between four suppliers. One senior Gold Coast pod runs every channel off one strategy, so the resident and visitor funnels reinforce each other instead of leaking budget between disconnected silos.

8.7×
Average return across channels

Blended across our client base. On the Gold Coast we report on revenue and return — bookings, leads and sales from both local and visitor demand — not channel-by-channel vanity metrics.

Senior-only
The people who win the work do the work

No account handed to a junior after the pitch. The strategists who scope your growth are the ones running it every week, accountable for the result through every peak season.

The Gold Coast market

The Gold Coast sells to two audiences at once. One team has to win both.

No other Australian market splits demand the way the Gold Coast does. Half your customers are locals looking for a service near them today; the other half are visitors planning a trip from Sydney, Melbourne or overseas, searching and scrolling for weeks before they land. Run your SEO, Google Ads and Meta in separate silos and the visitor funnel quietly leaks between them — the organic page ranks for residents while the paid campaign chases tourists, and neither closes the full opportunity. Integration is the whole game here, which is why we run all six channels off one strategy and one revenue number.

The local economy decides the rest. Tourism and hospitality anchor the city, but the real density sits in small business — the trades and suppliers riding a near-permanent high-rise and residential construction boom, an unusually large health, cosmetic and wellness sector that has made the Gold Coast Australia's capital for dermal clinics, dentistry and fitness, and a fast-growing eCommerce and DTC scene shipping nationally out of Burleigh and Currumbin. Each vertical searches and converts on a different journey, so one senior pod builds the keywords, the bids, the landing pages and the conversion path around the way Gold Coast customers actually buy — not a generic template.

And the calendar runs hot. Demand swings hard around the summer and school-holiday peaks and around major events — the Gold Coast Marathon, the Magic Millions carnival, SWELL and a packed festival season — when visitor volume can multiply overnight. A full-service team plans creative, budget and technical headroom across every channel ahead of those spikes, not one channel scrambling while the others sit idle. It helps that the Gold Coast is a far less saturated agency market than Sydney or Melbourne, so an integrated, senior-led programme compounds faster and at a lower cost-per-result.

Areas we serve

Marketing across every corner of Gold Coast.

The Gold Coast isn't one centre — it's a 57km string of distinct beachside and hinterland communities, each with its own demand. From the Surfers Paradise tourist heart to family-led Burleigh and Palm Beach, the Robina–Southport business core and the booming Coomera–Helensvale northern corridor, we run integrated campaigns for Gold Coast brands wherever your customers are.

Surfers ParadiseBroadbeachSouthportBurleigh HeadsRobinaCoolangattaPalm BeachMermaid BeachMain BeachNerangHope IslandCoomeraHelensvaleCurrumbin
Running four agencies that don't talk — and leaking the visitor funnel between them?

We'll show you what one integrated Gold Coast team would change in a free 60-min audit.

A senior strategist audits your whole funnel — organic, paid, web and conversion — finds where your spend is duplicated or where resident and visitor demand is slipping through the gaps, and hands you a single 90-day growth plan with a return forecast. Yours to keep.

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How we work

Discover. Strategise. Execute. Compound.

01

Discover

Deep audit of your business, funnel, ad accounts and competitors. 7–10 days.

02

Strategise

A bespoke 12-month growth roadmap with KPIs, milestones and budget guardrails.

03

Execute

A senior pod ships campaigns, pages and automation in weekly sprints.

04

Compound

Monthly executive reviews with forecasts, attribution and next-level plays.

Selected work

Case studies that compound.

Five recent engagements. Same senior pod, every channel — all tied to a number the CFO signed off on.

All 70+ case studies
Case study index01 / 06
WiiseGlobal launch · Microsoft Ignite

The quality of work is unmatched. They delivered the Wiise website in record time, and the digital marketing launch campaign that followed delivered exceptional results.

Emma
VP of Marketing, Microsoft Australia
Wiise — Whitehat Agency case study Live case
Challenge

Launching a new cloud-native ERP from Microsoft, KPMG and Commonwealth Bank of Australia — with no public surface, no sign-up funnel and a fixed launch window at Microsoft Ignite, Las Vegas.

What we did

An end-to-end enterprise build — fully custom design and development, the website wired directly into the live ERP so visitors sign up and start using the platform in seconds, and a multi-channel paid launch (Google + Meta) timed to the keynote.

Web DesignCustom DevERP IntegrationGoogle AdsMeta Ads
Read the full case12-min read · PDF available
01
1,000+
Users in 90 days
Acquired through the paid launch
02
7.1X
Launch ROAS
Google Ads + Meta Ads
03
8.2%
Sign-up conversion rate
Visitor to live ERP
The honest comparison

Whitehat vs the alternatives.

Whitehat
Traditional agency
Other digital
Freelancer
Senior strategists
Senior-only
In-house only
Mixed (junior-led)
Solo
AI-native execution
Yes — every workstream
No
Sometimes
No
Reporting cadence
Weekly
Monthly
Monthly
Ad-hoc
Time to results
14 – 30 days
60 – 90 days
60 – 120 days
Variable
Senior strategists 01
Whitehat Senior-only
Traditional agency In-house only
Other digital Mixed (junior-led)
Freelancer Solo
AI-native execution 02
Whitehat Yes — every workstream
Traditional agency No
Other digital Sometimes
Freelancer No
Reporting cadence 03
Whitehat Weekly
Traditional agency Monthly
Other digital Monthly
Freelancer Ad-hoc
Time to results 04
Whitehat 14 – 30 days
Traditional agency 60 – 90 days
Other digital 60 – 120 days
Freelancer Variable
How we partner

Three ways to work with us.

