Done For You Content Agency: What It Costs in 2026

A done for you content agency plans, produces, publishes and reports on your content end to end, so the only thing you supply is your time on camera and your approval. In 2026, the published monthly prices run from $495 for a productized video subscription to $30,000 for a dedicated creative team.

That spread is not random. It tracks one thing almost perfectly: whether the provider publishes a price at all. Of ten providers we opened this week, every one priced under about $4,000 a month showed a complete price card with a checkout button. Every one priced at $10,000 a month and up showed a floor, or nothing, and a button that books a sales call.

Below are the real numbers, taken from each provider's own pricing page and linked so you can check them. Then the scope of what "done for you" usually covers, the break even math against hiring an editor, and the cases where a content system for B2B founders is the wrong purchase.

What is a done for you content agency?

A done for you content agency is an outside team that owns the whole content process for a flat monthly fee: strategy, scripting, production, editing, publishing, and reporting. You show up to record, you approve, and the work ships without you touching a timeline or a CMS.

It sits at one end of a three way choice:

• Do it yourself. You buy the tools and do all of it. Cheapest in cash, most expensive in founder hours.
• Done with you. A coach or consultant builds the system and trains your team. You still produce.
• Done for you. The agency produces. You supply raw input and decisions.

Half of B2B organisations outsource at least one content marketing activity, and the marketers who described themselves as most successful outsourced more than the least successful, 57 percent against 36 percent. That comes from the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs report B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2022, published October 2021. Worth saying plainly: CMI dropped the outsourcing chapter from later editions, so this is the most recent figure they published, not a current one. Anyone quoting an outsourcing percentage as 2026 data is quoting this survey with the year filed off.

What does a done for you content agency cost in 2026?

Prices below were on each provider's public pricing page on 10 August 2026. Where a provider does not publish a price, that is recorded too, because it is the more useful finding.

Published price cards, checkout available

• Vidchops: $495 a month for four long form videos or sixteen shorts with three revisions each and a dedicated editor. $995 a month doubles the output and removes the revision cap. Subtitles are a $95 a month add on. Month to month.
• Video Husky: $849, $1,590 and $2,749 a month across three tiers, the top one fully white label.
• Vidpros: $1,000 a month for a dedicated editor two hours per working day with overnight turnaround, $4,000 a month for eight hours a day. Larger plans are call gated.
• EditorNinja: $397 a month for 10,000 words of basic editing, rising to $1,997 a month for 40,000 words of in depth editing. Writing is priced per piece at $500 for a human written article and $250 for an AI written, human edited one. Quarterly minimum commitment.
• Verblio: $0.06 per word for AI plus human, $0.16 per word for fully human, plus a $49.50 monthly platform fee on the hybrid plan. No monthly minimum on self serve.
• EchoPulse: a $299 Pilot for fourteen days, then $1,997 a month for the Growth retainer and $4,997 and up for the Full System. Month to month after the Pilot, thirty days notice.

Floor published, real number requires a call

• Superside: $15,000 a month minimum on an annual term, plus a $1,000 a month software fee. A dedicated team starts at $30,000 a month on a twelve month term. There is no month to month option. Note where those numbers live: not on the tier cards, but inside the FAQ accordion below them.
• Omniscient Digital: full service engagements start at $10,000 a month. They state plainly that they do not charge hourly and will quote a retainer once they know more.
• Draft.dev: $22,000 to $27,000 per quarter depending on scope, with most clients starting on a twelve post quarterly pilot, and a $20,000 minimum for a six video package. That number is not on a pricing page. There is no pricing page. It lives in a client onboarding blog post.

No price published anywhere

• Animalz: no figure, no floor, no starting at. The services page ends in a form that routes to a calendar.

The freelancer benchmark

Upwork publishes its own rate ranges, which is the cleanest like for like floor. It lists video editors at $10 to $60 an hour with a $35 median and content writers at $15 to $40 an hour with a $25 median. Upwork footnotes these as typical ranges from historical contracts worldwide, so treat them as a floor rather than a forecast of what a good freelancer will accept.

Why do some agencies publish prices and others hide them?

