12 Top Affiliate Media Buying Teams in 2026: Who They Are and What They Show

Every media buying team calls itself one of the best, and almost none show their P&L. So we didn't try to rank teams by how much they earn: nobody outside a team can check that. We ranked them by something you can check: how much each team shows about itself in public, in November 2026.

We went through 30 teams from our catalog of media buying agencies and teams that had any public trace this year, read their sites, Telegram channels and job listings, and kept the 12 that show the most. Whether you're an advertiser looking for traffic, a buyer looking for a job or a team owner sizing up the market, this is who they are and what they've put on the record.

How we ranked the teams

8 checks, 1 point each, all from the team's own pages. Each team gets a point if it publicly shows:

1. a working website that says what the team does;
2. its headcount, on its site, channel or its own company profile on a job board;
3. its founding year or years on the market;
4. its verticals and traffic sources;
5. open media buying roles in October or November 2026;
6. the pay model in those roles, such as a base plus a share of profit;
7. results with numbers: deposits, payouts, ROI or turnover;
8. a Telegram channel or blog with posts in the last 30 days.

Ties are broken by the most recent published results, then by headcount. This ranks openness, not profit: a team that shows more is easier to check before you send it an offer or a resume. We didn't audit anyone's numbers; every figure below is the team's own claim, with the date where it has one. Headcounts and years in our catalog cards come from the same kind of claims; where a team's pages now disagree with its card, we go by the team's pages.

The 12 teams at a glance

Who's hiring media buyers right now: Masons Traffic, AdKey, DEVILS, LuckyTeam, Improve Team, TSL, Private Inc, Space Profit, Clever Advertising, Creative Clicks and Arbo Team all list open media buying roles. What the job pays and how teams hire is under media buyer.

The 12 teams, one by one

1. Masons Traffic — Best for Buyers Who Want the Infrastructure Done for Them

Who they are. A Kyiv media buying company that has grown into a group. Its site lists "5+" years on the market, "20+" partner holdings and "50+" media buying teams it works with, and 3 businesses around the buying: MT Agency rents agency ad accounts, MT Shop sells farmed and aged accounts, and MT Clickbait makes creatives. Its offers run through its own affiliate program, Masons Partners. The company profile on DOU says 21-80 specialists; our card says 30+.

Hiring. On November 10, 2026, Masons posted that it is looking for media buyers and whole buying teams on Facebook, in-app, UAC and TikTok, for "competitive fixed pay + % of the result", with agency accounts and all consumables provided. A June listing was more specific: "base + up to 50% of profit", office or remote, with cases from the last 3 months.

Published results. For a Brazil campaign on its own offers from September 28 to October 11, 2026, Masons posted 80,111 landing page clicks, 26,256 installs, 17,087 registrations and 6,590 deposits, at a cost per install of $1.12-$1.86 and an estimated $5.6 per deposit and $36,758 of spend.

What's missing: a headcount on its own site.

2. AdKey Agency — Best for Advertisers Who Want Case Numbers Before They Talk

Who they are. A gambling and betting team that dates itself "since 2014" and lists "40+ user acquisition & creative experts" on its site. Its cases send gambling and betting traffic through its own WebView Android apps from Facebook, Google UAC and Unity Ads, and buy installs on TikTok, DSPs and video networks. Our catalog card, built from earlier data, says 2015 and 100 people.

Hiring. In October 2026, AdKey posted a team lead role for Facebook gambling in its Telegram channel, in translation: "budgets without a ceiling" and "solid fixed pay in hard currency + a high percentage of your team's profit". Its careers page, from 2025, still says there are no openings.

Published results. Its cases cite "the average of 3000-4000 FTDs per month", a "total of 14k FTDs" and "50-70k installs per month" for January to December 2020.

What's missing: recent, dated results; the one dated case is from 2020.

