Eighty creators. Six messages each to land on a rate. Fourteen negotiations running at once and a number we will not go over. That used to be somebody's entire month. We run the whole thing and hand back finished ads with the partnership code already live in your account, at one published price, in five to seven days.
QuickAds runs influencer marketing and UGC advertising end to end, at one published price per video. UGC is $129 a video, creators with 5K to 50K followers are $299, and 50K to 250K are $699, each with the creator fee already inside the price. The scope covers finding the creator, agreeing the rate, writing the brief and script, production, brand and technical QA, the whitelisting or partnership code going live in your own ad account, and a component-level read afterwards. Turnaround is five to seven days, capacity is 100 or more creatives a month, the platform is included when you buy videos, and no percentage is added to what the creator is paid.
Pricing and competitor figures verified September 2026.
Four numbers from 2026 industry research, before anyone talks about creative. This is what running a creator programme looks like at most mid-market and enterprise brands right now.
Nobody needs convincing any more. Nearly three quarters of marketers expect their creator budget to rise by at least half this year. The belief arrived; the operating model never did, and the same four things go wrong at almost every brand we open an account with.
None of them are creative problems. They are handoff problems, which is why buying a better database has never fixed any of them. Here is each one, what it actually costs, and the specific thing we do differently.
Two creators with near-identical followings, on the same brief, opened ten thousand dollars apart. That is not an outlier, it is the market. There is no rate card, no clearing house and no benchmark, so every deal starts from zero and the quote lands wherever the confidence sits that day.
Just 44 percent of decision-makers still hold full confidence in their own ability to negotiate a fair rate. The other 56 percent are guessing with a budget.
Digiday, creator fee spread · Billion Dollar Boy, Priced on GuessworkOne published rate per tier, on this page, with the creator fee already inside it. There is no negotiation to get wrong.
You can also see what the creator was paid. We add nothing on top of that number.
Seventy-three percent of brands track creator finances manually, split between spreadsheets and email threads. Roughly a fifth use anything purpose-built. At ten creators that is annoying. At forty a month, across brand, performance and regional teams, small inconsistencies compound into repeated overspend that nobody can trace back to a decision.
It is also why the same creator gets quoted one price by the brand team and a completely different one by the affiliate team, inside the same company.
Billion Dollar Boy, 2026 · Digiday on internal price inconsistencySearch, outreach, availability, scheduling, rate and chasing all run as agents against one record, not as forty tabs and a shared sheet.
You approve. The spreadsheet stops existing.
Meta’s own published figure: adding partnership ads alongside business-as-usual ads reduced cost per action by nineteen percent on average across its tests. Not a swap, an addition. Most brands never find out, because the creator delivers a post and the file stops there. The paid team is not whitelisting it, and often nobody owns the job of asking.
When it is attempted, it is attempted late. The brief said usage rights, the creator read that as organic only, and paid amplification becomes a fresh negotiation from a weak position with the content already bought.
Meta’s own data, reported by EMARKETER · Meta blog, quoted: CPAs reduced 19% across all the testsPaid usage is written into the brief before anyone films, with the window stated per creator and extension pricing quoted up front.
The partnership code lands in your own ad account, not in an email thread.
In April 2026 TikTok cut the default Spark Ads authorisation window to sixty days, down from a year. When a code lapses the ad does not stop. It keeps spending and quietly drops back to standard in-feed behaviour, losing the creator handle and the social proof attached to it.
No alert fires in Ads Manager. Performance falls off a cliff and the post-mortem blames the creative, because the creative is the only thing anyone can see.
Spark Ads authorisation windows and silent expiry, 2026We hold each code window against the flight dates and re-authorise before it lapses, because we are the ones running the account it sits in.
Whitelisting is a step in our process, not a favour asked for after delivery.
Across the bottom, the milestones of getting a creator ad live. Up the side, whether you do it yourself or someone does it for you. Then everyone plotted where they actually play.