The usual explanation is that agencies hide prices to avoid being compared. Our sample says something narrower and more useful: the split is explained by price point, not by category or honesty.

Under roughly $4,000 a month the offer is productized. The scope is fixed, so a price card works and a checkout button is possible. Above roughly $10,000 a month the scope is genuinely custom, one buyer wants six videos and another wants a rebrand, and a single number on a card would misprice most of them. Both are defensible.

What is less defensible is the middle behaviour: publishing the number somewhere it cannot be found. Superside's real minimums sit in a collapsed FAQ under price cards that show no prices. Draft.dev's quarterly range is in a blog post about onboarding. Technically disclosed. Practically invisible to a buyer scanning for a number.

A hidden price is not a scam. It is a signal that the number depends on who is asking, which means you ask for the floor before you take the demo, not after.

If a provider will not give you a floor on email before a call, that is your answer about how the rest of the relationship will go.

Is a done for you agency cheaper than hiring in house?

The honest comparison is against one hire, not against a whole team. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the median annual wage for film and video editors at $70,980 in May 2024, with the bottom ten percent under $39,170 and the top ten percent above $145,900. Marketing managers sit at a $161,030 median for the same period.

That editor median is about $5,915 a month in base salary alone, before payroll taxes, benefits, software licences, hardware, recruiting, and the weeks of ramp before the first usable deliverable. It buys forty hours a week of one skill.

Say your volume is eight long form videos and thirty shorts a month, which is a normal load for a founder posting daily. That fits inside a $995 to $2,749 productized subscription, and it does not fill forty hours. The arithmetic favours the subscription until your volume genuinely saturates a full time person, or until the work needs product knowledge that takes a quarter to build.

Three things flip the maths towards hiring: your content requires internal context an outsider cannot get, you need same day turnaround on unpredictable requests, or you are already paying more than one agency. If you are weighing all three options at once, the freelancer against agency against in house cost comparison goes deeper on the break even point.

What does done for you actually include, and what does it not?

The phrase promises more than most contracts deliver. Typical inclusions across the providers above:

• Strategy and a content calendar
• Scripting or outlining
• Editing, captions, thumbnails, and format variants
• Publishing and scheduling
• A monthly report

Typical exclusions, which you should confirm in writing:

• Your paid media budget, which is separate from the fee
• Your own time on camera, which nobody can outsource
• Approvals and brand decisions
• Raw footage storage beyond a stated window. Vidpros, for example, publishes three months
• Ownership of the accounts and project files

That last one causes the most damage. In a thread about firing a marketing agency, the highest voted reply put it better than any agency ever will: "You're not actually locked in by them, you're locked in by not owning your own accounts." Your analytics, Search Console, ad accounts, CMS and raw files should live in accounts you own, with the agency added as a user you can remove.

The other scope question worth asking early is how many channels the fee covers. Most agencies own one. A video subscription hands back your blog, a writing subscription hands back your founder video editing, and you end up managing three vendors who each think someone else owns distribution.

When should you not hire a done for you content agency?

Four situations where the answer is no, and one of them is common enough that it should be the first question on any discovery call.

1. You have not decided who you sell to. No agency can produce its way out of positioning you have not settled. Spend the $2,000 on ten customer calls instead.
2. Your volume is under about two deliverables a month. At Upwork's $35 median for editors, a freelancer is cheaper and the coordination cost of a retainer is not worth it.
3. You cannot give sixty to ninety minutes a week. Done for you still needs you in the frame and on the approval. Every provider on this page depends on raw input from you.
4. You need a lead number inside thirty days. Draft.dev publishes that a first article lands six to nine weeks after signing, and that is a competent shop being honest about a normal timeline.

CMI and MarketingProfs asked 1,015 B2B marketers about their top three content challenges for their B2B Content and Marketing Trends: Insights for 2026 report, published October 2025. The answers were creating content that prompts a desired action at 40 percent, resource constraints at 39 percent, and measuring content effectiveness at 33 percent. An agency solves the second one. It cannot solve the first or third for you if nobody on your side owns the number.

How do you vet a done for you agency before you sign?

