Specialist Google Ads agency for ecommerce

Meta & Google Ads that grow your ecommerce brand profitably.

Cortex is a specialist PPC agency for ecommerce brands. We plan, build and manage Meta and Google Ads accounts that lower your cost per acquisition and increase your return on ad spend — measured against real revenue, not vanity metrics.

Google Premier Partner Meta Business Partner $180M+ managed annually
Trusted by 40+ ecommerce brands across DTC and retail
HalcyonFernweh Co.NORTHWINDMara GoodsMeridianindigoclub
Challenges we solve

Sound familiar?

Most ecommerce brands we speak to are running into one of these problems with their paid advertising. If any of this sounds like your account, we can help.

Your return on ad spend is falling

Spend is going up, revenue isn't keeping pace, and you're not sure whether it's the creative, the targeting, or the account structure that's to blame.

Your agency is slow and unclear

You're getting generic monthly reports, decisions take weeks, and the person you hired is not the person actually running your account.

You've hit a growth ceiling

Your account has worked fine at a smaller scale, but every time you try to increase budget, performance gets worse and you pull spend back.

You don't trust your reporting

Platform numbers, Shopify, and GA4 disagree. You can't tell how much of your reported revenue is actually incremental to what you'd have sold anyway.

You're too reliant on discounting

The only way you can keep blended ROAS looking healthy is to run sitewide promotions every month — and margin is being quietly eaten alive.

You don't know what's actually working

Performance Max is a black box, conversion reporting looks inflated, and you can't answer simple questions about which campaign is driving new customers.

What we do

Two channels. Done properly.

Cortex is a specialist PPC agency. We focus on Meta Ads and Google Ads — the two channels that drive the majority of paid revenue for most ecommerce brands — and we do them at a level of depth you won't get from a generalist.

01 — Meta PPC

Meta Ads management

Facebook and Instagram campaigns planned, built and managed by senior paid social specialists. We focus on account structure, bidding and testing — not vanity metrics.

  • Full campaign planning and build
  • Daily bid, budget and pacing management
  • Audience and placement strategy
  • Structured A/B and incrementality testing
  • Weekly performance reporting you can actually read
02 — Google PPC

Google Ads management

Search, Shopping and Performance Max campaigns built around a clean feed and proper account architecture — so you know which dollar is driving which sale.

  • Google Search and Shopping campaigns
  • Performance Max with search negative scaffolding
  • Keyword, match type and negative strategy
  • Product feed audit and optimisation
  • Bid strategy, budget pacing and attribution setup

Included with every engagement

Dedicated senior strategist, weekly calls, Slack access, transparent reporting dashboard, and a monthly written review of what worked and what didn't.

Talk to a strategist
How we work

A clear process, from day one.

We follow the same four-step engagement for every client. No surprises, no drawn-out onboarding — just a structured path from audit to scale.

1

Audit

We review your Meta and Google accounts, your tracking setup and your last 12 months of performance. You get a written report with specific opportunities and risks.

Week 1 — Free
2

Strategy

We agree clear goals, targets and a measurement plan. You sign off on the account structure, campaign roadmap and 90-day testing plan before any spend changes.

Week 2
3

Build & launch

We rebuild or restructure your accounts, fix tracking, and launch the new campaign set. We run the old and new accounts in parallel so nothing breaks.

Weeks 3–4
4

Scale

Weekly buying, daily optimisation, and a monthly strategic review. We scale spend as performance proves itself — and we're honest when it doesn't.

Month 2 onwards
Results

What clients say, and what we deliver.

Real feedback from the people we work with, alongside a few representative outcomes from the last 12 months.

Cortex rebuilt our Meta and Google accounts in six weeks. Our cost per acquisition dropped by a third and we've doubled spend since — profitably. They're the first agency we've worked with that explains decisions in plain English.
–34%
Cost per acquisition
2.1×
Ad spend, same ROAS
6 wks
To full rebuild
SL
Sarah Linden
Head of Growth, Halcyon
Fernweh Co. — Travel goods

Rebuilt Google Shopping from the product feed up. Non-brand revenue almost tripled in nine months.

+194%
Non-brand revenue
3.6×
ROAS on Shopping
Mara Goods — Skincare

Moved from agency-led to in-house creative with a structured Meta testing plan. CAC down 41%.

–41%
New customer CAC
Creative volume
Northwind — Outdoor apparel

Scaled Meta spend 4× over two quarters without losing ROAS or margin.

Monthly spend
+12%
Blended ROAS
Book a free audit

Get a free audit of your Meta & Google Ads.

A senior strategist will review your accounts and send you a written report within five working days — yours to keep, whether you choose to work with us or not.

  • 30-minute strategy call with a senior PPC specialist
  • Written audit of your Meta and Google accounts
  • Three specific opportunities to improve performance
  • No sales pressure — no deck, no obligation
Book your free audit