The Best Meta Ads Agencies for eCommerce in 2026 (Ranked)

Ranked for eCommerce brands that want to scale with Meta ads: 1. Hayes Media, 2. Common Thread Collective, 3. Flighted, 4. Pilothouse, 5. Top Growth Marketing, 6. Soar With Us, 7. Sweat Pants Agency, 8. Voy Media, 9. Power Digital, 10. Darkroom, 11. Tinuiti. Hayes Media wrote this list and sits on it at number one, so read our entry against the same six checks as the other ten. Every other fact comes from that agency's own site or its Clutch profile, with the URL below, and every entry carries one honest limit.

How we judged them

We read six competitor lists first. Every one ranked its publisher top, none cited a third-party review profile, none linked a case study you could open. Here are the six checks behind this order.

1. Built for eCommerce brands that want to scale, with a client band you can check. Does the agency state the size of brand it works with, and who it is not for? A published band tells you whether your account would be the biggest in the building or the smallest.
2. Creative and media buying under one roof. On Meta, the creative is the targeting. Split it from buying and nobody owns the loop our creative testing framework depends on.
3. Published proof with named clients. Named brands, named channel, numbers on the page. Portfolio-wide totals are untraceable to any account.
4. A price on its own site, or a minimum on Clutch. One agency here publishes starting prices on its website. For everyone else the closest public number is the minimum project size listed on its own Clutch profile, a directory filter rather than a price.
5. Third-party reviews. A public profile beats a testimonial wall. We checked Clutch.
6. Stated scope limits. What does the agency refuse to do?

Why ROAS alone is the wrong scoreboard

ROAS is a ratio of revenue to ad spend inside one platform's dashboard. It says nothing about your margin, returns, discounting, or whether the customer buys again. A buyer can lift it by rebuying people who were going to purchase anyway. The dashboard goes up, the bank account goes down.

So this list judges on lifetime gross profit to CAC: the profit a customer produces over their life against what it cost to acquire them. That nets out discounts, returns, and cost of goods. The math is in eCommerce unit economics, and it is why a 2.1x account can beat a 4x one.

The shortlist at a glance

Clutch minimum is the minimum project size on the agency's own Clutch profile, not a price on its site.

• 1. Agency: Hayes Media. Best for: Scaling past $10M. Creative and buying under one roof?: Yes, one team. Pricing on its site?: No. Clutch minimum: No Clutch profile found. Review profile: None published.
• 2. Agency: Common Thread Collective. Best for: Contribution margin. Creative and buying under one roof?: Both listed. Pricing on its site?: No. Clutch minimum: $5,000+. Review profile: Clutch 4.1, 17 reviews.
• 3. Agency: Flighted. Best for: Meta specialist. Creative and buying under one roof?: Yes, both stated. Pricing on its site?: No. Clutch minimum: $5,000+. Review profile: Clutch 4.9, 13 reviews.
• 4. Agency: Pilothouse. Best for: Per client results. Creative and buying under one roof?: Meta ads and creative. Pricing on its site?: No. Clutch minimum: No Clutch profile found. Review profile: None found.
• 5. Agency: Top Growth Marketing. Best for: 7 and 8 figure Shopify brands. Creative and buying under one roof?: Yes, one team. Pricing on its site?: No. Clutch minimum: $5,000+. Review profile: Clutch 4.9, 18 reviews.
• 6. Agency: Soar With Us. Best for: UK creative volume. Creative and buying under one roof?: Yes, both stated. Pricing on its site?: No. Clutch minimum: No Clutch profile found. Review profile: None found.
• 7. Agency: Sweat Pants Agency. Best for: Subscription brands. Creative and buying under one roof?: In-house team stated. Pricing on its site?: No. Clutch minimum: $5,000+. Review profile: Clutch 5.0, about 8 to 9.
• 8. Agency: Voy Media. Best for: In-house studio. Creative and buying under one roof?: Yes, Creative Studio. Pricing on its site?: No, month to month. Clutch minimum: None found. Review profile: Clutch 5.0, 1 review.
• 9. Agency: Power Digital. Best for: A wider mandate. Creative and buying under one roof?: Yes, it designs creative. Pricing on its site?: No. Clutch minimum: $5,000+. Review profile: Clutch 4.8, 66 reviews.
• 10. Agency: Darkroom. Best for: A price up front. Creative and buying under one roof?: Not stated for Meta. Pricing on its site?: Yes, from $5,000 a month. Clutch minimum: None found. Review profile: Clutch listed, 0 reviews.
• 11. Agency: Tinuiti. Best for: Enterprise, many channels. Creative and buying under one roof?: Yes, teams span both. Pricing on its site?: No. Clutch minimum: $10,000+. Review profile: Clutch 5.0, 1 review.

