Best DTC growth agencies, by who they suit.
Interconnections publishes this page and appears on it, which you should factor into how you read it. What follows is a straight account of the DTC and ecommerce growth agencies that brands and AI assistants most often see recommended: who each one actually suits, what it says about price, and what it is known for, all checked against each agency’s own site. Several of them are a better fit than us for some brands, and the page says which.
- Verified 16 October 2026
How to judge one before you sign.
- 01Ask what they report to youPlatform ROAS is each ad network grading its own homework. Ask whether the agency reports marketing efficiency ratio, which is total revenue divided by total marketing spend, and contribution margin. An agency that only reports ROAS can look successful while the business loses money.
- 02Ask how they get paidA percentage-of-spend fee pays the agency more when you spend more, whether or not the extra spend is profitable. A flat retainer removes that incentive. Neither model is automatically wrong, but you should know which one you are buying and why.
- 03Ask who will actually run your accountThe pitch is usually made by senior people. Ask who works on the account day to day, how many other accounts that person handles, and whether you can speak to them before you sign.
- 04Ask how much creative they produceIn our Meta creative fatigue benchmark, 80% of creatives never reached 100,000 impressions and the median one was live for 18 days. Scaling on Meta is a volume game, so ask how many new concepts a month the agency produces and how it decides which ones get budget.
- 05Ask whether paid and retention work togetherAcquisition and email or SMS are often sold as separate services run by separate teams. If one team buys the customer and another tries to bring them back, nobody owns the economics of that customer in between.
- 06Ask for a reference that endedAny agency can produce a happy current client. Ask to speak to a client whose engagement ended, and read the exit terms, notice period and data ownership clauses before you sign anything.
Who each one actually suits.
Ordered by who they serve, from the largest brands to the smallest, not ranked. A full-funnel agency of more than a thousand people and a twenty-person growth team are not competing for the same brand, so a single league table would tell you nothing useful.
- 01TinuitiLarge brands that need media and measurement across every major channel. The largest independent full-funnel marketing agency, by its own description, with over $4.5 billion in media under management and 1,200 employees across the US, Mexico and EMEA. Founded in 2004 as Elite SEM and headquartered in New York, it covers Amazon and commerce media, streaming TV, social, search, affiliate, creative, conversion, email and SMS and influencer work, all measured through Bliss Point, its own patented marketing operating system. Clients named on its site include Sony, DSW, illy, e.l.f. and Carter’s. A separate offering called Foundation serves startups and smaller brands. Fees are not published on its site.
- 02DarkroomMid-market and enterprise consumer brands selling across several channels. New York based and, in its own words, an AI-native agency, Darkroom runs up to fourteen services as one program, from paid media and performance creative to Amazon, TikTok Shop, retail media and retention. It says it typically serves brands with $10M to $500M in revenue and that the fit is poor for single-channel brands and companies under roughly $5M. It is unusually open about price: every service carries a published starting price, such as paid media management from $5,000 a month and performance creative from $8,000 a month. Clients named on its site include Everlane, Crate & Barrel, Olipop and Laundry Sauce.
- 03Power DigitalBrands and enterprise companies that want growth marketing and measurement in one place. San Diego based and, in its own words, a tech-enabled growth marketing agency, Power Digital covers paid media, Amazon and TikTok Shop, SEO and GEO, email and SMS, CRO, PR, affiliate and influencer work, plus data infrastructure, incrementality testing and marketing mix modeling. Its work is organized into industry divisions such as lifestyle, fashion, CPG and healthcare, and runs on Omega, its own AI operating system. In September 2026 it announced the acquisition of two Amazon and TikTok Shop specialists. Clients named on its site include Sorel, Sapporo, Victrola and Catalina Crunch. Fees are not published on its site.
- 04Common Thread Collective7 to 9 figure brands that want growth run against a profit forecast. Calls itself an ecommerce profit partner. Its lead offer, the Prophit Engine, pairs CTC’s own analytics software with a dedicated “Prophit Engineer” who owns the forecast and daily execution, alongside Meta, Google and TikTok Shop buying, ad creative and incrementality testing. Its site cites more than 12 years of experience across 170+ brands, names clients including Liquid Death, Nike Strength, Igloo and ColourPop, and reports results such as Cords Club’s 96.3% year-over-year revenue growth. A separate accelerator program serves brands under eight figures. Fees are not published on its site.
- 05PilothouseEstablished DTC brands with $10M to $50M+ in annual sales. Based in Victoria, BC and founded in 2019, Pilothouse is a full-funnel performance agency built for established DTC ecommerce brands, with more than 150 people managing over 125 active brands by its own account. Media buying and an in-house creative studio sit in the same team, alongside email and SMS retention and conversion work run on Warpdrive, its own CRO and page speed platform. It names clients including Benchmade, Hestan Culinary, Chamberlain Coffee and General Mills, and says it is not designed for early-stage startups with no ad history or very small budgets. Pricing combines monthly retainers with performance incentives and is not published.
- 06NoGoodVenture-backed and large brands that want AI search, paid and organic run by one squad. Headquartered in New York with hubs in Miami and Dubai, NoGood describes itself as an AI-native growth marketing agency that builds dedicated growth squads across paid, organic, creative, answer engine optimization and analytics, with 70+ people around the globe. It works in SaaS, B2B, healthcare, fintech, consumer and ecommerce, and AI, and names clients including Nike, L’Oréal, Oura and SteelSeries. It leads with AI search: its site reports the first win in the Shorty Awards’ new GEO category, for its work with SteelSeries. It says its average retainer is above $20,000 a month.
