Crowdcreate review: the $250 million claim, the 3.8 on Clutch and the no-refund terms
Crowdcreate publishes prices from $1,199 a month to $150,000 crypto packages, claims $250 million raised and a 5-out-of-5 rating, and refunds nothing “for any reason”. Clutch says 3.8, Trustpilot 4.0 with 31% one-star. Our score is 4/10.
Crowdcreate is the oldest name on our agency list and the one with the most numbers on its homepage: “$250 Million Raised”, “7.1M Reached”, “600+ successful projects”, “Rated 5 out of 5”, and “the #1 Crypto Marketing Agency” since 2018. It is a California company run by co-founders Jeffrey Maganis and Ivan Kan, and unlike Coinbound or MarketAcross it prints prices: monthly retainers from $1,199 to $19,999, crypto “Growth Media Packages” from $30,000 to $150,000, investor outreach from $299 to $9,995, and a $125 hourly rate in its engagement letter. We read all 149 pages of the site, the terms dated January 2021, the engagement letter, archived homepages back to June 2016, the California company register, all 11 Clutch and all 26 Trustpilot reviews, four case studies, and the SEC order against the largest raise on the agency’s old client list. Our score is 4/10: real prices and a real company, attached to a decade of counters that do not reconcile, a team page with no team on it, a Clutch record of 3.8 with two half-star reviews, a Trustpilot page where 31% of reviews are one star and none has an answer, terms that exclude refunds “for any reason”, and a “#1” ranking the agency awards itself on a site where it sells list placements.
Key points
- Prices are published. Monthly packages cost $1,199, $2,099, $4,199 and $19,999 and cover SEO, listings and web management. Crypto “Growth Media Packages” for influencers, PR, podcasts and events cost $30,000 to $150,000 and each “Includes 20% Management Fee with a $10,000 Minimum”. An investor list is $299, outreach $2,995, “5 guaranteed investor meetings within 60 days” $9,995. The engagement letter bills “$125 per hour”, and “All payments are to be paid upfront before any work starts.”
- The company is Crowdcreate LLC, active on the California register under number 201430310364, with Jeffrey Maganis as agent at a Newport Beach address. The website terms call it “a California corporation” on the 35th floor of a Los Angeles tower; Clutch and LinkedIn place it in Irvine. The team page is headed “Meet The Team” and names nobody.
- The homepage counters have drifted for seven years: “133 Million Funded”, “7.1 Million Subscribers” and “60+ Successful Raises” in 2019; “133”, “7.1” and “100+” in 2021; “$250 Million Raised”, “7.1M Reached” and “600+” today. The 7.1 has not moved since 2019; only its label has. The biggest raise on the 2019 client list, BitClave’s $25.5 million, was ordered returned to investors by the SEC in 2020.
- Clutch shows 3.8 from 11 reviews, with two 0.5-star reviews from 2022. Trustpilot shows 4.0 from 26, 61% five-star and 31% one-star, none in the last twelve months and none answered, including an August 2024 review alleging an account manager was “STEALING FUNDS from multiple clients” and a May 2024 review alleging “They also offer money for their 5star reviews”. These are reviewers’ allegations; we found no filing or ruling.
- The terms say “There are no rights to chargebacks or refunds during the term of this agreement, for any reason”, bind you to a minimum term and then month to month on 30 days’ notice, let the agency cancel “with or without reason”, cap its liability at $50,000 and send disputes to arbitration in Los Angeles. The engagement letter sends them to Orange County. The one guarantee on the site, five investor meetings in 60 days, is honoured by “we keep working at no charge”, not by a refund.
Who is behind Crowdcreate
The California register lists Crowdcreate LLC, company number 201430310364, status active, a “Limited Liability Company – CA” registered at 260 Newport Center Drive, Suite 100, with Jeffrey Maganis as agent at the same Newport Beach suite; the most recent filing shown is from 11 November 2020. The number places the formation in 2014, matching “Since 2014” on the homepage and “Founded 2014” on Clutch and LinkedIn. The documents you sign do not agree with the register. The terms of service, “Last Revised: January 1, 2021”, describe “your retention of Crowdcreate, a California corporation” at 555 W 5th Street, floor 35, Los Angeles; the engagement letter linked from the payment page is headed “Crowdcreate LLC Engagement Letter”; Clutch and LinkedIn say Irvine, the latter with “11-50 employees” and 28 people listed; GoodFirms says “10 – 49 Employees” at “$50 – $99 /hr”. Three addresses in three documents is not fraud, but it is a company that has not read its own paperwork since 2021.
