Top Click Media has been named to Google's 2026 Premier Partner list, placing it among the top 3% of Google Partners in the country.
Top Click Media, a Google Premier Partner in South Africa that specialises in Google Ads, SEO, and Answer Engine Optimization for clients worldwide, has been named to Google’s 2026 Premier Partner list, placing it among the top 3% of Google Partners in the country.
The recognition reflects the agency’s performance across the criteria Google measures each year: client account performance, client growth and retention, team certification depth, and the scale and quality of Google Ads spend under management.
Google Premier Partner status is not applied for. Google assesses every Partner agency in a country annually against the same benchmarks and awards the Premier tier only to the top 3%.
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Because it is re-evaluated every year, the badge is a live indicator that an agency’s Google Ads accounts are performing right now, not a certificate earned once and kept.
“Google looks at the same things our clients look at,” said Josh Maraney, Founder and CEO of Top Click Media.
“Are the accounts performing, are the clients growing, and are they staying. We have clients who have been with us for well over a decade, and that retention is the number we are proudest of. Nobody stays with an agency for ten years because of a nice report. They stay because the phone keeps ringing and the sales keep coming in.”
Top Click Media’s Google Ads accounts have produced results over the past year that stand out in any market.
An e-commerce retailer in the supplements category, which came to the agency with a suspended Google Ads account and campaigns in ruins, now runs at a return on ad spend of 20x, with standout months above 24x.
A financial services client competing against the largest institutions in the country cut its cost per lead by 80%, grew lead volume fivefold, and finished the year at 128% of its annual target.
Across the client base, the agency’s focus is the same: lower cost per acquisition, higher return on ad spend, and budgets that go to new customers rather than brand clicks that would have converted anyway.
Behind those numbers is a way of working that has not changed in 18 years.
Every account is handled by senior Google Ads specialists, not juniors. Campaigns are structured, audited, and optimised line by line: shopping feeds, ad structures, bidding strategy, conversion tracking, and search term hygiene.
Performance Max, AI Max, Search, Shopping, Display, Video, and App campaigns are all managed in-house by a team certified across each of them.
Clients receive direct access to the agency’s tools and reporting so every result can be verified independently.
Client retention is the criterion Google weights heavily and the one that best describes Top Click Media.
Many of the agency’s clients have been with it for years, and a significant number for more than a decade, across multiple algorithm updates, platform changes, and economic cycles.
Contracts are month to month with no lock-in, which means every client who has stayed for years has actively chosen to do so, month after month, on results alone.
That retention has built a client base that now extends well beyond South Africa.
Top Click Media runs Google Ads, SEO, and Answer Engine Optimization campaigns for businesses in Canada, Ireland, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and many other countries, spanning e-commerce, financial services, professional services, health, legal, education, and non-profit sectors.
International clients work with the agency for the same reason South African ones do: deep expertise in Google’s platforms, senior people on every account, and results that can be checked in the tools.
Top Click Media’s founder has spent the past several years documenting the agency’s approach in public. Josh Maraney has produced more than 750 educational videos on Google Ads, SEO, and AI search, published across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and the agency’s own website.
The videos cover the practical work of running Google Ads: why Google may not spend a Target CPA budget, whether to use display expansion, how to structure shopping feeds, how to stop a budget bleeding on brand terms, and how to read an account for waste.
The library has built one of the largest South African audiences for digital marketing education, with more than 125,000 followers on TikTok alone, and has become a vetting tool in its own right, since prospective clients can see exactly how the agency thinks before they pick up the phone.
“I still do the audits and I still build the strategies,” Maraney said.
“The videos are the same thing in public. If you watch 20 of them you know exactly what you are getting when you hire us, and you know we are not hiding anything. Premier Partner status is Google confirming what the videos and the client results already show.”
The 2026 designation comes at a time when Google Ads is changing quickly.
Performance Max and AI Max now shape a large share of ad budgets, and Google’s AI-driven search experiences are changing where ads appear and how people find businesses.
As a Premier Partner, Top Click Media has direct access to Google account representatives, early access to product betas, and the ability to escalate account issues, including policy suspensions, directly.
That allows the agency to test new formats on live accounts before they reach the wider market and to resolve problems that would otherwise sit in a public support queue for weeks.
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Top Click Media (Pty) Ltd is a Google Premier Partner and specialist digital marketing agency in South Africa.
For 18 years, the agency has focused exclusively on Google Ads, SEO and Answer Engine Optimisation for established businesses across South Africa and internationally.
Every account is managed directly by senior specialists, with month-to-month contracts, transparent reporting and full client access to all relevant tools and data.
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