High Wycombe, BuckinghamshireUK studio, worldwide clients
The social media marketing agency for brands worth following
Social media managers, content creators, influencers and web builders, in one founder led studio. For brands in the UK and worldwide, from a local restaurant to a multi brand group.
★★★★★ 5.0 on Google from 10 reviews
Where most brands start
We reply within one business day with the plan we would actually put you on, including when that is the cheapest thing we sell. On a management plan the first calendar lands within 5 working days of the brief.
Client reviews
What clients say
“Fantastic service. Been a client for 3 years now and have seen fantastic results, increased viewers, followers and viral videos. Copywriting was on point and has been used in magazines like Conde Nast, Timeout and more.”
Darrell Johnston, Owner, No Escape London and Purgatory Bar. Google review, 5.0.“Velena is truly one of our standout creators at Picsart. She consistently brings fresh, innovative ideas to the table and is always tapped into the latest trends. What we especially love is how seamlessly she incorporates AI into her content in a way that feels natural and engaging.”
Kaline Tchamitchian, Senior Social Media Manager, Picsart. Google review, 5.0.“Working with Velena and Dragos has been one of the best decisions I have made for my business. They built my entire ecommerce website from scratch, with over 870 products and worldwide shipping, and the result is exactly what I had hoped for.”
Silvi, SILVI The Artist. Client testimonial.“Velena Lifestyle have been a breath of fresh air for our social media accounts. Their professionalism and knowledge have supported us massively.”
Sean Thompson, Head of Marketing, Snaptrip Group. Google review, 5.0.“If you want a self-starter with the ability to think strategically and minimize the time between ideation and creation, Velena is your go-to. She has done a phenomenal job with managing our UGC portfolio, curating and creating our content.”
Naila Abbasova, Enara Wellness. Google review, 5.0.“Velena was a pleasure to work with, she worked solely with the brief provided and was even ahead of her deadline. The content produced was clean, professional and on brand. We would love to work with Velena again in the very near future.”
Lauryn Middleton, Social Media Manager, Smirk. Client testimonial, October 2023.“I've known Velena for many years and she is a great content creator and reliable. I highly recommend her. Looking forward to hiring her again.”
Alex, Newmiuz. Google review, 5.0.Every review is reproduced word for word. Read them all on the reviews page.
Brands who keep coming back
HoneyBee and Co. is our own brand, not a client. Client press in Vogue, Conde Nast and TimeOut belongs to those clients; our own press is Women's Health, and we keep the two apart.
The work
Six from across the range
Filmed and edited by Velena on real briefs, from the UGC portfolio. Press a thumbnail to play. Nothing loads from YouTube until you do.
Hotel stay, the Dolomites
HospitalitySupplement routine
Wellness and fitnessSalon visit
BeautyIce cream, close up
Food and drinkMorning routine at home
LifestyleShort form creative
LifestyleEvery category in the UGC portfolio shows finished client work before it shows a price.
Who we are
One founder led studio in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Each block below says what we do, who it is for, what it has produced, and what it costs to start.
01 : Social media managers
We are social media managers
Velena Lifestyle manages Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts for brands from a single local business to a multi brand corporate group. Strategy, content, publishing, community and a monthly report, run by the founders every month, on rolling monthly plans.
Proof: 4.1 million Instagram views for Purgatory Bar in five months with zero ad spend, and 2.6 million organic views across seven Snaptrip Group travel brands and eleven accounts.
Proof
Proof: 4.1 million Instagram views for Purgatory Bar in five months with zero ad spend, and 2.6 million organic views across seven Snaptrip Group travel brands and eleven accounts.
02 : Content creators
We are content creators
Velena Lifestyle produces user generated content for brands to publish themselves: Reels and Shorts for social channels, website videos, and UGC advertising creative built for Meta and TikTok ad accounts. Filmed with the real product, in twelve categories from beauty and fashion to software and hospitality, at four tiers from organic rights to a full advertising licence with raw footage.
Proof: an eleven month content partnership with Picsart, repeat UGC commissions from Newmiuz and Enara Wellness since 2023, and every category's finished work on its own portfolio page.
Proof
Proof: an eleven month content partnership with Picsart, repeat UGC commissions from Newmiuz and Enara Wellness since 2023, and every category's finished work on its own portfolio page.
