Across Aotearoa

Good work travels.

Artura is a Whanganui-based brand and marketing studio working with growth-focused businesses throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Strategy happens wherever the thinking is sharp; photoshoots, workshops and the work that benefits from being together happen in the room.

Based here. Useful everywhere.

We work with growth-focused businesses throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Hover over the map, or choose any of the sixteen official regions, to see how our nationwide model works in practice.

Interactive map of New Zealand regions Choose any of New Zealand’s sixteen official regions to learn how Artura Studio works with businesses there.

Te Tai Tokerau · Northland

Good regional brands should not have to move south to think bigger.

From Whangārei to the Far North, we help ambitious businesses sharpen the story, customer journey and marketing around what they do. Strategy and everyday delivery can run remotely, with workshops and content production planned when being together will produce better work.

Across the region: Whangārei · Kerikeri · Paihia · Dargaville · Kaitaia

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Tāmaki Makaurau · Auckland

A senior outside team can bring useful distance to a busy market.

We work with Auckland businesses that want experienced thinking without adding another layer of agency theatre. Artura brings strategy, brand, websites, content and ongoing marketing into one joined-up team, delivered efficiently from Whanganui.

Across the region: Auckland · North Shore · West Auckland · South Auckland

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Upper North Island · Waikato

For businesses growing beyond what one busy person can hold.

We support Waikato ecommerce, service and professional businesses with senior thinking across strategy, content, websites, social media and brand. Most work moves quickly online, with planned workshops or photoshoots when the project benefits from having everyone in the room.

Across the region: Hamilton · Cambridge · Te Awamutu · Matamata · Taupō

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Upper North Island · Bay of Plenty

Growth works better when the brand and the marketing agree.

For businesses across Tauranga, Rotorua and the wider Bay of Plenty, we offer one senior-led team across the foundations and the follow-through. That could mean positioning and an ecommerce website first, followed by content and campaigns built from the same idea.

Across the region: Tauranga · Rotorua · Whakatāne · Te Puke

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Te Tairāwhiti · Gisborne

Strong stories travel—when the commercial thinking travels with them.

We help product, tourism, service and community-led organisations turn what makes them distinctive into a brand people can understand and choose. The work can span strategy, websites, content and campaigns without splitting the thinking between several suppliers.

Across the region: Gisborne · wider Te Tairāwhiti

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Te Matau-a-Māui · Hawke’s Bay

Built for businesses with a good story and bigger commercial plans.

Hawke’s Bay is rich in product, food, tourism and service businesses with something real to say. We help shape that value into clear positioning, polished customer touchpoints and marketing designed to turn attention into action.

Across the region: Napier · Hastings · Havelock North · Waipukurau

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West coast · Taranaki

Regional businesses deserve more than a templated marketing plan.

We support businesses across New Plymouth, Stratford and South Taranaki with strategy and execution that keeps their character intact. Planning can happen remotely, while our Whanganui base keeps workshops, discovery and content production comfortably within reach.

Across the region: New Plymouth · Stratford · Hāwera · South Taranaki

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Home region · Manawatū–Whanganui

Close enough to know the context—not just the brief.

This is home. From Whanganui and Palmerston North to Rangitīkei and Ruapehu, we work with regional businesses and organisations across strategy, social media, content, campaigns, websites and brand. It is also where face-to-face workshops, photoshoots and everyday collaboration are easiest.

Across the region: Whanganui · Palmerston North · Feilding · Marton · Taihape · Ohakune

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Te Whanganui-a-Tara · Wellington

Clear thinking for businesses and organisations with more moving parts.

Our background includes stakeholder-heavy, technical and regulated environments, so we are comfortable turning complexity into something people can follow. Wellington teams can work with us across strategy, messaging, websites, campaigns and ongoing delivery.

Across the region: Wellington · Lower Hutt · Upper Hutt · Porirua · Kāpiti · Masterton

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Te Tai-o-Aorere · Tasman

Place, product and personality—made commercially useful.

We help Tasman businesses build a clearer path from what makes them special to why a customer should care. That might take the shape of brand positioning, an ecommerce or service website, a content system or senior marketing support.

Across the region: Richmond · Motueka · Tākaka · Māpua

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Whakatū · Nelson

Small region. No need for small-market thinking.

Nelson businesses can access the same joined-up strategy, brand, website and marketing capability without needing a large local agency roster. We build the right team around the work and keep one senior line of thinking running through it.

Across the region: Nelson · Stoke · wider Whakatū

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Te Tauihu-o-te-waka · Marlborough

The strongest regional brands turn provenance into preference.

For Marlborough product, tourism and service businesses, we help make the value behind the business easier to see and easier to choose. Strategy, identity, ecommerce, content and campaigns can all be shaped around the same commercial goal.

Across the region: Blenheim · Picton · wider Marlborough

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Te Tai Poutini · West Coast

Distance should not dilute what makes the business distinctive.

We work remotely by default and travel when the work genuinely needs it. West Coast businesses can bring us in for a focused strategy or website project, or use Artura as an ongoing senior marketing team without building every capability in-house.

Across the region: Greymouth · Hokitika · Westport · Franz Josef

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Waitaha · Canterbury

Senior marketing capability, built around the stage you are at.

From established service businesses to ecommerce and product brands, Canterbury teams can work with us on one high-impact project or ongoing delivery. We connect the commercial strategy to the brand, website and marketing customers actually experience.

Across the region: Christchurch · Timaru · Ashburton · Rangiora

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Ōtākou · Otago

A distinctive business deserves more than interchangeable marketing.

We help Otago businesses clarify what they want to be known for, then carry that thinking into the website, content and campaigns around it. Our remote model keeps the everyday work efficient, with travel planned for the moments that matter.

Across the region: Dunedin · Queenstown · Wānaka · Oamaru · Alexandra

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Murihiku · Southland

Good work does not become less ambitious further from the main centres.

Southland businesses can work with Artura across strategy, brand, websites and ongoing marketing through a practical remote model. We bring in the right creative specialists when needed, while senior marketers keep the whole job moving in one direction.

Across the region: Invercargill · Gore · Te Anau · Winton

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Different industries. The same appetite to grow.

We work best with established businesses and organisations that have momentum, a strong offer and the appetite to grow. The industries vary; the need for sharper thinking and joined-up execution does not.

01

Ecommerce and product brands

Positioning, packaging, Shopify websites, launches, social content, email and paid campaigns—built around how the customer discovers, chooses and buys.

02

Service businesses and trades

Clear websites, credible brands and practical marketing systems that turn reputation into enquiries—and make the business easier to understand before the first phone call.

03

Professional services and organisations

Strategy, messaging, brand and digital experiences that make complex expertise feel confident, human and easy for the right customer to trust.

04

Tourism, destinations and place-led brands

Brand stories, visitor campaigns, websites and content that help people feel a place before they arrive—and give the teams behind it a clear, practical story to carry into market.

Distance should change the logistics—not the relationship.

  1. Senior-led from the start

    You work directly with senior marketers who understand the business, challenge the thinking and stay close to the work.

  2. Remote where it makes sense

    Strategy, planning, reviews and everyday delivery move quickly online, without adding meetings just to prove the work is happening.

  3. In the room when it matters

    We travel for discovery, workshops, photoshoots and key project moments when being together will materially improve the result.

There is no wrong postcode for the right fit.

If the business is ready to grow and you want the strategy, brand, website and marketing pulling in the same direction, tell us what you are working through.

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