Google Ads in Singapore: a realistic first 90 days
Account structure, budget staging, learning periods and the four reports worth reading — plus the three things that usually break in week two.
Singapore · Established 2019
PolusMarketingTroy plans and runs search, paid media, content and analytics programmes for Singapore companies selling into Southeast Asia. One accountable team, one weekly number that matters to your finance director.
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Specialists in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur — no offshore hand-off
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Client programmes delivered since we opened in 2019
S$14.2M
Working media managed across Google, Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok in 2025
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Retainer clients renewed their 2025 agreements with us
What we do
Most of our clients arrive with three or four vendors who never speak to each other: an SEO freelancer, a media buyer, a web developer and someone posting on Instagram. We consolidate that into a single quarterly plan with named owners, so budget moves to whatever is working this month instead of whatever was agreed last year.
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We start with a crawl and a commercial keyword map, then fix what blocks indexing before writing anything new. For Singapore businesses this usually means sorting out duplicate SG/MY pages, thin category copy and a Google Business Profile that has not been touched since the shop opened.
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Accounts are built around your margin, not a platform default. We stage budget in three phases, keep search terms under weekly review, and stop campaigns that cannot reach the cost per acquisition we agreed. Media is billed by the platform directly to you wherever possible.
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An in-house team of three produces the assets, so a creative test can go from brief to live in five working days. Every concept ships in at least three ratios and two languages when a campaign runs across Singapore and Malaysia.
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Writers who interview your engineers and your customers rather than paraphrasing competitors. Each quarter we agree a small number of pieces with a clear job: rank for a commercial query, answer a sales objection, or give a partner something worth forwarding.
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Pages are built to load quickly on a mid-range phone on a Singapore mobile network, with tracking and consent handled before launch. We hand over the repository and hosting access at the end of every build.
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Before we spend a dollar of media we make sure the numbers can be trusted: one measurement plan, deduplicated conversions, and a dashboard your team can open without us. Experiments are documented with the hypothesis, the sample and the result — including the ones that lost.
How we work
We wrote these down after our first year, when a client asked us to explain a report we could not defend. They have not changed since.
Selected work
Figures are taken from client platform accounts over the stated period and compared with the equivalent prior period. Results depend on market, margin, budget and offer, so treat these as examples of how we work rather than a forecast for your business.
Home & living e-commerce · Singapore and Malaysia
The catalogue was uploaded once and never revisited, so half of the budget sat on low-margin bestsellers. We rebuilt the feed with margin tiers, split Performance Max by product economics and moved the brand's own search terms into a controlled campaign.
B2B payments software · Southeast Asia
Sales was drowning in form fills from students and job seekers. We connected the CRM back into Google Ads, bid to qualified stages instead of raw leads, and rewrote the demo page around the two objections that lost the most deals.
Engagement
Week 1–2
We review analytics, ad accounts, search visibility and the last two quarters of results, then agree the single metric the programme is accountable for.
Week 3
A written 90-day plan: channels, budget split, creative and content needed, measurement fixes, and the range of outcomes we consider realistic.
Week 4–10
Tracking is corrected first, then campaigns, pages and content ship in sequence. Weekly written updates with what changed and what we learned.
Week 11–13
A quarterly review against the baseline with a recommendation: scale, hold, or stop. You choose whether to continue month to month.
Why Singapore teams hire us
Every account has a strategist who has run programmes in this market for at least six years, and that person stays with you. There is no junior hand-off after the pitch, because there was no pitch team to begin with — the people you meet are the people who do the work.
"They were the first agency that told us to spend less in a channel. That is when we started trusting the reporting."
Rachel Ng, Marketing Director, Habitat & Clay
Pricing
Retainers start at S$3,500 per month for a single channel and most multi-channel programmes sit between S$6,800 and S$12,000. Media budget is separate and paid directly to the platforms. Project work — a site rebuild, a measurement overhaul, a launch campaign — starts at S$8,000.
| Tier | Monthly fee | Typical scope |
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| Foundation | S$3,500 | One channel, monthly reporting |
| Growth | S$6,800 | Two to three channels, creative, CRO |
| Scale | from S$12,000 | Full programme, two markets, analytics engineering |
| Project | from S$8,000 | Fixed-scope build or audit |
Insights
Account structure, budget staging, learning periods and the four reports worth reading — plus the three things that usually break in week two.
Singapore is dense enough that outlets cannibalise each other in map results. Here is the profile, page and review routine we use to fix it.
Consent wording, the 21-day Do Not Call check, unsubscribe handling and what to put in your vendor agreements, with links to the PDPC guidance.
Next step
A 30-minute call, no deck. We will tell you whether we are the right agency for the problem, and if we are not, who we would call instead.
20 Cecil Street, #14-01 PLUS
Singapore 049705
[email protected]
Monday to Friday, 09:00–18:30 SGT
Business registration (UEN): 201934782W