We have carefully assessed the eCommerce marketing expertise, team structure, industry diversity, portfolios, client testimonials, pricing plans, and relevant awards of over 1,600 eCommerce marketing agencies. Learn more about our ranking criteria and how we identify the top players in the eCommerce marketing industry.
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The Number 1 eCommerce Marketing Agency as Selected by DesignRush Is...
1. CakeCommerce
- Best for: Overall
- Average hourly rate: Inquire
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Founded: 2019
- Location: Madison, CT
- Notable clients: ANY DI, Elegant Baby, BeautyBio, Cabana Life, Mon Ami Designs
CakeCommerce is an eCommerce marketing agency that provides eCommerce consulting, strategy development, website design, competitive analysis, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, search engine optimization (SEO), paid social media advertising, influencer campaigns, and other services. The agency specializes in accessories, beauty, fashion, furniture, health, and sporting industries.
Clients can get custom Magento, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce marketing solutions or platform migration services like GA4 migration. CakeCommerce is a certified Shopify Plus Solutions partner.
When ANY DI decided to scale from the European market to the USA, this fashion company needed a unique strategy. CakeCommerce launched paid social, influencer media, and whitelisting campaigns to set its client apart from the competition and drive more conversions.
After a month and a half, the engagement rate exceeded platform averages by 112% and revenue increased by 300%.
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2. Groove Commerce
- Best for: Klaviyo platform
- Average hourly rate:Â Inquire
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Founded: 2007
- Location: Baltimore, MD
- Notable clients: Merchant Automotive, Cutter & Buck, National Toy Brand, Moore Brothers Wine, Elmhurst 1925
An established eCommerce marketing company with over 17 years on the market, Groove Commerce offers eCommerce web design, development, and marketing. Over 100 eCommerce merchants have successfully worked with this agency on projects from custom eCommerce integrations to competitor and ecosystem reviews.
Groove Commerce has its proprietary apps, including The BigCommerce Metafields Editor, BigCommerce Delivery Date Calendar, BigCommerce AS400 Integration, and GiveX Integration. The company specializes in Klaviyo email, SMS migration, and eCommerce automation and is a Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, Klaviyo, and HubSpot partner.
A fashion company called Cutter & Buck used an email service provider (ESP) that provided little reporting and was difficult to manage. The client needed to switch its Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) operations to a new ESP, and Groove Commerce suggested Klaviyo.
After a successful migration, Cutter & Buck saw a 109% increase in email open rate, a 24% increase in click-through rate, and a 77% increase in revenue.
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3. Optimum7
- Best for: Organic eCommerce marketing
- Average hourly rate: $100
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2007
- Location: Coral Gables, FL
- Notable clients: Intel, Dior, School Outlet, Dr Pepper, Electrolux
Optimum7 is an eCommerce marketing agency known for helping industrial suppliers grow online revenue by 10% to 15% in the first 90 days through custom development and creative marketing strategies. The agency manages $1 billion of eCommerce revenue annually for over 1,000 customers.
The company's development team built over 700 unique functionalities for eCommerce clients. Optimum7 has helped clients get 100,000+ keywords on the first page of Google with custom SEO strategies. This eCommerce marketing agency is partnered with BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, Oracle, SAP, Episerver, and other relevant companies.
School Outlet is a furniture retailer that had issues with low visibility and few B2B leads. The company contacted Optimum7 for a full website redesign and traffic optimization.
The marketing agency launched eCommerce SEO and content marketing initiatives, optimized conversions, and provided custom programming and functionality. As a result, School Outlet saw a 227% growth in B2B leads, a 150% increase in organic traffic, and a 25% growth in organic eCommerce revenue.
4. LION Digital
- Best for: eCommerce email campaigns
- Average hourly rate: $200
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2018
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Notable clients: Helly Hansen, Modern Rascals, Cult Design, CraftOnline, Leatherman
LION Digital is an eCommerce marketing company with expertise in SEO, SEM, email, development, and social media marketing. The company holds several awards, including the Deloitte Fast 50 AU Rising Star Award and the APAC Search Awards 2022 finalist nomination for best use of search in eCommerce/retail category.
This marketing agency ensures that a senior director with up to a decade of experience in SEO, SEM social, email or web development and a team of seasoned specialists manage each client channel. One of LION Digital’s strong suits is email segmentation and automation, with a focus on frequency, recency, monetary value, customer acquisition cost, and the customer’s lifetime value. The company is partnered with Shopify Plus, Klaviyo, Google, Yotpo, Dotdigital, Magento, and others.