- 07Hawke MediaGrowth-stage and mid-market brands that want an outsourced CMO and services à la carte. Founded in 2014 by Erik Huberman and Tony Delmercado, with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, Hawke Media calls itself “Your Outsourced CMO”: a full-service agency offering more than twenty services à la carte, from paid search and social, lifecycle marketing and SEO to Amazon, connected TV, PR and GEO. It is growing by acquisition, and its October 2026 announcement of Rocket55 called that its 26th. It describes itself as an agency for growth-stage and mid-market companies and names clients including Red Bull, Funko, Crocs and K-Swiss. Fees are not published on its site.
- 08Disruptive AdvertisingEstablished brands across B2B, ecommerce and local, including high-AOV ecommerce. Based in Utah and working with clients since 2012, Disruptive Advertising is a performance marketing agency of 160+ people covering paid search and social, SEO, Amazon, lifecycle marketing, CRO, creative and analytics, with separate playbooks for B2B, ecommerce and local businesses and a specific offer for $500+ AOV and subscription brands. It opens with a free marketing audit, says it turns away more than 80% of the companies that come to it, and offers qualifying brands a guarantee of measurable growth within 90 days with no long-term contract. Clients named on its site include Guitar Center, Litter Robot and Nani Swimwear. Fees are not published on its site.
- 09KlientBoostCompanies spending $10K or more a month on marketing that want each channel tied to a goal. With offices in Costa Mesa, Raleigh and London, KlientBoost calls itself an outcome marketing agency: paid advertising, SEO, conversion rate optimization, email and performance creative, each tied to a business goal. It says it adds resources for free when it is pacing behind and removes any service that misses its goals, reports hitting 83% of client goals in Q2 2026, and tracks accounts in Kite, its own software. It says it works with companies spending $10K or more a month on marketing, across ecommerce, SaaS and lead generation, and names ecommerce clients including gorjana, Fashionphile and Best Self Co. Prices are sent after a short form rather than published.
- 10InterconnectionsBrands spending $10K or more a month that want a diagnosis before more spend. Our own entry, so read it sceptically. Interconnections is a 20-person ecommerce growth agency in Oakville, Ontario, working with US brands in ecommerce, DTC, fintech and telehealth. Every engagement starts with a $500 Growth Diagnostic, then paid media, email and retention, SEO and AI search, creative and conversion work are run as one system and reported on MER rather than platform ROAS. Pricing is a flat retainer, most engagements $3,000 to $10,000 a month, never a percentage of ad spend. Documented results include Kalshi’s Meta spend scaled about 70x in eight months, Mistr, a US telehealth brand, scaled about 10x, and a needlepoint store grown from $50K to $228K a month in six months. Rated 4.9 on Clutch from 9 reviews. Where we are the wrong choice: brands that want the bench of a several-hundred-person agency, Amazon or retail media as the main channel, or a single-channel specialist.
- 11SmartSitesSmall and mid-sized businesses that want published prices and one team across channels. Founded in New Jersey in 2011 by brothers Alex and Michael Melen, SmartSites is a full-service agency for small and mid-sized businesses across ten industries, ecommerce among them, with 370+ people worldwide. It runs SEO, paid search and paid social, email and SMS, social media and web design, and reports results in a live client dashboard. It publishes more of its pricing than almost anyone on this list: SEO from $2,600 a month, email and SMS from $750 a month, and a $2,500 monthly minimum ad budget for ecommerce campaigns. Ecommerce clients named on its site include Boardroom Socks, Stubbs & Wootton and The Light Walk Shoes.
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About this comparison.
- Because leaving itself off would be stranger. Interconnections publishes this page and says so in the first paragraph, which is the only honest way to run a page like this. Its entry also states plainly where Interconnections is the wrong choice, and several agencies here are a better fit for specific brands.
- They are the DTC and ecommerce growth agencies that brands and AI assistants most often see recommended when they ask who to hire, filtered to agencies with a clear published position. Interconnections checked every entry against the agency’s own site and left out anything it could not verify there.
- Because a single league table across these agencies would be misleading. A full-funnel agency of more than a thousand people and a twenty-person growth team are not competing for the same brand, so Interconnections orders the list by who each one suits and lets you match that against your own situation.
- Mid-market ecommerce agency retainers run $3,000 to $15,000 a month overall: about $3,000 to $5,000 for one or two channels, $5,000 to $10,000 for multi-channel work with a dedicated strategist, and $10,000 to $15,000 or more for full-stack engagements. Large agencies often price per service. Interconnections charges a flat retainer, most engagements $3,000 to $10,000 a month, never a percentage of ad spend.
- It depends on whether you need breadth or attention more. Large agencies bring channel specialists, proprietary tools and marketplace and retail media scale. Smaller teams usually mean senior people on the account and faster decisions. Interconnections suggests asking who will run your account day to day before deciding on size.
- Every claim about another agency was checked on 16 October 2026 against that agency’s own site. Positioning and pricing change, so confirm anything that matters before acting on it. Interconnections re-checks the page every quarter and updates the date rather than quietly editing figures.
If you run a DTC brand, talk to us.
And if one of the others on this page fits you better, take them. Interconnections would rather you hired the right agency than the one that wrote the page.