Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and the landing pages behind them — run by senior operators, not account managers. Since 2009.

Tack Media is a PPC agency serving Oakland, California. We have run Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and the landing pages behind them for 300+ brands since 2009 across 15+ industries. We are based in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles — 331 miles from Oakland. Everything we do runs remotely, and we travel for kickoffs and shoots when the engagement justifies it. Engagements start with a 20-minute fit call where you get real pricing on the same call, and work starts within a week of signature.
At 419,267 residents, Oakland is large enough to have real competition on every commercial keyword and small enough that a focused campaign can own a category inside two quarters. That window is the opportunity.
Who this page is for: someone spending real money on ads without a clear cost per qualified lead. If that is not you, the fit call takes twenty minutes and we will tell you so.
Design, build, conversion optimisation and ongoing iteration
Positioning, identity, messaging and the system to apply it
Content production, paid social and community management
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See the page →Tell us what you are trying to hit in Oakland and by when. We will tell you straight whether we are the right team, and what it costs, before you hang up.
Media spend and management are separate numbers, and the media has to be big enough to buy real data. In most Oakland accounts we want enough monthly spend to produce a few dozen conversions a month, otherwise the platform never leaves the learning phase and every decision is a coin flip. We size it from your average deal value and close rate, then hold it there until the cost per qualified lead is stable.
Both, plus LinkedIn where the buyer is a business. Google Ads captures people already searching, which is why high intent terms including near me queries stay in the account. Meta creates demand that search then captures. Which one leads depends on whether your problem is that nobody is looking for you yet, or that people are looking and finding someone else.
Clicks are the cheapest thing to buy and the least useful thing to report. We instrument the form fills, the calls and the booked meetings as separate conversion events, then report cost per qualified lead against them. If a campaign produces traffic and no qualified leads, it gets paused. That rule is what keeps the account honest.
Yes. We are based in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, with production studios in Northridge, and Oakland is about 331 miles from that office. The work runs the same way either way: scheduled calls, shared dashboards and a named lead on the account. We also serve nearby markets including San Francisco, CA, Hayward, CA, Fremont, CA.
Retainers start at 5,000 dollars a month, and most engagements land between 5,000 and 25,000 dollars a month depending on how many channels are live and how much media is under management. Project work is quoted separately. The fastest way to a real number is a 20 minute call, or you can price it yourself with our estimator before you speak to anyone.
We start with access and measurement, not opinions. Week one is auditing what you already have running and instrumenting the conversions properly, because most accounts cannot tell a form fill from a bounce. Week two we fix what is obviously broken and stop the spend that is going nowhere. Weeks three and four we put the first real tests live and you get a reporting view you can read without us on the call. You will know by day 30 whether the numbers are moving and why.