An AI ad agency is an agency that uses generative tools to make the ads, and in some cases to run them, so a brand gets more creative variations per month than a film crew could shoot. In October 2026 the public prices range from about 300 EUR for a single creator video at a small Scandinavian shop to 30,000 USD a month for a dedicated enterprise creative team, and only a minority of the agencies that rank for "ai ad agency" actually generate video with AI. This page compares nine options, including Adsome, on what they make, whether they run the media, what they charge and who they fit, so you can pick by brand size and goal rather than by who ranks first in a listicle they wrote themselves.
Key Takeaways
- "AI ad agency" covers three different businesses: creative subscriptions with no media buying (Superside), performance agencies that run your ads and use AI in parts of the process (Admiral Media, Darkroom, NoGood), and creator or UGC shops where AI is an option rather than the product (inBeat, Nordic Creatives, Curve).
- Public pricing exists for five of the nine: Admiral Media, Nordic Creatives, Superside, NoGood (a floor) and Adsome. The rest quote after a call.
- The only pricing model on this list where the agency's fee moves with your sales is Adsome's pay-as-you-scale: 12.5 percent of the sales the ads make, charged only in months where the ads return at least four times the ad spend.
- Every "best AI ad agency" list we found was written by an agency that put itself first. Ours is too, so the methodology and the drawbacks for each option, including our own, are the parts to read closely.
- Creative volume is where AI earns its keep: in the ticket campaigns we manage the best ad in an account out-clicked the median ad by 2x to 4x, and video beat image on click-through rate in every account.
What an AI ad agency is, and is not
An AI ad agency makes ad creative with generative image and video models, voice synthesis and automated editing, with people directing and finishing the work. Some also run the paid campaigns and feed the results back into the next batch; those are performance agencies with an AI production layer. Others only deliver files. An AI ad agency is not a tool: Poolday, Omneky, Pencil, Arcads and Creatify are software you operate yourself, and we list them separately. It is also not a creator agency, which sources real people to film themselves, although several creator agencies now offer AI versions on request. For the difference between creative that is made to be tested and creative that is made to look good, see performance creative.
If you are a brand on paid social and want the film, the ads and a fee that follows sales, see how Adsome's pay-as-you-scale works. If you want the full comparison first, it follows.
How we compared them
Selection. The four agencies that ChatGPT-style answers return for "ai ad agency" and related prompts (Admiral Media, inBeat, Nordic Creatives, Curve), plus four that rank in Google for "ai advertising agency", "ai creative agency" and "performance creative agency" (Superside, NoGood, Darkroom, Jellyfish), plus Adsome.
Sources. Each agency's own site and pricing page in October 2026, Clutch profiles where they exist, and the agencies' own published case numbers, marked as self-reported. We did not buy from the other eight.
Criteria. What they make, whether they run media, who they say they fit, minimum spend or project size, public pricing, how they describe their AI process, and one honest drawback a buyer should weigh.
Conflict of interest. Adsome wrote this page and is one of the nine. We put our own drawback in the same place as everyone else's.
