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Independent Web & Ecommerce Agency, London & UK
Venice is a London-based independent web design and ecommerce agency with over 30 years of creative and digital experience.
We design, build and grow websites for businesses across the UK and internationally — from owner-managed startups launching their first online store to global brands requiring complex ecommerce solutions — across Shopify, Magento, WordPress and Wix.
We don't sell platforms. We provide independent advice and recommend the right solution for your business.
Our Approach
Every client conversation starts with understanding your business before we make a single recommendation. Your goals, your budget, your customers and your growth plans.
That independence is what defines us. Venice works across Shopify, Magento, WordPress and Wix because different businesses have genuinely different needs. Our job is to identify the right fit for yours, not to promote the platform we happen to prefer.
Our Experience
30+ Years of Creative and Digital Experience
Venice has been building websites since 1999 and working in creative production since the early 1990s.
That longevity means we've seen platforms come and go, search engines rise and disappear, technologies emerge and become obsolete — and businesses grow from first launch to international operation.
Experience is not about knowing every new technology. It is about understanding which changes matter, which ones pass and how digital decisions affect a business over the long term.
From Startups to Global Brands
We work with owner-managed businesses launching their first online store and with established global brands requiring high-volume ecommerce solutions.
Our clients have included New Balance, River Island, Jack Wills, Claire's, Debenhams, Foot Locker, Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island — alongside numerous smaller businesses we've helped establish, grow and evolve online.
The scale of the business may change. The principle does not: understand the business, recommend the right solution and build something that works.
UK and International Experience
Venice works with clients across the UK and internationally.
We have extensive experience building multilingual and multi-currency websites for businesses trading across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, helping organisations expand into new markets while maintaining manageable digital operations.
A Few Things That Set Us Apart
The Necker Island Moment
One of our most memorable pitches was winning Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island account against their incumbent agency.
A requirement of the brief was that we spend time on Necker Island to properly understand the product and experience we were promoting.
Amazingly our diaries became free and we approached the opportunity with the professionalism it deserved. Rough with the smooth.
30 Years In The Making
Venice has been at the creative and digital intersection for over 30 years — from broadcast television production in the early 1990s through the emergence of the commercial web to ecommerce and AI search today.
The technology has changed considerably. The instinct for where technology is going, what will genuinely matter and what a business actually needs has not.
Independent Advice, Every Time
We'll tell you when a project isn't right for us, when your budget doesn't match your ambitions and when a simpler solution would serve you better than a complex one.
That independence is why clients stay with Venice long term.
How We Work
We Recommend — We Don't Sell
Venice is platform independent.
We are partners across Shopify, Magento, WordPress and Wix, which means we understand the strengths and limitations of each platform deeply, but we recommend based on what's right for your business, not what's easiest for us to build.
It's why we created the Venice Platform Match it's a free independent tool that identifies the most suitable platform for your requirements across all four.
Your Business First
Every project begins with a detailed conversation about where your business is now and where you want it to go..
We ask questions others don't — about your operations, your team and your long-term plans — because the right website decision depends on understanding the whole picture.
To help you prepare, the Venice Platform Match identifies the platforms most suited to your requirements, while the Venice Project Planner helps you define your objectives before we begin the conversation.
We Stay Involved
Our relationship with clients doesn't end at launch.
Venice provides ongoing support, SEO, ecommerce SEO, AI search optimisation and platform development so your website continues to perform and grow long after go-live.
Our Technology Experience
Venice works across the leading website and ecommerce platforms. Our role is not to promote one technology over another, but to understand the strengths of each and recommend the solution that best fits the business.
Shopify
Shopify Partner with experience creating and developing ecommerce stores.
Magento / Adobe Commerce
Experience delivering complex ecommerce solutions for growing and international businesses.
WordPress
Bespoke WordPress websites and WooCommerce ecommerce development.
Wix
Wix Developer Partner delivering flexible website solutions.
Weglot
Multilingual website integration for businesses operating internationally.
Let's Start With a Conversation
Whether you are launching a new website, moving to a better platform or planning the next stage of your digital growth, we would like to understand where your business is today and where you want it to go.
The first conversation is not about technology.
It is about understanding what you need your website to achieve and identifying the approach that best supports your ambitions.
From there, we can recommend the platform, solution and roadmap that best fits your business.