The founders are visible mainly through other people’s descriptions. A conference speaker page calls Maganis “a co-Founder of Crowdcreate” who has “successfully funded over $250 million dollars across 500+ projects”; the agency’s $499 strategy call, struck through from $5,000, is “30 Minute Phone Call with Jeffrey Maganis, Founder/CEO of Crowdcreate”. Ivan Kan appears in a careers-page video titled “How to launch a million dollar crowdfunding campaign”, in a 2018 client testimonial (“a pleasure to work with Ivan and his team”) and in a 2022 Trustpilot review (“Ivan and Jeff have created a company…”). Crowdfunding is the company’s origin: the earliest archived homepage, from June 2016, describes “the first interactive platform for contributing ideas and raising funds” with “Copyright © 2016 Crowdcreate LLC” in the footer. By August 2018 the domain was a “Blockchain ICO Marketing Agency | Community Management, PR, Bounty” promising to “grow crypto communities by 10,000 members in just 1 week!”. Those are the years the site now calls “Since 2018, we’ve been recognized as the #1 Crypto Marketing Agency”.
The team page is where the visibility ends. Its body is a wall of photographs captioned “We’re Thought Leaders and Speakers at Conferences Around the World”: Charlie Lee, Joseph Lubin, Larry Sanger, Tim Draper, Laura Shin, Ran Neuner and Kelley Weaver of Melrose PR, each pictured beside a founder at 2018 events. Then comes the heading “Meet The Team”, and then the footer. No name, no role. The only staff photograph on the site is a 2017 slider image of five people in black Crowdcreate T-shirts in an office decorated with NASA travel posters. The careers page describes “a global team” and a “Company Team Building Trip in Boracay”; the engagement letter adds that “We may involve additional team members or subcontractors (e.g., specialists, influencers, partner agencies)”. Keep that sentence in mind when you reach the reviews.
The awards are equally hard to pin down. Maganis’s author box claims “multiple awards such as ‘Top Marketing Firm’ by Forbes, CoinBureau, and Clutch”, the 2018 homepage said “#1 Rated and Globally Ranked by Forbes”, and the crypto services page heads a row of Forbes, Cointelegraph, GoodFirms and ICOholder logos with “Rated the ‘Best Crypto Marketing Agency’ by”. None of the logos links anywhere or carries a date. We could not find a Forbes page that ranks Crowdcreate or uses the quoted phrase; the GoodFirms profile has “No reviews submitted yet”; the Clutch profile shows a 3.8 and no award. Coin Bureau does place Crowdcreate second in its February 2026 list of crypto marketing agencies, the one third-party endorsement we could confirm, and a ranking in a roundup is not an award.
What they sell
The services menu runs to twelve lines, from strategy and influencer marketing to crowdfunding and cold e-mail, sold to five verticals of which Web3 is one. The crypto pages narrow this to two products. The first is media buying through people: “Pick & choose from PR, YouTube influencers, Twitter influencers, Podcast sponsorships, and Events & Conferences”, drawn from what the agency calls “THE LARGEST Database of NFT Influencers, Investors & Thought Leaders”, built “since 2017”. You cannot see the database before you pay: “This is our proprietary data. We can briefly show you on a screen share video call, but only after do we formally engage with you as a client can we show our full media list.” Nor is any name guaranteed: “Can you guarantee me a certain influencer, PR feature, or event & conference speaking engagement? No. We don’t own those media channels.” The FAQ then asks you to “do a Google search about the ‘project management triangle’” and “choose 2 out of 3” between quick, cheap and good, which is honest and also not what the $150,000 Platinum tier looks like from the outside.