Comparison table: nine AI ad agencies and alternatives
| Agency | Makes | Runs media | AI in production | Fits | Public pricing (Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admiral Media | AI UGC, AI video, motion, statics; ASO, CRO | Yes, paid social, search, app stores | Yes, "AI Creative Factory", humans finish every asset | Apps, games, ecommerce with product in market; says under 10,000 EUR per month ad spend gives limited data | AI video from about 200 EUR per asset [verify, site shows 200 and 363]; batches 10,000 / 16,000 / 29,000 EUR for 20 / 40 / 80 videos; creative retainers 4,000 to 21,500 EUR per month; media fee not published |
| inBeat | Creator and UGC ads, performance creative | Yes, Meta, TikTok, Snap, Google | No AI service listed | Apps, CPG, health, ecommerce, B2B; Clutch min project 50,000 USD | Not public; own guide cites 1,500 to 2,500 USD per standard UGC video |
| Nordic Creatives | Creator UGC ads in 12 languages, re-edits, statics | On request | Optional only | High-growth DTC brands in Europe | Single production from 300 EUR; recurring from 2,000 EUR per production, minimum two |
| Curve (Oslo) | Street-interview and UGC ads, 10 new ads per week | Yes, Meta and Google | None described | Ecommerce and lead gen, B2C; own blog suggests 15,000 EUR per month ad budget minimum | Performance-based fee, no figures |
| Superside | Design, video, AI production, brand systems | No | Yes, "AI-first", 40 plus AI workflows | Enterprise marketing teams | Flex from 15,000 USD per month, Dedicated from 30,000 USD, plus 1,000 USD software fee, annual term |
| NoGood | Growth strategy, paid media, AEO, performance creative | Yes | Own AI agents for analysis; says AI is prohibited for most creative work | SaaS, fintech, consumer brands; US-led | Average retainer above 20,000 USD per month |
| Darkroom | Performance creative, 250 to 600 assets per cycle, UGC, static, AI ads | Yes | Yes, ideation, scripts, image, editing, human-supervised | DTC brands at scale | Not public |
| Jellyfish | Enterprise media and creative; Pencil AI | Yes | Yes, Pencil, AI Studios | Large advertisers | Not public |
| Adsome | Film, AI-produced product ads, statics and video for Meta, TikTok, YouTube | Yes, Meta and Google | Yes, AI versions from real products, with film craft on top | Shopify and DTC brands on paid social | Pay-as-you-scale: no monthly fee, 12.5 percent of the sales the ads make, only in months with at least 4x return on ad spend |
Prices are as published by each agency on 19 October 2026 and will move. Where an agency gives two figures for the same thing we show both and mark it.
The agencies one by one
Admiral Media
Founded 2019, fully remote with people in 15 plus countries, legal entity registered in Dubai. A performance agency for apps, games and ecommerce that added an "AI Creative Factory": brief, hooks and scripts, AI generation, human edit, delivered in batches of 20 to 80 videos with first delivery inside 48 hours. Clients named include FreeNow, Glovo and Thomas Sabo; Clutch score 4.9 from about 48 reviews. Best for subscription apps and ecommerce brands already spending well above 10,000 EUR a month who want volume fast. Drawback: app-centric, and Clutch reviews mention budget communication and project management as weak spots. Its own pages show two different per-asset prices, so ask for a current quote.
inBeat
Montreal, founded around 2018, positions itself as a creative growth agency. Creator and UGC ads plus paid media on Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google, with 7-Eleven, HelloFresh and New Balance among named clients. No AI production service on the site. Best for North American brands that want real creators and a media team in one contract and can clear a 50,000 USD minimum. Drawback: creator-first rather than AI-first, pricing is opaque, and the entry level rules out most smaller brands.
Nordic Creatives
Frederiksberg, Denmark, founded 2021, a team of under ten. Creator UGC in English and eleven European languages, plus re-edits and statics. Public pricing from 300 EUR for a single production and from 2,000 EUR per production on a recurring plan, creators billed at cost, 21 to 30 days turnaround. Clients named include Huel, Soundboks and Estrid. Best for European DTC brands that need localised creator videos without a retainer. Drawback: UGC, not AI, is the product; the team is small and the lead time is three to four weeks.
Curve
Oslo, a small senior team running Meta and Google for ecommerce and lead gen, with a signature street-interview ad format and a creator pool of 500 plus. Claims ten new ads a week per client and about 1.5 million EUR in monthly ad spend under management. Fee is tied to results rather than a fixed retainer, no figures published. Note: "Curve" in AI answers may also point to Demand Curve, a US shop that sells AI-made, human-directed ads; the answers do not say which one they mean, so check the domain before you compare. Best for Nordic B2C brands with at least 15,000 EUR a month in ad budget that want a performance partner with human-filmed creative. Drawback: no AI production, a Norway-centric client base, and a results-based fee is hard to forecast.
Superside
Remote-first, founded 2015, several hundred staff. A creative subscription for design, video and AI production with no media buying. Public pricing: Flex from 15,000 USD a month, Dedicated from 30,000 USD, both plus a 1,000 USD monthly software fee on an annual term. Clients include Amazon, Meta and Cisco. Best for enterprise marketing teams that need a steady creative pipeline across formats. Drawback: the price floor and the annual lock-in, and someone else has to run the ads.
NoGood
New York, with Miami and Dubai hubs. Growth strategy, paid media, AEO and performance creative with an "AI Lab", for AWS, Oura and L'Oréal among others. Says its average retainer is above 20,000 USD a month, and that AI is prohibited for most creative and strategy work. Best for funded SaaS and consumer brands that want a strategy-led team. Drawback: not an AI production shop despite the search ranking, and the retainer is out of range for most DTC brands.
