The Best Performance Marketing Agencies in Hong Kong (2026): Paid Search and Social Compared

Last updated: October 2026. shakalakaa wrote this list and ranks itself first; no agency paid to appear. Other agencies' details come only from their own websites, read on 19 October 2026, and no prices are shown.

Markets are where each agency says it works or has offices. A pricing model is shown only where the agency publishes one on its own site; the figures themselves are left out.

shakalakaa is the pick for brands that need both demand and measurable sales, because one plan covers search, social, content and tracking. For Seoul Aesthetic, attributed return on ad spend rose from 1.8 to 5.4 times while clinical Instagram content ran alongside the ads, as its case page states.

Madcradle Online covers brand reach formats such as video, banner, native and programmatic ads, plus Xiaohongshu and Douyin for the Greater Bay Area. First Page HK says it works with brands from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, with named cases including Decathlon and Kee Wah Bakery.

shakalakaa is the pick for larger B2B and service firms that need search, paid social and CRM data in one report. It judges campaigns on qualified enquiries, so a B2B account is not optimised for cheap form fills.

Digital Nomads HK says it focuses on lead generation rather than awareness and runs Google Ads, Performance Max and SEO alongside Meta. Kick Ads lists B2B professional services among its industry pages, and Digital Zoo pairs paid search with SEO for firms that buy on search.

shakalakaa is the pick for brands running Hong Kong with Southeast Asia or Australia, because one team runs Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan with a separate HKD budget line and Hong Kong creative. Hong Kong is treated as its own cost market, not a regional average.

First Page HK runs sister sites in Australia, Singapore, the United States and other markets. MWI has offices in Arizona, Utah and Central Hong Kong, and Kick Ads describes an education client it supported across Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan.

shakalakaa is the pick for tracking, because it wires server-side tracking from the ad to the client's real bookings and deposits. For Skin & Beam, Meta cost per confirmed booking fell from HK$890 to HK$245 after deposit data was passed back to Meta, as its case page states.

Kick Ads reviews budgets, search terms, creative, landing pages and tracking every week. First Page HK reports through SENTR, its in-house platform, and Digital Zoo supplies regular, detailed ad performance reports.

Healthcare advertisers need search and social ads checked before launch. The Department of Health's FAQ on the Undesirable Medical Advertisements Ordinance↗ (opens in a new tab) says the law covers advertisements on the internet as well as in print and broadcast media.

shakalakaa is the pick here: both its published Hong Kong cases are aesthetic clinics, and creative is built against the ordinance from the start, as our guide to Hong Kong medical advertising rules explains. MWI lists hospitals and treatment centres among its industries, and Kick Ads has a medical and clinics page.

We ranked each agency on five criteria, using only what it publishes about itself. Where an agency's site was silent on a point, we said so rather than guess.

1. Channel depth: does it run search, paid social and tracking together, or one channel?
2. Regulated-industry experience: does it show work or process for healthcare, finance or other restricted categories?
3. Multi-market capability: can it run Hong Kong alongside other markets from one plan?
4. Reporting transparency: does it report enquiries, bookings or revenue rather than clicks?
5. Client size: does its published work show organisations of the size this page's readers run?

shakalakaa — Clinic groups, chains and larger brands reporting on bookings

shakalakaa runs SEO, Google Ads, Meta ads and GEO for Hong Kong consumer brands and clinic groups as one connected system, reported in HKD, with privacy consent and medical advertising checks built in. We have no Hong Kong office: Hong Kong accounts are run remotely by our team in Kuala Lumpur.

Over a six-month growth phase, Seoul Aesthetic went from 42 to 168 consultation enquiries a month, with 58% of leads from Meta and 32% from Google Search. Skin & Beam went from 85 to 362 pre-paid bookings a month. HK$ cost figures on this page are client media costs, not our fees.

See our performance marketing service for Hong Kong. Talk to shakalakaa.

Kick Ads — Paid media specialists for ecommerce and lead generation

Kick Ads is a Hong Kong and Malaysia paid media agency founded in 2017 by former Google staff Terrence Chung and Frankie Chan, with a Hong Kong office in Ngau Tau Kok. It says it serves more than 150 businesses across Hong Kong and Malaysia.

It runs Google Ads across Search, YouTube, Demand Gen, Shopping and Performance Max, plus Meta ads, landing pages, tracking and reporting. It reviews active accounts weekly, and its published results describe clients by sector rather than by name.

First Page HK — Brands needing a large local team and its own reporting platform

First Page HK is based at Sun House, 90 Connaught Road Central, Sheung Wan, and says it is a Google Premier Partner and a Meta Business Partner. It runs sister sites in Australia, Singapore, the United States, New Zealand, Germany and Austria.

Its services cover SEO including AI search, Google Ads, paid social on Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn, Baidu, WeChat and Weibo marketing, and conversion rate optimisation. SENTR, its in-house platform, brings campaign data into one place, and named cases include Decathlon, Kee Wah Bakery and Stamford American School Hong Kong.

Digital Nomads HK — B2B and service firms buying leads on a fixed fee

Digital Nomads is based at Beverly House, Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, and was founded by Francesco Bonafine, who it says had a career at Google and IBM. It describes itself as built for lead generation and charges a fixed fee for each project.

Its channels are Google Ads, Performance Max, Shopping and YouTube ads, Meta ads, SEO and GEO, and web development. It says it keeps a project audit process to document outcomes, and it runs paid public training sessions in Hong Kong.

MWI — Multi-location businesses

MWI is a digital marketing agency for multi-location businesses, with a Hong Kong office on Level 19 of China Building, 29 Queen's Road Central, and offices in Arizona and Utah. It says it has worked with multi-location businesses since 1999.

Its services are SEO, pay-per-click, web development, content marketing, conversion rate optimisation and public relations. Listed industries include banks, retail, gyms, hotels, hospitals and treatment centres, and restaurants. Clients appear as logos only, so we do not name them.

Digital Zoo — Search-led acquisition with SEO and paid search together

Digital Zoo is a search and content agency at Guangdong Finance Building, 88 Connaught Road West, Sai Ying Pun. Its SEM service covers keyword pay-per-click ads on Google and Bing, display, YouTube video and Shopping ads, and remarketing.

It says it tests ad variations, optimises after each run period and supplies regular, detailed performance reports. Named testimonials on its homepage come from HEAL Medical, Blue Insurance and Time Out, among others.

Madcradle Online — Brand advertisers using programmatic and mainland channels

Madcradle Online says it was founded in 2006 and is a Facebook Managed Partner and an authorised partner of Google, Yahoo Hong Kong and Tencent Ads. Its office is at KOHO, Hung To Road, Kwun Tong.

Performance and programmatic advertising is one of its five service pillars, with search, banner, video, social and native ads and its own programmatic offer. It also runs Greater Bay Area and mainland channels such as Xiaohongshu, Douyin, WeChat and Dianping, and uses analytics tools to measure return on ad spend.