3. DEVILS (Traffic Devils) — Best for Buyers Who Want Apps, Capital and Scale

Who they are. The team in our catalog as Traffic Devils now runs as DEVILS, at devils.inc, whose site links to the Traffic Devils company page on LinkedIn. Its site: "6 years scaling apps, capital, partnerships and infrastructure across Eastern Europe's performance market." Its company profile on DOU says 800-1,500 specialists, in Kyiv; the site names Warsaw as head office. Around the buying it runs DEVILS APPS, which rents out WebView apps with "zero upfront cost", Devils Capital, which "invests $100K-$1M+ in arbitrage and media buying teams", and a partner program it says covers "35+ media buying teams".

Hiring. Its careers page lists media buying roles from an assistant media buyer and a farmer to a team lead of Facebook media buyers in Kyiv or Warsaw, plus PPC, UAC, in-app and TikTok buyers and team leads, all in iGaming. Pay isn't stated.

Published results. In a post on testing games and apps on Google UAC, DEVILS reported "$242,966 of profit" and an "ROI of 78.82%" for the best product. In September 2026 it also published the P&L of a team it funded, which we fact-checked.

What's missing: pay terms. DEVILS' live Telegram channel is traffic_devils_channel.

4. LuckyTeam — Best for Beginners: a 5-Day Intensive With a $500 Bonus

Who they are. The media buying agency that grew out of the LuckyOnline affiliate network. Its site: "3 departments", "350+ employees", "10 years on the market". Its own history dates it to 2016 and reports 380 people by January 2025, profit up 180.23% in 2024 and more than $500,000 invested in a Google Ads farm at the start. It buys on native, Google, Facebook, push, pops, in-app and TikTok, across nutra, iGaming, finance and news feed traffic.

Hiring. Its careers page lists a media buyer for nutra straight sale, a senior native ads buyer and a head of media buying. For beginners it runs "LT: Start", a 5-day offline intensive: everyone who finishes gets a $500 bonus "regardless of whether we make an offer". The 2nd stream starts November 16, 2026.

Published results. In April 2024: "$1.5 million of revenue in a month and 30% ROI" for its news feed project.

What's missing: pay terms in the listings, which are Russian employment contracts with health insurance after probation.

5. Improve Team — Best for Gambling Buyers on Facebook, TikTok and In-App

Who they are. A Kyiv "media buying agency with 5 years of experience", by its site, with "60" advertisers and "105,000" deposits in gambling and betting. It buys on Facebook with Android and iOS apps and PWAs, Google and app store traffic. DOU lists 21-80 specialists.

Hiring. On November 12, 2026, Improve Team posted openings for a Facebook team lead and Facebook, TikTok and in-app media buyers, "only with real gambling experience", promising "conditions better than yours now".

Published results. The 105,000 deposits on its site, without a period.

What's missing: pay terms and dated results.

6. TSL — Best for Buyers Who Also Want an Affiliate Program and PWAs

Who they are. An "iGaming agency since 2021", with "20 people" on staff and "15+" more specialists, an affiliate program its co-founder says serves "1600+" partners and a PWA service, TSL Apps. Its own history: its CEO started a buying team in 2020, grew it to 60+ people by June 2021, disbanded it that September and restarted a month later.

Hiring. On October 8, 2026, TSL posted that it is scaling in-house buying and wants Meta buyers in iGaming, crypto, nutra and adult, with "unlimited budgets", agency accounts, payment methods and its own software. November posts add a designer and an account supply manager.

Published results. Its site claims "more than $1.5 million of turnover monthly" and a 65% click-to-install rate.

What's missing: pay amounts. Conflict: in April 2026, TSL wrote that it had paused Facebook buying in October 2025 to focus on app store traffic and influence; in October 2026 it was hiring Meta buyers again.

7. Private Inc — Best for Team Leads Who Want to Run In-House Products

Who they are. An iGaming company that described itself in May 2025 as having "6 years" on the market and "300+ employees". Its "PVT System" now includes media buying teams, its own affiliate network working on CPA, RevShare and hybrid deals, and its own iGaming products; it says more than 50% of its buying teams' turnover runs on those products. It has no website, only a Telegram channel.

