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Ecommerce PPC agencies manage ad spend, bidding and product feeds. Quickads produces the creative for a catalogue at scale.
In one paragraph
An ecommerce PPC agency buys and manages paid traffic for an online store — typically paid search and shopping on Google, paid social on Meta and TikTok, and sometimes retail media. The work is account structure, feeds, bidding, budget allocation and reporting.
What it is usually not is a production line for the ads themselves. In Credo's survey-based model of an agency deal, the setup fee is scoped as “research, auditing, initial ad copy” and the ongoing fee is $1,000 to $2,000 a month for one channel, plus $500 to $750 for each additional one. The price tracks channels and spend. It does not track how many products you sell.
Quickads sits on the creative side of that line and prices it that way. Catalogue-scale production across Meta, Google and TikTok, billed per creative rather than per channel, on a 5 to 7 day turnaround, with a strategist deciding what is worth making.
If you are
A DTC store with a handful of hero SKUs and a media buyer who is already good, and the thing you keep running out of is finished creative.
Then
Us, probably
Buy the production, keep the buyer. A retainer priced per channel does not solve a creative shortage.
If you are
Running Google Shopping, search, programmatic and social with no one owning the feed or the measurement, and the ads themselves are fine.
Then
Hire the agency. Feed hygiene, bidding and cross-channel measurement are exactly what the retainer model is built around, and we do not sell them as a standalone.
Retainer figures come from Credo's published survey, not from us. We sell a competing service, so read our interpretation as interested and check the sources.
Compare a flat monthly retainer against a share of spend, and see which lines move with what.
| What you are buying | Quickads | An ecommerce PPC retainer |
|---|---|---|
| Fee for the first channel | Not priced by channel at all | $1,000 to $2,000 a month |
| Each additional channel | No adder | $500 to $750 a month extra |
| A share of your ad spend | None | 15 per cent above $10,000 a month |
| Setup fee, and what it covers | None | $1,000 to $2,500, scoped as “research, auditing, initial ad copy” |
| Retainer minimum | No minimum, no annual prepay | 50.97 per cent set a minimum of $1,000 to $3,000 a month |
| Minimum term | No lock-in | 30.52 per cent require 6 to 12 months; 26.3 per cent require none |
| Hourly rate, where billed hourly | Not billed hourly | 85 per cent bill $50 to $200 an hour |
| What the fee grows with | Creatives and formats you ask for | Channels managed and media spend |
Set traditional retainer expenses beside per-creative billing. See what changes as your spend and your catalogue grow.
| What you are comparing | Quickads | Under Credo's published model |
|---|---|---|
| Emerging DTC, $10,000 a month in media | Billed per creative. No channel adder, no share of media | $1,000 to $2,000 a month for one channel, plus $1,000 to $1,500 for two more |
| Scaling DTC, $30,000 a month in media | Same unit price. Nothing changes because spend rose | The above, plus 15 per cent of the $20,000 above the threshold, which is $3,000 a month |
| High-volume DTC, $100,000 a month in media | Same unit price | The above, plus 15 per cent of the $90,000 above the threshold, which is $13,500 a month |
| Setup, once | None | $1,000 to $2,500, scoped as “research, auditing, initial ad copy” |
| What the fee grows with | Creatives and formats you ask for | Channels managed and media spend |
Credo found 11.8 per cent of social ads providers bill a percentage of spend and 51.8 per cent bill a flat fee.
Nine buyer-side requirements scored across creative output, channel coverage, spend-linked fees and measurement setup. We average 4.6 out of 5 across the nine; a multi-channel retainer averages 2.4.
Quickads
Average of nine scores
A multi-channel retainer
Average of nine scores
Our nine scores total 41.0 against 22.0, giving 4.6 and 2.4 as the plain averages. They are editorial judgements, and the two tied rows are deliberate.
Adding hundreds of SKUs should not inflate an agency fee. It usually does not, and that is the problem.
The unit mismatch
Credo's model adds $500 to $750 a month per extra channel. Adding four hundred products adds nothing to the fee, and nothing to the output.
Credo, Digital Marketing Industry Pricing Survey, PPC chapterThe setup mismatch
The setup fee covers “research, auditing, initial ad copy.” A catalogue that turns over seasonally needs copy repeatedly, not once.
Credo, Digital Marketing Industry Pricing Survey, PPC chapterThe category mismatch
A clean product feed gets a SKU eligible to be shown. It does not decide the hook, the format or the framing that makes it worth showing.
The scale of the auction
Meta describes its retrieval stage as selecting “from tens of millions of ad candidates into a few thousand relevant ad candidates.”
Meta engineering, on its Andromeda retrieval systemThree channels, under Credo's own model
Add a channel and the fee moves. Add four hundred products and it does not. The price is indexed to the wrong thing for a catalogue business.
The first three rows are Credo's published figures; adding the second and third channel together is our arithmetic, not a quoted total.
Faster batches, no channel adder and no share of media. The honest other side of it sits in the right-hand column.
Compare an in-house hire, a traditional PPC retainer and a creative production partner. Find which one your actual bottleneck needs.
| Requirement | Quickads | A PPC retainer | An in-house hire |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Billed per creative, quoted on a call | $1,000 to $2,000 a month per channel, plus share of spend | $72,844 average United States PPC manager salary |
| Who produces the creative | Us, with a strategist signing off | Included at the agency's cadence | Whoever you hired, alongside everything else |
| Turnaround on a brief | 5 to 7 days | Not published | Depends on their queue |
| Channels bought | Paid social | Search, shopping, social and more | Whatever one person can hold |
| Product feed and tracking setup | Not what we sell | Yes | Yes |
| Minimum term | None | 30.52 per cent require 6 to 12 months | Employment |
| Ramp time | Days | Weeks | Months, plus recruiting |
By Credo's own arithmetic the retainer is the cheaper of the other two at mid spend, around $33,000 a year against that $72,844 salary.
