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Audit & intro call
We start with your current rate sheet, recent deals, and audience data — a deep-dive that tells us exactly where you're leaving money on the table.
Service · Advisory
Brand Partnerships Team & Creator Advisory
Mark Studios is a creator studio with a brand partnerships team, not an MCN. Founder Mark Santos leads the deal work himself: negotiation, sponsorship decks, partnership matchmaking and campaign management, for creators and for brands. Our 10+ person studio designs the deck and edits the sponsored video, and you hire us per engagement instead of signing your channel to a network.
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What's included
What's included in Mark Studios brand partnerships advisory?
Brand deal negotiation
Sponsorship analytics and benchmarking
Sponsorship deck design
Influencer campaign management (creator-side or brand-side)
Partnership matchmaking
1:1 advisory calls
Creator coaching (positioning, content strategy, monetization)
Personal brand development
Creator studio vs MCN
Do you need an MCN to get a brand partnerships team?
No. YouTube's own help page says you don't need to join an MCN to be successful on YouTube. It describes Multi-Channel Networks as third-party service providers that affiliate with multiple YouTube channels, and notes that some offer brand sponsorships or dedicated sales teams. The trade-off: once you join, your channel revenue flows through the network's AdSense account, the MCN typically takes a percentage of your share before paying you, and the contract is legally binding. Read the fees, your obligations, the term and the exit terms before you sign one.
A creator studio sells the partnerships work on its own. Here is how that works at Mark Studios:
- No network contract. Your channel stays independent. You hire us per engagement: hourly, per project or on a retainer.
- Fees agreed up front. Brand-deal work is quoted as a flat fee, a percentage of the deal, or a hybrid, before any outreach starts.
- The founder negotiates. Mark Santos handles rate, usage and exclusivity himself, with no junior reps and no handoffs.
- Creator side or brand side. We run campaigns for creators pitching sponsors and for brands booking creators.
- Delivery in the same studio. We design the sponsorship deck in-house, and our video editing team cuts the sponsored integration, so what ships matches the terms you negotiated.
The budget is there: IAB projected $37 billion of U.S. creator ad spend in 2025, one of the figures collected in our creator economy research. Before you accept the next offer, run it through our framework for deciding which brand deals to take; once it's signed, the sponsorship delivery system covers what gets you rebooked. Tell us about your channel or campaign and get a quote.
The process
How does the Mark Studios brand partnerships process work?
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Quote & engagement
We scope the engagement and send a fixed quote — hourly, project, or retainer. Approve and pay securely; no junior reps, no open-ended hourly billing.
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Positioning & pipeline
We refine your deck, case studies, and positioning so brands say yes faster — then build the outreach, intros, and negotiation playbook you can actually run.
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Negotiation rounds
We lead the back-and-forth on rate, usage, and exclusivity — drafting contract markups round by round. You stay in the loop async, so terms keep moving without endless calls.
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Close & report
We close on terms, manage fulfillment, and deliver a post-campaign report that earns the next deal — turning one sponsor into a repeatable pipeline.
Why Mark Studios
Why hire Mark Studios for brand partnerships?
10,000+Projects delivered
4,500+Reviews
100M+Views generated
99%On-time delivery
We've sat on both sides of the table
We negotiate deals on the agency side and the creator side, so we know exactly where the leverage lives — and how to use it to land terms that actually favor you.
Pricing built from real comparable data
Not vibes, not Reddit threads. We benchmark your rate against deals we've actually seen close — so you ask for the number you can defend and the brand will pay.
Direct contact with the operator
No junior reps and no handoffs. You get the founder's perspective on every decision — the same operator who runs a 10+ person agency and ships the work daily.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
No. Mark Studios is a creator studio, not a Multi-Channel Network, so your channel is never affiliated to a network and your YouTube revenue doesn't flow through us. You hire our brand partnerships team per engagement (hourly, project or retainer) for deal negotiation, sponsorship decks and campaign management, with fees quoted flat, as a percentage of the deal, or a hybrid.
We help build the pipeline. The final pitch and relationship are co-led with you. Outcomes depend on audience size, niche, and content quality — there are no guarantees.
Hourly, project-based, or retainer. Pricing is quoted per engagement after a free intro call.
Yes. We can lead negotiation, draft contract markups, and manage fulfillment end-to-end. Read our 2026 brand deal pricing playbook.
Depends on the engagement structure. We can quote flat-fee, percentage, or hybrid arrangements — whatever incentive structure makes sense for your specific situation.
Brand deals at that scale exist but the playbook is different. We can advise on whether you should pursue them now or build audience first.
Negotiate the deals you're actually worth
Whether you have your first sponsor inbound or you're scaling six-figure campaigns — we can scope the engagement.
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