9 Best YouTube Influencer Marketing Agencies (2026)

The best YouTube influencer marketing agencies in 2026 are The Outloud Group and ThoughtLeaders for creator sponsorships, Pixability and Channel Factory for YouTube media at enterprise scale, and Zorka.Agency for games.

YouTube is its own discipline. Deals are priced on average views, a sponsored video keeps earning for months, and the creator often has a manager in the room.

Below are nine agencies and platforms we checked on their own sites on November 6, 2026, grouped by the job you’re hiring for.

The 9 best YouTube influencer marketing agencies at a glance

Two publish numbers you can plan around: Zorka.Agency starts at $20,000 for influencer campaigns, and Agentio prices every creator at a standardized CPM. The rest quote after a call.

Checked on each agency’s own site, November 6, 2026.
Agency	What it is	Best for	Published pricing
The Outloud Group	Creator and podcast agency	DTC brands that want YouTube integrations at volume	Not published
ThoughtLeaders	Software plus managed service	Brands that want priced proposals fast	Not published
Creators Agency	Niche agency and sponsorship index	Finance, fintech and B2B software	Not published
Pixability	YouTube data and media platform	Enterprise brands running paid and creator together	Not published
Channel Factory	YouTube suitability and media platform	Big advertisers worried about where ads run	Not published
Zorka.Agency	Gaming and app influencer agency	Game studios and app installs	From $20,000 per campaign
NeoReach	Full-service influencer agency	Tech and entertainment brands on every platform	Custom
Agentio	Creator ad platform, not an agency	Teams that want to buy creator ads like paid media	Standardized CPM
Rev Management Group	YouTube boutique	Outdoor and fishing channels	Creator side from $2,500 a month

Best agencies for YouTube creator sponsorships

These three negotiate and run the deals: they pick channels, agree a price per video, manage the brief and report on what it returned. This is what most brands mean by a YouTube agency.

The Outloud Group

Best for: DTC and subscription brands that want many YouTube integrations running at once.
Pricing: not published.
Proof on its site: an AG1 campaign with 216 million views and over 20,000 conversions.

The Outloud Group says it has run 45,000-plus brand sponsorships over 18-plus years, with 140,000 creator relationships and 17.2 billion views.

Clients on its site include AG1, CarGurus, Fiverr, Hungryroot, KitchenAid, Whirlpool and Vinted.

It also runs podcast sponsorships, which suits brands buying both from one team. Its site lists premier partnerships with YouTube, TikTok and Meta.

ThoughtLeaders

Best for: brands that want a priced proposal in days rather than weeks.
Pricing: no brand plans published. You book a strategy call.
Proof on its site: 25,000-plus collaborations and more than $50 million in creator deals.

ThoughtLeaders is software and an agency together. It matches creators by audience overlap, then sends priced proposals in about three days on average.

Its site claims 10,000-plus creators in the network, 9.4 billion sponsored views and 300-plus brands. Testimonials name Magic Spoon, Boot.dev and Fetch Rewards.

Creators Agency

Best for: finance, fintech and B2B software brands buying YouTube sponsorships.
Pricing: not published. Agency fees and minimums aren’t on the site.
Proof on its site: $50 million paid to creators and 4,000-plus sponsored deliverables since 2021.

Creators Agency works with what it calls knowledge creators, and its focus is narrow: finance, business and B2B channels rather than lifestyle.

It indexes sponsorship activity across 12,000-plus YouTube channels and 200,000-plus sponsorship videos, and sells a competitive report built from it.

That index is the reason to call them. You can see which creators your competitors already sponsor before you spend anything.

Best YouTube agencies for enterprise media budgets

Pixability and Channel Factory are media companies first. They buy YouTube ads against creator content and control where those ads run. Hire them for scale and brand safety, not for one integration.

Pixability

Best for: enterprise brands that want paid YouTube, organic channel work and creator deals under one roof.
Pricing: not published.
Proof on its site: it claims to have powered more YouTube campaigns than any platform outside Google.

Pixability calls itself an AI-driven YouTube technology and data company. Its creator offering is data-driven creator selection plus paid amplification.

Its platform, Pixability360, puts paid, organic and creator YouTube work in one place. Logos on the site include WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Media, Burger King, CVS and Salesforce.

