Performance creative as a service

The Best Superside Alternative for Performance Creative.

Superside gives you a managed design team on rented tools, sold as a six-to-seven-figure, year-long commitment. We own the engine that makes the work, cover every format from one account, and start you with a single batch.

Free to start. Flexible from day one, with no year-long lock-in and no forced sales demo.

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Tell us where to look. We'll review your live ads against the winning patterns in your category and walk you through three concepts on the call.

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The model

A tool we own, a team to run it.

Most partners are one or the other: software you run alone, or a team you brief and wait on. We are both. The tool carries the volume, our people carry the craft and QA. That is what holds quality steady as the work scales.

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The direct comparison

Quickads vs. Superside.

Both get you senior creative without hiring for it. The real differences are three: what powers the work, what you sign up for, and how much of your brand one partner can carry.

Feature Single-stack retainer QuickadsThe flexible alternative
Tooling A design team briefing third-party software Our own production tool, tuned to your account and driven by trained people
Commitment Six-to-seven figures, committed for a year up front One batch to begin, monthly after that, adjust it whenever
Creative range Design projects, one brief at a time Ads, motion and lifestyle banners, email, landing pages and creator content
Cost vs. building in-house An enterprise line item, committed a year at a time Roughly half the loaded cost of an in-house team

Why teams start looking

Where the retainer model breaks.

The design work Superside ships is good. The friction is in how you buy it and how far one team stretches, and that is where fast-moving brands start looking around.

You commit before you see it

The relationship opens with a six-to-seven-figure, year-long signature. You are betting a year of budget on output you have not tested yet, and if priorities move in Q2, the contract does not move with them.

You inherit someone else's tools

Superside's team works on software it licenses, not software it builds. The speed, the limits and the roadmap are set by vendors you never picked. When you need something that stack does poorly, that becomes your problem too.

One queue for every format

A landing page, a week of ad variants and an email header are different jobs. Pushed through a single design queue, they fight for the same hours, and the fast-moving work ends up waiting behind the slow.

Put a number on it

The math on one creative queue.

A growing account burns through more creative than one design pipeline can produce. Move the slider to your spend to see the monthly gap.

A brand spending $10k–$50k/month on paid usually needs 10–20 fresh creatives a week to keep tests live and delivery stable.

One design queue ships a handful of polished assets a month. When a motion banner, an email header and three ad variants all fall due the same week, that pace can't cover it.

Drag the slider to your monthly spend and see the gap between what you need and what one design queue delivers.

Creative volume calculator
Output math for a multi-format account
Your monthly creative spend $25,000/mo
Fresh creatives your accounts need56/mo
What one design queue ships5/mo
Your creative shortfall every month 51 short
Illustrative industry rule of thumb for multi-format accounts. Not a performance guarantee.
How the engine works

One partner, every format.

Because we own the tool, we tune it to your account instead of waiting on a vendor's roadmap. It versions faster than any manual team, so a landing page and a week of ad variants are not fighting for the same designer's afternoon.

People still make the calls that matter: what to make, how the hook reads, whether it holds the brand line. Machine speed on the volume, human judgment on the craft.

Creative supply over a month
Illustrative cadence by model, not a benchmark
Design retainerA few assets, late in the month
QuickadsEvery format, every week
Each block is roughly a week of creative supply.

What changes for you

Your first month.

One partner

The vendor pile collapses

The design shop, the motion freelancer and the email contractor become one brief and one bill. Nobody is chasing three timelines to ship a single campaign anymore.

Cadence

Fresh creative every week

Testing gets a steady supply instead of a month-end drop. A winner that starts to fatigue gets its replacement the same week it dips, not the next cycle.

Control

A budget that flexes

Spend follows the work. Heavy launch month, scale up; quiet stretch, scale down. Your creative line stops being a fixed number you owe regardless.

Cost

Closer to half of in-house

The same output an internal team would produce, minus the salaries, the tool licenses and the layer of management it takes to run them.

Is it the right move?

Where Quickads fits.

This is not an all-or-nothing switch, and there are jobs we would tell you to keep elsewhere. Move the fast, high-volume work over and leave the rest where it already runs well.

Quickads is the better call when

Volume and speed are the job

  • Your week spans several formats at once, from ad variants to a landing page to an email header.
  • Signing a year-long, six-to-seven-figure deal before seeing output feels like the wrong order.
  • You want in-house-level output without carrying an in-house team's cost.
  • You are an agency or brand that needs assets now, not after a hiring round.
Keep your current setup for

The work that isn't the bottleneck

  • A ground-up rebrand or identity system, where a dedicated studio earns its brief.
  • Print, packaging and other offline work that lives outside the ad account.
  • One-off hero pieces where a month of polish is the point, not a problem.
  • Anything a partner you already trust handles well and quickly today.

Making the switch

A batch, not a migration.

Nothing to rip out, nothing to unwind. Most brands hand us one slice of their creative, see how it lands, then move the rest.

1

Send us the brief

Day 1

Show us what's running and where it's stuck: the formats you can't turn around fast enough, the campaigns idling on creative. Or skip the call and start free in the app.

2

Get a first batch

Days 2–4

On-brand creative lands ready to run, across the formats you named. Put it live, watch how it performs, and judge us on the output before scaling any spend.

3

Scale what works

Ongoing

Keep a steady flow month to month. Run us next to your current setup for as long as you want, then shift more across as the numbers earn it.

Straight answers

Questions before switching.

What is the best Superside alternative for creative-as-a-service?

Quickads, if your bottleneck is volume and range rather than one flagship design project. Superside briefs a managed team on licensed software. Quickads runs its own production tool with people driving it, so a single account covers ads, motion and lifestyle banners, email, landing pages and creator content. You begin with a batch, not a year-long contract.

Is Quickads more flexible than Superside?

Yes, and that is the core difference. Superside opens with a six-to-seven-figure, one-year commitment. Quickads starts with a single batch and bills monthly after that, so what you spend follows the work instead of a signature you gave up front.

Why do teams switch from Superside to Quickads?

Two reasons come up most. They need more formats moving at once than a single design queue can deliver, and they would rather not lock a year of budget before seeing the output. Owning our production tool is what lets us cover the range and still start small.

Can Quickads replace Superside completely?

For the day-to-day engine, ads, banners, email, landing pages and creator content, yes. For a ground-up rebrand or offline packaging, a dedicated studio may still be the better home. Most brands move the high-volume work to us and keep a specialist on call for the occasional set piece.

Does Quickads use AI or real people?

Both, by design. The tool handles volume and versioning at a scale a manual team can't match. Strategists and designers decide what is worth making, write the angles and hold the brand line. You can run the software yourself, or have our team run it for you.

How hard is it to switch from Superside?

Light. There is no platform to migrate and nothing to unwind on our side. Start with one batch, run it beside your current setup, and move more over once it proves out. You can begin free, without a commitment.

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Send us what you're running, or start free and make your first assets today. Either way you see real output for your brand before anything is signed.