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CT Studio NZ

Photography studio · Rolleston South West, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 194 Christchurch photography businesses.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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CT Studio NZ

Photography studio · Rolleston South West, Christchurch

Where you stand#124of 194 photography businesses
Overall health3.6/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

CT STUDIO NZ is a professional photography and videography studio based in Rolleston, serving Christchurch and surrounding areas. Specialising in family, maternity, birthday, wedding and portrait work, the studio offers indoor studio sessions and outdoor location shoots. Customers report relaxed, natural-feeling sessions with attentive, patient and flexible service focused on delivering high-quality images and videos tailored to each occasion.

CT STUDIO NZ is a photography and videography studio based in Rolleston that serves Christchurch and the surrounding district. The studio presents both indoor studio sessions and outdoor location shoots for a range of occasions and keeps its operations local to the Rolleston area.

Services focus on family, maternity, birthday, wedding and portrait photography and videography. The studio states it offers personalised sessions tailored to clients' needs, covering posed portraiture and event-style coverage, and aims to capture moments with creativity and high-quality results.

Customer comments highlight a relaxed, easy atmosphere during shoots and an ability to capture natural-looking images. Reviews describe the photographer as intuitive about timing and composition, patient and attentive while shooting, and approachable in client interactions. Other noted themes include flexibility around bookings, friendly service and a perception of quality work at affordable prices.

Locally, CT STUDIO NZ is positioned as a full-service option for people seeking both studio and location photography across family and event categories. The combination of tailored sessions, a focus on a relaxed client experience and coverage that spans intimate portraits through to weddings and events is a practical point of difference for customers in Rolleston and Christchurch.

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Your Google listing

CT STUDIO NZ shows an overall below-average health on Google Business Listings with room for solid gains. The standout finding is that the listing is claimed and contact details are present, while the description already ranks well and the full address is correct. Key opportunities include updating open-for-business status, adding a website link and logo, and expanding fresh photos to improve visibility.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

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    WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
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    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
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    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.7Room to grow
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5.0 ★★★★★ (4)
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From the business

CT Studio NZ is a professional photography and videography studio based in Rolleston, New Zealand, specialising in family, maternity, birthday, wedding, and portrait photography and videography. We offer both indoor studio sessions and outdoor location shoots, capturing your special moments with creativity, style, and high-quality results. We proudly serve Rolleston, Christchurch, and surrounding areas, providing personalised sessions tailored to your needs. Whether it’s a family portrait, birthday celebration, wedding, or creative photoshoot, our goal is to make every experience relaxed, enjoyable, and memorable, delivering images and videos you’ll treasure forever. Book your session today and discover why CT Studio NZ is one of the lead

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

CT STUDIO NZ shows an above-average health score of 6.6 out of 10 on Google reviews, indicating solid performance with room to improve. One notable finding is a top 10% star rating, reflecting strong customer satisfaction. In addition, the business has made progress on total reviews and response rate, suggesting growing trust with customers.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
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    Response rateYou reply to some of your reviews but not most, so a customer scrolling your page finds long stretches where nobody answered.
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    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
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Navneet K.★★★★★ · a month ago

CT is an amazing photographer. He is incredibly patient and attentive while taking photos. He captured my anniversary photoshoot beautifully, and I couldn’t be happier with the results. I would definitely recommend CT for a great photoshoot...

Response from the owner2

Thank you so much, Navneet for your wonderful words. It’s truly means a lot. You guys were amazing. Hope to see you again. Thanks again ❤️

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Mark L.★★★★★ · 2 months ago

Flexible and friendly service. Quality work at affordable prices.

Response from the owner

Thank you so much ☺️ and highly appreciate your comments

Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

CT STUDIO NZ shows solid visibility on Google Maps with a health score of 4.5 out of 10. The top opportunity is to improve the aggregate Maps search results score to climb out of the current bracket, while the borough score has already risen from the bottom quartile and should continue to progress toward the local midpoint.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
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2Top three for "portrait studio" in 4 suburbs, seen in 6
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CT Studio NZ15.0 ★ (4) · Photography studio
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Angela Jones Portraits Studio5.0 ★ (52) · Photography studio
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Soul Creative Studio5.0 ★ (77) · Photography studio
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Pixel Stories by Sanka5.0 ★ (3) · Photography studio
Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #106 for map positions
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Where customers find you

CT Studio NZ shows a health score of 4.3 out of 10, indicating average overall presence but room for improvement. The most notable finding is a very strong Facebook presence with a high trust score, which supports credibility and engagement; other platforms show gaps, especially TikTok and LinkedIn, limiting reach to new audiences.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
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    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
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TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    What your page says about youFew intros in this market run as full as yours, and it sits close to the limit that length has stopped being a lever.

Top three opportunities

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    Recommendations on your pageA couple of recommendations have landed on the page, fewer than most here.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    Where your page link pointsYour page points customers at a booking system or directory rather than a site of your own.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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CT Studio NZ is a Christchurch based photo and videography studio dedicated to capturing stories with creativity and care. We specialise in portraits, maternity, family sessions, events, weddings, and...✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #60 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

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    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
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    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
  • 3
    Domain UniquenessYour web address belongs to a platform rather than to you - a social page or a site builder's own domain.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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Your websiteChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here.
0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
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Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #87 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

CT STUDIO NZ has no published opening hours, so no hours can be confirmed as matching local demand. The absence of hours means all typical peak search times for photography-weekend days and evenings when clients book family, maternity or wedding sessions-are treated as missed opportunities. Adding clear hours would reveal where the studio already aligns with demand and where to extend coverage for more bookings.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
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Hours
No opening hours listed1
Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #137 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#124of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
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