Comparison
Marketeer vs a marketing agency
A good agency brings senior people and takes the work off your plate, for a monthly retainer most small businesses can't justify. Marketeer gives you a CMO-led team inside an app for a tiny fraction of the cost, with you keeping the final say.
Pick Marketeer if
Pick Marketeer if you want agency-grade structure (strategy, copy, design, media planning and reporting) without the retainer, the long contract, or the slow email back-and-forth, and you're happy to give the final yes yourself.
Pick a marketing agency if
Pick an agency if you have the budget for a retainer (often £1,500 to £10,000+ a month), want people to fully own delivery, and need hands-on account management or bespoke services like PR, events or video production.
| Capability | Marketeer | a marketing agency |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | From £39 a month, cancel anytime. | Typically £1,500 to £10,000+ a month on a retainer, often with a minimum term. This is the headline difference for a small business. |
| Speed | A first campaign in minutes; drafts come back instantly. | Days to weeks per round, paced by meetings and email. |
| Who does the work | A CMO and 12 specialists, on call 24/7, that remember your brand. | Real people, often more junior on the day-to-day than the senior names who pitched you. |
| Where the knowledge lives | Everything sits in your workspace and is yours to keep. | Hard-won know-how often walks out the door when the contract ends. |
| Control | You approve every piece before it ships. | You brief and review; day-to-day delivery is theirs. |
| Hands-off delivery | You give the final yes and publish; one-click auto-publishing is on the roadmap. | Fully managed: a good agency can run it end to end. An agency wins here today, and on bespoke production. |
| Best for | Owners who want agency thinking on a small-business budget. | Businesses with the budget who want delivery fully off their plate. |
Comparison written by the Marketeer team based on publicly documented capabilities of a marketing agencyas of 2026. We may have missed something; if so, tell us and we’ll update it.
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