03 : Hospitality campaigns
We produce campaigns for hotels and restaurants
Velena Lifestyle travels to the venue, plans a campaign with the client, and films the videos and stills on location: a long form property film, Reels, and social stills from one visit. The client publishes them on their website and channels, or runs them as advertising, under a stated licence.
Proof: hotels filmed on location in the UK and Italy, and two London venues, No Escape London and Purgatory Bar, on retainer since 2023.
Proof
Proof: hotels filmed on location in the UK and Italy, and two London venues, No Escape London and Purgatory Bar, on retainer since 2023.
04 : Event coverage
We document events, expos and presentations
Velena Lifestyle attends events, expositions and presentations and documents them for social: live Stories going out while the room is still full, then Reels, a highlight film and social stills within five working days. Half day, full day and two day packages, and we travel to the event worldwide.
Honestly: this range has not yet had a paid booking, and the page says so. What we bring is three years of arriving at unfamiliar venues to a brief under time pressure and delivering.
Honestly
Honestly: this range has not yet had a paid booking, and the page says so. What we bring is three years of arriving at unfamiliar venues to a brief under time pressure and delivering.
From £850 per event
Event packages
05 : Influencers
We are influencers
Velena Nikolova and Dragos Nistor publish on their own channels: Velena on Instagram to 13,000 followers, Dragos on LinkedIn to a 25,000 network as a LinkedIn Top Entrepreneurship Voice in 2024. An influencer package is a post on our channels reaching our audience, which is a different purchase from UGC and priced separately.
Proof: Velena has been featured in Women's Health, the agency's own press. Client press in Vogue, Conde Nast and TimeOut belongs to those clients.
Proof
Proof: Velena has been featured in Women's Health, the agency's own press. Client press in Vogue, Conde Nast and TimeOut belongs to those clients.
From £450 per post
Influencer packages
06 : Travel and food creators
We are travel and food content creators
Velena Lifestyle films destination, accommodation and food content on location as a pair. Tourism boards, hotels and experience brands commission a trip; the client covers travel and accommodation for two and the production fee sits on top. Destination guides on this site cover Copenhagen, Sozopol and more.
Proof: destination and food content published across our own channels and the blog, and hospitality campaigns filmed in the UK and Italy.
Proof
Proof: destination and food content published across our own channels and the blog, and hospitality campaigns filmed in the UK and Italy.
07 : Websites and ecommerce
We build websites and manage ecommerce stores
Velena Lifestyle designs and builds WordPress websites and WooCommerce stores, audits stores that already exist, retrofits a shop into a site you are keeping, and manages ecommerce day to day: products, orders, stock, performance and maintenance. We run our own shops on exactly what we sell.
Proof: an 870 product store with worldwide shipping for Silvi the Artist, a Louvre exhibited painter, managed daily since launch, and our own brand HoneyBee and Co., which passes Core Web Vitals.
Proof
Proof: an 870 product store with worldwide shipping for Silvi the Artist, a Louvre exhibited painter, managed daily since launch, and our own brand HoneyBee and Co., which passes Core Web Vitals.
08 : LinkedIn
We manage LinkedIn and run audits
Velena Lifestyle manages LinkedIn for founders and B2B brands: personal brand management, lead generation and profile audits, run by Dragos Nistor, a LinkedIn Top Entrepreneurship Voice in 2024 with a 25,000 network. We also run written audits of company pages, WooCommerce stores and social accounts, with the fixes ranked by what they are worth.
Proof: LinkedIn is the most cited domain for professional queries across the major AI platforms, and Dragos's own profile is the working example of the method.
Proof
Proof: LinkedIn is the most cited domain for professional queries across the major AI platforms, and Dragos's own profile is the working example of the method.
From £297 for an audit
LinkedIn servicesEverything, side by side with every tier, in the full shop. Prices are in pounds sterling and no VAT is added.
