Performance Creative Agencies: 26 Firms Compared

Bearaby's cost per acquisition fell 29% and its return on ad spend rose 129% since launch while ad spend grew 35%, according to Character's case page (opens in a new tab). It also found Bearaby's top-performing ads were the more aesthetically pleasing ones, ahead of the benefit-led ones.

The firm calls its approach performance branding: it creates, distributes and optimizes voice-driven story content from third-party publishers and creators, then runs it as paid ads on Facebook, Instagram, Google and TikTok. Its services page (opens in a new tab) said in October 2026 that engagements start with two months and then run month-to-month, and listed spending over $100K a month on digital channels among the signs a brand is a fit.

In a campaign for N26 in Spain, Creative Milkshake reports 65% lower cost per completed mobile registration from user-generated ads, tested against branded content with multi-cell Brand Lift and Conversion Lift studies. Philippe Rozier, N26's global paid social lead, is quoted about the result on the case page (opens in a new tab).

The agency describes a system that runs from research and production to media buying and optimization, combining studio shoots with creator content, and it makes ads in English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese. A separate Meta lead generation page (opens in a new tab) ties each creative angle to lead quality, mapping distinct messages so each one tests a different reason to respond.

inBeat's Genomelink case (opens in a new tab) reports 73% lower customer acquisition cost on TikTok and 124% more completed registrations. The work kept 5 to 10 user-generated videos in production at all times, so a replacement was ready when an ad showed fatigue, and tested hooks, calls to action, voiceovers and creators. Its Hurom case (opens in a new tab) reports a 300% rise in return on ad spend and 65% lower cost per acquisition from health-focused creator ads, in a scope that also rebuilt the paid media.

The performance creative page (opens in a new tab) lists hook, angle and format testing, high-velocity variant production, creator sourcing and media management across Meta, TikTok, YouTube and CTV. Its FAQ says inBeat works with in-house teams, takes standalone performance creative projects and works remotely.

Running all of SUMMIT One Vanderbilt (opens in a new tab)'s paid media (search, social, programmatic, audio and connected TV), Socialfly reports that cost per acquisition came in 40% below goal as revenue scaled, according to its May 2025 case. It matched creative to each stage of the funnel and used a mix of platform-native creators.

Its creative services page (opens in a new tab) describes a production studio and a creative team working with the strategy, organic social and paid media teams on assets for paid and organic placements. Socialfly is based at 231 West 29th Street in New York.

85SIXTY's Ascent Protein case (opens in a new tab) reports a 48.6-point rise in brand awareness against a 4.0-point benchmark and a 22.5-point rise in purchase intent against 1.7 for a January campaign whose creative drew on monthly tests run through 2023 and whose media plan added digital out-of-home and TikTok. Kirsten K., Ascent's head of marketing and partnerships, praises the team's approach to creative for Instagram and TikTok.

Its creative service (opens in a new tab) treats creative and performance as one discipline, with creative optimization and testing, AI-assisted variations, and photo and video production. The agency also offers media buying, lifecycle marketing, SEO and web development.

On agency THE's creative page (opens in a new tab), Woodley Auguste of Charisma Media credits the agency with online sales growth of over 250% year over year and New York Times best seller status for two book lines. Lauren Eggert of Barnie's Coffee says its media buying grew the brand's direct ecommerce sales. Both describe sales results more than creative tests.

The same page lists ad creative among the firm's services and says it uses performance data to fine-tune its creative. The Orlando agency also runs media, search and shopping ads, and offers a client platform it calls Marketing Command.

farsiight's Mocka case (opens in a new tab) reports 31% year-over-year revenue growth from work spanning digital strategy, creative strategy and paid search; it does not separate creative's share. A Google Brand Lift study of the YouTube work found exposed audiences were twice as likely to search for Mocka, the case adds.

The performance creative service (opens in a new tab) designs ads for Meta, TikTok, Google and YouTube, with a single creative-strategy contact, a monthly report on what performed and what to test next, and every file handed over. farsiight prices creative as a fixed project cost with no hourly rates; the amount is not published. It is an Australian company.

Fetch & Funnel's JLR case (opens in a new tab), published in 2022, describes fresh ad creative built around a British handbag brand's TV appearance that produced more than 1,000 sales attributed to Facebook, part of a year in which sales rose 146%. On its ad creative page (opens in a new tab), Jonathan Cabin, growth manager at Kissmetrics, says the agency cut its conversion costs by 57%.

The same page said in October 2026 that performance ad creative is included when a client signs on at $10k a month, and invites clients who want ad design alone to get in touch. The pricing page (opens in a new tab) lists three plans with creative in each but shows no prices, and says clients own everything the agency creates, including their data. Fetch & Funnel is based in Boston.

