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Lightchasers

Video production service · Sockburn, 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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Lightchasers

Video production service · Sockburn, Christchurch

Where you stand#33of 194 photography businesses
Overall health8.3/10across the eight areas

Going well

07Google search and traffic9.404Listings and social9.002Reviews6.303Map positions6.2

Where we can help

01Google listing5.408Opening hours4.505Facebook page4.306Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Lightchasers is a production agency based in Wigram, Christchurch offering videography, photography, live-streaming, content and creative services. They run a studio and provide creative gear rental for marketers, agencies, local government and businesses. Customers note professional, friendly staff and reliable equipment for events, commercial shoots and weddings.

Lightchasers is a film and photography production agency located in Wigram, Christchurch. They present themselves as a full-service studio catering to brand and commercial projects as well as weddings and events, with local production capacity for marketers, agencies and government clients.

Their stated capabilities include videography and photography across brand films, social content, outstream ads, TVCs, conferences and events. The team also offers live-streaming, creative content development, studio hire and creative gear rental, positioning the company to handle both one-off shoots and ongoing marketing campaigns.

Customers who leave feedback tend to highlight easy, well-organised gear rental experiences and praise the condition and reliability of equipment. Reviews also emphasise friendly, responsive and professional interactions with the crew during shoots, from planning conversations through to on-site delivery at awards nights, weddings and commercial projects.

Locally, Lightchasers is presented as a Christchurch production partner that combines in-house creative services with practical rental and studio options. The combination of production offerings, studio access and gear hire aims to suit clients who need both creative direction and the technical tools to execute marketing and event work in the city.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Lightchasers shows a solid overall health score with room to improve branding elements. The listing already includes a clear title, claimed status, a website link and a phone number, plus accurate open status. The most impactful findings are: the listing lacks a logo and needs more photos to strengthen presence, while the description is already mid-range and has room for continued optimisation.

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

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
  • 3
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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5.0 ★★★★★ (10)
Video production service · Sockburn
Open 5 days ✓
DirectionsCall Website
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

SAY HELLO TO YOUR NEW PRODUCTION CO. We're Lightchasers, Christchurch's coolest little production agency. Professional, playful and planned to perfection, we have a creative approach that is made for marketing wins. We work with marketers, agencies, local government, businesses... pretty much anyone who wants to smash their targets and look awesome in front of The Boss. We offer videography, photography, live-streaming, content and creative, a studio as well as creative gear rental. So go on. Make something rad with us.

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Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Lightchasers shows an above-average health score for Google reviews, at 6.2 out of 10. The business benefits from a top-10% star rating, indicating high customer satisfaction, but has not yet engaged with reviews. The combination suggests strong reputational strength with room to build trust through active response to customer feedback.

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

  • 1
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 2
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits above the middle of this market, which puts you in the group customers read as established rather than untested.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
6.3Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Lightchasers
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2How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #72 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Lightchasers shows an above-average health score of 6.2 out of 10 for Google Maps search, indicating decent visibility with room to grow. Key findings show strength in ranking for photography-related terms in Wigram, Sockburn and nearby areas, with top positions for photography and wedding photography services. The business can maintain momentum by continuing to improve aggregate and borough presence.

Strengths

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

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    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
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
6.2Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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photography service
1Top three for "photography service" in 1 suburb, seen in 4
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Nine Twentyone Studios5.0 ★ (21) · Video production service
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Photolife Studios2.3 ★ (10) · Video production service
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Rosa Photo Studio5.0 ★ (83) · Video production service
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Zhuoya Photography4.8 ★ (4) · Video production service
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Lightchasers2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #74 for map positions
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Lightchasers shows a very high health score of 9.2, indicating strong presence and trust across social profiles. The most notable strengths are outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles, plus a solid LinkedIn Company Page and Fresha directory presence. Opportunities focus on expanding reach with TikTok and improving local directories like Yellow and Neighbourly to enhance discoverability.

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.
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    LinkedIn CompanyWe can see your LinkedIn Company listing (https://linkedin.com/company/lightchasers) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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 6 of them.
9.0Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Freshalp/en/bt/waxing-salons/in/nz-christchurchLightchasers | Fresha
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
LinkedInNo listing found✓
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #21 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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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.

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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    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
facebook
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264 followers 2
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★ 1 reviews · recommended 1
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☎ +64 21 462 400✓
PostsAboutPhotosReviews
Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #111 for your Facebook page
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06Your websiteMarketbase business report

Your website

Lightchasers shows a very strong on-page SEO health with a score of 8.9 out of 10. The strongest points are a fast page load under 3 seconds, an SEO-friendly URL, a valid favicon and secure HTTPS, plus a relevant meta description. Focus for improvement should be tightening the meta description length to fit the ideal range and minor tweaks to approach the top 25% elite on-page SEO score.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, so a reasonable spread of places vouch for you.
  • 3
    Meta descriptionThe length of your search summary is close enough now that most people see all of it, so the gain left is in the words: one concrete reason to ring you beats another description of what you do.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2Separate sites linking to you
3Meta description
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07Google search and trafficMarketbase business report

How people find you on Google

Lightchasers shows a very healthy website traffic picture with a high organic traffic value and strong local positioning. The most notable finding is the outstanding organic traffic value, with continued SEO refinement needed to protect top ranking. Paid traffic remains underdeveloped, offering a clear path to incremental growth through small, targeted campaigns.

Strengths

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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth more than almost any business in this market - an enquiry stream with no cost per click behind it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
  • 2
    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 4 of them.
9.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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321No ads from you on any search
www.lightchasers.nzLightchasers: Christchurch Videography | Photography ...

We're Lightchasers, Christchurch's coolest little film and photography production company. Professional, playful, pizzazz-y and planned to perfection. Read more

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✓About 204 visits a month from search, across 32 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #12 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Lightchasers shows strong daytime alignment with local demand, especially Monday late morning to mid-afternoon and Wednesday midday, but is closed during several high-demand evening hours. The schedule includes some low-demand morning and early-afternoon opens that could be trimmed. Balancing a few evening openings on Tuesday and Wednesday with a small reduction in low-value morning hours would better match customer search patterns and improve commercial efficiency.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
4.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours 1
Monday8am-6pm
Tuesday8am-6pm
Wednesday8am-6pm
Thursday8am-6pm
Friday8am-6pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Sockburn
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Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #107 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

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#33of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
You are #33 overall
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