Modern Rascals faced challenges with its email and SMS campaigns, including low revenue, customer engagement, and sales. LION Digital took over, optimizing campaigns and leveraging the Klaviyo platform to automate processes.
After campaign optimization, the client saw a 10% increase in email open rate and a 29% increase in email conversion.
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5. Stryde
- Best for: eCommerce website traffic growth
- Average hourly rate: $150
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2013
- Location: Draper, UT
- Notable clients: IHG, Sports Illustrated, Katie Waltman, Goal Zero, ErgoBaby
Stryde has over a decade of experience delivering SEO, Facebook and paid social, paid search, SEM, enterprise SEO, and email marketing campaigns for eCommerce businesses. Its eCommerce marketing framework is designed for consumer goods businesses looking to increase their revenue from seven to eight figures within a 24-to-36-month timeframe.
This eCommerce marketing agency partners with Meta Business, Shopify, Pinterest, and Klaviyo. Stryde has an extensive portfolio of clients in the fashion and apparel, home goods, and sporting goods niches.
A brick-and-mortar store called Katie Waltman wanted to expand its business outside Utah by driving organic traffic to its website. Stryde provided custom blog content, SEO services, and link building.
After a year, Katie Waltman’s website grew organic impressions from 20,000 to 55,000 per month year-over-year and increased organic website traffic by 63% year-over-year.
6. The Commerce Shop
- Best for: WooCommerce projects
- Average hourly rate: $125
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2009
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Notable clients: Tiger Friday, Divers Supply, The Watch Standard, Southern Labware, Good State
The Commerce Shop is an eCommerce marketing company that specializes in the automotive, fashion, manufacturing, and health and fitness industries. In its 13 years of experience, the company has carried out over 500 migrations to Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Shopify, Demandware, and Volusion platforms.
The Commerce Shop offers integration services for all leading eCommerce platforms, including but not limited to Magento Commerce, BigCommerce, Shopify, Shopify Plus, WooCommerce, ERP, etc. The agency is a Meta, Google, BigCommerce, Shopify, and WooCommerce partner.
A luxury watch brand, The Watch Standard, needed to update its eCommerce website and provide a better user experience. The Commerce Shop developed a new WooCommerce site and integrated it with a CRM system, featuring a new layout and design.
After five months, the new site resulted in a 110% increase in revenue, a 100% faster website, and a $21 million increase in online profits.
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7. Evestar
- Best for: eCommerce social media
- Average hourly rate: Inquire
- Minimum budget: $10,000 - $25,000
- Founded: 2018
- Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Notable clients: Steve Madden, Levears, Noli Yoga, Masqd, Anatomie
Evestar is an eCommerce marketing agency that offers paid media (Facebook, Google, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest) ad campaigns, user-generated content, ad creative, email and SMS marketing, SEO, CRO, and other services. Its paid search strategy includes Google Shopping, non-branded search, branded search, Bing, and YouTube.
Evestar focuses on growth projects, namely scaling direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand acquisition (paid media) and retention (email and SMS) channels. The agency has experience developing campaigns for Shopify Plus, Magento 2, and WooCommerce platforms.
Levears struggled with low average order value (AOV) and few returning customers. The company partnered with Evestar to evaluate its Facebook digital marketing, Google Ads strategy, digital creative, and other aspects. The agency provided a new Facebook and Google strategy for improved advertising spend and nurtured leads through email campaigns.
After implementing strategy changes, Levears reached its lowest cost-per-lead on Google and saw monthly revenue increase by 30%.
8. Nuanced Media
- Best for: User experience optimization
- Average hourly rate: $150
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2010
- Location: Tuscon, AZ
- Notable clients: Tattoo Manufacturing International, Berg Toys, Moo, Calming Blends, Original Defense
Nuanced Media offers holistic multi-channel digital strategies for eCommerce and Amazon businesses, providing services like eCommerce configuration and optimization, lead nurturing, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, conversion optimization, SEO, PPC, content creation, etc.
This eCommerce marketing company has a unique Market Velocity Action Plan (MVAP) process that includes a deep dive into the client's existing sales funnel and a full transparency sales and ROI analysis. Nuanced Media has expertise in Amazon Seller Central, Shopify, WooCommerce, Big Commerce and Magento, Amazon Vendor Central, ClickFunnels, Walmart Marketplace, Target Marketplace, and other software and platforms.
Tattoo Manufacturing International contracted Nuanced Media to increase return on investment by improving the buyers' experience on the company's eCommerce website. The agency provided an updated website with a custom Magento 2 module and crafted a series of strategies for cart abandonment.
