Fresh Content Society vs Fanbytes: What Happened to Fanbytes
One of these is not a live option. Fanbytes no longer exists as a standalone agency, having been folded into Brainlabs. Fresh Content Society is the side you can actually brief.
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Which one is right for you
Three buyers, three picks. Find the column that sounds like your team.
Choose Fresh Content Society if
- You want your whole social presence run
- You want senior strategists per account
- You want community-led growth
Look up Fanbytes if
- You want to be pointed at Brainlabs instead
- You arrived on this name and meant Brainlabs
- You need the history rather than a supplier
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- You want verified creators and fake-follower checks with no sales call
- You want flat published pricing you can start free
- You want to run discovery in-house, not hand it to an agency
Fresh Content Society vs Fanbytes vs Flinque
The factors below are set out for both. Only Fresh Content Society is a live option. The Fanbytes brand ended inside Brainlabs in 2022. Flinque is the flat-price software option on the right.
| Factor | Fresh Content Society | Fanbytes | Best valueFlinque |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Brands wanting full social management | Not available, now Brainlabs | Teams running discovery in-house |
| Agency type | Full-stack social media agency | Gen-Z and TikTok specialist | Self-serve software, not an agency |
| Engagement model | Custom, retainer-based | Custom, campaign-based | Flat monthly subscription |
| Typical minimum | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Free, then $49/mo |
| Published pricing | No | None | $0 to $150/mo, public |
| Creator network | Strategy and community-led | Bytesights data, 3M+ influencers | 10M+ verified, 200 data points each |
| Platforms covered | All social platforms | TikTok, Snap, youth platforms | Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X |
| Services | Social management, content, community | Influencer, creative, paid social | Discovery, vetting and audience data |
| Campaign management | fully managed | fully managed | You run it, software assists |
| Content and usage rights | Senior strategists per account | Deep under-21 expertise | You negotiate directly with creators |
| Paid amplification | Community as a growth lever | Created the UK's first TikTok house | Run your own whitelisting |
| Measurement and reporting | Family-owned, full-stack | Not available | Audience and fake-follower data built in |
| Team and locations | Highland Park, founded 2014 | London, until 2022 | Software with support included |
| Time to launch | After scoping and strategy | After scoping and strategy | Shortlist in minutes on the free plan |
How we compared: Engagement models and minimums come from each agency's own site plus public reporting and client reviews, cross-checked and dated June 2026. Where an agency hides its pricing we say undisclosed rather than guess a number. The verdicts are ours, not the agencies'.
What each agency actually does
What is Fresh Content Society
Fresh Content Society aims to act as your entire social team rather than a one-off campaign vendor. Set up in Highland Park in 2014 and family-owned, it handles full-stack social media management, dreaming up, producing and running a brand's whole social presence under one roof instead of dropping in for a single push. What sets it apart is service depth plus seniority: senior strategists work every account, while the agency uses community as a growth engine, treating an engaged audience as what compounds reach over time. Built for complex mid-market and enterprise brands, it handles the day-to-day of social alongside the bigger creative and community strategy, acting as an embedded partner rather than an outside contractor. That always-on, full-stack model is its signature. Against Fanbytes' Gen-Z focus, Fresh Content Society is the full-stack social agency.
Pricing is custom and unpublished, scoped as a retainer, the managed-agency norm. What you are buying is a whole social team: full-stack management of a brand's social presence, senior strategists on the account and a community-led approach that compounds reach, all run as an embedded partner. For a mid-market or enterprise brand that wants its social handled end to end, that depth is the draw. The tradeoffs follow. It is a broad social agency rather than a youth or single-platform specialist, so a brand whose whole campaign lives in Gen-Z TikTok gets a generalist. There is no self-serve tier either. The retainer model suits ongoing work over a one-off. Set against Fresh Content Society, Fanbytes has nothing current to offer on this point.
What Fresh Content Society does well
- Whole-presence social management in-house
- A senior strategist on each account
- Treats community as the growth engine
- Made for complex mid-market and enterprise
Where it falls short
- A broad social agency, not a youth specialist
- No deep single-platform TikTok focus
- No self-serve tier, fully managed
- Retainer model suits ongoing work
What Fanbytes was
This is easy to verify fanbytes.co.uk is now a one-page rebrand notice whose only working link goes to brainlabsdigital.com. Anyone who came here for it should know Fanbytes is not an agency you can hire. The acquisition by Brainlabs completed in May 2022.
Brainlabs kept the Bytesights tool and dropped the agency name. The current Brainlabs client list reads Netflix, AMN, Hilton, AT&T, Klaviyo, Microsoft and Polaroid. At the sale Brainlabs put the team at 60, the brands served at more than 500 and growth at 130 percent a year over five years.
The name to search for now is Brainlabs. The two client lists should never be merged into one.
What Fanbytes was known for
- Founded 2017 by Timothy Armoo
- More than 500 brands served, per Brainlabs
- A 60-strong team at the 2022 acquisition
- London base and a TikTok-first reputation
Why it is not a live option
- Its client list belongs to Brainlabs now
- The name has been retired into Brainlabs
- Client names from the Fanbytes era are historic
- fanbytes.co.uk is a one-page rebrand notice
Head to head
This pairing needs a caveat before the detail. It was bought by Brainlabs in May 2022. Fanbytes is a name with no business behind it now. Fanbytes is not a live option, so it cannot be weighed against Fresh Content Society on this point. Fresh Content Society is therefore the only live half of this and the rest of the page is the record on Fanbytes.
Which should you actually pick
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