Kia Ora Digital
Melbourne ecommerce SEO and AI search agency founded in 2022, with offices in Queenstown and London and several 2024 to 2026 search award wins.
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Case studies
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Founders
- Speaker at iMedia 2026, Gold Coast, on AI search and ChatGPT marketing
- Speaker at iMedia OPS NZ 2024 on organic revenue forecasting
What they do
- Services
- SEO · GEO · AI visibility tracking · Technical SEO · Local SEO · Link building · Digital PR
- Industries
- Ecommerce · Healthcare · Local businesses · SaaS
- Regions served
- US, UK, Australia, APAC
- Monthly budget
- Under $2k/mo
- Team size
- 11-50
- Founded
- 2022
- Address
- 120 Spencer St, Melbourne VIC 3000
- Pricing
- On request
About
Kia Ora Digital is an SEO agency founded in 2022, headquartered in Melbourne with further bases in Queenstown, New Zealand, and London. Co-founders Ben McIntyre and Dan Sim lead operations and sales. The agency focuses on ecommerce and Shopify brands, and its named services include ecommerce, local, national and international SEO, audits and migrations, penalty recovery, link building, digital PR and an AI search and LLM optimization offer that covers AI visibility audits and tracking of citations and share of answer. LinkedIn lists about 12 staff.
For a young firm, its award record is unusually strong and checkable. The organizers' winners pages show it won Best Start-Up Agency at both the Global and APAC Search Awards in 2024, Best Use of Search for Health at the APAC Search Awards in 2025 and Best Use of AI in Search at both shows in 2026, the last two with client The Collagen Co. Four case studies on its site name the client and give results, including Bondi Vet, The Collagen Co, Reboot-It and 99 Bikes, though a couple contain inconsistent figures. It is listed as a Plus service partner in the Shopify partner directory, which shows a starting price of $1,500. Ben McIntyre has spoken at iMedia events in 2024 and 2026.
Gaps a buyer should weigh: no retainer pricing is published on its own site, no Clutch or G2 profile was found, and no Google review count was verified. The firm has only about four years of history, and LinkedIn gives its founding year as 2022 while its Shopify partnership dates from 2021.
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