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What a good ad spend report looks like

Reports tend to grow wider until dozens of columns fill the screen and nobody reads them. There is one test for keeping a field: will it change what someone does today?

The daily report serves budget adjustments. It needs spend, pacing, comparison with the same point yesterday, and a list of abnormal accounts. Fewer fields means the stand-up can read it in five minutes.

The weekly report serves structural decisions: how spend distribution shifts between platforms and accounts, efficiency trends by creative batch, accounts over or under budget. More breakdowns belong here.

The review report serves after-the-fact attribution. It can afford the most complex definitions and the slowest build: spend next to orders, revenue and margin, answering whether the cycle actually made money.

Separating the three beats building one report that tries to do everything.

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