Fractional Meta Ads lead retainer

A senior Meta Ads owner, without the full time hire

Facebook and Instagram held by one senior person who sets the account structure, the audience approach and the creative testing plan, then briefs your designer to produce the work. We work with your team, never with your clients. Flat monthly fee, never a percentage of ad spend, and your media budget stays on your own billing.

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White label, no client calls From BDT 70,000 per month Flat fee, never a percent of spend
At a glance
  • ModelFractional, monthly
  • Entry retainerBDT 70,000 / mo
  • Scope10 to 28 hrs / mo
  • ChannelMeta only, FB and IG
  • Fee basisFlat, not percent of spend
  • Client facingNo, your team fronts it

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Packages

Four ways to engage a fractional Meta Ads lead

Priced per month, per ad account, in addition to your media budget. Agencies running this white label under their own name pay the same rate and resell at their own margin.

New relationship? Start with the Account Audit and 90 Day Plan. No minimum term, and the fee counts in full toward your first month if you move to a retainer inside 30 days.
Account Audit and 90 Day Plan
BDT 75,000one time
approx USD 625 · approx 20 focused hours over 2 weeks · no minimum term
  • Structure and spend audit in one document
  • Pixel, Conversions API and event quality check with a fix list
  • Creative angle map and a 90 day testing plan
  • One handover session with your team, 90 minutes
  • Fee credited in full against the first month if you start a retainer inside 30 days
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Meta Ads Advisory
BDT 70,000/ month
approx USD 585 · approx 10 hours per month · minimum 3 months
  • Weekly 45 minute session with your internal team
  • Account reviewed, changes specified for your team to make
  • Testing plan kept current, results read every month
  • Up to 4 creative briefs
  • Monthly report
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Recommended tier Fractional Meta Ads Lead
BDT 1,20,000/ month
approx USD 1,000 · approx 18 hours per month · minimum 3 months
  • Everything in Advisory
  • Audit, event quality check and 90 day plan included in month one
  • Hands in the ad account, not only reviewing it
  • Up to 8 creative briefs, still produced by your designer
  • Catalogue and retargeting direction
  • Client ready report your team presents as its own
  • One ad account owned end to end on Meta
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Embedded Meta Ads Director
BDT 1,80,000/ month
approx USD 1,500 · approx 28 hours per month · minimum 6 months
  • Everything in Fractional Meta Ads Lead
  • Up to 3 ad accounts, or 1 account plus your agency's own Meta marketing
  • Two internal sessions per week
  • Creative review rhythm set up with your production team
  • Hiring scorecard and interviews for your paid social hires
  • Team training, 2 hours per month
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Working time and minimum term, side by side

Logo and mark, concepts and source filesfrom $30
Brand identity: logo, card, letterhead, social kit, guidelinesfrom $299
Brochure or company profilefrom $150
Large brochure or catalogue productionfrom $750
Packaging, label, signage and billboard artworkfrom $199
Social posts, flyers and coverspriced per set

Add ons, priced separately

Logo and mark, concepts and source filesfrom $30
Brand identity: logo, card, letterhead, social kit, guidelinesfrom $299
Brochure or company profilefrom $150
Large brochure or catalogue productionfrom $750
Packaging, label, signage and billboard artworkfrom $199
Social posts, flyers and coverspriced per set
Availability is capped at three active retainers in total, counted across every fractional retainer offered, the SEO Lead, the Inbound Head, the Paid Media Lead and the single channel pages. The scope above is only honest if the calendar is not oversold, so a fourth account gets a start date rather than a promise. That cap is the reason the weekly session actually happens every week.

Fees quoted in BDT and exclude media budget, USD figures are indicative and settled at the invoice date rate Scope it on WhatsApp See every service on our pricing page

Honest proof

Where the method comes from

The operating rhythm on this page, one owner on the channel, a written plan, weekly accountability and a monthly report that says plainly what to cut, is the one used in house at Brain Station 23, where inbound pipeline grew by a multiple of 43 over the period measured. That is an in house result from an in house role, not an agency client outcome, and it is shown as proof of method rather than as a promise of your numbers.

