Google Premier Partner in South Africa: Top Click in Top 3%

South Africa’s best digital marketing agency, Top Click, confirmed on Google’s 2026 Premier Partner list for the 8th Year. A massive achievment.

JOHANNESBURG, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA, August 27, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Top Click Media, a Google Premier Partner in South Africa that runs Google Ads, SEO, and Answer Engine Optimization for clients in South Africa and abroad, has been confirmed on Google’s 2026 Premier Partner list. The tier is reserved for the top 3% of Google Partners in the country and is decided by Google on a standard set of annual criteria: the performance of client accounts, how much clients grow and how long they stay, the breadth of the team’s certifications, and the scale and quality of Google Ads spend the agency oversees.

No agency applies to become a Google Premier Partner. Google evaluates every Partner in a country once a year against identical benchmarks and grants Premier status to the top 3% and no one else. Because the evaluation happens again every year, the badge reflects how an agency’s Google Ads accounts are doing now, rather than a distinction won once and never re-tested.

“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.”

Google Ads results that hold up year after year

Top Click Media’s Google Ads accounts have posted results in the last year that compare well against any market. A supplements retailer selling online joined the agency with its Google Ads account suspended and its campaigns in disarray; it now generates a 20x return on ad spend, and its strongest months have exceeded 24x. A financial services company going up against the largest institutions in South Africa lowered its cost per lead by 80%, saw lead volume grow fivefold, and finished the year at 128% of its annual target. Across every client the objective does not change: bring cost per acquisition down, push return on ad spend up, and spend on new customers rather than on brand clicks that were always going to convert.

Underneath the numbers is a way of working the agency has kept for 18 years. Each account is run by senior Google Ads specialists, never juniors. Campaigns are set up, audited, and optimised line by line: shopping feeds, ad structures, bidding strategy, conversion tracking, search term hygiene. Performance Max, AI Max, Search, Shopping, Display, Video, and App campaigns are all managed in-house by a team certified in every one of them. Clients have direct access to the agency’s tools and reporting, so nothing has to be taken on trust.

Clients who stay

Retention is the measure Google weights most heavily, and it is the measure that sums up Top Click Media. A large proportion of the agency’s clients have been with it for years, and a significant number for over a decade, staying put through algorithm updates, platform changes, and economic swings. Contracts are month to month with no lock-in, so every long-standing client has chosen to remain, month after month, on the strength of results alone.

That retention has helped build a client base that extends well beyond South Africa’s borders. Top Click Media delivers 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, covering e-commerce, financial services, professional services, health, legal, education, and non-profit sectors. International clients pick the agency for exactly the reasons local ones do: genuine expertise in Google’s platforms, senior people on every account, and results they can verify inside the tools.

Expertise built in public

For several years the agency’s founder has been putting Top Click Media’s approach on record for anyone to see. Josh Maraney has created more than 750 educational videos on Google Ads, SEO, and AI search, shared across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and the agency’s own site. The videos get into the working detail of Google Ads: why a Target CPA budget can go unspent, whether display expansion belongs in a campaign, how to structure a shopping feed, how to keep a budget from bleeding out on brand terms, and how to read an account and identify waste. The library has grown into one of the largest digital marketing education audiences in South Africa, with more than 125,000 followers on TikTok alone, and it has become a vetting tool of its own, since prospects can see how the agency thinks before they ever reach out.

“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. A Google Premier Partner status is Google confirming what the videos and the client results already show.”

Ready for Google’s next phase

The 2026 designation comes as Google Ads goes through rapid change. Performance Max and AI Max now determine a large share of ad budgets, and Google’s AI-powered search experiences are shifting where ads appear and how businesses get found. Premier Partner status gives Top Click Media direct access to Google account representatives, early entry to product betas, and the ability to escalate account issues, including policy suspensions, directly with Google. In practice that means the agency can test new formats on live accounts before they reach the wider market and fix problems that would otherwise sit for weeks in a public support queue.

To learn more visit www.topclick.co.za/google-ads/

About Top Click Media

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 only on Google Ads, SEO and Answer Engine Optimisation for established businesses across South Africa and internationally. Senior specialists manage every account directly, contracts run month to month, reporting is transparent, and clients have full access to all relevant tools and data.

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