Partnership Ads & Spark Ads Agency Australia

Partnership & Spark Ads · Blitz Growth, Melbourne

Partnership Ads run creator content from the creator's own handle - their face, their followers, their credibility - instead of from your brand account. Called Spark Ads on TikTok. Identical creative, different delivery, measurably lower CAC. We've produced 500+ of them for Australian DTC brands and we handle every step.

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We'll pull your live ads from the Meta Ad Library before we speak, then show you which concepts are carrying your spend, what's fatigued, and what you haven't tested yet.

Trusted by the best brands

What we handle

Fully managed. You approve twice, we do everything else.

Most agencies run the paid side and leave you to find creators, negotiate rates, chase contracts and post out samples. That admin is exactly why most brands never scale this format. We handle all of it bar the parcel - samples still ship from you.

Sourcing & negotiation

A network, not a marketplace.

1,000+ creators sourced across Australian DTC categories over five years - fitness, food, beauty, health, tech, parenting, pet care, home and appliances. We know who converts, who's reliable and what they're actually worth. Outreach, rate negotiation, T&Cs and whitelisting permissions all handled by us. And when a brief calls for a demographic or niche we haven't worked with yet, we recruit to it rather than forcing the closest fit.

1,000+ creators

Sourced to brief

Rate negotiation

Lifetime usage rights

Whitelisting

Production & logistics

Including the boring parts.

Briefs written from live account data, product samples shipped and tracked, content produced, revisions managed until it's right. The unglamorous operational work that quietly kills most in-house creator programs.

Performance briefs

Sample logistics

Revision rounds

Quality control

Paid amplification

Where it stops being influencer marketing.

The content goes live from the creator's handle and gets boosted as a Partnership Ad on Meta or a Spark Ad on TikTok, into your existing campaign structure, tested against your current winners and scaled if it beats them. Your media buying and your creator program stop being two separate budgets.

Meta & TikTok

Spark Ads

Integrated testing

Scale the winners

Real ads

What they actually
look like in feed.

Every one of these ran from a creator's own handle on Meta or TikTok, boosted as a Partnership or Spark Ad. No studio, no brand template, no script they didn't write. That is the whole mechanism - the ad arrives looking like something a person posted, because it is.

All content produced and licensed under lifetime, unlimited usage rights.

First, the difference

Partnership Ads, UGC and influencer
marketing are three different things.

People use these interchangeably. They behave completely differently, and the confusion costs brands real money. Influencer marketing buys someone's audience once, organically. UGC ads use creator-style content but run from your brand account - the viewer sees an ad from a company. Partnership Ads run from the creator's handle - the viewer sees a person they may already follow, with real follower counts and a comment history behind them.

It is not just the delivery that differs - the content itself is less brand-planned, so it reads native rather than produced. That difference showed up as a 51% lower CAC than other formats for Vitable at six-figure monthly spend, and 60% in the best week. Creators, not influencers - that distinction is the whole product.

Where this came from. One client had a handful of raw, native-feeling videos - barely boosted - and yet they were driving the bulk of conversions. We dug in. Those underfunded, unscripted clips were outperforming everything else in the account. Not by 10%, but by 2-3×. We scaled it, then built a system around it. Five years and 500+ creatives later, it's most of what we do.

Pay on live

You approve twice. You pay when it ships.

You approve the creators before anyone is briefed, and the finished content before anything goes live. Revisions are included. We only invoice once content is live, so the risk of a creator going quiet or delivering something unusable sits with us. And every agreement includes lifetime, unlimited usage rights - the industry norm is 3-6 months, so your winning ads never expire.

How it works

Eight steps.
Two of them are yours.

Creator selection, to your criteria

You set the guardrails - category, creator demographics, follower band, tone, anything that's off-limits. We shortlist from the network against those criteria and against past conversion performance, not follower count. Your call, step one.

Negotiation and comms

Rates, deliverables, timings and every message in between - handled entirely by us. You never chase a creator for a reshoot or a missed deadline.

T&Cs and content guidelines

Usage rights, whitelisting permissions and boosting authorisation signed up front. We negotiate lifetime, unlimited usage as standard - no expiry, no channel restrictions, no renewal fees on a winning ad.

Product sample ordered

Shipped, tracked and confirmed received before anything is filmed. Sounds trivial; it's the single most common reason creator campaigns slip a fortnight.

Content created

A short brief of do's and don'ts rather than a script, so the creator sounds like themselves. That freedom is the whole point - over-directed content reads as an ad, and people are done with ads.

Iterations until it's right

Unlimited revisions against the performance brief. We don't send you a first cut and call it delivered.