Against the market
What UK social media agencies usually charge, and what we charge
UK figures from third party sources, cited, beside ours. A comparison you can check rather than a claim about us.
| Item | UK market, cited sources | Velena Lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price for agency management | National agencies typically start at 1,500 pounds a month and reach 5,000 pounds and above for larger accounts (Wise, 2026). Small business packages are commonly 500 to 1,500 pounds a month (Cambria Marketing, 2026) | £149 a month for the content pack; management from £399 |
| Setup fee | Many agencies charge 500 to 2,000 pounds upfront (ExpertSure, 2026) | None |
| Minimum term | Most require 3 to 6 month minimum commitments, and some charge early exit penalties of 1 to 3 months' fees (ExpertSure, 2026) | Rolling monthly on 2 months notice, no exit fee |
| Who does the work | Typically an account manager, a strategist and freelancers, with handovers between them | The two founders, on every account, every month |
| How you find out what it costs | Usually a discovery call and a proposal. One 2026 survey counted 26 published figures across 11 UK providers | Read the product page and order |
Sources: Wise, social media agency pricing UK; Cambria Marketing, social media management pricing UK; ExpertSure, social media agency costs UK. Market figures are ranges published by third parties in 2026 and are not quotes from any named competitor. What the market charges in full is in our own UK cost guide.
The work
Case studies, with the numbers
Every result names its window and its source. Where a figure fell rather than rose, the case study says so.
Social media, hospitality
Purgatory Bar
4.1M Instagram views, zero ad spend
A London venue on retainer since 2023. One Reel reached three million views organically.
WooCommerce build
Silvi the Artist
870 products, worldwide shipping
A store built from nothing for a Louvre exhibited painter, managed daily since launch.
All six, including No Escape London, Nikolov Nikola and our own brand HoneyBee and Co., on the case studies page.
Why it works
Nobody hands your account to somebody else
Every handover costs something nobody wrote down
Most agencies split the work. A strategist writes the deck, a junior schedules it, a freelancer shoots it, and none of the three ever speak. What gets lost at each handover is the part nobody wrote down, which is why so much agency content is technically correct and completely flat. Here the person who developed the idea is the person on camera and the person in the edit.
The client list is short on purpose
Doing the work rather than delegating it puts a hard ceiling on how many brands we can hold, so we run a deliberately short list and turn down work we would have enjoyed. You get the founders on your account every month. We do not get to be everywhere.
Who we are the wrong agency for
A brand needing twenty assets a week across six markets should hire a production company. A brand looking for the cheapest supplier will find one, because there is always someone cheaper than two founders doing the work themselves. We would rather say that here than three months into a retainer.
Questions
Before you get in touch
Velena Lifestyle is a social media marketing agency based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, working with brands in the UK and worldwide. It is a founder led studio that manages social media, produces UGC and hospitality content, documents events, publishes as influencers, creates travel and food content, builds websites and ecommerce stores, and manages LinkedIn. It was founded by Velena Nikolova, Creative Director, and Dragos Nistor, Business Strategist, and has been featured in Women's Health.
The founders, every month, from the first brief to the last hand off. Velena develops the idea, appears on camera and edits it. Dragos writes the strategy, runs the schedule and reports on it. Nothing is delegated and nothing is subcontracted, which is also why the client list is short and why we sometimes say we are full.
Plans run from £149 a month to £2,499, rolling monthly on 2 months notice, with no minimum term and no setup fee. Four are management plans where we run the channel and one is a content pack where we make the posts and you publish them. The full ladder is on the social media management page.
Yes. Social media management, LinkedIn and website work are location independent and already run for brands outside the UK. Filmed UGC needs the product posted to our Buckinghamshire address, so an overseas brief adds shipping time rather than complexity. On location work carries a stated travel supplement rather than a surprise on the invoice.
UGC is video made for you to publish on your own channels. An influencer package is a post on ours, Velena on Instagram or Dragos on LinkedIn, reaching our audience rather than producing an asset for yours. Different products, priced separately, and brands sometimes buy both for the same launch.
Tell us about the brand through the contact page. We reply within one business day with the plan we would actually put you on, and if that is the cheapest thing we sell we will say so. There is no pitch deck and no series of discovery calls.
Who you work with
A two person team, not an account queue
Velena Nikolova
Co-Founder and Creative Director
Velena films and edits every video herself, so the idea and the execution come from the same person. A lifestyle creator with 13,000 Instagram followers, featured in Women's Health. More on the about page.
Dragos Nistor
Co-Founder and Business Strategist
Dragos handles briefs, scheduling and delivery, and is your point of contact from order to hand off. Named a LinkedIn Top Entrepreneurship Voice in 2024. More on the case studies.
Ready to grow your brand?
Tell us what you are trying to fix and we come back within one business day with the plan we would actually put you on.