Found's homepage carries a testimonial from Marcus Dennis of Roche's global marketing team and client logos including ADT and Cook Medical; the pages read link no case study.

Its performance creative team (opens in a new tab) makes images, videos and landing pages "in days or hours, not weeks" and validates changes with eye-tracking and scroll-map data. It works with Found's paid media and data teams to reduce cost per lead and improve conversion rate. The approach page (opens in a new tab) promises a single scope of work, transparent pricing and no hourly billing, without figures.

For skincare brand Algenist, Hawke Media reports a 466% increase in revenue and a 12.5% rise in average order value from the paid social program after one year, according to its Algenist case (opens in a new tab). The paid social work used user-generated content; the case describes A/B creative testing separately, under paid search.

Its TikTok service (opens in a new tab) produces platform-native content for organic posts and for Spark Ads and paid campaigns "powered by testing, insights, and creative iteration," and matches brands with creators and affiliates. Hawke also offers paid search, paid social, branding and photo and video production.

M+C Saatchi Performance took over Gopuff's performance campaigns in April 2025. Its Gopuff case (opens in a new tab) reports that by December monthly media investment had risen 46% and new purchases 48%, while customer acquisition cost improved 10.7%. Paid social purchases rose 66% in the second half as standard display gave way to creator-led content.

Its creative performance service (opens in a new tab) covers creative analysis, production at scale and localization, with campaigns adjusted on performance data. The agency says app marketing remains its specialty, and it has a New York office (opens in a new tab) on West 22nd Street.

Across the top-performing ad variations for FLOOF, a luxury pillow brand scaling on Meta with UGC creative, Mason Interactive reports 6X return on ad spend. FLOOF's founder, Peter P. Sivas, credits "compelling UGC creatives" on the case page (opens in a new tab), dated 2025.

Its services page (opens in a new tab) describes an in-house studio that makes brand and performance creative, with the same team running the ads: weekly creative testing, real-time media optimization and monthly strategy reviews. The homepage says Mason runs paid media for brands spending $10K to $10M a month. Its office is in Brooklyn.

Metric Theory's GoFundMe case (opens in a new tab), published in 2021, reports an 868% increase in fundraisers from the social ad program it launched across new markets, with continual creative tests part of the work. The legacy site's footer credits "Monks, formerly Metric Theory", and its creative page (opens in a new tab) still describes ad refreshes and video ads in several formats.

Monks' performance creative page (opens in a new tab) reports 44% more sales for Hatch from work that accelerated its creative output; the page summary gives no comparison period. The service develops direct response creative to test against specific audiences and placements, with its creative team embedded with its media strategists.

For James Avery, MissionOne Media reports scoring more than 600 assets with an AI tool: ring-focused ads made up 3.5% of the creative but delivered 14% of average daily revenue and the highest ROAS, 7.4x (case page (opens in a new tab)).

adlucent.com now redirects to MissionOne Media, whose pages refer to Adlucent's proprietary technology. The services page (opens in a new tab) lists performance-driven creative development and AI-powered creative analysis alongside media planning, CRM and measurement.

For the equestrian brand LeMieux, Nest reports 33% higher ROAS than the previous approach and, after a year, 32% more new customers and 38% revenue growth. The full-funnel work also included international expansion, and the case reports a tenfold increase in LeMieux's Meta and YouTube investment. The work adapted LeMieux's existing video for top-of-funnel Meta and YouTube campaigns. Shaun Loughlin, LeMieux's head of ecommerce, is quoted on the case page (opens in a new tab), published in 2024.

Nest Studio (opens in a new tab) turns one shoot into hundreds of channel-native variants tracked by Nest's Hummingbird AI platform, and a creator program supplies UGC. The London agency's FAQ (opens in a new tab) said in October 2026 that it works best with brands spending at least five figures a month on paid media, and its homepage pitch listed "£75k+/month paid media spend."

For Apple Federal Credit Union, Silverback used a TikTok Creator Challenge to produce a high volume of low-cost creator ads and moved budget to the best performers. The case page (opens in a new tab), published in 2025, reports a 300% rise in membership applications and a 69% drop in cost per application in 50 days.

The performance creative service (opens in a new tab) starts from buyer research and hypotheses, produces static, video and UGC-style ads, tags each one by concept, format, message, persona and funnel stage, and reports which concepts are winning or fading. The creative team sits inside the media team. Silverback offers a free audit to brands spending over $50K a month on media.

Within one quarter, Socium Media's Meta work for Catbird (opens in a new tab) lifted orders 41% and revenue 40% while cutting CPA 16%, after its performance creative team built a creative testing roadmap, according to the agency's 2024 case, which quotes Catbird's growth marketing manager.