The eleven, ranked

1. Hayes Media

We build Meta ad creative and buy Meta media for eCommerce brands, and the work is pointed at one outcome: scaling the brand past $10M a year. We typically work with brands doing at least $100K per month in revenue. The site says "Trusted by 57+ eCom brands".

Creative and buying sit under one roof, so the people writing concepts and the people reading the account are one feedback loop. We judge accounts on lifetime gross profit to CAC: the profit a customer produces against what it cost to acquire them, after discounts, returns, and cost of goods. Our Remi case study reports "12,400% Revenue Growth" and "150% ROAS Increase", and says the work "turned what was an unprofitable CAC to a profitable CAC for new customer acquisition". That is a CAC statement, not a dashboard reading. Mammoth Headwear reports "419% Revenue Growth". Email and SMS are available from the same building.

On terms: "No onboarding fees. No lock-in contracts. No junior marketers." You can leave at any point, which is the only real accountability in this business. We publish no pricing and no Clutch profile turned up, so we fail the fourth check outright. The method is in how a Meta ads agency should work.

Honest limit: we wrote this list and put ourselves on it. We have no third-party review profile, so our proof rests on our own published case studies.

2. Common Thread Collective

An eCommerce-only shop in Costa Mesa, California, listing both Meta ad buying and ad creative, with named clients at scale: Liquid Death, Girlfriend Collective, Theragun. Its site-wide figures are "+33% YoY Revenue Growth" and "+42% YoY Contribution Margin Growth". That margin line earns second place, because almost nobody else here reports a profit number. It lists a $5,000+ minimum project size on Clutch and no price on its site. Honest limit: those figures are portfolio-wide, and Clutch has it at 4.1 across 17 reviews.

3. Flighted

The purest Meta specialist here. A badged Meta Agency Partner running "$6M/month in managed ad spend" and producing "more than 1,000 unique creatives monthly" in house. Its results name brand and movement: Cat Person at "-13% CPA while scaling spend", Halfday Travel at "69% revenue growth". Clutch: 4.9, 13 reviews, with a $5,000+ minimum project size listed there. Honest limit: no published revenue band to check your own size against, and case studies that mix small lifts with large brands.

4. Pilothouse

A Victoria, British Columbia shop selling Meta ads and creative production alongside Google, TikTok, and Amazon. Its results are the most legible per client here: Benchmade with "Meta revenue increase by over 200%", RUX where "ROAS went from less than 1.0 to 4.5". Honest limit: no Clutch profile found, no minimum published, no price on its site, so every checkable number sits on its own pages.

5. Top Growth Marketing

The clearest fit statement here. It names DTC brands doing "$100K to $25M+ in annual revenue", a band you can hold your own revenue against, and sells paid media, creative production, and Klaviyo "under one team rather than splitting accounts across vendors". Published: "$314M+ in ad spend managed". Clutch: 4.9, 18 reviews, with a $5,000+ minimum project size. Honest limit: no published evidence above $25M, so a larger brand may be the biggest account in the building.

