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PPC Management Agency, London.
One team, every channel.

Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn, run as one accountable system with a documented creative-testing process, not three vendors emailing three reports.

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London · Paid Media

Most agencies split your paid media across two vendors: one for search, one for social. They rarely talk to each other, and neither one owns the number you actually care about.

↳ The short answer

A PPC management agency runs paid search and paid social advertising for a client, covering strategy, campaign build, creative, and budget across platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn. In London, many agencies specialize in one channel (search or social) and hand off the rest, which forces a business to manage two or three vendors who rarely agree on what's working. A stronger model treats paid search, paid social, and LinkedIn as one connected system with a single team accountable for the result. The clearest sign an agency runs it well is a documented creative-testing process, what gets tested, what gets killed, and what scales, paired with reporting that names what isn't working, not only what is.

We've run that model for nine years, across more than 600 client engagements and 75+ currently active accounts. It’s why a founder stops babysitting three ad accounts and starts trusting one.

What a PPC management agency actually runs

A PPC management agency runs strategy, campaign build, and continuous testing and optimisation as one connected system across lead-generation, Google Ads, and LinkedIn, not three vendors emailing three different reports.

A PPC management agency doesn't just switch campaigns on. The work is strategy first (who's the buyer, what's the offer, what's realistic given the budget), then campaign build (accounts, tracking, audiences, creative), then a continuous cycle of testing and optimization. If an agency skips the strategy step and goes straight to "boost this post" or "raise the daily budget," that's the tell of a shop running your account on autopilot, not managing it.

We manage this across three modules: lead generation campaigns (Meta, plus LinkedIn where it fits), Google Ads (Search and YouTube together), and LinkedIn Ads as a dedicated add-on for B2B and considered-purchase brands. One team keeps one shared view of what’s working across all three.

Paid social plateaus when the creative goes stale before it's replaced, not when the targeting breaks. A structured creative-testing cycle, new variants on a schedule, underperformers killed early, winners scaled deliberately, is what keeps an account from fatiguing as spend scales.

In our experience, paid social plateaus most often for one specific reason: the creative goes stale before it's replaced. An ad that worked at £5,000/month spend can collapse at £20,000/month, not because the targeting broke, but because the same three creatives are now shown to the same audience so many times that performance decays. We wrote about why this happens and what fixes it: the short version is that scaling spend without scaling creative volume and testing discipline is the single most common cause of a paid-social plateau.

Our lead generation campaigns (Meta, and TikTok as part of the same paid-social execution) run on a structured creative-testing cycle: new variants go in on a schedule, underperformers get killed early instead of limping along on inertia, and winners get scaled deliberately rather than left to fatigue. This is the "social ad agency" part of the job that a generic PPC shop, built around search campaigns, usually treats as an afterthought.

What's included:

  • Lead-magnet or offer-led campaign strategy, built around what will actually convert your audience, not a generic template
  • Landing page and thank-you page setup for the campaign
  • Meta ad account setup and management (TikTok folded into the same testing cycle where it fits the brand)
  • Automated email follow-up from download or lead to consultation, so paid spend isn't the only thing carrying the funnel
  • Monthly performance reporting against the metric that matters for the campaign, not a vanity number

Search captures demand that already exists; YouTube builds consideration that can contribute to that demand. Running both together can turn a YouTube view into a branded search later on, without it competing against your own paid-social retargeting for budget.

Search captures demand that already exists. Someone typing "ppc management agency london" into Google has already decided they want an agency; the job is winning that click, not creating the desire. YouTube does the opposite job: it builds the consideration a cold audience needs before they'd ever type that search in the first place. Most agencies run one or the other. We run them together, so a YouTube view can turn into a branded search a week later, and that search doesn't have to compete against your own paid-social retargeting for the same budget line.

Google Ads management covers search campaigns (brand, competitor, and category terms relevant to what you sell), YouTube authority ads, and retargeting for anyone who's already visited the site or downloaded a lead magnet. This is the module a business benefits from most when it already has a clear category position and a website that can convert the click once it lands, not a brand-new site with no positioning yet.

Best fit: an established brand with real category clarity. B2B and advisory brands tend to benefit when search intent for their category runs high; DTC brands benefit when the product price justifies the cost of a paid click.

LinkedIn ads for considered and B2B purchases

LinkedIn ads work when the buyer is a named decision-maker in a specific role at a specific type of company, not a broad consumer audience, which is why we run it as a dedicated add-on rather than a default line item on every account.

