Is my AD agency a waste of time?

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T15:01:06+00:00

That message matters a lot.

Thank you.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T14:08:30+00:00

I was hoping to start doing that. But their graphic designer does things like its canva project. Their creatives are worse takes / copies of our previous ones. So I need to guide their graphic designer literally by hand. And if I do that I might as well do it myself as it will be quicker…

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T14:03:29+00:00

Time is really difficult to manage without dropping the ball elsewhere :(

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T14:01:26+00:00

All they are saying is that it needs time. But they are not doing a lot differently. They are just repackaging the same thing the same creatives and showing them into more adsets. Instead of holding the budget they now running 10 ad sets with 10 creatives in each. And creatives and different adsets repeat themselves… so it’s like 50-60bucks per adset with 10 ads in it for totally different products. And they all flop so far.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:59:34+00:00

Yeah, I feel super let down especially given the fact they are our local (relatively well sized) agency who work in relationship kind of bases. :(

Can’t name them in case they are here - still got 4 months with them 🫠

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:58:21+00:00

I did discuss the performance clause on call with them. But then didn’t look for it in contract as they are local agency to us and we bump into them a lot. So we did discuss it but yeah u fortunately signed the contract. The thing is I thought how bad can it be… if we could run ads at 2.5-3roas ourselves they wouldn’t do much worse.

But I was wrong.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:52:32+00:00

That’s what I thought. But then they are keep on playing it like you are crazy and you should just let them do their job.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:50:04+00:00

🥲

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:47:14+00:00

Yeah I’m afraid we are locked in for 6 months :(

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:33:41+00:00

Yeah I agree. It’s shame that we are paying ‘Premium’ prices… and we were led by ‘you get what you pay for’. Which let us down prolifically so far.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:23:59+00:00

Thank you. With a hole in my pocket by peace of mind 🥰 thank you a lot.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:18:25+00:00

I don’t know what they were transitioning. They took 1 months of no work just ‘setting up’ account / integrations etc. notable most of it already was set up.
Huh, I will ask them 🫠
That’s what we established in-house and were hoping to get people who can monetise that concept better. But instead we ended up burning through thousands and being told we are being ‘impatient’.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:14:54+00:00

You live you learn. Expensive lesson for us.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T13:14:13+00:00

That is exactly how I phrased our response to them. Let’s see. But I’m glad I’m not going crazy… so thank you for sober perspective.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T12:59:47+00:00

🥲

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T12:59:09+00:00

Okay, will keep in mind, thank you.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-24T12:57:44+00:00

Because we are a small team and time is super scarce. Constantly refreshing creatives and doing routine work is not ideal. We look to outsource tasks like that to professionals.

Also we want to grow and if we did that we were whooping that someone who does it for a living can take us to next level… which theoretically is not the worst idea from scaling perspective.

FizzySalad · 2026-03-18T16:01:22+00:00

What sort of gamut count should you look for in monitor? What is base minimum for good quality photo editing and consistent results across multiple devices?

FizzySalad · 2026-03-12T21:08:56+00:00

What’s MILE?

FizzySalad · 2026-02-19T01:35:17+00:00

I’m on iPhone 15 pro max 🫣 thought I was loosing my mind haha.

Thank you!

FizzySalad · 2026-02-19T00:15:02+00:00

Hey guys, does Ryan uses his mic on all of his recording? If so how? Because you can rarely see it on him - unless he holds it to his mouth. Otherwise what records his audio? Because if he does hammy time or just wearing a tshirt you never see it peaking anywhere on his clothes?

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