The second product is investors. Crowdcreate sells a list of them, an outreach campaign to them and, at the top tier, meetings with them, while stating on the same page and in its terms that it “is not a registered or licensed broker, dealer, broker-dealer, investment adviser, investment manager, or funding portal in any jurisdiction”. The investor page, updated in September 2026, says the agency has been “the investor marketing agency of record for raises from Animoca, Yield Guild Games, Kyber Network, Axie Infinity, Celo and more”. None of those five has a case study on the site. Around the two products sits a third business most visitors will not notice is a business: roughly 450 “Top …” lists covering crypto influencers and Web3 investors but also yoga teachers, ASMR channels, fantasy football podcasts and dentists. A “Promote on Our Website” page sells placement in them, and we come back to it below. There is also a 10% referral commission for anyone who brings a client and a partner programme offering reciprocal reviews “on websites such as Google My Business, Yelp, Clutch, Amazon, Trustpilot”.
Pricing in 2026
Crowdcreate is the second agency in this series, after CryptoVirally, to publish a real price list, spread across five pages that do not reference each other. The pricing page, updated in December 2025, promises “transparent, flat monthly packages. We do not take a cut of your ad spend or leads” and lists four tiers, two of them both called “Launch”. The crypto services page, last touched in 2024, sells the four media packages; the investor, strategy-call and listing pages carry their own tags; the engagement letter sets the hourly rate. Everything is paid before work starts: “Your first payment is a retainer for us to get started. All payments are to be paid in full and upfront”, through a Stripe checkout titled “Crowdcreate Marketing Retainer” with the amount left for you to type, by card or US bank account; the terms also allow “Wire Transfer/BTC/ETH, or bank transfer”.
| Product | Published price | What the page says |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials (monthly) | $1,199 a month | “For New Businesses”; SEO, listings, web management |
| Launch (monthly) | $2,099 a month | “For up to $1M Revenue Businesses” |
| Scale (monthly) | $4,199 a month | “For up to $5M Revenue Businesses” |
| Launch, second tier (monthly) | $19,999 a month | “For $5M+ Revenue Businesses”, adds “Powerful Media Buying” |
| Growth Media Packages: Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum | $30,000 / $50,000 / $100,000 / $150,000 | YouTube and Twitter influencers, PR, podcasts, events; “*Includes 20% Management Fee with a $10,000 Minimum.” |
| Hourly work | $125 an hour | Engagement letter “standard professional rate”; paid upfront |
| Investor list / outreach / meetings | $299 / $2,995 / $9,995 one-time | “5 guaranteed investor meetings within 60 days — or we keep working at no charge”; “Limited to 5 companies per month” |
| Strategy call with the CEO | $499 (struck from $5,000) | 30 minutes with Jeffrey Maganis |
| Listicle placement: Basic / Standard / Premium | $495 one-time / $995 / $2,495 for six months | “Top-tier listing on our website of your choice” |
Two things deserve a second look. The monthly tiers buy search and web work; nothing in their feature lists mentions influencers, PR or investors, so a crypto project on the $1,199 plan is buying SEO, not the campaign the crypto pages describe. And the 20% is disclosed only on the media packages. On a $30,000 Bronze that is $6,000 in fee and $24,000 for creators and outlets whose names you see after you have paid, against a written statement that none of them is guaranteed.
Clients and case studies, checked
The FAQ names clients by vertical: “Gaming – Sandbox, Star Atlas, Iskra”, “Ecommerce – Anker, TP-Link, Lenovo”, “Gambling – Cloudbet”, “CEX/DEX – KuCoin, BitMex”, “NFT – Jam City, Renault, Party Icons”, “Web3 – Venom, CSharp”. The work page carries 22 “Crowdcreate x” cards, and a logo wall headed “Top Tier Brands That Trust us” adds the NFL, J.P. Morgan, Animoca, Celo, Casper, Forte and Upland, with no link or caption on any logo. The homepage has a newer wall, “Influencers We’ve Worked With”, showing Mr. Beast, Linus Tech Tips, Unbox Therapy, Mario Nawfal and Justice Buys; the images were uploaded in May 2026 and link to the creators’ own channels, not to a campaign. We treat the walls as claims.