Positioning map, described: across eight milestones of getting a creator ad live (find creators, negotiate the rate, script guidance, production and editing, creator payment, whitelist codes, campaign execution, learn and repeat), QuickAds covers every milestone, self-serve or managed. Influencer agencies cover most milestones but have no learning loop. Billo produces video but does no whitelisting. Insense stops at the ad code with no strategy or editing. Agentio executes campaigns but makes no creative. Upfluence finds creators but produces nothing.
Briefs written from your own winners. Not a trend hunch, not a swipe file. What your account already proved.
Learning at the creative-component level. Which hook, which opening frame, which claim, tied back to what your paid account did with it, feeding the next brief.
One rate, whatever the creator asked for. Behind it, our agents handle outreach, availability, scheduling, rate negotiation, revision chasing and brand-fit review, which is why this costs a fraction of an agency doing the same job by hand. Above 30 videos a month the rate drops 5 percent, and that is the only discount on the card.
Shot by our in-house creators. Full IP assigned to you, raw plus edited cut, no credit packs to pre-purchase. Built for paid social, not for a creator handle.
Creators with 5K to 50K followers. Content, 30-day paid usage rights, and the partnership code live in your own ad account, with the window stated up front.
Creators with 50K to 250K followers. Same scope, bigger name on the ad. Above 250K we quote per creator, because that is a different market and we will not pretend otherwise.
| Also on the card | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | $299/mo annual$349 month to month, billed quarterly | Not a separate purchase. Included at no charge whenever you are buying videos. The $299 applies only if you want platform access on its own. Unlimited seats, brands, campaigns and partnership-ad connections, an account manager at every tier, and a seven-day evaluation for $1 that expires rather than auto-upgrading. |
| Media layer | 5% of paid spendon the media these assets run against | Optional. We run the creator ads alongside the rest of your paid social, so the learning loop closes instead of stopping at delivery. |
| Agency partners | 20 to 25% below retailwholesale per-video rate | You set your client price and keep the spread. White-label briefs and reporting, multi-brand workspaces with real data separation, and a non-circumvention clause that runs both ways. Requires partner verification and a committed minimum of 50 videos a month. |
Every figure below comes from published pricing or the vendor's own documentation, checked September 2026. Where a vendor does not publish, we say so and show the reported range.
| Videos | QuickAds | Them, self-serve | Them, with manager |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $2,990$299 each | $3,475$348 each | $5,975$598 each |
| 20 | $5,980$299 each | $6,450$323 each | $8,950$448 each |
| 40 | $11,360$284 each | $12,400$310 each | $14,900$373 each |
| Videos | QuickAds | Them, all-in | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $2,990$299 each | $4,276$428 each | 30% less |
| 20 | $5,980$299 each | $7,276$364 each | 18% less |
| 40 | $11,360$284 each | $13,276$332 each | 14% less |
| Media | Their fee | Our fee | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| $25,000 | $5,000≈20% | $1,2505% | $3,750 |
| $50,000 | $10,000≈20% | $2,5005% | $7,500 |
| $100,000 | $20,000≈20% | $5,0005% | $15,000 |
| Videos | QuickAds | Them, headline | Them, with add-ons |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $1,290$129 each | $990$99 each | $1,500$150 each |
| 20 | $2,580$129 each | $1,980$99 each | $3,000$150 each |
| 40 | $4,902$123 each | $3,960$99 each | $6,000$150 each |
| Videos | QuickAds | Agency retainer | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $2,990$299 each | $8,250$825 each | 64% less |
| 20 | $5,980$299 each | $10,500$525 each | 43% less |
| 40 | $11,360$284 each | $18,000$450 each | 37% less |
Comment on the exact frame and the exact spot in it, versioned across every cut. Notes stop getting lost in chat, and a round of revisions takes one pass instead of three.