Three vendors means three briefing cycles across strategy, production and campaign management. The handoffs are where the time goes.
Send Us One Catalogue
Point us at your store and one live ad account. We will come back with a read of your category and a first batch of creative built from your own products.
Six questions that separate a good fit from an expensive one. Ask them of us too.
“How many new creatives does this include, and over what period?”
The answer is often a cadence rather than a count. Get the cadence in writing, and get the price of exceeding it, because Credo notes creative costs more “depending on the speed of testing and creative needed.”
“What happens to the fee when I add a channel?”
Under Credo's model, $500 to $750 a month for each one. Worth knowing before you decide whether TikTok is a test or a budget line.
“What happens to the fee when I add four hundred products?”
Usually nothing — which sounds good until you realise nothing changes on the output side either.
“Who is actually on my account, and what do they do?”
Ask for the named person and the specific decision they own. A strategist who chooses angles is a different role from an account manager who relays them.
“What is the minimum term, and what do I keep if I leave?”
Credo found 30.52 per cent of PPC providers require 6 to 12 months, while 26.3 per cent require nothing. Both exist, so the lock-in is negotiable more often than it looks.
“Is any part of this priced against my media budget?”
Credo's model adds 15 per cent of spend above $10,000 a month. Our own billing is per creative rather than a share of media, which is a difference in what the provider is paid to grow.
Connect the store feed. Live SKU data becomes finished static and video creative within days.
01 · CATALOGUE
Computer-vision models trained on more than 32 million ads read what is running in your category alongside your own product data, so the first conversation is about specific SKUs rather than a general audit.
02 · PRIORITISE
Not every SKU deserves a hero asset. A strategist picks the products and the angles worth producing, and says which ones can share a template.
03 · PRODUCE
Static, motion and video assets sized for Meta, Google and TikTok placements, delivered finished and named. A strategist signs off every asset.
04 · ITERATE
We launch and manage the campaigns, or hand the batch to your buyers. Either way the next brief starts from what happened to the last one.
Line-by-line capability across creative scale, channel fees, paid social management and product feed maintenance.
| Requirement | Quickads | A multi-channel PPC retainer |
|---|---|---|
| Creative produced at catalogue scale | Yes | No |
| Cost that does not rise per channel | Yes | No |
| A category read across your catalogue's competitors | Yes | No |
| Video and creator formats in the same brief | Yes | No |
| No share of your media budget | Yes | Partly |
| Campaign management on paid social | Yes | Yes |
| Google Shopping, search and programmatic buying | Partly | Yes |
| Product feed hygiene and tracking setup | No | Yes |
| Cross-channel attribution and reporting | No | Yes |
The bottom three rows go against us, and the row above them is a tie.
Quick answers on pricing models, channel coverage, production speed and contract flexibility.
It buys and manages paid traffic for an online store, usually across Google search and shopping, Meta and TikTok. The scope is account structure, product feeds, bidding, budget allocation and reporting — the buying side rather than the production side.
In Credo's survey-based model, $1,000 to $2,000 a month for the first channel, $500 to $750 for each additional channel, a setup fee of $1,000 to $2,500 and 15 per cent of media spend above $10,000 a month. Quickads bills per creative rather than per channel or as a share of spend, and quotes on a call because the figure depends on format mix and volume.
Commonly, yes. Credo's published model of a typical agency deal adds $500 to $750 a month for each channel beyond the first. That is a fair way to price management time, and a poor proxy for how much creative a catalogue needs.
Creative for Meta, Google and TikTok placements, plus campaign management on paid social if you want the account run rather than just fed. Product feed hygiene, Google Shopping bid management and cross-channel attribution are not what we sell, and a retainer is the better buy for those.
A strategist decides which products earn bespoke creative and which can share a template built from your catalogue data. That triage is the actual work, because producing eight hundred equally weighted assets is as unhelpful as producing eight.
No. No minimum term and no annual prepay, and the first batch arrives before you commit. For market context, Credo found 30.52 per cent of PPC providers require 6 to 12 months while 26.3 per cent require no minimum at all.
At mid spend levels, usually yes, and that is Credo's finding rather than ours. Its arithmetic puts the agency route at around $33,000 a year against an average United States PPC manager salary of $72,844. Who produces the creative is a separate question that neither option settles.
They are our editorial judgements, not measurements. Nine buyer-side requirements, each scored out of five from the point of view of a team whose constraint is creative output, then averaged. 41.0 divided by nine gives 4.6, and 22.0 divided by nine gives 2.4. We scored the retainer level with us on media buying and on measurement because those are genuinely its strengths.
For creative output, because the unit we bill is the creative rather than the channel or a share of your media. Credo's model of a retainer adds $500 to $750 a month per extra channel and 15 per cent of spend above $10,000 a month, and its creative sits on the agency's schedule. For bidding, feeds and cross-channel measurement, a retainer is the better buy and we say so above.
It can, for paid social. We run campaign management as well as creative, so the account can sit with us end to end. Plenty of brands keep the buyer they have and use us only for the creative half, which is the more common arrangement.
You pay for the assets you ask for, not for the channels you run or a percentage of your media. Credo's published model charges 15 per cent of spend above $10,000 a month and $500 to $750 per additional channel; neither of those moves when your catalogue grows, and neither is how we bill.
Keep the buyer you have, or scale with us. Send one product feed and get a batch of finished assets back.