An in-house team of 16 in Lima and Buenos Aires — strategists, filmmakers, designers and media buyers — running paid media, content and web for US and Canadian brands. Same working day, no overnight handoffs, and a cost structure that lets you fund the work instead of the overhead.
En resumen: Yes. Flama Creators is a bilingual digital marketing agency that partners with US brands in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Houston, Austin and nationwide. We run performance marketing, Meta Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, social media, branding and video production in both English and Spanish, which makes us a strong fit for brands targeting the US Hispanic market.
Actualizado: agosto 2026 · Flama Creators
What "nearshore" actually means for a marketing team
Nearshore means your team sits in a nearby country and a nearby time zone. For a US company, that is Latin America. The distinction matters more in marketing than in most outsourced work, because marketing is not a queue of tickets: it is a stream of decisions that need answering the same day — a campaign underperforming by noon, a creative that has to ship before a launch, a competitor move that changes the message.
Model
Where the team sits
Overlap with US hours
What it suits
In-house US hire
Your office
Full
Deep product knowledge; the highest fixed cost per person.
US agency
United States
Full
Local market fluency; you also fund their local cost base.
Nearshore (Latin America)
Lima, Buenos Aires
Most of the working day
Same-day iteration on campaigns and creative.
Offshore (Asia, Eastern Europe)
10–12 hours away
Little to none
Well-specified work that can run overnight without questions.
None of these is better in the abstract. If your marketing work is fully specified in advance and does not need a conversation, offshore is cheaper and perfectly fine. Nearshore earns its keep when the work changes during the day.
The time zone math, precisely
This is the part most nearshore pitches keep vague, so here it is exactly: Peru does not observe daylight saving time. Lima sits at UTC−5 all year round. That means:
Against New York and Miami: identical during standard time, and one hour behind during daylight saving. A 9am meeting on the East Coast is 9am or 8am here.
Against Chicago and Dallas: one hour ahead in standard time, the same in daylight saving.
Against Los Angeles and Seattle: three hours ahead in standard time, two in daylight saving — the same gap you would have with an East Coast agency.
Buenos Aires sits at UTC−3, two hours ahead of Lima, which extends early-morning coverage for East Coast clients.
The practical consequence is simple: you send a note in the morning and get an answer that morning, not the next day. Over a quarter of campaign work, that is the difference between twelve iterations and four.
What we actually run
We are a marketing team, not a staffing firm. You do not get resumes to screen or contractors to manage — you get a team that owns the outcome.
Service
What it includes
Starting at
Social media management
Strategy, content calendar, production, community
US$800/month
Paid media management
Meta, Google and TikTok — ad spend billed separately
US$390/month
SEO and GEO
Technical SEO, content, and optimization for AI answers
US$390/month
Video production
Reels, ads and corporate video, shot in-house
US$500
Website
Design and build, e-commerce available
US$1,000
Branding
Identity, guidelines, visual system
US$1,000
The one thing that is unusual here: the video is produced by the same team that runs the ads. Most agencies subcontract production, which is why creative refreshes take weeks. Ours has filmmakers, a director of photography and editors on staff — over 600 videos produced to date.
Why a Latin American team costs less (and why that is not a trick)
The honest answer is that salaries and office costs in Lima and Buenos Aires are a fraction of those in New York or San Francisco. That is the whole mechanism. We are not cutting hours, junior-loading the account or reselling someone else’s work — the same people who pitch you do the work.
What that buys you in practice is more output for the same budget: the monthly fee that covers one mid-level marketer in the US covers a team here. It does not buy you US market intuition, which is the honest trade-off and the next section.
When you should not hire us
Three cases where a US agency is the better call, and we would rather say so now than three months in:
You need on-site production in the US. We shoot in Lima and Buenos Aires. A shoot in Chicago means flying a crew or hiring local — an agency already there will do it cheaper and faster.
Your buyer is deeply culturally specific. Campaigns that live on American regional humor, local sports rivalries or a very particular subculture are better served by people who grew up inside them.
You need someone in the room. Some organizations need their agency at the Monday meeting, physically. We work remotely and always will.
Outside those three, the distance stops mattering. Paid media, SEO, content and web are done on the same platforms from anywhere.
Want a proposal for your case? Free, within 24 hours.
A marketing team based in a nearby country that works your hours instead of yours overnight. For a US company that means Latin America. The point is not only cost: it is that campaign work needs same-day answers, and a team ten time zones away cannot give them. Flama Creators runs from Lima and Buenos Aires with an in-house team of 16.
How much does a nearshore marketing agency cost?
Ours starts at US$800 per month for social media management, US$390 per month for paid media management with ad spend billed separately, and US$1,000 for a website. Rates in the market vary widely, so whatever you are quoted, ask for three line items separated: the agency fee, the money that actually goes to the ad platforms, and the cost of producing creative. When those arrive as one number you cannot tell what you are buying.
What is the time difference with Latin America?
Peru does not observe daylight saving time, so Lima stays at UTC−5 year round. That makes it identical to New York and Miami in standard time and one hour behind during daylight saving; one hour ahead of Chicago; and two to three hours ahead of Los Angeles, which is the same gap you would have hiring an East Coast agency. Buenos Aires is two hours ahead of Lima.
Do you have an office in the United States?
No. We have no office, no legal entity and no staff in the US, and we would rather be direct about it than let you find out later. Our team is in Lima and Buenos Aires and we work with US and Canadian clients remotely. If your project needs on-site production or someone physically in your meetings, a local agency will serve you better.
Do you work in English?
Yes, and in Spanish. Client communication, reporting and ad copy are produced in English for US and Canadian accounts. The bilingual capability is genuinely useful if you also sell to the US Hispanic market, since the same team can run both versions of a campaign without a translation round trip.
Is nearshore just outsourcing with a nicer name?
It is outsourcing, yes — the difference is the overlap. Traditional offshore outsourcing optimizes for the lowest hourly rate and accepts that the work happens while you sleep, which is fine for well-specified tasks and poor for marketing, where the brief changes mid-week. Nearshore trades a slightly higher rate for working the same day as you. And unlike a staffing firm, you are not managing individual contractors: you hire a team that owns the result.
How do we start and how long until results?
A free proposal within 24 hours, no minimum contract term. On timing, the honest answer depends on the channel: paid media produces measurable data in two to four weeks, while SEO and content compound over three to six months. Anyone promising first-page rankings on a fixed date is guessing, because nobody controls Google’s ranking.
We also serve brands across Latin America and beyond
