Built in Orlando. Running brands worldwide.
The short version
How C4 started
C4 Social began in 2014 with a straightforward frustration: direct-to-consumer founders were buying media from one company, creative from another, email from a third — and nobody would answer for the number that actually mattered.
The fix was to put every one of those functions on the same payroll and hold them to one outcome. Media buyers next to editors. The email team next to the developers. One roof, one plan, one set of results to defend.
Ten-plus years on, that structure has carried more than 200 eCommerce brands and over $150 million in managed ad spend. The platforms have changed completely in that time — search became social, social became video, and now answer engines are rewriting discovery again. The system underneath has not.
What we believe
Full-time, never farmed out
Every person on your account is on our payroll. The team that audits the account in week one is the team running it in month twelve — no holding-company handoff, no reseller in the middle.
One number, not ten dashboards
Impressions are not a result. We report to tracked revenue and the cost of producing it, and we say plainly when a channel isn't carrying its weight.
Systems outlast tactics
Platforms change every quarter. A repeatable system for acquiring owned, borrowed, paid and organic traffic is what survives the change — and it's what we build first.
Creative is a growth lever
Most accounts plateau on creative, not on bidding. Production, coaching and content sit inside the same team as media, because that's where the next lift usually comes from.
Leadership
Cory Warren
FounderStarted C4 Social in 2014 and still sets the agency's direction on media strategy, client standards and which brands are the right fit.
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The Agency
How the team is structured, the four types of traffic we build on, and the numbers behind the work.
See how we work →The Founder
Cory Warren on starting C4 Social in 2014 and what he holds the agency to now.
Read the story →The Team
The full roster — media, creative, lifecycle, web and support, all full-time.
Meet everyone →