- Health & wellness is one of the most competitive DTC verticals — compliance-aware creative and lifecycle retention separate the winners.
- The best agencies optimize to contribution margin and CAC payback, not platform-reported ROAS.
- Match the agency to your stage: most on this list want $500K+ revenue or $50K+/month in ad spend.
- TGM has managed $314M+ in ad spend and driven $613M+ in revenue for DTC brands since 2011.
What does a health and wellness marketing agency do?
A health and wellness marketing agency runs paid acquisition (Meta, Google, TikTok), lifecycle email and SMS, and influencer programs for supplement, skincare, fitness, and functional-food brands. The specialist skill is navigating FTC and FDA claim rules and platform ad policies so campaigns scale without getting flagged or shut down.
How do you choose a health and wellness marketing agency?
Prioritize five things: proven supplement and wellness vertical experience, FTC/FDA compliance awareness, lifecycle and retention capability, creative testing velocity, and LTV-first reporting (blended MER and CAC payback rather than platform ROAS). First-order margins are thin in wellness, so profitability lives in repeat purchases and subscriptions.
How much does a health and wellness marketing agency cost?
Most established wellness agencies work with brands spending $50K+/month on paid media. Management fees typically run 10–20% of ad spend or a monthly retainer in the low-to-mid four figures and up. Smaller brands ($500K+ in revenue) can find specialist partners, but sub-$50K/month spenders should expect to compete for attention at larger shops.
The health and wellness eCommerce market is booming. And brutally competitive.
Brands selling supplements, functional foods, skincare, fitness products, and holistic lifestyle goods are all fighting for the same audiences, the same ad placements, and increasingly, the same influencer relationships.
What makes this vertical especially tricky is the regulatory layer:
- The FTC and FDA have clear rules around what you can and can't claim.
- Platform policies on Meta and Google flag anything that sounds medical.
- The consumer on the other side of the ad is more skeptical than ever, being burned by overpromising wellness brands before.
That means the agency you pick can't just know how to buy traffic. They need to know how to build credibility at scale, navigate compliance guardrails without killing your creative, and build the kind of lifecycle marketing system that turns a first-time buyer into a subscriber.
Here are the agencies that actually get that.
Best Health & Wellness Marketing Agencies in the US
1. Top Growth Marketing
We'll put ourselves first — not out of ego, but because health and wellness is genuinely one of our core verticals, and we've got the results to back it up.
TGM has managed over $314M in ad spend and generated more than $613M in revenue for DTC eCommerce brands since 2011, with deep experience across supplement, nutrition, fitness, and functional wellness brands. We know how to write Meta ad copy that converts without triggering compliance flags. We know how to build Klaviyo flows that turn a first supplement purchase into a subscription. And we know how to scale influencer whitelisting programs that drive trust at volume without blowing up your CAC.
The full-funnel matters more in wellness than almost anywhere else. Acquisition costs are high, first-order margins are thin, and profitability lives in repeat purchases. That's why we run paid, email, SMS, and influencer as one integrated system — not four separate workstreams pointing in different directions.
Who it's for: Health and wellness DTC brands doing $500K+ in revenue that are ready to scale profitably, not just fast.
What we offer: Meta Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, Klaviyo email/SMS, influencer whitelisting, creative, and analytics.
💼 Scaling a health or wellness brand? TGM builds performance marketing systems for DTC brands — from paid acquisition through lifecycle retention. See how we work.
2. Forge Digital Marketing
Forge is the most category-specific agency on this list. Founded by eCommerce veteran Erin, Forge operates almost exclusively in health, wellness, supplement, and nutrition brands — and that focus shows in how they work.
Their proprietary FORGE Framework is built around a deliberate sequencing: fix tracking and CRO first, build lifecycle automation second, then drive paid traffic. It's the opposite of how most agencies operate (launch ads first, figure out the rest later), and it's the reason their clients tend to see sustainable margin improvement rather than just a short-term ROAS bump. They're also one of the few agencies openly publishing playbooks around Meta advertising for supplement brands — including how to stay compliant with structure-function claim language.
Who it's for: Health and wellness DTC brands, especially in supplements, nutrition, and functional foods, doing $500K–$20M in revenue. Particularly strong for brands that have tried paid ads but can't make the unit economics work.
3. Power Digital
Power Digital is a full-service growth agency that works with mid-to-enterprise DTC and wellness brands across paid social, SEO, content, and influencer. Their proprietary analytics platform, Nova, helps brands measure and optimize campaigns against contribution margin rather than platform-reported ROAS — which matters a lot in wellness where margins vary wildly by SKU.
They've run acquisition campaigns for major fitness, nutrition, and supplement companies and have the team depth to handle multi-channel programs that smaller agencies can't staff. The tradeoff is that Power Digital skews toward larger budgets — they're better suited to an established brand than an early-stage DTC startup.
Who it's for: Established health and wellness brands with $50K+/month in ad spend that need an integrated agency with deep analytics and cross-channel capabilities.
