Paid Social Marketing AgencyA division of Influencer Advisory

For paid social and growth leads at brands already spending on Meta, TikTok or YouTube ads

Run your best creator posts as ads from the creator's own handle, with a paid social marketing agency

We find the creator posts worth backing, get the rights and access to run them from the creator's account on Meta, TikTok and YouTube, then move your budget to the ones that bring in customers.

Start with a free paid social audit

Before we meet, we put together a free audit of the creator ads in your space and the posts you could be running. It's yours to keep, whether we work together or not.

Who your competitors put money behind

The creators and publishers whose names sit on your competitors' live Meta ads, how many ads each one has, and how long they've been running.

Your posts worth backing

Which posts about you, from creators and from customers, look ready to run as ads, and whose handle each one should run from.

What nobody can see from outside

Where the public ad libraries go blind, like TikTok Spark Ads, so a quiet account isn't read as a gap.

  1. 1

    Pick a time

    Book a call and tell us, in short, where your ads run and the outcome you'd like to achieve.

  2. 2

    Get the audit first

    We'll send you over all the info before we meet.

  3. 3

    Go through it together

    Then we'll review them together and pick the first posts to put money behind.

Dennis in an Influencer Advisory shirt at the studio
Dennis

We're small, so no sales team. You'll talk to Alice or Dennis.

Who Onnit, fatty15 and MUD\WTR put their ad money behind

We read each brand's whole page of live Meta ads on the day named, and counted every ad with a second name on it beside the brand's.

Onnit, 2026

Onnit, 2026

On September 6, 2026, Onnit had 191 Meta ads running. 50 of them ran under a publisher's name beside Onnit's: Everyday Health, Thrillist, Entrepreneur, The Dodo and Reader's Digest. The one in the picture is Onnit's own product video, run under The Dodo's name.

What it shows

You can whitelist with publishers as well as creators. A name your buyer already reads can carry your own studio ad.

Source: Meta Ad Library

fatty15 and Ricki Lake, 2026

fatty15 and Ricki Lake, 2026

fatty15 started five ads with Ricki Lake's videos and her name on them on May 28, 2026. When we read its page on September 7, all five were still running, 102 days later. 34 of its 135 live Meta ads had a creator on them, and they came from just 4 creators.

What it shows

A few creators, kept running for months. A brand stops paying for an ad that loses money, so an ad still live after three months is the one to study.

Source: Meta Ad Library

MUD\WTR and Riley Wiens, 2026

MUD\WTR and Riley Wiens, 2026

On September 3, 2026, MUD\WTR had 30 Meta ads running from 14 different people's handles, all of them videos. Riley Wiens was on 8. 19 of the 30 had started in the week before, and 9 started that same day.

What it shows

The other way to do it: new faces and new videos every week, so Meta always has something fresh to test.

Source: Meta Ad Library

What brands that run these ads have said

Three people who run ads from other people's handles, in their own words.

“They get better signal when there's two handles on it. They get better targeting when there's two handles on it. The AI algorithm prefers it.”
Sean Frankfounder and CEO of Ridge

Open Residency, December 2025

“I'd rather it's coming from @JohnnyBones, his handle, versus if it's coming from my brand account, it's perceived differently on the end customer.”
Michael BrandtCEO of Ketone-IQ

Open Residency, April 2026

“Right now across my entire portfolio, whitelisting ads have just been the best performers, no question.”
David Herrmann of Herrmann Digitala paid social buyer

Marketing Operators, May 2024

A creator post that works only reaches that creator's own followers

90%of HexClad's influencer budget goes into running creator content as ads

Its head of growth puts the other 10% into the creator's fee. The post is where it starts, and the ad money is what shows it to more people.

Where creator ads usually go wrong

  • A paid post that runs once on the creator's page and is never run as an ad.
  • Ad rights that end before anyone finds out which video worked.
  • Every creator video run from the brand's own page, where it reads like the brand praising itself.
  • Picking the post the team likes best, when the ad account would have picked a different one.

