Disruptive Advertising Review 2026: What the Public Record Shows

What is Disruptive Advertising and what does it actually do?

Disruptive Advertising (disruptiveadvertising.com) is a performance-marketing agency founded in 2011 and headquartered in Pleasant Grove, Utah. It sells human-team engagements across paid search, paid social, creative production and lifecycle marketing, priced by custom quote. Everything in this review comes from two public sources: the agency’s own site and its Clutch profile, both accessed August 2026.

The shape of the service

Disruptive is a full-service shop: a team of specialists — strategy, media buying, creative, reporting — assigned to your account under an account lead. That model is the standard architecture for agencies at its size, and it is the right mental model for pricing too: you are buying scoped specialist hours at a listed $150–$199 hourly band, packaged as a monthly retainer. The agency says it has performed 10,000+ audits, which is consistent with an audit-led sales motion — expect the proposal to start from a teardown of your accounts.

The claims the agency makes about itself

Disruptive’s site states $450M+ in annual managed ad spend, a #145 ranking on the Inc. 500, 160+ employees, and 90+ clients retained four or more years. Those are the agency’s claims and we present them as such — but they are also checkable in kind: an agency cannot fake its way to 371 detailed Clutch reviews, and the retention claim is the kind of number a sales call can be asked to evidence. The picture they paint together is a firmly mid-market-and-up operation, not a boutique.

The 90-day guarantee, read carefully

Disruptive advertises a “get results in 90 days or you don’t pay” guarantee — its wording. A published guarantee is genuinely unusual for an agency this size and worth credit. It is also exactly the kind of term that lives or dies in its definitions: what counts as “results”, measured against what baseline, and what “you don’t pay” refunds in practice. None of that is public. Treat the guarantee as real but unpriced until you have its terms in writing.

What does Disruptive’s Clutch record actually show?

For quote-based agencies, Clutch is the closest thing to a public ledger: the agency self-reports its bands, and clients report what they spent and how it went. Here is Disruptive’s ledger as of August 2026, without embellishment.

Two honest readings of that table. First, the strengths are real: a 4.8 average across 371 reviews is a track record, not a testimonial page, and the fact that most reported engagements land in the $10,000–$49,999 band tells you clients keep buying more than the minimum. Second, the same table sets the fit boundary: this is an agency whose economics are built for five-figure monthly relationships. Neither reading requires trusting anyone’s marketing.

What this review deliberately does not do: quote individual reviews, summarize complaint themes, or characterize what “clients say” beyond the aggregate numbers above. We have not independently verified any individual review, so we do not borrow their words. The aggregate is the evidence; the sales call is where you test it.

Disruptive Advertising pricing: what’s knowable

Disruptive publishes no pricing — no rate card, no starting-at figure — so every engagement is quote-based. The sourced bands: a $5,000+ minimum project size and a $150–$199 hourly rate per its Clutch profile (accessed August 2026), with most reported engagements at $10,000–$49,999.

The planning math that follows from those bands: budget from about $5,000 a month as a sourced floor, expect the realistic proposal to land higher as service lines stack, and note that a year at the Clutch-typical engagement size is a $120,000–$600,000 decision. Market context, for calibration only — typical PPC retainers run $1,500–$5,000 a month or 10–20% of ad spend; Disruptive does not publish which structure it uses, so ask directly. The full budget breakdown, including what drives the quote up or down, lives in our Disruptive Advertising pricing guide, and the structural trade-offs between fee models are covered in agency pricing models explained.

The software alternative, disclosed

Disclosure: this review is published by Ryze AI, which sells autonomous ad-management software — $89/month flat for execution across Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn, with plans to $1,499 and a 7-day free trial. It is a different category with honest cons: it is software, not an agency — there is no dedicated strategist at $89 (human tiers start at $599/month), no creative-services bench shooting your ads, and it needs a baseline period before results compound. Below Disruptive’s $5,000 floor it is a rational substitute for the execution layer; at $50,000 a month in spend with creative needs, it is not a replacement for what Disruptive sells. A machine-readable summary of what Ryze is and costs sits on our AI facts page, with side-by-sides on the compare hub.

Who is Disruptive Advertising for — and who should skip it?

The public record answers the fit question more precisely than any testimonial could. Place yourself on two axes — monthly ad spend, and how much beyond execution you need — and the answer mostly writes itself.

If you recognize yourself in the bottom card, start with the Google Ads management cost overview — it maps every option by budget before naming any vendor.

What the public record can’t tell you — verify these on the call

A desk review built on public sources has a hard ceiling: it can establish that Disruptive is credible and what its bands are, but not what your engagement would cost or who would run it. These are the six questions the public record cannot answer — take them into the sales call.

• The exact fee and its structure — flat retainer, percentage of spend, or a blend; and how the fee moves if your spend doubles. Nothing about the structure is published.
• The written terms of the 90-day guarantee — what counts as results, against what baseline, and what is actually refunded. The slogan is public; the contract language is not.
• Who works your account day to day — the seniority mix behind the $150–$199 hourly band, and how many accounts your team carries. Review volume tells you the firm delivers; it cannot tell you which pod you get.
• Contract length and exit terms — minimum term, notice period, and whether early exit interacts with the guarantee.
• Ownership of accounts and data — confirm in writing that ad accounts, audiences and historical data stay yours if you leave.
• Evidence for the retention claim — 90+ clients retained four or more years is the agency’s claim; asking for two references in your industry and spend band is a fair test of it.

None of these questions is hostile — a good agency answers all six without friction, and the answers turn a strong public record into a priced, scoped decision.

How this review was put together

A software vendor reviewing an agency owes you the method up front. Here it is — deliberately boring, deliberately checkable.

What would change this verdict: published pricing (it would remove the biggest unknown), or a material shift in the Clutch aggregates. As of August 2026, the record reads as described.