Most advice about social media marketing is written by people who have never paid for a thousand of anything. This is the other kind. Every rule below comes from what actually happens on a panel that has been filling orders since November 2013, and every number in it is on the live price list as you read this.
Every service on the panel has a minimum order, and on the cheap end it is tiny — ten units on Instagram likes, a hundred on video views. At $0.04 per 1,000 for likes, the minimum order costs four hundredths of a cent. There is no reason to find out that a supplier is slow by ordering 50,000 from them.
Order the minimum. Wait. Count what arrives and what stays after a week. Then scale the one that behaved.
A row on the price list has five numbers and the rate is only one of them. The minimum order decides whether you can test cheaply. The maximum decides whether the service can carry your campaign at all. The average start time is measured from completed orders, not promised. And the tags in the name tell you whether a drop is your problem or ours.
The cheapest YouTube view service is $0.72 per 1,000. The median across all 61 of them is $3.36. That spread is not random — it is speed, source and guarantee, and you are choosing among them whether you read the row or not.
Views do not drop in a way you care about. Followers and subscribers do. The tags R30, R60, R90 and R365 mean you can claim the shortfall back inside that many days; NR means you cannot.
The coverage is uneven and worth knowing. Of 95 Instagram follower services, 44 carry a guarantee. Of 86 like services, only 12 do. On YouTube it flips: 14 of 20 like services are guaranteed but only 8 of 61 view services are. Check before you assume.
Fifty thousand followers on an account with nine posts reads as exactly what it is. So does a video with 40,000 views and two likes.
Rough working ratios: likes somewhere between two and five percent of views, comments a small fraction of likes, saves rarer still. You do not need to hit them precisely. You need to not miss them by an order of magnitude.
A followers service needs the profile link. A likes or views service needs the link to the specific post. A Telegram views service needs the post URL, not the channel. Ordering against the wrong link is the single most common failed order, and a failed order on a mismatched link is not refundable.
Changing your username, switching to private, or deleting the post breaks delivery mid-flight. The supplier is pushing to a URL; when the URL stops resolving, the order stops, and there is nothing to refill because nothing failed on our side.
Drip-feed splits one order into scheduled batches. Ten thousand followers over a week reads as growth. The same ten thousand in ninety minutes reads as a purchase — to anyone looking at the graph, and to the platform.
It costs the same. The only thing you spend is patience.
The economics differ enormously and it changes what is worth doing:
Views are the cheapest way to make a post look alive. Likes are social proof. Followers are the number people check before deciding whether to follow. Saves and shares are the signals platforms weigh most heavily and almost nobody buys.
If your goal is a landing page that converts, followers matter. If your goal is a video that keeps getting recommended, views and watch behaviour matter and followers are close to irrelevant. Decide which before you open the price list, or the price list will decide for you.
This is the rule the rest depend on. Bought signals move a post past the cold-start problem — the point where nobody has seen it, so nobody sees it. They buy attention for something. If the something is weak, you have bought a larger audience for a weak thing, and the metrics after the first hour will tell you so honestly.
The panels that promise otherwise are selling you the thing you want to hear. We are selling delivery, and we are cheap because we buy in volume, not because we know a secret about the algorithm.
Sign up, add ten dollars, and spend two of them running the minimum order on four different services across two platforms. Watch what starts fast, what holds after a week, and what quietly disappears. That afternoon teaches you more than any article, including this one, and it costs about the price of a coffee.
The full price list shows every rate, minimum and measured start time. If you are new to panels entirely, the beginner's guide walks through one order end to end.