Two decades of proof that transparency and results aren't mutually exclusive

Lassoo is a fully independent, full-service agency based in Tāmaki Makaurau, operating across media (offline and online), PR & Social.

With more than two decades of industry experience, we've built our reputation on getting close, and staying close, to our clients' business, simplifying complexity and focusing resources on what actually matters.

Genuine human engagement beats the possibility of it every time

All Media (online and offline) plus PR & Social and the rare ability to explain what we're doing and why.

Most agencies will tell you they're integrated. Lassoo actually is. Our three specialist practices; Media, Consult and PR & Social don't operate as separate profit centres competing for budget. They sit inside a single, orchestrated structure where strategists, planners, data scientists and creative thinkers work in genuine proximity to each other.

That cross-disciplinary friction, as we call it, is where the interesting thinking happens, where a PR insight sharpens a media buy, where a data model reframes a social strategy, where the magical and the technical stop being opposites and start being the same conversation.

At the heart of our media practice is a commitment to planning for impact.

Lassoo is one of only a handful of New Zealand agencies subscribing to Amplified Intelligence, which means we can plan and buy media based on actual human attention, not just the possibility of it.

Combined with full investment transparency (no hidden costs, no markups, no grey areas) - it's a model built on the radical proposition that fair outcomes for clients, agency and media owners aren't mutually exclusive - and the results suggest we're right.

At the heart of our media practice is a commitment to planning for impact rather than planning for reach.

Lassoo is one of only a handful of New Zealand agencies subscribing to the Amplified Intelligence platform, which means we can plan and buy media based on actual human attention, not just the possibility of it.

Combined with full investment transparency (no hidden costs, no markups, no grey areas), we consistently deliver media value well above industry averages.

It's a model built on the radical proposition that fair outcomes for clients, agency and media owners aren't mutually exclusive - and the results suggest we're right.

At the heart of our media practice is a commitment to planning for impact.

Lassoo is one of only a handful of New Zealand agencies subscribing to Amplified Intelligence, which means we can plan and buy media based on actual human attention, not just the possibility of it.

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Stop measuring everything. Start measuring what changes everything.

While others plan for reach, we plan for the moment people actually look up.

Lassoo Consult takes the same rigour and applies it to the data and technology layer that most organisations have in abundance but rarely use well.

The challenge for most marketers isn't a shortage of data, it's knowing what's worth measuring, what's worth ignoring, and how to build decision systems that actually change behaviour rather than just report on it.

Lassoo Consult's expertise spans areas such as econometric modelling, customer lifetime value analytics, predictive modelling and dashboard design - all oriented toward one question: what does this mean for the business?

And running through all of it is a PR and Social practice that starts with people rather than platforms.

Lassoo Consult takes the same rigour and applies it to the data and technology layer that most organisations have in abundance but rarely use well.

And running through all of it is a PR and Social practice that starts with people rather than platforms.

Before a story is pitched or a post is scheduled, Lassoo invests time in understanding how clients and their customers are genuinely thinking and feeling, about the brand, the product, the cultural moment they're operating in.

It's an unfashionably human approach in an industry increasingly tempted by automation, and it's why our work tends to produce strategies people actually want to engage with, rather than content that merely exists.

Three disciplines, one agency, one clear point of view: make it matter and then measure it.

Make it easier, make it matter, and always know exactly why

Our Mantras

01

Clarity Over Complexity

Marketing is getting harder, not easier. We exist to reverse that. Every recommendation we make, every model we build, every story we tell is filtered through a single question: does this make our clients' lives simpler and their results stronger? If it doesn't, we don't do it.

02

Independence, Earned Daily

Being independently owned isn't a structural fact, it's a daily choice. It means we answer to our clients, not a network. It means our advice is ours. No hidden agendas, no inflated margins, no recommendations shaped by someone else's commercial arrangements. Just straight thinking, openly shared.

03

Attention Is Everything

Reach without attention is wallpaper. We plan and buy media based on genuine human engagement, not the possibility of it. That same discipline runs through our PR, our social and our approach to Adtech and Martech. If people aren't paying attention, nothing else we do matters.

04

Proximity Builds Better Work

We do our best work when we're close to our clients, close enough to understand their business, their pressures and what keeps them up at night. That's not a service promise. It's how we think. The further you are from the problem, the blunter your solutions become.