Channel Factory

Best for: large advertisers that need video-level control over which content their ads sit beside.
Pricing: not published.
Proof on its site: advertisers seeing twice the view-through rates and 14% lower CPAs, on its 2025 first-quarter benchmark.

Channel Factory’s pitch is suitability. Its AI reviews content video by video, then targets the channels and videos that fit a brand.

Its products are View IQ for content curation and Activate IQ for delivery, sold self-service, managed or on guaranteed outcomes. It runs from City of Industry, California.

This is ad buying, not creator sponsorship. If you want a creator to talk about your product in a video, the agencies above are the fit.

Best YouTube agency for games and apps

Game and app campaigns are judged on installs and cost per install, not views, so the agencies that win there are the ones with a tested roster of gaming channels.

Zorka.Agency

Best for: game studios and app publishers buying YouTube and short-form at volume.
Pricing: influencer marketing from $20,000, its wider programs from $50,000, brand awareness campaigns from $150,000.
Proof on its site: a Monopoly GO campaign for Scopely with 6 million views at a $25 average CPM.

Zorka.Agency names Scopely, Krafton, Tencent, NetEase, Garena, Plarium and PlayStudios as clients, with games including PUBG Mobile and Raid: Shadow Legends.

Its self-serve option, Zorka.Creators, books YouTube creators it has already run game campaigns with, and says there’s no minimum and no sales call.

Its site shows 4.9 on Clutch from 34 brand reviews. Outside games, the fit is weaker than the generalists.

Best full-service agency that also covers YouTube

A full-service agency makes sense when YouTube is one channel in a bigger campaign. You trade YouTube depth for one team across TikTok, Instagram and Twitch.

NeoReach

Best for: tech, gaming and entertainment brands running several platforms at once.
Pricing: custom. NeoReach says campaigns can launch in about seven days.
Proof on its site: more than $350 million in influencer spend managed since 2013.

NeoReach lists YouTube among the channels it runs, alongside TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and LinkedIn, and publishes a YouTube cost calculator.

Clients include NVIDIA, Netflix, Walmart, Airbnb, FanDuel and Robinhood. Its site says 250 million creators are indexed with 400-plus data points each.

For the wider field beyond YouTube, see our list of the best influencer marketing agencies.

The platform alternative: Agentio

Agentio isn’t an agency. It’s a platform that sells creator ads the way you buy paid media, at a standardized CPM, with the sourcing, contracts and payment handled for you.

Best for: performance teams that want to scale creator ads without hiring an agency.
Pricing: creators are priced at what Agentio calls a transparent, standardized CPM.
Proof on its site: Turo ran 435 creator partnerships in a year, and Bombas reports 90% net-new customers.

You set budget, audience and channels, then approve creators and content. Agentio says brands approve 90% of the creators it matches them with.

Logos on its site include Fanatics, Turo, Bombas, DoorDash, Uber, HelloFresh, WHOOP and Chime. It raised a $40 million Series B led by Forerunner.

Access is sales-led, through a demo request, so it isn’t a card-and-go tool yet.

Best boutique for outdoor YouTube channels

Boutiques know a niche’s creators personally, which matters on YouTube where audiences are built around a subject. A general agency won’t know which fishing channels actually sell gear.

Rev Management Group

Best for: brands that want outdoor YouTube creators, and outdoor creators who want management.
Pricing: creator-side management starts at $2,500 a month. Brand campaigns are quoted per deal.
Proof on its site: Luke McFadden’s channel grew from about 100,000 to nearly 1 million subscribers in two years.

Rev Management Group manages outdoor YouTubers, including Travis Pastrana’s Channel 199 and Jacob Knowles. Brands it has worked with include MeatEater, Garmin and onX.

Brands book Rev’s creators through Mudcast, which picks the creators, then handles contracts, gear, drafts and payment on one invoice.

How much does a YouTube influencer agency cost?

Expect two line items: the creator fees and the agency’s cut. Published minimums start at $20,000 a campaign at Zorka.Agency, and most agencies quote only after a call.

Creator fees are the bigger number. YouTube integrations run roughly $15 to $80 per 1,000 views, so a 100,000-view video costs $1,500 to $8,000.

