Media buying teams
Who the media buying teams are, which ones show their numbers, what a team's stack costs and how teams and departments fail: a ranking of 12 teams and 3 fact-checked team stories, checked in November 2026.
Top listWe checked 30 teams from our catalog and ranked the 12 that show the most: a site, size, years, verticals, open jobs, pay terms, published results and an active channel. Masons Traffic and AdKey show all 8. ZM Team and Marlerino Group show almost nothing now.
DEVILS says $100K and a rebuild took an anonymous Facebook iGaming team from $36K to $101K of monthly net profit at flat revenue. The P&L reconciles, and the ROI jump matches cuts falling from 15% to 1%. But there's no proof, and the investor's equity share is never named.
A media buying holding closed its nutra department after 21 months: a 2-year-old Facebook setup died in autumn 2025, accounts were banned in January, the partner who held the know-how left in May. The 4 lessons are right. The write-up has no GEO, offers, spend, total loss or proof.
A gambling media buying company's owner took in a TikTok team that lost $13K in May and $16K in June, -33% ROI, across 7+ GEOs without campaign tables or creative tags. The process lessons are sound. The post has no proof, no cost breakdown and nothing on TikTok itself.
A media buying stack in 2026 has 8 layers: antidetect, proxies, phones, SMS numbers, captcha solving, automation, a tracker and pre-launch checks. Prices from vendors' pages put 1 person at $28 to $81 a month and a team of 10 at $415 to $676.
Most affiliates who stall at $10K a month hit math, not a talent wall. At today's 20-30% ROI that profit needs $33K-$50K of monthly spend, and payout holds lock up to 2 months of it. Caps, account bans, falling ROI and working alone do the rest.