Playbooks, checklists and templates from the desk.

The working documents we use internally, shared on request. No gated funnels and no drip sequences - send a note and we will email the file.

Library

Six documents worth having.

These are the actual working files, lightly cleaned. If one is useful, take it and use it.

Checklist

Programmatic measurement checklist

The pre-launch validation list we run before any programmatic budget goes live, covering events, parameters, counting rules and macro handoffs.

PDF · 6 pages

Template

Creative testing planner

A worksheet for planning creative tests with hypotheses, variables, sample sizing and decision rules written down in advance.

Spreadsheet

Playbook

Native scaling playbook

How we structure native accounts so publisher, creative and audience effects can be read independently as spend increases.

PDF · 18 pages

Overview

Agency partnership brief

How white label engagements work in practice: scope, service levels, confidentiality and the handover process.

PDF · 8 pages

Template

Quarterly review template

The structure we use for quarterly programme reviews, including the sections most teams skip.

Document

Worksheet

Audience architecture worksheet

Mapping first-party data, contextual signals and platform segments into an activation-ready structure.

Spreadsheet

Marketing team working through a planning workshop

Signal Report

A monthly note on what actually changed in the platforms.

Platform releases, measurement changes and the operational implications - written for people who have to act on them. One email a month, no sales sequence.

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Latest insights

Recent writing from the practice.

Analyst reviewing a campaign pacing dashboard on a widescreen monitor
Operations

How to read pacing data without panicking on a Tuesday

Mid-flight pacing dips are normal. Knowing which ones deserve intervention is the difference between managing a campaign and reacting to it.

· 7 min read

Creative team reviewing native advertising variants pinned to a studio wall
Creative

Creative fatigue is a scheduling problem, not a surprise

If refresh happens after performance drops, you have already paid for the decline. Here is how we plan production against the testing calendar instead.

· 6 min read

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Measurement

The Floodlight audit we run before any DV360 budget moves

A short, boring checklist that prevents most of the measurement arguments that surface three months into a programme.

· 9 min read

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