Every engagement is scoped to your goal — not slotted into a fixed retainer ladder. Pick the shape that matches where you are; we’ll forecast the investment in your first call.

6–12 weeks

Project Sprint

Best for: validating one channel or fixing a specific problem.

A focused, time-boxed engagement with a single senior specialist. Fixed scope. Fixed outcome. One hand on one lever.

What’s included
  • One senior strategist, one channel
  • Weekly working session
  • 90-day roadmap on day 7
  • Direct Slack / Teams line
Outcome
A measurable ranking, ROAS, or CRO lift inside a quarter.
Scope a sprint →
12+ months

Embedded Partner

Best for: enterprise & ASX-listed brands with internal marketing teams.

Senior Whitehat strategists integrated alongside your in-house team. We sit your stand-ups, ship from your repos, and report to your exec. Effectively a fractional growth function.

What’s included
  • Fractional CMO / Head of Growth
  • Multi-pod execution capacity
  • Priority ship queue
  • Executive board reporting
Outcome
A senior in-house growth function without 12-month senior hiring cycles.
Discuss a partnership →

Why no public pricing? Because a real growth program is scoped to your goal, your stack and your stage — not a price tag a competitor can screenshot. Book a free call; we’ll give you a forecasted investment and an expected return inside 30 minutes.

Client voices

Words from the people paying us.

★★★★★

“Whitehat Agency has done a remarkable job with the Wiise project. The quality of work is unmatched. The team there is highly creative and results focused. They helped us deliver the Wiise website in record time and worked really well with our internal team. Then once the website was live, they helped with the digital marketing launch campaign with exceptional results. Thank you.”

Emma
VP of Marketing, Microsoft Australia
★★★★★

“Whitehat treats my business like it’s their own. They really valued our company’s values.”

Whitney London
Founder, Eden Hair Extensions
★★★★★

“Whitehat didn’t just send more traffic — they sent qualified doctors ready to insure. 300+ fresh leads and an 18% jump in completed quotes.”

Eric Lowenstein
CEO, Tego Insurance

Recognised by

Google Premier PartnerMeta Business PartnerClutch Top 1000Semrush Agency PartnerB&T Agency of the Year 2024AFR Fast 100
FAQ

Digital marketing on the Gold Coast, answered straight.

Still got questions? Our team replies to every enquiry inside 24 hours.

What does a full-service digital marketing agency on the Gold Coast do?

A full-service agency runs all your digital channels — SEO, Google Ads, Meta, web, CRO and automation — under one strategy, instead of you coordinating separate specialists. As a digital marketing agency Gold Coast brands trust, Whitehat integrates them so your resident and visitor demand reinforce each other and report into one revenue number, which matters most in a market that sells to locals and tourists at once.

How much does digital marketing cost on the Gold Coast?

Digital marketing Gold Coast retainers with us scale with the channels and ambition involved. There's no fixed price because a fair scope depends on which services you need and the size of the opportunity. Because the Gold Coast is less saturated than the southern capitals, a competitive scope often goes further here — we forecast the investment and expected return in your free audit before you commit.

Should we use one agency for everything or separate specialists?

Separate specialists create gaps — duplicated spend, conflicting data and no single owner of the result. An integrated team shares insight across channels: the keywords that convert in SEO inform the paid bids, and the landing pages are built for both. On the Gold Coast, where the visitor funnel leaks the moment channels stop talking, the Gold Coast marketing agency worth keeping is one senior team — it almost always beats four disconnected ones.

Can you help us reach tourists and visitors, not just locals?

Yes — and it's the biggest opportunity most Gold Coast businesses miss. Visitors search and scroll for things to do, places to stay and where to eat weeks before they arrive, often from interstate or overseas. We build SEO, Google Ads and Meta that capture both this in-destination demand and your nearby local searches off one strategy, so you win the full funnel instead of half of it.

Which Gold Coast areas do you work with?

All of the Gold Coast and hinterland — the tourist strip of Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach and Main Beach, the southern beaches of Burleigh Heads, Palm Beach, Currumbin and Coolangatta, the Southport–Robina business core, and the fast-growing northern corridor through Helensvale, Hope Island and Coomera. We run campaigns for Gold Coast brands of every size, from local single-site to national eCommerce.

Can we start with one channel and add more later?

Yes — most Gold Coast clients start with their biggest opportunity, often Google Ads or SEO, and layer in others as the results compound. Because one team runs everything off a shared strategy, adding a channel is seamless: the data, audiences and reporting are already connected, so there's no re-briefing a new agency or losing momentum heading into a peak season.

Are you a Google Premier Partner?

Yes. Whitehat Agency is a Google Premier Partner — the top 3% of Australian agencies — and a Meta Business Partner. That means direct platform support, beta access and verified performance benchmarks across the paid channels behind your Gold Coast campaigns, run by a senior team that has worked with Australian brands since 2013.

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