Paid Media Audit Consultants

A clear map of your paid media operation: what is working, what is not, and what to do in what order. We audit the media and the measurement underneath it, across channels, audiences, and creative.

Our dedicated team of media and measurement consultants audits the whole operation, from platform settings to attribution, and hands back a prioritized plan with owners and effort assigned.

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A quarter of paid search budgets is wasted on average (WordStream analysis of 500 SMB accounts)

The whole operation, mapped to value

Independent and forensic

The audit stands on its own: every finding traces to evidence in the account, the tracking, or the data, and the recommendations hold whoever delivers them. Campaigns keep running while we work.

Measurement checked and validated

Tech stack, tracking, attribution, and data durability are audited alongside the media, because performance findings built on broken measurement are noise.

A plan with value, owners and an order

Findings become a 30-60-90 roadmap: quick wins first, foundations second, scale from day 61, each item with an owner and effort assigned.

Inside the Paid Media Audit

Objectives defined, the operation audited forensically, and a prioritized plan with owners and effort assigned.

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Objectives & KPIs

Objectives & Success Criteria

We define primary and secondary objectives with your team: what the media investment exists to achieve, and how success will be judged. Business goals and media goals are aligned before anything is reviewed. Nothing in the audit is scored against a target your organization has not agreed.

DELIVERABLE

Documented objectives & KPI framework

Goal Alignment & Stakeholders

Business and media goals are reconciled wherever they diverge, and the stakeholders who own each are identified. The audit is scoped against what the organization is trying to achieve. Scope, channels, and access requirements are confirmed in writing before the review starts.

DELIVERABLE

Goal alignment & audit scope

KPI Framework

The KPI framework is set: the metrics that will judge each channel and campaign, at what level, over what window. Every audit finding is scored against this framework. Vanity metrics do not enter it - we are lazer-focused on commercial value.

DELIVERABLE

Agreed KPI framework

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Audit & Assessment

Strategy & Channel Performance

Our media consultants review the strategy and every channel: performance against the KPI framework, return on investment, budget distribution, and where spend is working hardest. Underfunded winners and overfunded underperformers are both named.

DELIVERABLE

Channel performance & ROI assessment

Measurement & Durability Review

Your stack, tracking, attribution setup, and signal durability are reviewed by our measurement consultants. Findings state what the reported numbers can and cannot support, because every media recommendation downstream depends on that answer.

DELIVERABLE

Measurement & durability findings

Audience & Creative Review

Audience strategy, targeting, and creative are reviewed against performance: which segments and messages carry the results, and where fatigue or overlap is costing efficiency. Creative volume and refresh rate are assessed against platform delivery requirements.

DELIVERABLE

Audience & creative findings

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Strategy & Roadmap

Opportunity Identification

Findings become opportunities, each mapped by impact and dependency: what it is worth, what must happen first, and what it touches. Nothing enters the plan without a value attached. Dependencies across measurement, media, and site work are made explicit.

DELIVERABLE

Opportunity map with impact & dependencies

Prioritization & Roadmap

Opportunities are sequenced into a phased plan: days 1-30 quick wins, days 31-60 foundations, day 61 onward scale. The roadmap is walked through with your team and adjusted before sign-off.

DELIVERABLE

30-60-90 phased roadmap

Owners, Effort & Handover

Every roadmap item is assigned an owner and an effort estimate, whether delivery sits with your team, your agency, or ours. The audit closes with a working session and a full handover.

DELIVERABLE

Owner & effort assignments, handover session

A fractional data team turns expertise into ongoing capability.

Independent analysts who keep the audit honest year-round: spend, signals, and reporting reviewed continuously - backed by the full data team, measurement to activation.

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