Its performance creative service (opens in a new tab) maps testable concepts, makes the assets internally, tests them and evolves the strategy from the results. Its FAQ says photography and video come from partner studios and photographers, since Socium does not offer them in-house. The agency is based at 5 Crosby Street in New York and offers a free consultation.

In a two-cell split test on Meta over 14 days in February and March 2026, with budget, bids and targeting held equal, adding 10 Reels-native assets built from emerging trends cut CPM 12.4% and lifted conversions 9.7% against the existing ads alone, Tinuiti's OLLY Body case (opens in a new tab) reports. The top three new assets beat the top three existing ones on click-through rate by 14.1%.

Its creative service (opens in a new tab) describes a performance creative strategy built from audience insight and performance data. Creative sits inside a media agency that also runs search, streaming TV and measurement through its Bliss Point system.

For fashion retailer END., Tug reports a 34% increase in average basket size and 126% ROAS in the first four weeks of a three-month paid social test (case (opens in a new tab)). Those results cover dynamic product-feed ads and measurement of the wider program, not creative alone.

In an August 2026 article (opens in a new tab), Tug describes building modular creative libraries, testing variations on Meta and TikTok, cutting weak ones early and feeding the results into the next round of production. Its paid media service also runs search, display and video, and the agency lists offices including New York.

Voy Media's Dr. Squatch case (opens in a new tab), from 2021, centers on more than 150 Facebook creatives, including "controversial" ads made from existing footage. Its creative studio page (opens in a new tab) also reports average ROAS of 20.06 for Gosun over four months, without explaining how it was attributed, and says the studio runs high-volume creative testing and produces UGC, studio shoots, copy, design and video editing for Facebook and Instagram ads.

The pricing page (opens in a new tab) says packages depend on total ad spend, optimizations and growth, and gives no figures.

Seasonal creative for The RealReal on Meta (opens in a new tab) delivered ROAS 30% above benchmark, a 50% lower cost per consignment form submission and 36% lower cost per click, according to WITHIN's 2025 case.

Its creative service (opens in a new tab) aims to produce a high volume and variety of content for every placement, with in-house production and post-production, creator UGC through a partnership with brkfst.io, and audits of existing creative. Engagements range from positioning work to month-to-month ad testing. WITHIN lists an office in Queens, New York.

Amsive's creative proof on the pages read is a site and photography project: for Globe Bag Co. (opens in a new tab) it reports 32% more total orders year over year after a redesign and new images of more than 350 products.

Its performance creative page (opens in a new tab) describes data-led concepts with integrated testing and optimization, multivariate-tested motion graphics for DRTV and CTV, and direct mail creative, drawing on its Audience Science approach. The agency also runs paid media, SEO and direct marketing from its New York headquarters at 915 Broadway.

On its media page (opens in a new tab), The Charles Group describes giving Hard Rock Hotels a new creative direction with refined design templates and data-powered A/B testing. It says it "develops performance creative," ad assets "designed and optimized for measurable outcomes across paid media channels," produced with its media team (content services (opens in a new tab)).

Headquartered in Lower Manhattan with offices in Chicago and London, the agency names Aveda, HP and Birkenstock among its clients and serves luxury, beauty, hospitality and technology brands. Its FAQ describes three ways to engage: project-based work, retainers and full agency-of-record partnerships.

For a Zipcar summer campaign in London, Collective World reports 33% more clicks, an 8% increase in new app users and applications, and paid social CPM cut in half (case (opens in a new tab), 2025).

Its performance marketing studio (opens in a new tab) runs paid ads on Meta, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn and tests "creative formats and targeting through a data-led test-and-learn approach." Its creative studio (opens in a new tab) says it tests, optimizes and adapts content across channels. It lists offices in London and at 99 Hudson Street in New York.

For The Fresh Market (opens in a new tab), DAC reports 583,000 store visits attributed to paid digital media clicks in 38 days, a 58:1 return on ad spend and $0.74 per store visit; the 2024 case reports results for the campaign as a whole.

DAC's creative service (opens in a new tab) uses AI to analyze performance data, guide ideation and optimize assets, and a proprietary Brand Lens to adapt creative from the brand to the local level.

QNY Creative's homepage names it agency of record for Oak Farms Dairy, with a campaign spanning linear and connected TV, outdoor and social, and shows work for Filippo Berio and Parmigiano Reggiano. The pages read give no performance figure for a client.

Asked in its own FAQ (opens in a new tab) whether it is a creative agency or a performance agency, QNY answers "Both." The FAQ says creative runs through every channel it manages, including paid media, social and retail media, with creative "built to convert closer to the point of purchase," and that it reports against agreed KPIs. The same FAQ says QNY works with growth-stage consumer brands doing $5M to $500M in revenue, and that a brand can hire it for a single service, including creative. Its New York office is at 515 Madison Avenue.