Who we work with

Brands that already run Meta, TikTok or YouTube ads and already get posts from creators, and want those posts working as ads.

Brands already paying creators

Posts that ran once on the creator's page and never as an ad

Brands with a media buyer or agency

You keep your buyer. We bring the creators, the rights and the videos, ready for them to run

Health and wellness brands

Supplements, drinks and skincare, where every claim in an ad has to follow FTC and FDA rules

What brands get

01

Ads from the creator's own handle

Your offer runs with their name and face on it, so it reads like someone your buyer follows, and less like you talking about yourself.

02

Rights and access in writing

Access to run ads from the creator's account for a set time, signed before anything runs, so a video that works doesn't have to stop when a deal ends.

03

Budget moved to the winners

We read what each new customer cost and how much of each video people watch, creator by creator, and move your money to the ones that sell.

04

New videos every month

New creators and new versions keep coming, so there's always a fresh ad to test next to the ones already working.

Working with us, step by step

  1. 1

    We learn your brand and your ad account

    We learn about your value propositions and how you want the product framed. We also read your competitors' live creator ads: whose names are on them and how long each has run.

  2. 2

    We find the posts worth backing

    Posts about you that already did well on their own, and creators whose followers look like your buyer.

  3. 3

    We get the rights and access

    Before anything runs, the creator signs off on where the ad runs and for how long, and gives your ad account access to their handle.

  4. 4

    We review every ad

    We review every single ad before it goes live to keep quality and messaging on point, and you approve the first one.

  5. 5

    We test, then look at the results

    Each creator's ad starts as its own test. Then we look at the results: did the cost of a new customer drop, and which creators brought the best returns.

  6. 6

    We scale the winners

    More budget and new versions go to the creators who sell. Some brands also pay creators a share of what they spend behind their ads, so they want to make more.

Why work with us

We read the live ads

We read brands' whole Meta ad pages and record every ad that runs with a creator's or a publisher's name beside the brand's.

01

We know where the libraries go blind

Meta only shows ads that are running today, and TikTok's own library shows only ads from Europe, so we never call a quiet account empty.

02

We've read the interviews where the people running these ads at Ridge, Ketone-IQ, Nectar and True Classic explain what they do, and we build from that.

Health and wellness is one of our core lanes, so every ad goes out inside the FTC and FDA rules on what can be said.

Over the last year, we've worked across 55+ brands and helped companies 2-3x Black Friday launches.

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A division of Influencer Advisory

Paid Social Marketing Agency is the paid social division of Influencer Advisory, the influencer marketing agency Alice and Dennis run in Toronto. Same team, built for brands that want creator posts running as ads.

Questions brands ask us

What does a paid social marketing agency do?

It runs a brand's ads on Meta, TikTok and YouTube. We focus on one kind: creator videos run as ads, often from the creator's own handle, with the rights in writing and the budget moved to the ones that sell.

What is influencer whitelisting?

It's when a brand puts its ad money behind a creator's handle, so the ad shows the creator's name and face. The creator gives your ad account access for a set time, and you run their post, or a new video they make, as an ad. More on how brands run it.

What's the difference between Spark Ads and partnership ads?

Spark Ads are TikTok's. You boost a creator's own post with their permission, and the likes and comments stay on their post. Partnership ads are Meta's, on Facebook and Instagram, and show both names on the ad. More on how Spark Ads work and what partnership ads show.

Does the creator need a big following?

No. Ridge's founder has run ads from famous golfers, actors and musicians and from accounts Ridge made itself, and couldn't find a difference that held up. Your budget pays for the reach, so the video matters more than the follower count.

All 12 questions

Get your free paid social audit

We find the creator posts worth backing, get the rights and access to run them from the creator's account on Meta, TikTok and YouTube, then move your budget to the ones that bring in customers.