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Digital Marketing Agency · Sunshine Coast Sydney · Est. 2013

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

SEO, Google Ads, Meta, web, CRO and AI — one senior Sunshine Coast team running every channel off a single strategy. Digital marketing on the Sunshine Coast means Australia's fastest-growing region, where new lifestyle businesses arrive every week and you sell to locals and visitors at once, so integration is how you capture both. 13 years, $650M+ generated, white-hat only.

$650M+
Revenue generated for clients
8.7×
Average return across channels
13 yrs
Full-service, Sunshine 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 Sunshine 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 — and the coast's thinner competition means efficient full-service spend often compounds faster and cheaper than the same budget would in the capitals. We report on revenue, not 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 — exactly what a relocating business owner expects.

The Sunshine Coast market

The Sunshine Coast is booming — and selling to two audiences. One team wins both.

The Sunshine Coast is one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, and that growth changes the marketing maths. Thousands of families and business owners are relocating here for the lifestyle, bringing capital-city expectations and budgets with them, while a wave of new SMBs — many run by sea-changers who left Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane — launches every month. At the same time, like the Gold Coast, you're selling to two audiences at once: locals searching for a service near them today, and the millions of visitors who holiday in Noosa, Mooloolaba and Maroochydore and search and scroll for weeks before they arrive. Run those channels in silos and the visitor funnel leaks, so we run all six off one strategy.

The local economy is distinctive. Tourism and hospitality anchor the coast around Noosa, Mooloolaba and the hinterland, but the real density sits in lifestyle small business — a huge health, wellness and allied-health sector (the coast is a magnet for clinics, fitness, yoga and natural therapies), the trades and suppliers riding relentless population-driven construction, and a growing professional and tech cluster around the Maroochydore CBD, the new Sunshine Coast University Hospital and the international broadband cable that landed here. Each of those verticals searches and converts on a different journey, so one senior pod builds the keywords, the bids, the landing pages and the conversion path around how Sunshine Coast customers actually buy.

And the region runs on a strong seasonal and event calendar — the summer and school-holiday peaks, the Noosa Triathlon and Noosa Festival of Surfing, the Curated Plate food season and a busy wedding and tourism trade — when visitor search and social demand can multiply overnight. A full-service team lines up creative, budget and landing-page capacity across all six channels before each of those waves hits, rather than leaving one channel to scramble while the rest go quiet. It helps that the Sunshine Coast is a far less saturated agency market than the capitals, so an integrated, senior-led programme compounds faster and at a lower cost-per-result — a real edge for the new businesses arriving here every week.

Areas we serve

Marketing across every corner of Sunshine Coast.

The Sunshine Coast isn't one centre — it's a string of distinct coastal towns and hinterland villages, each with its own demand. From the Noosa and Mooloolaba tourist heart to the new Maroochydore CBD, family-led Caloundra and Buderim, and the hinterland through Maleny and Montville — we run integrated campaigns for Sunshine Coast brands wherever your customers are.

MaroochydoreNoosa HeadsMooloolabaCaloundraBuderimKawanaSippy DownsCoolum BeachNambourMalenyMontvillePeregian BeachCooroyCaboolture
New to the coast, or scaling fast — with four agencies that don't talk?

We'll show you what one integrated Sunshine 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 Sunshine 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 Sunshine 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 Sunshine 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 region that sells to locals and tourists at once.

How much does digital marketing cost on the Sunshine Coast?

Digital marketing Sunshine 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 coast is less saturated than the 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 Sunshine Coast, where the visitor funnel leaks the moment channels stop talking, the Sunshine 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 Sunshine Coast businesses miss. Visitors search and scroll for things to do, places to stay and where to eat in Noosa and Mooloolaba weeks before they arrive, often from interstate. 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.

We've just relocated our business to the coast — can you help us start from scratch?

Absolutely — it's one of the most common briefs we get here. Sea-changers arrive every month and need a local presence built fast: a Google Business Profile, suburb-level SEO, paid campaigns and a conversion-ready website, all from one team. Because the coast is less contested than the capital you came from, a senior-led, integrated launch tends to rank and convert faster and cheaper than you'd expect.

Which Sunshine Coast areas do you work with?

All of the Sunshine Coast and hinterland — the Noosa and Mooloolaba tourist strip, the new Maroochydore CBD and Kawana health and business core, family-led Caloundra, Buderim and Sippy Downs, the northern beaches through Coolum and Peregian, and the hinterland villages of Maleny, Montville and Cooroy. We run campaigns for brands of every size, from local single-site to national eCommerce.

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 Sunshine Coast campaigns, run by a senior team that has worked with Australian brands since 2013.

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