Marketing for Medway businesses
Medway is a group of towns along the River Medway in north Kent: Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Strood and Rainham, plus the rural Hoo Peninsula. Together they form one of the largest urban areas in the South East outside London, but each town has its own high street and customers, so we usually target them separately.
Its history is tied to the Royal Navy. Chatham Dockyard built and repaired warships for over four hundred years until 1984, and the Historic Dockyard Chatham is now a major visitor attraction and filming location. Rochester's High Street, with its castle, cathedral and links to Charles Dickens, supports independent shops, cafés and festivals. Heritage and tourism businesses here benefit from:
- Meta ads aimed at families and day-trippers across Kent and London, timed to school holidays and festivals
- Email to members and past visitors before events
- Instagram content from the dockyard, castle and High Street
Engineering remains important. BAE Systems has a long-established site in Rochester, Innovation Park Medway by Rochester Airport is being developed for high-tech engineering and manufacturing, and many smaller engineering, manufacturing and marine businesses work from Medway City Estate, Gillingham Business Park and Kingsnorth. They market B2B through Google Search on specific capabilities, LinkedIn and recruitment campaigns.
Chatham Maritime now holds offices, housing, the Dockside outlet centre and the shared Universities at Medway campus, which brings together the University of Kent, the University of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church University. That creates a large student audience for letting agents, takeaways and bars, who do well on Instagram and TikTok, and a supply of graduate start-ups that need first marketing set-ups. Care providers across Medway use both family-facing search ads and recruitment campaigns.
Who we market in Medway
- Engineering and manufacturing firms
- Defence and aerospace suppliers
- Marine businesses
- Heritage attractions and festivals
- Independent shops and cafés
- Care providers
- Graduate start-ups
- Letting agents and student landlords
How it works for Medway
We run campaigns remotely from our base in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, with targeting set to the towns and postcodes you actually serve. You see everything in accounts you own, with a plain-English report every month. dijitul has worked with UK businesses since 2006.
Prices for Medway
All prices are "from" and exclude VAT. Ad spend is separate and paid directly to Google, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn or TikTok. Paid media management is from £150 a month or 10 to 15% of ad spend, whichever is higher. You own every ad account, pixel, audience and email list we set up.
Popular in Medway
Nearby
- Brighton
- Reading
- Oxford
- Southampton
- Portsmouth
- Milton Keynes
- Canterbury
- Slough
- Guildford
- Woking
- Crawley
- Maidstone
- Basingstoke
- High Wycombe
Frequently asked questions
Can you target Rochester and Chatham separately?
Yes. We set up separate campaigns or ad sets for each Medway town with their own budgets and wording, which suits independents and multi-branch businesses. Location reports show where enquiries come from.
Do you promote heritage attractions and festivals in Medway?
We do. Meta ads aimed at families and day-trippers, timed to school holidays and festival dates, plus email to members and past visitors, are the usual approach. Paid social management starts from £150 a month + VAT plus ad spend.
Can you help a Chatham engineering firm find new customers?
Yes. Google Search on your specific capabilities, LinkedIn aimed at buyers and remarketing to site visitors, with quote requests tracked, usually form the plan. Google Ads management starts from £150 a month + VAT plus ad spend.
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