We swept sixteen threads across r/smallbusiness, r/marketing, r/DigitalMarketing, r/SEO, r/PPC and r/b2bmarketing where founders described agency relationships that went wrong. The complaint that recurred most, in eight of those threads, was not price. It was reporting on impressions and reach instead of leads or revenue. Overpromising in the pitch and underdelivering after signing appeared in seven, and generic, plagiarised or quietly subcontracted content in six.

So ask these, in this order:

1. What single number will you report each month, and is it leads, pipeline, or impressions? If the answer is reach, you have your answer.
2. Who does the work, are they employed or subcontracted, and can I see three pieces they personally made?
3. What is the floor price? Ask by email, before the demo.
4. If we stop, what happens to the accounts, the raw footage, and the project files?
5. What is the notice period, and is there a minimum term?
6. Can I buy one paid deliverable before committing to a month? A shop confident in the work will say yes.
7. Run the first deliverable through a plagiarism check. One r/SEO poster found their agency had shipped copy with another client's company name still in it.

One industry cliché to retire: the claim that agency relationships are collapsing. The ANA and the 4A's measured average client agency tenure at roughly seven years in April 2025, more than double the 3.2 years reported in 2016, with independents at 7.3 years against 5.8 for holding company agencies. The caveat matters and most write ups omit it: respondents were screened to have been in a relationship of at least three years, which biases the average upward. Long relationships are normal. Bad ones are what get posted about.

If you are pricing a specific channel rather than a full system, the month by month content agency cost breakdown and the LinkedIn ghostwriting price ranges cover narrower ground with the same published numbers approach.

Frequently asked questions

What is a done for you content agency?

A done for you content agency owns your content process end to end for a flat monthly fee, covering strategy, scripting, production, editing, publishing and reporting. You supply raw input, usually recording time, and approvals. It differs from done with you services, where a consultant trains your team and your team still produces the work.

How much does a done for you content agency cost per month?

Published 2026 prices run from $495 a month for a four video productized subscription to $30,000 a month for a dedicated creative team. Most founder sized engagements land between $1,000 and $5,000 a month. Providers above roughly $10,000 a month usually publish only a floor and quote the rest on a call.

Do content agencies publish their prices?

About half do. In a ten provider sample, every provider priced under roughly $4,000 a month published a full price card with checkout, three published only a starting floor, and one published nothing. The dividing line is price point, not category. Cheap offers are productized, expensive ones are custom scoped.

Is a done for you content agency worth it for a small business?

It is worth it when your monthly volume is more than a freelancer can absorb but less than a full time hire can fill, and when you can commit an hour a week to recording and approvals. It is not worth it if your positioning is undecided or you need results inside thirty days.

What is the difference between done for you and done with you content?

Done for you means the agency produces and publishes the work. Done with you means a coach or consultant builds the system, writes the playbook and trains your team, but your team still does the production. Done with you costs less monthly and more in internal hours.

Key takeaways

• Published 2026 prices for done for you content run from $495 to $30,000 a month, and most founder sized engagements sit between $1,000 and $5,000.
• Whether a provider publishes a price is explained by price point, not honesty. Under about $4,000 a month the offer is productized and priced on a card. Above about $10,000 it is custom scoped and quoted on a call.
• Watch for prices that are technically published but hidden in an FAQ accordion or a blog post rather than on the pricing page.
• The BLS median for a film and video editor was $70,980 in May 2024, about $5,915 a month in base pay alone. A subscription wins until your volume fills forty hours a week.
• The most common founder complaint about agencies in our Reddit sweep was reporting on impressions instead of leads, not price.
• Confirm account and file ownership before you sign. Lock in comes from not owning your analytics and ad accounts, not from the contract.
• Do not hire anyone until you have decided who you sell to. Positioning is not an outsourceable problem.

Seeing the work beats reading about it

EchoPulse Media runs video editing, LinkedIn, blogs, ad creative, websites and automations under one team and one invoice, with senior review on every deliverable. Engagements start with a $299 Pilot that runs fourteen days, and you keep everything produced whether you continue or not. If you want to see what that looks like for your channel mix, start with the done for you content system for founders and operators.