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Search "ppc management utah" and half the first page is agencies in Texas, Florida and New York that made a page with Utah in the title. Every firm below has an office in Utah that we found on its own website and on a second listing, and seven of the nine are in Utah County.
For a small Utah County business spending under $5,000 a month on Google Ads, start with Clear Presence Marketing in Pleasant Grove, which posts a $499 monthly fee, or Sebo Marketing in Provo. Businesses with bigger budgets should talk to Disruptive Advertising in Pleasant Grove, ecommerce brands doing $1M to $15M a year to Stryde in Lehi, and anyone who wants a posted price and a dedicated analyst to Searchbloom in South Jordan, which says Google Ads management starts at $2,000 a month. Whoever you hire, keep Admin access to your own Google Ads account.
Clear Presence is a one-person shop on 2000 West in Pleasant Grove, and it has the lowest posted Google Ads fee we found while building this list. Its Google Ads plan, called Grow, is $499 a month, and the site says the fee switches to 10% of ad spend once your budget passes $5,000 a month. It is month to month, and the site names American Fork, Lehi, Orem and Lindon as places it works. You talk to the person who runs your ads. The trade is that there is no team behind that one person.
Sebo is on University Avenue in downtown Provo. Its Google advertising service covers Search ads, Display, YouTube ads and Local Services Ads, and it builds the landing pages the ads point to. That last part matters more than most owners think, because a good ad that lands on a slow home page wastes the click. Sebo also runs Meta ads and SEO, and its site describes month-to-month relationships instead of a long contract. On Clutch, paid search is about 30% of its work, with SEO and web design making up the rest.
Disruptive's mailing address is on North County Boulevard in Pleasant Grove. On Clutch, pay per click is half of its work. Its paid search page offers three ways in: a free audit of your current account, training for your own staff, or full management. The homepage says there are no long-term contracts, that it turns away more than 80% of the companies that come to it, and that qualifying brands get a 90-day growth guarantee or their money back. Ask what qualifies before you count on that guarantee. If you spend a few hundred dollars a month, this is not your firm.
REVITY is on 820 East in American Fork. Its site lists paid search next to SEO, paid social, email and branding, and its FAQ names the businesses it works with: ecommerce, healthcare, home services, professional services and B2B. It also has a page for restoration and emergency service companies, which is a category where Google Ads spend gets expensive fast. Clutch splits its work about evenly between media buying and pay per click, so it is a fit if you want one shop to buy Google, Meta and other placements together.
Set Fire is on 1350 West in Orem. Its site leads with social media, paid social and content, and lists paid search on Google, Bing and Yahoo as a service. Clutch puts social media at half its work and pay per click at a quarter. That mix suits a restaurant, a gym or a retail shop in Orem whose customers find it on Instagram first and then search for the name. If Google search is your main lead source, pick a firm higher on this list.
Avalaunch has its Utah headquarters on Maple Loop Drive in Lehi and a second office in San Francisco. Clutch splits its work evenly between content, pay per click and SEO. The site posts no prices, so expect a discovery call before you get a number.
Stryde only takes product-based direct-to-consumer brands doing $1M to $15M a year, and it says so on its homepage. Its Google Ads service covers Search, Shopping, Performance Max and retargeting, which are the campaign types a Shopify store actually runs. It also sells SEO and AI search work. If you ship supplements or outdoor gear out of a warehouse in Lindon or Spanish Fork, it is the right size. If you are a dentist or a roofer, look elsewhere.
Big Leap is on Thanksgiving Way in Lehi and is an SEO firm first. Clutch puts SEO at 75% of its work and pay per click at 25%. Its site sells paid search, paid social and retargeting as a way to get leads while SEO builds, and offers a free PPC audit. The client types it names are enterprise, multi-location and franchise, ecommerce, B2B and SaaS. A single-location shop in Pleasant Grove is not who it is built for, but a company with six locations along the Wasatch Front is.
Searchbloom is in South Jordan in Salt Lake County, and it is on this list because search is nearly all it does. Its homepage says Google Ads management starts at $2,000 a month and goes up with ad spend, that it also runs Microsoft Bing ads, and that you work with a dedicated analyst instead of an account manager. It says there are no lengthy contracts. Clutch puts pay per click at a quarter of its work, with SEO making up most of the rest.