With the new user experience, Tattoo Manufacturing International recaptured $370,000 of revenue, saw a 14.39% increase in order value and experienced a 394.75% total return on investment growth.
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9. Ninjapromo
- Best for: Instagram campaigns
- Average hourly rate: $25
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2017
- Location: New York, NY
- Notable clients: Urban Mavericks, Vertex, TOZEX, Stockmusic, Paypolitan
Ninjapromo is an eCommerce marketing agency that offers eCommerce SEO, PPC, social media marketing, CRO, content marketing, website development and optimization, Amazon marketing, video production, and many other services. The company focuses predominantly on tech clients including crypto, fintech, SaaS, software, and others.
Ninjapromo has received several marketing awards including Influencer Marketing Hub Top Social Media Agencies Worldwide and Digital Agency Network Top Digital Marketing Agencies for Startups.
Urban Mavericks approached Ninjapromo looking for a visual concept and strategy for its social media channels, focusing primarily on Instagram. The agency crafted visually appealing infographics and other shareable content and set up targeted advertising campaigns on Instagram to reach a wider audience interested in sustainable fashion.
As a result, Urban Mavericks saw its social media conversion rate increase by 35%, and customer acquisition cost (CAC) drop by $10 compared to the industry average. The client acquired 2,500 new leads through email marketing campaigns and saw a revenue growth of $80,000 in three months compared to the previous year.
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10. Upgrow
- Best for: Facebook ads
- Average hourly rate: $199
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2017
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Notable clients: Ambiance San Francisco, InfluxData, Mercer Advisors, Churchill Management Group, Lightstep
Upgrow is an eCommerce marketing company that focuses on inbound marketing, growth strategies, and ROI-driven A/B testing and conversion optimization. This agency offers SEO, social media ads, paid search, programmatic advertising, web design and analytics, and other eCommerce services.
Upgrow has worked with over 100 clients, managing an overall $30 million ad spend and enabling over 200,000 conversions. The company offers a full-funnel eCommerce strategy encompassing SEO, eCommerce store CRO, PPC and Amazon advertising, social media advertising, and content marketing across the sales funnel.
Ambiance San Francisco struggled with its offline sales and needed to expand online channels or close the business. Upgrow took over driving online sales and generating revenue through online advertising. The agency launched Facebook and Google ads campaigns, improved the client's website experience, optimized its product feed with better segmentation, and mapped its Google Merchant Center.
This resulted in 55% of total sales directly attributable to marketing programs and a 67% increase in online orders.
How We Picked the Best eCommerce Marketing Companies
When choosing the best eCommerce marketing companies, we considered their testimonials, portfolios and case studies, reputation, team seniority and expertise, and executive management. Our team of agency experts developed a scoring system to measure their overall performance based on these key factors:
- Reviews: work quality, timely delivery, responsiveness, costs, and client satisfaction
- Portfolio: Relevant work examples of successful project deliverables
- Awards and press: Industry reputation and thought leadership
- Team bios: The agency’s team structure, certifications, and qualifications
- Top services: Core competencies and areas of expertise
Visit the DesignRush Agency Ranking Methodology for more information on how we research agencies.
10 Most Popular eCommerce Marketing Agencies Compared
- CakeCommerce
- Location: Madison, CT
- Hourly rate: Inquire
- Size: Under 49
- Best for: Overall
- Groove Commerce
- Location: Baltimore, MD
- Hourly rate: Inquire
- Size: Under 49
- Best for: Klaviyo platform
- Optimum7
- Location: Coral Gables, FL
- Hourly rate: $100
- Size: 50 - 99
- Best for: Organic eCommerce marketing
- LION Digital
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Hourly rate: $200
- Size: Under 49
- Best for: eCommerce email campaigns
- Stryde
- Location: Draper, UT
- Hourly rate: $150
- Size: Under 49
- Best for: eCommerce website traffic growth
- The Commerce Shop
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Hourly rate: $125
- Size: Under 49
- Best for: WooCommerce projects
- Evestar
- Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Hourly rate: Inquire
- Size: Under 49
- Best for: eCommerce social media
- Nuanced Media
- Location: Tuscon, AZ
- Hourly rate: $150
- Size: Under 49
- Best for: User experience optimization
- NinjaPromo
- Location: New York, NY
- Hourly rate: $25
- Size: 100 - 249
- Best for: Instagram campaigns
- Upgrow
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Hourly rate: $199
- Size: Under 49
- Best for: Facebook ads
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