The case studies that exist are modest once you read the numbers. KuCoin: the agency “strategically collaborated with micro-influencers with good engagement on Twitter” for KuCoin Wealth and reports “an estimated 200,000 views across various Twitter threads”, coverage “totaling approximately 684,000 across various publications” and “around 800 interactions recorded”. For an exchange of KuCoin’s size, 800 interactions is a slow afternoon. Venom: influencers “strategically teased a potential airdrop for the Venom Network testnet” to “Drive FOMO” in spring 2023, with embedded posts from Crypto Tony, Viktor DeFi and DeFi Princess (“How can you make $3000 at once?”), none labelled as paid in the text quoted, and follower counters of 170,000 and 83,000. PartyIcons: “over 25,000 Discord members, 70,000 Twitter followers”, “12.5 million views”, “80x to 400x increase in conversions” and “nearly 400 ETH ($700,000)” from a 4,000-piece mint. Renault: a metaverse experience for Mobilize, “a Renault-backed mobility ecosystem”, at the Paris Auto Show, with result counters that read zero on the page. Clutch confirms the less glamorous truth: the most common project size is “$10,000 – $49,999”, and the verified successes are a $2.5 million pre-seed round for an electric-vehicle startup and an SEO agency’s brand and HubSpot work.
Then there are the headline numbers, which we can date because the homepage has been archived since 2016. In September 2019 the counters said “133 Million Funded”, “7.1 Million Subscribers” and “60+ Successful Raises”, the text below them said “over $107 million across 60+ successful projects”, and a list itemised the raises: Lendingblock $10 million, Galaxy eSolutions $12 million, Zilla $13.5 million, Open Platform $18 million, Bezant $21 million, BitClave “$25,547,000 USD raised”. In June 2021 the counters said 133, 7.1 and “100+”, while the page said “over $130 million dollars across 100+ projects” in one place and “over $133 million across 80+ successful projects” in another. Today they say “$250 Million Raised”, “7.1M Reached” and “600+ SUCCESSFUL projects”, footnoted: “Funds raised amount is with previous clients where Crowdcreate was the agency on record, and played a pivotal role in the marketing of the company.” The 7.1 has been on the page for seven years under two labels; Bezant’s raise is “17 Million USD Hardcap” in a 2018 testimonial, “$21,000,000” in the 2019 list and “$18 Million 3 Hours” on the live investor page. And the largest raise on the 2019 list ended in front of a regulator: in May 2020 the SEC announced that BitClave PTE Ltd. had “raised over $25 million” in an unregistered token offering in 2017 and agreed to pay “disgorgement of $25,500,000, prejudgment interest of $3,444,197, and a penalty of $400,000” into a fund for investors. The order does not mention any marketing agency. Crowdcreate counted the money as raised, and the site has since dropped the list.
Third-party reviews (Clutch, Trustpilot, GoodFirms) and what they actually mean
Clutch is the harshest record: 3.8 from 11 reviews, with 3.5 for cost, “Min project size Undisclosed” and “Hourly rate Undisclosed”. Seven reviews are 4.5 or 5.0, among them a June 2025 SEO agency, a September 2024 NFT company and a “Verified” 4.5 from the EV startup’s CEO for investor outreach; a May 2023 blockchain co-founder gave 3.5. The two that pull the average down are both from 2022 and both 0.5 out of 5. A London NFT owner who spent $10,000 to $49,999 in April and May wrote: “There were no results, only pure disappointment”, “They had a good social presence, but it seems like it was all fake”, and “you book a call and they can’t show up”. A Houston digital marketer whose engagement began in August 2022, cost noted as “40,000”, wrote: “I think they’re burned out and overcommitted to projects, so they can’t properly communicate with customers”, “Deliverables and timelines are sooooo past due”, and “As another reviewer mentioned communication is a huge problem.”
