The short answer: the right Montreal PPC agency is the one that specializes in the platform where your buyers are, builds French and English campaigns properly, and reports cost per qualified lead or sale rather than clicks. Montreal has Meta Ads specialists, Google Ads and SEM shops, full-funnel performance agencies and creative-led teams. Compare them on fit and on how they measure results, not on a ranking.
About this guide: Social Signals Marketing runs paid ads for clients and is one of the agencies below. We do not rank anyone, including ourselves. Agencies are listed alphabetically, and each description uses the services the agency lists on its own website, checked on November 2, 2026. Confirm current services, fees and minimum budgets directly with each agency before you decide.
What should you look for in a Montreal PPC agency?
Paid ads spend your money every day, so the cost of a poor fit shows up fast. These checks matter more than the size of the agency:
- Platform match. Google Search captures people already looking for you. Meta, TikTok and YouTube create demand among people who are not yet searching. LinkedIn suits B2B. Ask which platform produces most of the agency's results and whether it fits your buyers.
- French and English campaigns built separately. Search terms, ad copy and landing pages differ by language. Ask whether each language gets its own keywords, ad groups and pages, and who writes the French copy.
- Conversion tracking before scaling. Ask how calls, forms, bookings and purchases will be tracked, and whether offline sales or CRM data feed back into the ad platforms.
- Creative supply. On Meta and TikTok, ad creative decides most of the result. Ask who produces new ads, how often, and how many variations are tested each month.
- Landing pages. Ask who builds and tests the pages your ads send people to. Many accounts lose leads after the click, not before it.
- Fee structure and account ownership. Ask whether the fee is flat or a percentage of spend, what the minimum budget is, and confirm the ad accounts sit in your business's name.
Which paid ads agencies are based in Montreal, and what do they run?
The table lists agencies with a verified office in Montreal or Greater Montreal and the paid media services they describe on their own sites. It is a starting shortlist, not a complete directory.
| Agency | Montreal presence | Paid media services they list | Clients they mention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adviso | Montreal, rue Saint-Denis | Media and adtech, alongside strategy, data, SEO and AI search | Air Canada, National Bank of Canada, Loto-Québec |
| Bloom | Montreal, Richardson St; also Toronto and New York | Media buying across search and social, affiliate, conversion rate optimization, plus SEO and email | Frank + Oak, Polysleep, Specialized Canada |
| Casa Media | Montreal, De Courcelle St | Paid advertising, including Google search, shopping and video ads, plus SEO, social and web design | Provia Immobilier, Theobroma Chocolat, Bluebird Lighting |
| Digitad | Montreal, Avenue de Gaspé; also Paris | SEM and PPC, display and programmatic, social media ads, marketplace marketing | Cirque du Soleil, Danone, Bixi |
| inBeat | Montreal, Sherbrooke St W | Paid social, paid media management, performance creative, influencer and UGC | Prose, HelloFresh, Miro |
| J7 Media | Montreal, Square Victoria; also Barcelona | Facebook Ads for e-commerce and lead generation, Google Ads, email | Deux par Deux, Mia Bijoux, Popeye's Supplements |
| K6 Agency | Montreal, Avenue de Gaspé | Facebook, Google, YouTube, LinkedIn and TikTok Ads, plus organic marketing and creative | Maddle, PumpUp, Trylon |
| Mint | Longueuil, on Montreal's South Shore | Social media advertising, search engine advertising, performance creative, email, SEO and GEO, data visualization | The Unscented Company, Loop, Kozy |
| Social Signals Marketing (publisher of this guide) | Serves Montreal; also Toronto and Halifax | Meta and Google Ads, with in-house short-form video ad creative, landing pages and AI lead follow-up | Auto detailing, towing, mental health and entertainment businesses |
Dialekta (Molson St, with Quebec City and Toronto offices) lists 360 media strategy across digital and traditional channels, and fits buyers who want media planning tied to CRM and analytics. For a wider view of Montreal agencies beyond paid media, see our guide to Montreal digital marketing agencies.
Which type of paid ads agency fits your goal?
Pick the type of agency by where your customers decide, then shortlist within that type.
You sell online and want Meta-driven sales
Paid social specialists such as J7 Media and K6 Agency centre their work on Meta and other social platforms. Ask how often new creative is produced and how they report return on ad spend after returns and discounts.
You want leads from Google searches
Search-heavy agencies such as Digitad and Casa Media list Google Ads and SEM work alongside SEO. Ask how they split budget between brand and non-brand terms, and how they handle French and English keyword sets.
You run several channels and want one performance team
Full-funnel performance agencies such as Bloom and Mint cover search, social, email and analytics together. Ask who owns attribution across channels and how often budget moves between them.
You are a large organization that needs media strategy and data
Adviso combines media and adtech with data and AI consulting. Ask which work sits with senior strategists and which with campaign managers.
Your ads are limited by creative, not targeting
Creative-led teams such as inBeat (creators and UGC) and Social Signals Marketing (in-house short-form video) produce ad content as well as running campaigns. Ask how many new ads you get each month and who appears in them.
What should you ask before you sign?
- Can you audit our current account first and show us what you would change?
- What is your fee, what is the minimum ad spend, and what is the minimum term?
- Who writes our French ads and our English ads, and who approves them?
- How will you track calls, forms and sales, and what will you report each month?
- Who produces new ad creative, and how many versions will you test?
- Are the ad accounts in our name, and do we keep everything if we leave?
If you are still deciding between search ads and organic search, read SEO vs Google Ads: which to do first before you commit budget.
Where does Social Signals Marketing fit?
We run Meta and Google Ads and produce the ad creative ourselves, so the same team that films the short-form video also tests it in paid campaigns. Our published paid media case studies come from outside Montreal, so ask us for examples close to your business. They include:
- Dreamwash: cinematic video plus a Google Ads rebuild that delivered a 30x return on ad spend.
- Thrive Therapy: a rebuilt Google Ads account with lower cost per click and more patient inquiries.
- Loyal Automotive: Google Ads management that lowered both cost per click and cost per acquisition.
- Bowlarama: video ad creative built for Meta Ads placements.
We are probably not the right fit if you need programmatic or traditional media buying, marketplace advertising, or a large e-commerce catalogue run on shopping feeds; the agencies above list that work. If French-first ad copy is central to your campaigns, ask us, as you would any agency, who writes and reviews it. If you want ads, creative and lead follow-up run as one system, see our Montreal agency page, our industry pages, or talk to the team.
How this guide was put together
We started from agencies that appear in local search results and directories for Montreal PPC, Google Ads and paid social, then kept only those whose own website shows an office in Montreal or Greater Montreal and a paid media service offer. We removed agencies based elsewhere in Quebec, businesses that share a name with an agency but offer something else, and agencies whose current site we could not reach to confirm details. Each description paraphrases the agency's own site. Services and offices change, so tell us if something here is out of date and we will correct it.