Every cut runs against your own brand guidelines and the safe zones for each placement, plus the claims rules for regulated categories. Nothing reaches your reviewer off-brand.
Frozen frames, colour jumps, blown chroma, silent audio and product distortion, caught on a frame-by-frame pass before delivery. The faults that kill a cut are the ones nobody watches for.
Your ad export goes in, the winning and losing patterns come out, and the angles carry the evidence behind them. Computer-vision models trained on 32M+ ads sit underneath it.
Most confusion about influencer marketing is vocabulary, not strategy. These are the terms a quote will assume you already know.
Market rates below are from published 2026 pricing research, not from us. Our own numbers are the ones on the pricing card above, unchanged.
Market rates for a single UGC video run about $150 to $212 on average, with a median near $175. Beginners sit at $75 to $300, mid-tier creators at $300 to $1,000, and top performers at $600 to $3,000 or more. QuickAds charges $129 per UGC video, flat, with editing and full IP assignment included and nothing added on top.
At most suppliers, yes. A base UGC rate usually covers limited organic use only. Running the same video as a paid ad is commonly billed at 20 to 30 percent of the base rate per month, and usage rights plus whitelisting typically add 30 to 50 percent overall. At QuickAds paid usage is written into the brief before filming, with the window stated per creator and extension pricing quoted up front.
Whitelisting means running paid ads from a creator's own handle rather than your brand page, so their name and engagement carry the ad. On Meta this is now done through partnership ads, which replaced branded content ads. On TikTok the equivalent is Spark Ads. All three need the creator to grant permission before the ad can run.
TikTok cut the default Spark Ads authorisation window to 60 days in April 2026, down from a year. When a code lapses the ad does not stop. It keeps spending and drops back to standard in-feed behaviour, losing the creator handle and the social proof attached to it, with no alert in Ads Manager.
Meta's own published figure is that adding partnership ads alongside business-as-usual ads reduced cost per action by 19 percent on average across its tests. Instagram has reported 53 percent higher click-through rates and a 99 percent probability of outperforming brand-created ads alone. Those are Meta's numbers about the ad format, not a forecast for any individual account.
A UGC creator is paid for the content itself, so follower count is irrelevant and you use the video on your own channels and in your own ads. An influencer is paid for access to their audience, so reach and engagement set the price. A single mid-tier influencer post commonly runs $2,000 to $5,000.
Agency package pricing commonly runs $4,000 to $8,000 a month, and published tiers in the market sit around $4,500 for 12 videos or $6,500 for 18. Retainers rarely show what reaches the person doing the work. QuickAds publishes one rate per video instead, so 12 videos costs what 12 videos costs.
No. Marketplaces typically add 7 to 20 percent on top of every creator invoice. QuickAds takes nothing on that flow, and you can see what the creator was paid. The margin is in the work, not in moving your money.
No. Buy videos and the platform comes with them, including unlimited seats, brands, campaigns and partnership-ad connections. The $299 a month applies only if you want platform access on its own, and nothing auto-renews.
Five to seven days is the standard turnaround, and 100 or more creatives a month at full capacity. Creators come back in one to two days on average, and production is held to the agreed date rather than chased by you.
You do. Full IP assignment on every asset by default, not as an upsell, with the raw files and the edited cut. On creator tiers the whitelisting window is stated per creator in the brief, with extension pricing quoted before the fact rather than billed after it.
Three revisions inside the brief, plus one re-shoot with a different creator if a cut fails brand-fit review. Before you see anything, every cut runs through Creative QA against your brand guidelines and placement safe zones, and Clip QC for frozen frames, colour jumps and product distortion.
Everything on this page is the short version. Each guide below carries the full working, the published market figures and the sources.
Open up to 30 creator profiles in full, run the filters against your own brief, and take a 45 to 60 minute onboarding call with the account manager who would run your programme. Enough to judge the database and the workflow before you commit a budget. It expires on its own, and nothing upgrades behind your back.
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