We started with the firms that show up for "ppc management utah", "google ads agency utah" and "ppc agency utah", plus the Clutch and Manifest lists of Utah PPC firms. Then we opened each firm's own website and looked for a street address in a Utah city, and matched it against the firm's Clutch profile. Agencies whose Utah page is a template with the city name swapped in, sites that redirect to a domain sale page, and firms whose second listing put them in a different city were cut.
Every firm here runs Google search ads as a real service, not a line in a footer. We weighted the list to Utah County because that is where our readers run their businesses, and kept one Salt Lake County firm because it posts a price. The order is our judgment of fit for a Utah County business with one to a few locations, not company size. Nobody paid to be listed, and Provo FOMO is not on it. We sell newsletter ads, not Google Ads management, and those are on our advertising page. For firms that do SEO first, see our list of SEO companies in Utah.
Use this to cut the list to two or three calls. The price column only shows what the firm posts on its own site.
| Firm | Office | Built for | Posted Google Ads price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Presence Marketing | Pleasant Grove | Small local businesses | $499/mo, 10% of spend over $5,000 |
| Sebo Marketing | Provo | Local service businesses | Not posted |
| Disruptive Advertising | Pleasant Grove | Larger ad budgets | Not posted |
| REVITY | American Fork | Home services, healthcare, B2B | Not posted |
| Set Fire Creative | Orem | Social first, search second | Not posted |
| Avalaunch Media | Lehi | Mid-size companies | Not posted |
| Stryde | Lehi | Ecommerce, $1M to $15M revenue | Not posted |
| Big Leap | Lehi | Multi-location and franchise | Not posted |
| Searchbloom | South Jordan | Search-focused accounts | From $2,000/mo |
You pay two bills. One goes to Google for the clicks, and you set that budget. The other goes to the agency for running the account. When a firm quotes you a fee, ask whether it includes ad spend. It almost never does.
Only two firms on this list post a price. Clear Presence charges $499 a month and switches to 10% of ad spend once you spend more than $5,000 a month with Google. Searchbloom says its management starts at $2,000 a month and rises with spend. Everyone else quotes after a call. A percentage of spend is common, and it means the agency earns more when you spend more, so ask what they would cut from your account in the first month. For more on agency pricing, see what a marketing agency costs in Utah.
Settle this before you sign anything. The Google Ads account should be created under your business email, with the agency added as a user. Google's help page on access levels says only an Admin can give other people access, change their access level, link Google Analytics and change the payment method. A Standard user can edit campaigns but cannot do those things.
So give the agency Standard access, keep Admin for yourself, and put your own card on file. If the agency runs your ads inside its own account instead, you lose the history of what worked when you leave, and you start over with a new account. Ask every firm on the first call: whose account will the ads run in?
Many agency sites show a Google Partner badge. Google's own requirements for it are an optimization score of at least 70% on the agency's manager account, $10,000 in ad spend over 90 days across the accounts it manages, and at least half of its account strategists certified in Google Ads.
That tells you the agency runs a fair amount of spend and its staff passed Google's exams. It does not tell you whether your ads will make money. The optimization score is Google's own grade, and part of it comes from following Google's suggestions, which often means spending more. Treat the badge as a minimum, and ask for an example of an account like yours.
If you are a plumber, electrician, lawyer, dentist or another service category Google covers, you can run Local Services Ads. They show above the regular ads, and a business that passes Google's screening gets a Google Verified badge. Google's help page says you pay only for leads related to your business, not for clicks. You have to submit your license or business registration first.
For a lot of small Utah County service businesses, setting up Local Services Ads and a tight search campaign for your town names is most of the work. Sebo lists Local Services Ads as its own service. Ask any firm whether they will set those up for you or only run regular search ads.
Write the answers down and compare them across two or three firms.
Google Ads take a few weeks to tune, and the first month usually costs more per lead than the third. Plenty of owners run a second, cheaper test at the same time so they can compare. Fill out your Google Business Profile completely, and get listed in local directories with your exact name, address and phone. The Provo FOMO Local Directory is one of those listings, at $99 a month.
We sell the next option, so weigh it with that in mind. Provo FOMO goes to about 3,100 Utah County readers, and a single-issue ad costs $99. Details are on the advertise page. It puts your business in front of local people this week while the Google Ads account learns which searches turn into customers. If you want to write your own ad copy and landing pages, our free AI 101 class shows owners how to draft them with ChatGPT.