Your approval, then we invoice

You review the finished asset and approve it - or delegate approval to us if you'd rather move faster. This is also the point you're invoiced - nothing is billed before you've approved the asset. Your call, step seven.

Boosted and managed as ads

Live from the creator's own handle as a Partnership Ad or Spark Ad, then tested against your current winners and managed like any other line in the account - because that's what it is.

Proven results

Real numbers.
Real brands.

-51%

Cost of acquisition on Partnership Ads versus UGC ads in the same account - a yearly average across 2023-24 at six-figure monthly spend. In the best week the gap reached 60%, against the best week of UGC and branded ads.

Vitable - Partnership Ads

1,000+

Creators sourced and vetted across Australian DTC categories over five years - the bench we brief from, not a marketplace subscription.

Blitz - creator network

500+

Partnership Ad creatives produced from that network. The pattern recognition that comes with that volume is the actual product.

Blitz - campaigns run

4+ yrs

Running this format - since before most Australian agencies knew it existed.

Blitz - early mover

Why Blitz

This came out of $3M a month
in ad spend.

We didn't add Partnership Ads to a service list when the format got popular. It emerged from running roughly $3M/month in ad spend across Australian DTC accounts and noticing, repeatedly, that the same asset performed differently depending on whose handle delivered it.

Five years and 500+ creatives later, we know which creator profiles convert for which categories, what a fair rate actually is, and which briefs produce content that survives contact with a media buyer. That's not a service we bolted on.

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You are invoiced on delivery

We invoice when the content goes live. Not before. The risk of a creator going quiet sits with us.

Lifetime usage rights

Standard in every agreement. The industry norm is 3-6 months, so your winning ads never expire or get renegotiated.

Briefs from account data

Hook mechanics and CTA structure derived from what's converting in your account this week, not from a template.

Creators, not influencers

Briefed, pre-tested people who convert - not audience rental. Integrated into your campaigns, not a separate budget line.

In their words

Brands who've run
this with us.

“They really understand TikTok and Meta, and introduced us to opportunities like Spark Ads that opened up creator partnerships we probably wouldn't have found on our own. They're easy to work with, proactive, and always keep us in the loop without making things overly complicated. I almost don't want to share how wonderful they are, because they're our secret weapon.”

Skye Capilano - Capilano Honey ★★★★★

Questions

The things brands actually ask us.

What are Meta Partnership Ads?

Partnership Ads, previously called Branded Content Ads, let a brand run paid ads delivered from a creator's own account rather than the brand's. The viewer sees the creator's handle, profile picture and follower count, with the brand as a partner. On TikTok the equivalent format is Spark Ads. The content is the same; the social proof attached to it is not.

How are Partnership Ads different from UGC ads?

UGC ads use creator-style content but run from your brand's account, so the viewer sees an ad from a company. Partnership Ads run from the creator's handle, so the viewer sees a person. That single change is what drives the performance difference - for Vitable it cut CAC by 51% with the same underlying content.

Do Partnership Ads work on TikTok as well as Meta?

Yes. TikTok's version is called Spark Ads and works on the same principle - amplifying a post that lives on the creator's account. We run both, and the same creator content can often be adapted across both platforms.

Do I need to find the creators myself?

No. Sourcing, shortlisting, outreach, rate negotiation, contracts, usage rights and sample logistics are all handled by us. You approve the shortlist, and later the finished content. Those are the only two moments you're needed.

What if the creator content is bad?

You approve every asset before it goes live, revisions are included, and we only invoice once content is live. If something can't be brought up to standard, it doesn't run and you don't pay for it.

How long can I keep using the content?

Indefinitely. We negotiate lifetime, unlimited usage rights as standard in every creator agreement - no expiry, no channel restrictions, no renewal fees. Most creator contracts grant 3-6 months of paid usage, which means a winning ad either gets switched off or renegotiated at a worse rate precisely because it's proven. Yours just keeps running.

How many Partnership Ads do I need to see results?

Enough to test properly - this is a volume format, not a hero-asset format. We'd typically run a batch of 10-25 across several creator profiles and angles simultaneously, live in about four weeks, so there's something meaningful to read within the first testing cycle.

What's the minimum spend?

We work with brands spending $15k+/month across paid media. There's real fixed cost in every campaign - sourcing, negotiation, logistics, production - and that amortises across media spend, so the format works well above a certain budget and poorly below it. Under that, run standard UGC from your brand account first; it's cheaper to iterate.

Get started

Want to see what your creative does
with a creator's name on it?

Book a 30-minute call. We'll look at your current creative, show you which of it would work harder as a Partnership Ad, and shortlist creators from our network for your category. Not sure this is the channel that's holding you back? Start with all services instead.

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