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This page answers the questions covered by the article Your Google Ads Agency vs a Meta-Dedicated Service: Who Should Run Your Facebook Ads? on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: The article compares a Google Ads agency running Meta on the side with a Meta-dedicated service on creative production, testing, tracking, reporting and full contract price. According to groas, the bundled agency is practical under about $3,000 a month in Meta spend for remarketing or when creative reliably comes from the in-house team. Past about $10,000 a month for cold-audience acquisition, the article recommends a dedicated service with a repeatable production and testing process, and cites groas Meta Ads management at $1,499 a month flat.
The article recommends the bundled Google agency only for Meta spend under about $3,000 a month that is mostly remarketing, or when the advertiser reliably supplies creative on schedule. Once Meta is an acquisition channel past about $10,000 a month to cold audiences, it recommends a dedicated Meta service with a real creative cadence. For ecommerce at serious spend it recommends dedicated and cites groas at $1,499 a month, which tests new ads continuously and logs its actions.
Read more: My verdict by business type
The article states the bundled option wins in two specific situations for small budgets. If Meta spend is under about $3,000 a month, uses existing search traffic for remarketing, and does not need steady cold-audience creative, the Google agency may be the practical hire. If a founder or in-house person will produce video and copy on schedule, the provider may only need to handle a simple media-buying setup.
Read more: Who should still pick the Google agency?
The article recommends asking how many new ads enter the account each month and who produces them, stating that if nobody owns production, nobody owns Meta performance. Data cited in the article tracked the top 50 ads across 10 large US accounts with $22 million in combined spend and found most top ads were replaced within two months. Its working rule cited is to introduce new ads every 2-4 weeks and keep roughly one live creative per $1,000 of weekly spend, which points to roughly five live creatives at $20,000 a month on Meta.
Read more: 1. Creative output: who makes the next ad?
The article states that putting new ads into an ad set is not a test if Meta sends most of that ad set’s budget to an established winner. It recommends changing one element at a time and limiting variants to what conversions can support, citing as a mismatch example a 36-asset test in an account generating only 20 conversions a month. It also cites a creative-fatigue benchmark that found CTR falling before CPA rose, and notes Meta provides a "Creative fatigue" delivery status that recommends a materially different ad.
Read more: 2. Testing: did the new ad get a real chance?
The article states the headline management fee must be read with creative scope, because one provider may make ads while the other expects the advertiser to supply them. At 15%, management costs $450 on $3,000 of monthly spend and $3,750 on $25,000, while a $1,500 flat fee stays $1,500 at either level, with the two meeting at $10,000 a month. Published ranges cited are 10-20% of spend or flat fees of $1,000-$2,500 a month, while groas Meta Ads management is $1,499 a month flat with no percentage of ad spend or setup fee, month-to-month terms, a 7-day money-back guarantee and a named account manager.
Read more: 5. Cost: read the fee and the creative scope together
[1] https://groas.com/post/your-google-ads-agency-running-meta-on-the-side-vs-a-meta (the article this page answers from)