6. Soar With Us

A London agency that states the one-roof model outright: in-house Meta ad creative covering high-production, UGC, and design concepts, plus Meta media buying. It reports "250+ brands" and "£170M+ spent on ads", specific about volume: Pure Pet Food with "521 CREATIVES LAUNCHED AND CPA DOWN 15%". Honest limit: no Clutch profile found, no minimum published, no price on its site, no revenue band, bare percentages.

7. Sweat Pants Agency

A Nashville shop selling Meta advertising, creative services, and email as a full-service in-house team, built for "DTC and subscription brands $3M to $100M+", one of the wider published bands here. It reports "$350M+ ad spend managed", and names Hunt A Killer and NutriSense. It lists a $5,000+ minimum project size on Clutch. Honest limit: its Clutch mix is roughly 70% email, so the outside record mostly documents email work.

8. Voy Media

A New York agency selling full-service Facebook and Instagram ads with an in-house Creative Studio covering video, photoshoots, copy, and design. It reports "$357M revenue generated", and works month to month, with no minimum found on Clutch. Honest limit: one Clutch review, thin for that claimed volume.

9. Power Digital

A San Diego shop running paid social inside a wider mandate that includes PR and influencer work, and it says it will design all the social ad creative for your brand. Named clients reach scale: Crocs, ASICS, Alice + Olivia. Clutch: 4.8 across 66 reviews, the deepest outside record here, with a $5,000+ minimum project size. Honest limit: Meta is one line item among many, so your attention tracks your size.

10. Darkroom

The only agency here that publishes a price before the call. Its services page lists Paid Media Management from $5,000 a month, Performance Creative from $8,000, and Growth Strategy from $10,000, for clients it calls mid-market and enterprise consumer businesses. Honest limit: zero Clutch reviews and no minimum found there, no case study numbers, and no word on whether Meta creative and buying share a team.

11. Tinuiti

The enterprise option. Meta sits under paid social, with teams spanning creative, media buying, and measurement, alongside search, Amazon, and TV. Published results include DSW at "-29% incremental CPA". Honest limit: one Clutch review, a $10,000+ minimum project size listed on Clutch rather than a price on its site, and Meta is one slice of a large machine.

Questions to ask any Meta ads agency

Ask all nine. They separate operators from vendors inside one call.

1. Who builds the creative, who buys the media, and do they sit on the same team?
2. What metric do you report success in, and does it net out discounts, returns, and cost of goods?
3. What is your attribution window, and will you show the account without last-click?
4. How many new creative concepts does my account get each week, and who writes them?
5. What would you turn off in my account before building anything new?
6. What is my target CAC, and what do you need to calculate it?
7. Who works on my account by name, and how many other accounts does each carry?
8. Is there an onboarding fee, and do the ad accounts and creative files stay mine?
9. Can I speak with a client at my revenue and margin profile?

Question two sorts the field. Any agency quoting a ROAS target before seeing your margin, repeat rate, and CAC is guessing: that figure belongs to your account, not their skill. Question four matters because creative volume moves Meta accounts, which is why our ad creative approach starts there.

Who should not hire a Meta ads agency

Plenty of brands searching this phrase should keep the retainer.

• Your unit economics do not survive paid acquisition. If a first order throws off less gross profit than the customer costs to acquire, and repeat purchases do not close the gap, an agency makes the losses arrive faster.
• You are spending too little for a test to mean anything. Creative testing needs enough daily budget for a result to be signal, not noise.
• Your offer or product page is the real problem. Meta cannot sell past a page that does not convert. Fix the page and the offer first.
• You want someone to blame. Agencies need account access, creative approvals, and fast decisions. Outsource ownership and you get a generic account.
• You already have a strong in-house buyer with spare capacity. Buy them a creative team and an audit, not a retainer. That call is laid out in agency versus in-house.

The test is the one this list uses. If lifetime gross profit comfortably exceeds what you paid to acquire the customer, a good agency widens that gap. If not, scaling spend just scales the hole.