// retainer standard vs in house track record (not a client outcome)

$ cmbd scope --show standard,in-house

▲ retainer standard · WHAT YOU GET

Audit and planinside 21 days
Working sessionweekly, 45 minutes
Reportingmonthly, written for you
Fee basisflat, not percent of spend
Client callsnone, you front them
Active retainerscapped at 3 in total

▲ in house at Brain Station 23 · FOUNDER, INBOUND

Inbound pipeline43x (in house)
Approachone owner per channel
Led byfounder, in house
Typeinbound, not outbound

// note: in house result · shared as method proof, not a client outcome

What carries over is the rhythm rather than the number: one owner on the account, a written testing plan, weekly accountability, and a monthly report that says plainly which angle is finished and which one deserves more budget.

The complete guide

The fractional Meta Ads lead role, explained

The problem it solves, what the retainer owns and the working time each piece takes, how the first 90 days run, how white label works, and who it fits.

Meta stopped being a targeting game some time ago. The auction reads the creative, works out who it looks like it is for, and finds those people faster than any interest stack a buyer can assemble by hand. That is why a broad audience carrying six genuinely different angles usually outperforms a carefully layered interest build running two videos.

The account is not the bottleneck, the angle list is

The lever moved from the audience panel to the ad itself, and a lot of accounts never moved with it. So the work that decides the result sits upstream of the campaign. Someone has to choose which promise gets tested this month, which objection an ad is built to answer, which format carries which idea, and what gets retired when frequency climbs and the hook stops earning the first three seconds.

Most agencies have a person who can build the campaign. Fewer have a person whose job is deciding what goes into it. This retainer is that person. Your fractional lead sets the structure, writes the briefs, reads the results and tells you whether a flat month was a hook problem or an offer problem, because those two get fixed in completely different places.

The fee is flat, never a percentage of ad spend. Percentage pricing pays the manager to spend more of your money, which is the wrong incentive on the exact decision you are hiring someone to make. Ad spend is paid by you, direct to Meta, on your own billing. Client money is never held here.

What a fractional Meta Ads lead owns

  • Account and campaign structure audit. Consolidation opportunities, budget fragmented across ad sets that never leave the learning phase, audience overlap, and what Advantage+ is currently being asked to do. 12 to 16 hours, once at the start.
  • Pixel, Conversions API and event quality check. Deduplication between browser and server events, event match quality, which events fire and which are modelled. 5 to 7 hours, once at the start.
  • Audience and campaign structure decisions. Broad against stacked, exclusion logic, where a manual campaign still beats Advantage+ and where it does not. 3 to 4 hours per month.
  • Creative testing plan and iteration calls. Which angles run, how they are read, what is scaled and what is retired. 3 to 4 hours per month.
  • Creative briefs for your designer or video editor, with the angle, hook, offer, format and first three seconds specified. 1 to 1.5 hours per brief.
  • Catalogue and retargeting setup direction. Feed hygiene, product set logic, retargeting windows that do not simply re-buy people who were arriving anyway. 2 to 3 hours per month.
  • Weekly working session with your internal team, decisions made, next week assigned. 45 minutes per week.
  • Monthly report. Spend, results, creative read, what to cut and what to scale, written so your team can present it. 3 to 4 hours per month.

The hours shown are per unit of work, not a monthly total. A brief takes the same time whether you buy four or nine of them, and your package hours decide how many of each piece runs in a given month. The retainer is bought as scope, not as a timesheet, and work beyond the agreed scope is quoted in writing before it starts.

Creative production is not included. The angles, hooks, offers, formats and testing plan arrive as written briefs. Your designer or video editor produces the assets, or a specialist production team is introduced for the job. On Meta this is the assumption worth correcting on day one, because the account needs a steady supply of new material and it has to come from somewhere with capacity every week.

This page covers Meta only, Facebook and Instagram. When Google, LinkedIn or the split between them is also in question, the Fractional Paid Media Lead retainer holds every paid channel under one owner, and the Fractional Inbound Head retainer adds organic search to the same seat.

What actually happens after you sign

Days 0 to 21 · Diagnose

Access to Business Manager, the ad account, the pixel and the catalogue on day one. Tracking is verified before anything is judged, because since the ATT prompt a large share of conversions are modelled rather than observed, and an account read on broken events gets fixed in the wrong place. Ends with the audit and the 90 day plan.