Agency fees sit on top, as a project fee or a monthly retainer. The ANA’s late-2025 study found 55% of marketers pay mainly per project and 45% on retainer.

The same study found only 51% of marketers can see exactly what creators were paid. Ask for creator fees as a separate line in every quote.

Our guide to marketing agency pricing covers retainers and project fees in more detail.

Agency, platform or direct outreach?

Run one or two deals yourself. Use a platform when you want a creator database and your team has the time. Hire an agency when you need many creators and nobody in-house to chase them.

Route	What you pay	What you do	Fits
Direct outreach	Creator fees only	Find, negotiate, contract, pay, measure	1 to 3 videos a quarter
Platform or marketplace	Software fee or a CPM	Pick creators and approve content	A steady program with staff time
Agency	Creator fees plus a fee or retainer	Approve the plan and the creators	Many creators, or no one in-house

In Influencer Marketing Hub’s 2026 benchmark survey of 600-plus mostly smaller brands, 66% ran influencer marketing fully in-house and about 11% used an agency.

If you’re starting with one deal, our guide on how to sponsor YouTubers covers rates, contracts and briefs.

For a campaign with several creators, see YouTube influencer marketing. The self-serve tools are in our list of the best influencer marketing platforms.

How to choose a YouTube influencer marketing agency

Ask for two YouTube case studies in your category with cost per view or conversions, not impressions. YouTube experience doesn’t transfer from a TikTok portfolio.

Ask which YouTube channels they’ve booked in the last 90 days, by name.
Ask what share of your budget reaches creators and what the agency keeps.
Ask how they price a video: flat fee, CPM on average views, or performance.
Ask who owns the footage and whether you can run it as a paid ad afterwards.
Ask how they handle a video that underdelivers on views.
Check the minimum budget before the first call.

Our list of questions to ask marketing agencies and the red flags to watch for apply here too.

Common mistakes when hiring a YouTube agency

Hiring a TikTok-first agency and expecting YouTube results.
Paying for subscriber counts instead of average views on recent videos.
Judging a 30-day report. YouTube sponsorships keep returning views for months.
Buying a media-suitability platform when you wanted a creator integration.
Skipping usage rights, then paying again to run the video as an ad.
Letting the agency hold the creator relationships with no written handover.

Sponsoring fishing, hunting or boating creators?

Tell Mudcast what you’re promoting. A person on its team replies within hours with matched creators, formats and pricing, then runs the contract, gear, drafts and payment.

Check creator availability and rates on Mudcast

Sources

Each agency’s own website, checked November 6, 2026
Marketing Dive on the ANA influencer agency compensation study, March 6, 2026
Influencer Marketing Hub, Benchmark Report 2026

Frequently asked questions

What is the best YouTube influencer marketing agency?

It depends on the job. The Outloud Group and ThoughtLeaders are the strongest picks for creator sponsorships, Pixability and Channel Factory for enterprise YouTube media, and Zorka.Agency for games.

For outdoor channels, Rev Management Group specializes in that niche.

How much do YouTube influencer agencies charge?

Most don’t publish prices. Zorka.Agency starts at $20,000 a campaign, and Agentio prices creators at a standardized CPM.

Creator fees are separate and usually larger, at roughly $15 to $80 per 1,000 views.

Do I need an agency to sponsor YouTubers?

No. One or two deals a quarter are quicker to run yourself by emailing the channel’s business address.

An agency earns its fee when you need many creators, negotiation on price, and reporting nobody in-house has time to build.

What is the difference between a YouTube agency and a creator management agency?

A YouTube influencer marketing agency works for brands and buys sponsorships. A creator management agency works for the creator and sells them.

Our guide to creator management agencies covers the creator side.

How do YouTube agencies price a sponsored video?

Most price on average views over a channel’s recent videos, at an agreed cost per 1,000 views, then add their own fee.

Ask whether the rate uses the last 10 videos or a lifetime average. The difference can be large on a channel that’s cooling off.

Which agencies work with small YouTube budgets?

Zorka.Creators takes bookings with no minimum, and direct outreach has none either. Most managed agencies want five figures per campaign.

Last updated: November 6, 2026

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Best YouTube Influencer Marketing Agencies