Crowdcreate Research · Open survey

The Marketing Rate Survey: What Press Placements, Creator Deals and Agency Work Really Cost

Open November 2026 · Updated quarterly · About 2 minutes · Individual rates are never published

We publish a free Digital PR Cost Index, an Influencer Rate Card and a Marketing Agency Pricing Report. This survey moves them from market ranges to first-party numbers reported by the agencies, creators, publishers and brands doing the deals. Submit one line per service; come back as many times as you like.

Who should take it

Agencies and freelancers, creators and creator managers, publishers and media vendors, and brands that buy these services. Your actual negotiated prices, not list prices, are what make the index useful.

What you get
  • The full benchmark report before publication, to use in your own pricing and sales conversations
  • An optional contributor listing with a link to your website on the index

Only aggregated ranges are published. No individual rate, name or company is ever shown without explicit permission.

What happens next

  • Submissions are aggregated quarterly into the cost index, rate card and pricing report, each showing the number of contributors behind every range.
  • Contributors who opt in receive each edition a week before release and are listed with a link.

Methodology and sample sizes are published with every update. Questions can be sent through the contact page.