AD OPERATIONS TEMPLATE
Campaign Performance Report Template
Client-facing campaign report: delivery vs. goals, pacing, performance breakdown, optimizations, and recommendations.
Use this templateWhat's inside
Field | Details |
|---|---|
Campaign | Campaign name |
Advertiser | |
Report Period | |
Flight Dates | — |
Total Budget | $XX,XXX |
Author |
Summary
How is the campaign doing? 2-3 sentences: on track or not, what's working, what needs attention. Write this for the account manager who will forward it to the client.
Delivery & KPIs
Metric | Goal | Actual | % of Goal | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Impressions | On Track | |||
Clicks | On Track | |||
CTR | On Track | |||
Conversions | ||||
Viewability | ||||
VCR (Video) | ||||
Spend | ||||
eCPM |
Pacing
Is the campaign delivering on schedule? If not, what's the plan?
Placement | Contracted | Delivered | % Complete | Days Remaining | Pacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Placement name | On Pace | ||||
Under | |||||
Over |
Performance Breakdown
Break down by the dimension that matters most for this campaign. Pick one or two — don't fill in all four. Delete the rows you don't need.
Dimension | Segment | Impressions | Clicks | CTR | Conv. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Creative | Creative A | |||||
Creative | Creative B | |||||
Placement | Placement A | |||||
Placement | Placement B | |||||
Device | Desktop | |||||
Device | Mobile | |||||
Geo | Region A | |||||
Geo | Region B |
Optimizations Made
What did you change this period and why? Clients want to see that someone is actively managing their spend.
Date | Reason | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
What you changed | Why — what data triggered this | Impact so far (or too early to tell) | |
Recommendations
What should happen next? Be specific and tie every recommendation to data.
Recommendation — what to do, based on what data, and expected impact
Recommendation
Appendix: Definitions
Metric | Definition |
|---|---|
Impressions | Number of times the ad was served |
Clicks | Number of click-throughs to the landing page |
CTR | Click-through rate = clicks / impressions |
Viewability | % of impressions measured as viewable (MRC standard: 50% of pixels in view for 1 second) |
VCR | Video completion rate = complete views / video starts |
eCPM | Effective CPM = (total spend / impressions) x 1000 |
CPA | Cost per acquisition = spend / conversions |
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