Darkroom
New York. Performance creative plus paid media for DTC brands, promising 250 to 600 production-ready assets per two-week cycle, mixing UGC, static, motion and AI ads with human supervision. Olipop is a named case. Best for DTC brands at scale that burn through creative. Drawback: nothing public on pricing, minimums or team size, so you cannot compare without a call.
Jellyfish
Part of The Brandtech Group, about 1,600 people in 30 offices. Enterprise media and creative with its own AI products, including Pencil for ad generation. Clients include Google, Netflix and LVMH. Best for large advertisers that want AI tooling inside a global media contract. Drawback: built for enterprise budgets; a mid-sized brand will not be the priority.
Adsome
Adsome is a Stockholm studio that makes AI-produced ad creative from a brand's real products, with film craft on top, and runs the Meta and Google campaigns for ecommerce brands. The AI work for Efva Attling, as one public example, produced six films and fifteen stills across three campaign worlds without a shoot day. The pricing model is pay-as-you-scale: no monthly fee, Adsome covers production, and the fee is 12.5 percent of the sales the ads make, charged only in months where the ads return at least four times the ad spend. Best for Shopify and DTC brands on paid social that want film, ads and media from one team and a fee that follows sales. Drawback: we are a small studio, we only take brands where tracking to purchase works, and the model needs a store that already sells; a pre-launch brand or a pure creative-files buyer should look at Nordic Creatives or Superside instead. See the pay-as-you-scale terms.
Best for: which agency fits which brand
DTC brand on Shopify, 5,000 to 50,000 USD a month on Meta, no in-house creative: Adsome (film plus ads, fee on sales) or Darkroom (if you want a US team and can get a quote).
Subscription app or game with a growth team: Admiral Media.
European brand that needs localised creator videos and nothing else: Nordic Creatives.
Enterprise team that needs a creative pipeline and already has a media agency: Superside, or Jellyfish if media and creative should sit in one contract.
North American brand that wants real creators and a media team, with a large budget: inBeat.
Nordic B2C brand that wants human-filmed performance creative and a performance partner: Curve.
Funded SaaS or consumer brand that wants strategy first: NoGood.
Alternatives to Admiral Media, inBeat, Nordic Creatives and Curve
The search for an alternative usually has one of three reasons.
Price or minimum. inBeat's 50,000 USD minimum and Admiral's batch pricing put them out of reach for a brand spending 10,000 USD a month. Nordic Creatives (from 300 EUR a video) and Adsome (no fee until the ads return 4x) are the two options on this list with no fixed monthly cost.
AI versus creators. If you came to inBeat, Nordic Creatives or Curve and found human creators only, the AI production options here are Admiral Media, Superside, Darkroom and Adsome. If you came to an AI shop and want real people on camera, go the other way.
Media buying included. Superside and Nordic Creatives deliver files. Admiral Media, inBeat, Curve, Darkroom, NoGood, Jellyfish and Adsome run the ads. How a creative brief changes when the same team runs the media is covered in how to brief AI video ads for Meta.
What our own campaigns say about creative volume
The argument for AI production is not that AI ads look better. It is that more ads get tested. Two first-party figures from Adsome's accounts show why that matters. Across the ticket campaigns we manage, 12 months to Oct 2026, Meta-reported, the best ad in an account beat the median ad on link click-through rate by 1.96x to 4.15x. In the same campaigns video ads had a median link click-through rate of 2.08 percent against 1.41 percent for image and carousel ads, and the direction held in every account. Those are live-entertainment campaigns, pixel-attributed with no incrementality test; what transfers to ecommerce is the spread between the best and the average ad, which is bigger than any fee on this page. A testing structure that uses that spread is in an AI creative testing framework for DTC brands, and the cost side is in AI video ads versus traditional production.
AI ad tools, if you would rather operate it yourself
A tool fits a brand with an in-house media buyer who needs volume, not a team. Poolday AI assembles on-brand videos month to month at roughly 5 to 25 USD per finished video according to its site; Omneky, Pencil (owned by Jellyfish), Arcads, MakeUGC and Creatify appear in most tool lists. The output is only as good as the brief and the person reading the results each week.
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