LinkedIn ads work when the buyer is a named decision-maker in a specific role at a specific type of company, not a broad consumer audience scrolling for entertainment. That's a narrow but real use case: B2B services, advisory, SaaS, and premium purchases where the buyer is professionally coded even if the product itself isn't strictly "B2B."

We run LinkedIn as a dedicated add-on, segmented by the audience that actually matters for the brand (by seniority, sector, or company type, defined per client rather than a default template), with creative refreshed on a set cycle and A/B testing built in rather than left to guesswork. If LinkedIn isn't the right channel for a brand, we say so instead of adding it as a line item nobody asked for.

How we report

A monthly report names what moved, what didn't, and what we're changing because of it, in plain language, not buried behind a vanity metric like impressions.

A report that hides a flat month behind a vanity metric ("2 million impressions!") is the fastest way to lose a client who's already been burned by an agency doing exactly that. We've written about what a marketing agency should actually report on, and paid media is the clearest place to apply it: the metric on the report has to be the metric tied to the business outcome, not the easiest number to make look good.

That means a monthly report names what moved, what didn't, and what we're changing because of it. If a channel underperforms, that's in the report in plain language, not buried in a footnote. We'd rather tell you upfront that something isn't working than let a quarter go by hoping it fixes itself.

Who this is for

This is built for an established, profitable brand already selling that wants paid media to scale under one team instead of three vendors and three sets of numbers, not a pre-revenue brand or one shopping for the cheapest possible ad management.

This is built for an established, profitable brand that's already selling and wants paid media to scale without three vendors and three sets of numbers. We've run paid media for brands across e-commerce (including a multi-year retainer with FoundPop) and live events and music (including work with Old Dirty Brasstards, an Arts Council-backed recovery story), which is a broader vertical spread than agencies that specialize in one type of client.

It's not the right fit if you're pre-revenue with no working product yet, or if you're looking for the cheapest possible ad management rather than a team that will tell you honestly what's working. If that's you: send us a short brief and we'll tell you what we'd actually do with your budget, before you commit to anything.

If your paid media is currently split across two or three vendors who don't talk to each other, or if the agency running it now sends you a report you don't fully trust, send us a short brief. We'll look at what's actually running across your accounts and tell you plainly what we'd change, whether or not you end up working with us.

THE WORK.

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Chofa Jewelry
FoundPop brand identity design
FoundPop
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Old Dirty Brasstards
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JP Bouvet Method
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The Great Murder Mystery

↳ Frequently asked

What's the difference between paid social and paid search?

Paid search (Google Ads) targets people already searching for what you sell, so it captures existing demand. Paid social (Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn) reaches people based on who they are and what they're interested in, so it builds demand that doesn't yet exist as a search. Most brands need both, run as one connected budget rather than two competing ones.

How much does PPC management cost?

Cost depends on ad spend and which channels you run, since paid media pricing typically scales with the budget being managed rather than a flat fee. The fastest way to get an exact figure is a strategy call.

Do you run Meta, TikTok, and Google Ads together, or separately?

Together, under one team with one shared view of performance. That's the whole point of the model: one accountable owner across paid social and paid search, not three vendors reporting three different numbers.

How is paid media reported?

Monthly, against the metric tied to the actual business outcome for that channel, with a plain-language note on what's working, what isn't, and what's changing because of it. See what we think every marketing agency should report on.

How long before paid media results show up?

Paid search can show signal within the first few weeks since it's capturing existing demand. Paid social and LinkedIn typically need a longer runway, several weeks of creative testing, since the audience and creative both need time to find their footing.

Do you manage LinkedIn ads for B2B brands?

Yes, as a dedicated add-on for brands where the buyer is a specific, targetable professional audience. It's not automatically included in every engagement because it isn't the right channel for every brand.

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Pairs well with.

Paid media compounds fastest paired with the retention side of the engine and the site the traffic actually lands on.

Pillar 01

Marketing

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The wider engine paid media sits inside: email, SEO & AI visibility, and cross-platform organic content.

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Service

Email Marketing

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Retention that makes acquisition spend go further, so scaling paid ads doesn’t quietly erode margin.

See Email Marketing →

Pillar 03

Design & Build

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A landing page and site built to convert the traffic paid media sends to it.

See Design & Build →

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YOU ARE.

Tell us about your business in ninety seconds. If it’s a fit, we reply by email within the working day. If not, we send you something useful instead. We never promise the moon.

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