What does a social ads marketing agency do?+
A social ads marketing agency plans, buys, creates, and scales paid advertising on social platforms — Meta (Facebook + Instagram), TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, and emerging networks. That covers strategy, audience and offer testing, creative production (static, video, UGC, motion), media buying, attribution and analytics, and continuous CRO on landing pages and funnels. A senior agency owns the full revenue path — not just the ad account.
How much does a social ads agency cost in the USA?+
In the US market, social ads management fees typically run $3K–$15K per month for SMB and DTC brands ($20K–$200K monthly ad spend), and $15K–$50K+ per month for enterprise brands ($200K+ monthly spend). Most agencies bill management as a flat retainer or as a percentage of ad spend (8–15%). Conversion offers a pay-on-results model where fees are tied to incremental revenue lift — not a flat retainer.
Which platforms should my brand advertise on?+
Depends on audience, product, and creative motion. DTC ecommerce: start with Meta + TikTok, layer Pinterest if female-skewing or visual-first. B2B / SaaS: LinkedIn + Meta retargeting + YouTube. Apps: TikTok + AppLovin + Meta. Healthcare and regulated: LinkedIn + carefully scoped Meta. We don't run every platform on every account — we pick based on data, not retainer maximization.
How long until I see results from paid social?+
Creative testing windows are 7–14 days per concept. Most accounts see meaningful CPA or ROAS movement in week 3–4 after launch, and a stable scaling curve by month 2–3 once we've isolated winning creative angles, audiences, and offers. Brands that come in with strong product-market fit and existing review velocity scale faster — usually 30 days to first inflection.
What is the difference between social media marketing and paid social ads?+
Social media marketing is broad: organic content, community management, influencer partnerships, organic SEO on social platforms. Paid social ads is the performance discipline — buying placements on Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, and YouTube, optimizing for CPA, ROAS, MER, and contribution margin. The two should be coordinated, but they're separate skills. We do paid social. We coordinate with your organic and influencer teams.
Do you create the ad creative or just buy media?+
Both. We have an in-house creative studio that produces 30–50 ad variants per month per scaled account — static, motion, UGC, founder-led, and AI-assisted concepts. The creative-to-media-buying loop is where ROAS is won or lost. Agencies that only buy media and outsource creative cap out fast.
What metrics do you optimize for?+
Contribution margin first, MER (Marketing Efficiency Ratio) second, blended CAC third — never platform ROAS in isolation. Platform ROAS lies because of attribution drift, view-through inflation, and post-iOS 14 signal loss. We instrument server-side tracking (CAPI, TikTok Events API, LinkedIn Insight Tag), incrementality testing, and post-purchase surveys. The number on your P&L is the only one that matters.
Should I hire a freelancer, in-house team, or social ads agency?+
Freelancers fit early-stage brands under $20K/month spend with a single platform and simple creative. In-house works once you're past $200K/month spend and can support 2–3 buyers + 3–5 creatives + an analyst. Agencies are right when you need creative volume, multi-platform expertise, and senior strategy without the headcount cost — typically $20K–$200K monthly spend or fast-scaling stages where speed matters more than equity.
How do I choose a paid social agency in the USA?+
Look for: Meta Business Partner and TikTok Marketing Partner status, in-house creative team (not subcontracted), case studies with revenue metrics (not vanity follower counts), transparent reporting on contribution margin and MER, a documented creative testing framework, and at least 3 references in your stage of growth. Ask for a sample weekly report. We'll send ours.
Do you handle landing pages and post-click CRO too?+
Yes. Paid social is half the equation — the landing page and post-click experience is the other half. We build dedicated lead-gen and ecommerce landing pages, run continuous A/B tests, and instrument analytics so we know which ad and which page combination is actually printing money. Brands that separate ad agency and CRO usually leave 30%+ on the table.
Can you scale my account past $1M/month in ad spend?+
Yes. Most of our scaled accounts sit between $200K and $2M monthly spend. Past $1M/month the constraint stops being targeting and starts being creative throughput, attribution accuracy, and incrementality discipline. We've built creative pipelines that produce 50+ tested variants per month, and we run quarterly geo-holdout incrementality tests so the spend stays profitable.
Do you work with apps, ecommerce, B2B, and healthcare?+
Yes — but we don't pretend we're equally great at all of them. Our deepest experience is DTC ecommerce on Meta + TikTok, app install on TikTok + AppLovin, and B2B SaaS on LinkedIn + retargeting. Healthcare and regulated verticals require specialized landing pages and compliance review — we run that work, but we'll tell you upfront where our edge is sharpest.
Are you a Meta Business Partner and TikTok Marketing Partner?+
Yes — we hold Meta Business Partner status and are a TikTok Marketing Partner. That gives us beta access to new ad formats, direct rep escalation paths, and platform-side support that takes weeks to get otherwise. For LinkedIn we work with senior in-house buyers; for Pinterest we hold a Pinterest Partner badge.
What's your reporting cadence?+
Weekly written report (Mondays) covering MER, CAC, contribution margin, creative winners and losers, and the next week's test plan. Monthly executive deck with strategic narrative, incrementality results, and recommended budget reallocation. Real-time Looker Studio dashboard you can check anytime. No 47-tab spreadsheets.