Best Google Ads Agency on Reddit: What Happens When You Actually Ask
We're a Google Ads agency. We read the r/PPC threads where people ask for one, and what actually happens in them is worth knowing before you post.
- 12,000+PMax campaigns audited
- 200+Live ecom clients
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A correction we owe you
An earlier version of this page described Looking to hire a Google Ads Agency as a brand asking "what separates a good agency from a bad one", with replies that "all ask the same three things back: who runs the account day to day, does that person also run 40 other accounts, and how does reporting work".
None of that is in the thread. Go read it. It's a hiring ad: a brand spending $5-10k/month, scaling toward $30k, asking agencies to DM their retainer quotes. The replies are agencies pitching. Nobody asks those three questions, because we made them up.
We also said "nobody drops a name". Someone did. Here's the honest version.
What actually happens when you ask Reddit for an agency
Looking to hire a Google Ads Agency (r/PPC, 9 April 2024, 3 upvotes, 7 comments) is the clearest example on this page, and it's not what you'd hope.
A brand posts real requirements: $5-10k/month now, scaling to $30k, target ROAS 200%+, ecom experience, no lock-in contract, send your retainer quote. Reasonable ask.
What comes back:
- An agency saying it sounds like a good fit, plus a genuinely useful tip: say which countries you're targeting so you filter the responses.
- Someone pitching "automated funnels and systems" with a Canva link.
- One commenter suggesting a company called Clectiq. One upvote. No discussion, no evidence, no follow-up.
- A freelancer who couldn't get their reply through.
That's it. That's what asking Reddit for an agency looks like: a small pile of inbound sales, one name mentioned in passing, and no way to tell any of them apart.
We have no connection to Clectiq and no opinion on them. We're naming them because they're what the thread actually said, and leaving them out would be exactly the trick we're trying to stop pulling.
The thread that gives you a real test
Question about the performance of my Google Ads agency (r/PPC, 31 December 2024, 7 upvotes, 39 comments) is the most useful one here.
A clothing and workwear brand hired an agency at $1,000/month in fees against a $2,500 CAD monthly ad budget. Five months in: $13.6k spent, $3.31k in sales. The agency said they were still experimenting.
The replies are specific in a way our old page wasn't:
- The best-voted reply pointed out this covered Black Friday and Christmas, peak buying season, with no improvement. Their read: drop the agency. But they also said the budget is too low to feed Google enough conversions in a 30-day window, so it isn't purely the agency's fault.
- Another (8 upvotes) went technical: use N-gram and close-variant analysis to find the negative keywords worth adding, rather than adding them at random.
- Another gave the test we'd repeat to anyone: the strategy your agency tells you about should be visible in your account's change history. If reporting is vague and little has changed, "assume you're their cashcow".
- Several pointed at the website itself, not the ads.
And the honest ending: the owner came back and said they'd concluded two things were broken. The agency wasn't improving anything, and their own site wasn't presenting products well. Two causes, not one.
The "super targeting" thread, read properly
Google Ads agency claims they can target hotel guests and nearby residents for my beauty salon (r/PPC, 6 May 2026, 49 comments). A beauty salon owner asks whether "super targeting" is a real Google Ads feature or regular location targeting rebranded.
We used to summarise this as r/PPC calling it out because "nobody has a hidden setting". That's close, but it flattens what the room actually said, so here it is straight:
- The most upvoted answer (17) was one word: "Overhyped".
- Another (16) said location and radius targeting is real and this is probably doable.
- Another (9) said it plainly: yes, real feature, they just put a fancy name on tightly targeting an area by address or zip.
- A useful caveat (5): Google targets "people in or regularly in" a location, so a 1km radius in a busy commercial area is far less precise than the pitch implies.
So the verdict isn't "fake". It's "real, renamed, and oversold". That's a more useful thing to know, and it's what the thread says.
Also worth flagging: this is a beauty salon, not ecom. We run Google Ads for ecom brands. We're including it because it's the clearest red-flag thread on r/PPC, not because it's our world.
Our take, as one of the pitchers
Threads done. What follows is opinion, from a company you might hire.
Reddit can't pick your agency for you. What those threads hand you is a set of tests you can run on anyone, and we'd rather give you the tests than a testimonial:
- Do you own the account? Under your own login. If the agency owns it, you can't verify anything and you lose the history if you leave.
- Does the change history match the story? Open it yourself. It's free and it takes five minutes. It's the single best lie detector in Google Ads.
- Is the pitch a plan or a word? "Super targeting" is a word. Feed structure and negative keyword work are a plan.
- Is your budget big enough to judge anyone by? That workwear brand's agency looked terrible, and the budget was also too thin to optimise on. Both were true.
Where we land: you keep account ownership from day one, there's no lock-in, and a senior operator runs the account rather than a junior learning on your budget. We don't sell a targeting trick because there isn't one. Across 200+ ecom brands and €200M+ in tracked revenue, the accounts that improve are the ones someone senior actually looks at every week.
That's a claim, not proof. Run the four tests above on us the same as anyone.
Ecom brands
200+
Revenue generated
€200M+
| Test from the threads | Why it matters | Where we stand |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the account | You lose the history if you leave | You own it from day one |
| Change history matches reporting | The best lie detector you have | Open it whenever you like |
| Plan, not a magic word | "Super targeting" is rebranded geo | Structure, feed, tracking |
| Is the budget enough to judge? | Too thin means nobody can win | We say no when it isn't |
Ask Reddit for the best agency and you get an inbox full of agencies. Ask your own change history whether your agency is working and you get an actual answer.
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