Days 21 to 60 · Fix and ship

Wasted spend cut first, since that pays for the retainer before anything else does. Structure rebuilt where budget is split across ad sets too small to exit the learning phase, exclusions cleaned, and the first brief batch goes to your designer so the angle list starts widening.

Days 60 to 90 · Read and repoint

Honest read on cost per result and on which angles carried it. Budget moved toward what worked, cut from what did not, and the next quarter testing plan handed over. The month 3 report is the one to judge the retainer on.

Meta moves in days, which cuts both ways. Restructure too often and every ad set sits in the learning phase and nothing is readable. Expect the first four weeks to be tracking, structure and angle supply, and the real read on creative to arrive once enough conversions have accumulated to separate a winner from a good week.

How white label works in practice

Your agency stays the face of the account. We do not attend your client calls, pitches or quarterly reviews, and we do not contact your clients unless you ask for it in writing. Direction, briefs, budget decisions and the written report come to your team, and your team presents them as its own.

Before a client call you get the report, the numbers and the talking points a day ahead, plus a 20 minute prep session when the account is complex. On the Fractional Meta Ads Lead and Embedded tiers the monthly report is formatted for your team to present unchanged. The Advisory report is written for internal use.

That boundary is also why the same person can hold structure and budget decisions without ever sitting between you and your client. Agencies running this under their own name pay the same rate and resell at their own margin.

Who this is built for

  • Agencies with Meta clients and a media buyer who executes well, but nobody senior deciding what gets tested and when a winner is finished.
  • Ecommerce and lead generation teams where Meta is the main paid channel and the numbers have been flat for a quarter or longer, often the same teams that need a demand generation plan behind the channels.
  • In house teams whose paid social person left, who need the account held and the standard kept while they hire.
  • Accounts spending roughly USD 1,000 to 30,000 a month on Meta. Below that range the Advisory tier is the honest choice, because the account will not gather enough conversion data to be worth a full retainer fee.
  • Teams with a designer or video editor who can actually produce new assets every week. This matters more than the budget does. An account fed one new video a month cannot be tested properly by anyone.

It is a poor fit if you want ad creative produced here, a guaranteed return on ad spend, a percentage of spend arrangement, or someone to run Google, LinkedIn, TikTok, programmatic or affiliate. This page covers Meta only, Facebook and Instagram. Briefs are written here and produced by your team.

Meta is not your only paid channel?When the account also runs Google or LinkedIn and the live question is where the next unit of budget belongs, that question sits above any single channel. The wider retainer holds every paid channel under one owner and one blended number, from BDT 1,00,000 a month, and the Fractional Inbound Head page adds organic search to the same seat, from BDT 1,10,000 a month.

What will not be promised

Never promised

  • A guaranteed return on ad spend or a guaranteed cost per result, because the offer, the budget, the creative supply and the auction are not all ours to control.
  • A percentage of ad spend arrangement, ever, and no holding of your media budget.
  • Creative production. Angles, hooks, offers and testing plans are specified in a brief and produced by your designer or video editor, or by a production team introduced for the job.
  • Presence on your client calls, or contact with your clients unless you ask for it in writing.
  • Cloaking, policy workarounds, or anything that puts a Business Manager or an ad account at risk of restriction.

Committed every month

  • The scope in your package, held on the calendar.
  • A testing plan and account structure that stay current.
  • The weekly working session with your team.
  • The monthly report, and being told early when Meta is not the right channel for the offer, including when that means cutting our own scope.

The minimum term is set at 3 months for the same reason, so both sides get a clean exit at the month 3 report with the account, the briefs, the testing log and the plan left in your hands.

How to start

Start with a scoping call of about thirty minutes. Bring the ad account, the current monthly spend, who produces your creative and the number you are actually trying to move. You leave with a package recommendation and a rough first 90 days, whether or not you sign. If the honest answer is that your spend or your creative supply does not yet justify a retainer, that is what you will hear.

If the read matters more than the ownership right now, the Account Audit and 90 Day Plan is the no commitment way in, and its fee counts in full toward your first month if you move to a retainer inside 30 days. You can also browse every service on the services page.