Trustpilot is kinder in the average and worse in the detail. The profile is claimed, scores 4.0 from 26 reviews, and carries Trustpilot’s note “No recent history of asking for reviews”. Sixteen reviews are five stars, two are four, eight are one, nothing in between, and none has been posted since June 2025. The company has replied to none of them. Eighteen of the 26 reviewers have written exactly one review on the platform. The dates form a pattern we state without drawing a conclusion the evidence does not support: three one-star reviews between September and December 2022 were followed by five five-star reviews between 5 December and 11 January; two one-star reviews on 8 and 10 April 2024 were followed by six four- and five-star reviews between 4 and 14 May, with one more one-star on 9 May in the middle of them; a one-star on 22 August 2024 was followed by four five-star reviews between 3 and 11 September. The agency’s partner page, meanwhile, invites partners to “Review Each Other’s Products & Services” and place the results “on websites such as Google My Business, Yelp, Clutch, Amazon, Trustpilot, and more.”
The eight one-star reviews repeat four complaints. Outsourcing: “their reliance on external teams, which they apparently lack any meaningful oversight of” (April 2024); “relies on cheap labor based in Asia” (February 2023). Investor quality: “The investors they claimed to have personal connections with were simply contacts found for free on the internet” (February 2023). Influencer quality: “your money will be spent on influencers that are completely ran by bots” (May 2024), echoed by a four-star reviewer who “don’t see big traffics from those influencers”. Money: a Thai client says the agency “did not refund our outstanding balance of US$3800” and “strong-armed us into another month” (April 2024). The most serious is the August 2024 review titled “Account Manager STEALING Funds from Clients”, from an Australian client who describes “$30,000 spent for a 3 month term where expectations were set for a $500,000 raise however total $0 was raised”, names the account manager as a friend of the founder, and says “we were made aware that the account manager was STEALING FUNDS from multiple clients and then disappeared. Crowdcreate could not provide any receipts of where our money was spent.” We found no court filing, police report or statement from the agency; the review has stood unanswered on a claimed profile for more than two years. The May 2024 line that “They also offer money for their 5star reviews” is likewise a single, uncorroborated claim. What is not in dispute is that a company telling homepage visitors it is “Rated 5 out of 5” and investor-page visitors it has a “5.0★ client rating” names no platform, and on the two platforms with data it scores 3.8 and 4.0, with GoodFirms showing no reviews at all.
The terms (contract, refunds, governing law, exclusivity)
The website terms have not been revised since 1 January 2021 and are written for a subscription: “You shall pay a Recurring Monthly Fee” that is “charged to the Client’s credit card every month”. The refund clause appears twice, in identical words: “There are no rights to chargebacks or refunds during the term of this agreement, for any reason.” Cancellation follows the pattern NinjaPromo uses, minus NinjaPromo’s seven-day window: clients “are allowed to cancel services only after they fulfill their minimum term agreement which goes month to month after their minimum term until they proactively cancel”, on “30-days written notice”, and “If you fail to cancel before the beginning of the next month’s services you will be billed for the next month’s monthly fee and no refunds will apply.” You cannot pause “in between the 90-day period”. The agency can leave whenever it likes: “we may cancel this agreement and cease providing services at any time upon prior written notice, with or without reason.”
The disclaimers are complete: “we cannot guarantee any particular result, nor can we promise positive coverage or investment amount”; “Crowdcreate is not responsible for closing any amount of investments”; “in no event will the aggregate liability … exceed $50,000”. Disputes go to the American Arbitration Association under the “exclusive jurisdiction of the courts (and AAA arbitration panel) located in Los Angeles, California”. There is a one-year no-hire clause, and a confidentiality clause that runs the wrong way: “if the Client shares this information with us, the information may be included in our outreach campaigns.” Tell the agency your unreleased tokenomics at your own risk. The engagement letter, which is what the payment page actually asks you to sign, contradicts the terms on four points: the entity is “Crowdcreate LLC”, not a corporation; arbitration is “in Orange County, CA”; “Either party may terminate this engagement at any time with 30 days notice”, with no minimum term; and the non-solicitation runs “twenty-four (24) months”, not one year. Which document governs your money is a question the site does not answer. The investor products have their own rule: “Research is corrected, not refunded”, and outreach packages are “refundable in full before the kickoff call; once approaches begin, fees are non-refundable”. That makes the “5 guaranteed investor meetings” a promise of more work, not of money back.
