Austin · Central TexasThe ecommerce marketing agency Austin brands scale with — on your timezone.
Bestie Media works with Austin and Texas ecommerce brands from right here on Central time — senior strategists with the full creative and media-buying system of a national agency behind them.
Get your free audit →The mismatch
Austin turned into one of the best places in America to build a consumer brand — CPG, DTC, Shopify stores scaling out of garages and co-packers across Texas. What didn't keep pace is the local bench for performance marketing. Brands here end up choosing between generalist shops that treat ecommerce as one vertical among many, or coastal agencies where your "strategy call" happens whenever the coast wakes up and your account questions age overnight in a queue. Either way you pay the same tax: decisions about your money made slowly, far away, by people who've never held your product.
If this is you
You're running a Shopify or DTC brand in Austin or anywhere in Texas. You've proven people want the product; now new customers cost too much, creative testing has stalled, or revenue grows while profit doesn't. You want an ecommerce specialist — not a we-do-everything shop — and you'd like at least one senior person on your account living in your timezone. That's who this page is for. It's not for brands shopping for the cheapest hourly rate or a logo-design bundle; we do one thing, which is scaling ecommerce brands profitably.
What working with us from Austin looks like
Part of Bestie Media's founding team is based in Austin, so Texas clients work with people on Central time — conversations during your actual workday, not scheduled around someone else's coast. Behind that sits the whole Bestie system — strategy that starts with your COGS, operating costs, and customer lifetime value before a dollar gets spent; an in-house creative team plus a network of 1,000+ UGC creators feeding a weekly testing pipeline; and media buying across Meta, Google, and TikTok that answers to your contribution margin, not a screenshot ROAS. When the bottleneck is bigger than a channel, the full-funnel Shopify marketing engagement covers landing pages, CRO, and retention alongside the ad accounts.
One thing we won't pretend: this isn't a storefront with a receptionist. It's senior people doing the work from Austin, connected to the rest of the team daily. For a performance engagement, that's the part that matters.
Results
Proof, not promises
$125M+
Platform-attributed revenue
35,000+
Pieces of ad content tested
1,500+
Community of creators
22+ months
Average client relationship
“We have loved the strategy and expertise Bestie has brought to our brand.”
- Piper + Scoot
This is the system Texas clients plug into, backed by Meta Business Partner status — and a 22+ month average client relationship is a retention number that only happens when the work keeps paying for itself. Strategy first is the whole model, in Austin or anywhere.
What changes
Today there's a gap between the speed your brand moves and the speed your marketing partner responds. Close it, and the operating feel changes: conversations that happen on your clock instead of tomorrow, tests shipped while the idea is still warm — and underneath it all, the same honest math: you'll finally know which growth is making you money and which is just making you busy.
The first step is free. Request your free audit. We'll get into your offers, margins, customer data, and past creative, and hand you a clear next step for your brand — on your timezone.
The first step is free.
We'll get into your offers, margins, customer data, and past creative, and hand you a clear next step for your brand — on your timezone.
Get your free audit →Frequently asked questions
- Does Bestie Media have a team in Austin?
- Yes — part of Bestie Media's founding team is based in Austin, with our headquarters in Draper, Utah. Texas clients get working hours that overlap theirs, backed by the full agency team: strategy, media buying, creative, and UGC production.
- Do you only work with Austin or Texas brands?
- No. We work with Shopify and DTC brands nationwide; the Austin presence just means Texas brands get working hours that overlap theirs. The system — margin-first strategy, creative testing, and paid media — is identical everywhere.
- Can we meet in person in Austin?
- Sometimes — part of our team is based in Austin, so mention you're local when you request your free audit and we'll figure out what makes sense. Either way, start with the audit so the conversation has substance.
- Are you a PPC agency or a full-service ecommerce agency?
- We run paid media across Meta, Google, and TikTok with the rigor you’d expect from a dedicated PPC agency, but always inside a larger system: growth strategy mapped to contribution margin, ad creative and UGC, and full-funnel Shopify work including landing pages and retention. Buying media without that context is how budgets get lit on fire.
- We're in Dallas or Houston, not Austin — does the Texas angle still apply?
- The parts that matter do: Central-time working hours and a team that knows ecommerce economics. The engagement itself is location-independent — most of the work happens in your ad accounts and analytics, not a conference room.