Want the calendar checked?Availability is capped at three active retainers in total, counted across every fractional retainer offered, so start dates are real rather than a waitlist.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The questions agencies and in house teams ask before they hand a Meta account to one owner.

Q. What is a fractional Meta Ads lead?

A senior paid social owner on a part time retainer instead of a full time hire. One person holds the account structure, the audience approach, the creative testing plan and the monthly read, working with your team on a fixed weekly rhythm.

Q. How much does a fractional Meta Ads lead cost?

The Fractional Meta Ads Lead package is BDT 1,20,000 per month, approx USD 1,000, for approx 18 hours of work with a 3 month minimum. Lighter and deeper tiers run from BDT 70,000 to BDT 1,80,000 per month depending on scope. Every fee is flat and excludes your media budget. See the packages above.

Q. Do you produce the ad creative?

No, and this one is worth reading twice, because on Meta most buyers assume otherwise. The angle, the hook, the offer, the format and the first three seconds are specified in a written brief. Your designer or video editor produces the asset, or a specialist production team is introduced for the job so you are not paying a lead rate for editing.

Q. Why broad targeting instead of detailed interest stacks?

Because the creative now does most of the targeting. Meta reads who responds to an ad and finds more of them, usually faster and at lower cost than a hand built interest stack that also splits budget across ad sets too small to exit the learning phase. Broad plus several distinct angles gives the auction more to work with. Narrow stacks still earn their place in some accounts, mostly small markets and tightly defined B2B, which is decided per account rather than by rule.

Q. How often does creative need refreshing?

It depends on spend against audience size, so the trigger is data rather than a calendar. Watch frequency, three second retention and the cost per result on the winning ad drifting up while the audience stays the same. The more useful point is that an account needs a volume of angles, not a volume of edits. Ten crops of one video are one idea tested ten times, and it fatigues as one idea.

Q. Is a flat month a hook problem or an offer problem?

Read where people stop. Weak three second views and thumb stop rates with an acceptable landing page conversion rate points at the hook, and that is fixed with new openings and formats. Healthy engagement, plenty of clicks and a landing page that does not convert points at the offer, the price or the proof, and no new video repairs that. Sending an offer problem to your editor burns a month of production capacity, which is why the diagnosis is written down before briefs are issued.

Q. Why do the pixel number and our CRM disagree?

Since the ATT prompt a meaningful share of Meta conversions are modelled and attributed inside a click or view window, while your CRM counts records with names on them. Meta usually reports the larger figure. The rule used here is that the CRM is the number the business is run on, and Meta reporting is the signal used to steer the account inside the platform. Conversions API and clean event setup narrow the gap. They do not close it, and anyone claiming they do is selling something.

Q. Do you charge a percentage of ad spend?

No. The fee is flat and published on this page. Percentage pricing rewards the manager for spending more of your money, which corrupts the exact recommendation you are paying for on a channel where the right answer is sometimes to spend less.

Q. Who pays for the ads?

You do, directly to Meta on your own billing. Your media budget is separate from the retainer fee and never passes through us.

Q. Will you join our client calls?

No. Client calls, pitches and quarterly reviews are run by your team. You get the report, the numbers and the talking points a day before the call, plus a 20 minute prep session when the account is complex. That keeps the engagement white label and keeps the client relationship yours.

Q. How many clients are taken at a time?

Availability is capped at three active retainers in total, counted across every fractional retainer offered, the SEO Lead, the Inbound Head, the Paid Media Lead and the single channel pages. When the calendar is full, new work gets a start date rather than a waitlist that never moves.

Q. Can we start with the audit and decide later?

Yes, and most teams should. The one time Account Audit and 90 Day Plan is priced above and credited in full against your first retainer month if you start one inside 30 days.

Q. What if we need Google Ads as well?

Take the neighbouring retainer rather than stacking two. The Fractional Google Ads Lead page covers search and shopping on the same weekly rhythm, and the Fractional Paid Media Lead page holds every paid channel under one owner when the budget split itself is the question.

Q. What if it is not working after 3 months?

Stop. The minimum term is 3 months on Meta Ads Advisory and Fractional Meta Ads Lead, and 6 months on Embedded Meta Ads Director, so both sides get a clean exit at the month 3 report, with the account, the briefs, the testing log and the plan left in your hands.

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