The ranking it awards itself, and sells space in
Crowdcreate publishes a list of the top Web3 marketing agencies. Crowdcreate is first on it, introduced with “We’ve rated the #1 Top Web3 Marketing Agency”, and the page carries no note about payment. A separate page on the same site, “Promote on Our Website”, sells exactly that: a “One-time mention on our website” for $495, a “standard listing” for $995 per six months, and for $2,495 per six months a “Top-tier listing on our website of your choice”, started by “submitting your payment to get the process started”. The page explains that “our information is crowdsourced—think of us as the Wikipedia for industry-specific niches” and that buyers “get placed in our engaging listicles across our website domain”. That domain has around 450 such lists, most published within the last two years. We cite Coin Bureau’s ranking of Crowdcreate as data because it is someone else’s list; the agency’s own “#1” is a product page.
Crowdcreate against the desks and networks we already track
| Product | What you buy | Published price | Guarantee | Refunds | Our score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crowdcreate (agency) | Retainers, influencer and PR packages, investor lists and outreach, list placements | $1,199 to $19,999 a month; $30,000 to $150,000 packages; $125 an hour; $299 to $9,995 investor products | Five investor meetings in 60 days on one product; otherwise “we cannot guarantee any particular result” | “no rights to chargebacks or refunds … for any reason” | 4/10 |
| CryptoVirally (agency store) | Press releases, named-outlet placements, followers, DMs, “shilling”, influencers, billboards | €500 to €165,000 per product, 93 listed | “PR Guaranteed” on product pages; none in the terms | Only before work starts; sale and custom items “non-refundable” | 5.5/10 |
| NinjaPromo (agency) | Hours of a shared team across paid, SEO, social, PR, community | $3,200 to $9,600 a month (cut from $4,000 to $12,800 in October 2026) | None | 7 days minus 5%, then “non-refundable” | 6/10 |
| MarketAcross (agency) | Earned media, advisory, SEO, event PR | None; Clutch lists $10,000+ and $150–199/h | “We guarantee results” | Nothing published | 7/10 |
| Chainwire (wire) | Release on 8 to 100+ outlets, all links nofollow | $1,399 to $10,799 | Outlet count, not named outlets | No refund clause; balances expire after 365 days | 6.5/10 |
| Coinbound (agency) | Earned media, influencers, paid, social, community | None; “start around $10,000 per month” | None: “specific results can rarely be guaranteed” | “non-refundable” by default | 7/10 |
| Cointraffic PR desk | Hand-managed release plus ad network | From €1,500 PR-only | “agreed-upon number” of sites | Exit refund minus 15% fee | 7.5/10 |
| Coinzilla marketplace | Sponsored articles on named outlets | €1,999 to €9,999 packages | Named outlet lists per package | “all amounts non-refundable” | 9/10 |
Crowdcreate scores below every agency in this table for reasons unrelated to price disclosure, where it beats Coinbound and MarketAcross outright. Coinbound’s Clutch record is a run of 5.0s from named executives; MarketAcross is twelve years old with no half-star review anywhere; NinjaPromo at least refunds within seven days; CryptoVirally sells things we would not buy, but its reviews are not one third one-star and its accounts are on the public record. Crowdcreate combines non-reconciling counters, unanswered theft and paid-review allegations, a self-awarded “#1” beside a price list for list placements, and a no-refunds-for-any-reason clause, and none of the four offsets the others. If you want influencer reach in crypto, our Web3 ad networks ranking covers inventory you can buy with a dashboard and a refund policy, and the Telegram Ads guide covers the official version of the community growth Crowdcreate has sold since 2018. If you want coverage, the crypto PR distribution comparison and Chainwire price it without a 20% management layer, and Coinzilla’s marketplace names the outlets before you pay. For an agency with no price list but a far deeper case archive, and two services we would not buy, see our ICODA review.
Verdict
Pros
- Published prices on five pages, from $299 to $150,000, plus a written hourly rate; more than Coinbound, MarketAcross or most agencies disclose.
- A real, active California LLC formed in 2014 with a named agent, ten years of archived homepages and a founder who speaks at conferences under his own name.