Hiring. On October 20, 2026, Private Inc posted a gambling team lead role with "unlimited budgets for scaling working setups"; the candidate must confirm the team's results for the last 3-6 months. It pays $5,000 for a referral who stays 3 months.

Published results. For 2024 in Bangladesh with a partner network: 356,780 first deposits and $10.7 million of payouts. In 2 months of 2025 in Argentina: 25,863 first deposits, $465,534 of payouts and a 67% ROI.

What's missing: a website and pay terms.

8. Space Profit Team — Best Entry Point in Nutra: an Assistant Role With a Path to Buyer

Who they are. A Kyiv nutra team that describes itself on Djinni as "150+ ambitious mates" with "6+ successful years", buying on Facebook, Google, native and push. DOU lists 81-200 specialists; our card says 80+.

Hiring. On November 11, 2026, Space Profit explained how it hires assistant buyers: at least 6 months with Facebook, courses alone don't count, then a recruiter, a team lead and a test task. The assistant role is "the first stage toward buyer".

What's missing: published results and pay terms.

9. Clever Advertising — Best for iGaming Operators Buying First Deposits

Who they are. A performance partner for casino operators rather than a team for buyers: "In the industry for 15 years, we serve 13+ iGaming operators through Media Buying, SEO, PPC, and Influencer Marketing". Its careers site lists offices in Malta, Portugal, Brazil and the US.

Hiring. 2 media buyer roles in Malta, posted November 3, 2026, one for English speakers and one for Spanish speakers.

Published results. For 2025: 22.1 billion impressions, 1.5 million registrations and 727,000 first-time depositors.

What's missing: a headcount and an active channel.

10. Creative Clicks — Best for Brands Outside iGaming That Pay Per Result

Who they are. A performance marketing company "Founded in 2009, with 15+ years of experience and 200+ experts", working across 4 continents in e-commerce, fintech and other mainstream verticals, with its own bidding technology and comparison sites.

Hiring. Its jobs page includes a Meta media buyer role.

What's missing: results we could check on the site and an active channel.

11. PiXGaming — Best for Retargeting and Display on Revenue Share

Who they are. A display and retargeting buyer for iGaming and financial brands with "10+ years of experience", working on "No Upfront Costs just Revenue Share" and its own retargeting technology.

Published results. "more than 70,000 FTDs and 2 billion clicks per month".

What's missing: a headcount, open roles and an active channel in the last 30 days.

12. Arbo Team — Best for Nutra Advertisers Looking for a Long-Running Team

Who they are. A nutra team with "10+" years of experience, "30+" advertisers, "100+" countries and "10+" traffic sources, by its site.

Hiring. A team lead for its Google Ads department, with a "MIN 2 YEARS' EXPERIENCE", and a Facebook media buyer for nutra, with a "MIN 1 YEAR EXPERIENCE".

What's missing: a headcount, results and an active channel.

Who's not on the list, and why

ZM Team. One of the best-known names in iGaming buying, and in a vendor case study by Affise "the needs of nearly 200 media buyers". But its site returned an empty page when we checked, and its Telegram channel hasn't posted since November 2025. We'll add it back when there's something current to check.

Marlerino Group. Its site returns a 404 and its Telegram channel has been renamed and emptied. With nothing first-hand to check, we left it out.

Others with too little to check: TraffBraza reports 150+ people and its own apps for UAC but had no open roles or active channel; Traffic.One and Apex Media show their numbers only in animated counters we couldn't read; All Traffic Group presents itself as an SEO and marketing agency; Epic Media's channel is its owner's blog.

How to use this list

If you're an advertiser, start with the teams that publish dated results in your vertical, ask for recent numbers on your GEOs and agree on payout, caps, hold and tracking before a capped test. Our catalog page has a checklist for choosing a team.

If you're a buyer, look at the hiring column, then ask each team what's deducted before your profit share is counted. Most want at least 6 months of real launches; LuckyTeam's intensive and Space Profit's assistant role are the 2 clearest ways in for beginners.

If you run a team, the cheapest way up this list is to publish what others don't: a dated result, a headcount and the pay model in your listings.