4. MuteSix
MuteSix is one of the most recognized performance marketing agencies in DTC eCommerce, and they've run large-scale acquisition campaigns for brands across fitness, nutrition, and supplement categories. They're known for their creative-first approach to Meta and TikTok — producing and testing high volumes of video and UGC ads to find what actually converts.
Their strength is scale. Over a billion dollars in trackable revenue across clients, in-house creative production, and a full-funnel approach that covers paid social, search, and programmatic. If you're a wellness brand that needs to move a lot of volume quickly, MuteSix has the infrastructure to do it.
💡 TIP: MuteSix tends to perform best for brands spending $50K+/month on paid. If you're under that threshold, you may find yourself competing for account attention with their larger clients.
Who it's for: Established wellness and fitness brands ready to scale paid social aggressively, with in-house creative needs and budget to match.
5. Common Thread Collective (CTC)
CTC has built one of the strongest reputations in DTC eCommerce for one specific reason: they lead with the math. Their growth frameworks are built around contribution margin and LTV, not vanity ROAS — and for wellness brands where product margins and subscription economics are everything, that financial discipline is genuinely valuable.
They've worked extensively with Shopify brands in wellness, fitness, and lifestyle categories, and their benchmarking data gives clients a competitive intelligence advantage that generalist agencies simply don't have. Their 4D Growth Framework connects customer acquisition costs to lifetime value across every channel, giving brands a financially grounded growth model.
Who it's for: Wellness brands doing $50K+/month on paid that want a financially rigorous growth partner — particularly those with complex subscription models or multi-channel retail mix where platform ROAS overstates true profitability
6. Taktical Digital
Taktical is a NYC-based DTC-focused agency that has worked with some of the fastest-scaling brands in wellness. They're known for their strength in paid search and conversion optimization, helping wellness brands win at the bottom of the funnel — capturing high-intent search traffic that's already looking for what you sell.
Their approach combines paid search, paid social, and CRO into a unified growth system, and they're particularly strong at optimizing landing pages and PDPs for the trust signals that health-conscious consumers look for before buying. Good for brands whose problem is converting traffic, not just driving it.
Who it's for: Health and wellness DTC brands that need to win on Google Shopping and paid search alongside social, particularly brands in competitive supplement or fitness categories.
7. CakeCommerce
CakeCommerce is a female-founded DTC agency known for its structured approach to scaling wellness and beauty brands through paid media, email marketing, and creative services. They're particularly strong on retention — building the post-purchase flows and segmented campaigns that drive repeat buying in wellness, where LTV is the difference between a profitable and unprofitable brand.
Their work spans supplement, skincare, and functional food brands, and they're consistently mentioned in wellness agency round-ups for their discipline around LTV and AOV optimization.
Who it's for: Wellness brands that have acquisition working but need a stronger retention engine — particularly brands using Klaviyo that aren't getting the most out of their email and SMS.
8. Avenue Z
Avenue Z is a growth agency that combines performance media, brand strategy, and content marketing for wellness and lifestyle brands. They bring a more editorial lens to wellness marketing — building the brand narrative and content infrastructure that supports paid acquisition rather than treating creative as an afterthought.
They're a strong fit for wellness brands that are trying to differentiate in a crowded category through positioning and storytelling, not just performance optimization.
Who it's for: Wellness brands that need to establish brand authority alongside driving direct-response results — particularly those in premium or emerging functional categories where education is part of the purchase journey.
What to Look For in a Health & Wellness Marketing Agency
This isn't a category where you can wing it on agency selection. Here's what actually matters:
| What to Evaluate | Why It Matters |
|---|---|
| Compliance awareness | Agencies that don't understand FTC/FDA claim guidelines will get your ads flagged or your account shut down |
| Supplement & wellness vertical experience | Generic DTC agencies often miss the nuance of trust-based, education-heavy purchase journeys |
| Lifecycle and retention capability | First-order margins in wellness are usually thin — profitability lives in repeat purchases and subscriptions |
| Creative testing velocity | Wellness ads fatigue fast; you need an agency that ships and tests new creative constantly |
| LTV-first reporting | Agencies optimizing for platform ROAS in wellness often misallocate budget; look for blended MER and CAC payback |
If you're deciding whether to keep an in-house marketing team or bring in an agency, our breakdown of in-house vs. agency is worth a read — particularly relevant for wellness brands at the stage where that decision gets expensive to get wrong.
And if you're scaling a wellness brand on Shopify, our guide to how to scale a Shopify store covers the infrastructure decisions that need to be in place before you pour more budget into paid.
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Our Take
The health and wellness category has one of the highest costs of making the wrong agency call. Bad creative gets your ads flagged. Overclaiming copy invites regulatory attention. A retention program that doesn't work means every customer you acquire costs you money instead of making you money.
From where we sit, the brands scaling sustainably in this category share a common playbook: they've got compliance-aware creative, a lifecycle retention system that actually runs, and an agency partner who understands that the goal isn't ROAS — it's contribution margin and payback period.
If that's the system you want to build, we'd be glad to show you how we do it.
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