- Honest FAQ language: no influencer or outlet is guaranteed, the “project management triangle” is explained, and the broker disclaimer is explicit.
- Seven positive Clutch reviews from 2022 to 2025, two of them verified and one describing a completed $2.5 million pre-seed raise.
Cons
- “No rights to chargebacks or refunds … for any reason”, a minimum term, no pausing, agency-side cancellation “with or without reason”, and an engagement letter that contradicts the terms on entity, venue, notice and non-solicitation.
- Clutch 3.8 with two 0.5-star reviews; Trustpilot 4.0 with eight one-star reviews, none answered, including allegations of an account manager stealing client funds and of paid five-star reviews.
- Homepage counters that have said 7.1 million since 2019 under changing labels, raised totals that moved from $107 million to $250 million by way of three different figures, and an old client list whose largest raise was ordered returned by the SEC.
- A team page with no team, a “Rated 5 out of 5” with no platform, unlinked Forbes and Cointelegraph badges, and a “#1” self-ranking on a site that sells list placements for up to $2,495.
- You pay in full before you see the influencer or investor list, and the terms let the agency use information you disclose “in our outreach campaigns”.
Crowdcreate is a real agency with a real price list and a marketing layer that has outgrown its evidence. Our score is 4/10. Use it if you have spoken to a named account manager, have the engagement letter in hand with the venue and refund clauses reconciled in writing, and are buying the $125-an-hour work rather than the $150,000 package. Do not use the homepage counters, the badges, the “5 out of 5” or the agency’s own ranking as inputs to that decision.
FAQ
Is Crowdcreate a legitimate company?
Yes. Crowdcreate LLC is an active California limited liability company, number 201430310364, with Jeffrey Maganis as registered agent at a Newport Beach address, and it has operated the domain since at least June 2016, first as a crowdfunding platform and since 2018 as a marketing agency. Legitimate is not the same as recommended: the website terms describe a different entity type and address, and the review record includes serious unanswered allegations.
How much does Crowdcreate cost?
Monthly packages are $1,199, $2,099, $4,199 and $19,999 and cover SEO, listings and web management. Crypto influencer and PR packages are $30,000, $50,000, $100,000 and $150,000, each including a 20% management fee with a $10,000 minimum. Investor products are $299 for a list, $2,995 for outreach and $9,995 for five booked meetings. Hourly work is $125. Everything is paid upfront, by card, US bank account, wire or crypto.
Does Crowdcreate guarantee results?
Only on one product. The $9,995 investor tier promises “5 guaranteed investor meetings within 60 days — or we keep working at no charge until you have them”, for companies that pass its intake. Everywhere else the terms say “we cannot guarantee any particular result, nor can we promise positive coverage or investment amount”, and the FAQ says no influencer, outlet or speaking slot can be guaranteed because “We don’t own those media channels.”
Can I get a refund from Crowdcreate?
Under the website terms, no: “There are no rights to chargebacks or refunds during the term of this agreement, for any reason.” Investor outreach packages are refundable only before the kickoff call, and investor research is “corrected, not refunded”. The engagement letter allows either side to end the work on 30 days’ notice but adds no refund right. A Trustpilot reviewer in April 2024 says a $3,800 balance was not returned.
Is Crowdcreate really “Rated 5 out of 5”?
Not on any platform we could find. The homepage line names no source. Clutch shows 3.8 from 11 reviews, Trustpilot 4.0 from 26 with 31% one-star, GoodFirms has no reviews. The Forbes, Cointelegraph and GoodFirms logos under “Rated the ‘Best Crypto Marketing Agency’ by” are not linked and not dated, and we found no Forbes page carrying the ranking the agency quotes.
Did Crowdcreate work with Mr. Beast, the NFL or J.P. Morgan?
The site shows their logos and pictures, on a wall headed “Top Tier Brands That Trust us” and another headed “Influencers We’ve Worked With”, but no case study, date or campaign is attached to any of them, and the creator images link to the creators’ own channels. The case studies that do exist are for KuCoin, Venom, PartyIcons, Renault’s Mobilize, and a set of e-commerce and gaming clients. Treat the walls as claims until the agency shows you the work.