Best Media buyer report templates for marketing teams and agencies (2024)

Automate marketing reporting with dozens of 100% customizable, white-label Media buyer report templates. Used and made by +10,000 marketers in over 60 countries.

Website Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Analyze key metrics with this Website report template. Track conversion rates, average order value, and customer lifetime value. Measure audience demographics, interests, and behavior using Google Analytics 4. Segment data by time periods. Perfect for marketing teams to consolidate insights and refine strategies.

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Creator marketing Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Track key metrics like CTR, conversion rate, and ROAS with the Creator marketing report template. Analyze audience breakdowns by demographics, psychographics, and behavior. Measure engagement through likes, shares, and comments. Utilize data from Social Media, Instagram Insights, and LinkedIn Pages. Optimize strategy with actionable insights segmented by time periods. Ideal for marketing teams.

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Youtube Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your social media strategy with this Youtube report template. Track CTR, conversion rate, CPA, likes, comments, shares, views, watch time, and subscribers. Analyze by audience, age, gender, interests, and time. Perfect for marketing teams seeking actionable insights to enhance performance across advertising platforms and align with SEO objectives.

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CRM Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

CRM report template tracks key metrics: conversion rate, cost per acquisition, ROI. Analyze demographic, geographic, and psychographic data. Measure sales cycle length, average deal size, and CRM contact conversion. Ideal for B2B and email marketing teams to consolidate insights and refine strategies.

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Facebook Ads Funnel Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your Facebook Ads Funnel with this report template. Track CTR, conversion rate, CPA, and more. Analyze audience targeting, ad creative, and placement strategy. Segment by demographics and behavior. Ideal for PPC and paid media specialists to enhance campaign performance and achieve marketing objectives. Perfect for understanding reach, impressions, and organic search traffic.

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Lead generation Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your strategy with the Lead generation report template. Track conversion rates, cost per conversion, and ROI. Analyze B2B, CRM, Email Marketing, and Facebook Ads data. Segment by audience, demographics, and behavior. Measure SQLs, sales cycle length, and CRM contact performance. Ideal for marketing teams seeking actionable insights.

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Shopify Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Analyze key metrics like revenue, average order value, and conversion rate with this Shopify report template. Track cost per acquisition and return on ad spend. Segment by audience, messaging, and channels. Ideal for e-commerce marketing teams to unify insights and optimize strategies. Perfect for monitoring Shopify store performance across various timeframes.

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What is a media buyer report?

A media buyer report is a document that consolidates data from multiple sources (e.g., Google Ads, Facebook Ads, DSPs) to track and display key performance indicators (KPIs) (e.g., CTR, CPC, conversions), enabling media buyers and agencies to monitor campaign and channel performance and create presentations for clients and executives. 

Media buyer reports are typically created using flexible tools like Google Looker Studio, Power BI, Google Sheets, or platform-specific solutions to enable high customization and integration of multiple data sources.

What to include in a media buyer report?

An actionable media buyer report balances context and specificity based on the audience (executives, managers, and analysts) and their use cases.

Executive media buyer reports

Executive reports for CMOs, CEOs, and clients show media buying's bottom-line impact. Reviewed weekly, monthly, or quarterly, they include:

  • Media ROI analysis: by channel, using attribution (MMM, lift analysis, multi-touch) for large budgets (≈100k/mo).
  • Unit economics analysis: CAC, LTV, payback, ARPU from media-acquired customers
  • Cohort analysis: retention, expansion, and LTV by customer cohort (sign-up period, acquisition channel)
  • Add text for additional context to translate metrics for non-technical audiences. Present in slide decks and simplified Looker Studio reports.

Media buyer manager reports

Manager reports have cross-channel views with drill-downs to see performance by client, brand, region, team member, funnel stage, and campaign. They help align teams, define tactics, and include:

  • Cross-channel reporting: overall campaign, product, client, or region reporting across channels
  • Goal tracking: compare current performance vs objectives
  • Audits for prioritization and spotting issues 
  • Competitive analysis for channel and tactic mapping
  • Audience and placement research

Operational Media Buyer Reports

Operational reports for analysts and channel managers have granular, customizable KPIs to solve technical issues. Monitored hourly, daily, or weekly, they cover:

  • PPC: budget pacing, engagement, creative performance, CPA
  • Programmatic: bid strategies, impression share, viewability
  • Social: ad metrics, audience growth, engaging content
  • Video: completion rates, view-through rates, engagement

Operational media buyer reports are highly customized, built in flexible tools like Google Sheets or Looker Studio to enable data cleaning, blending, annotations, and integrating multiple sources.



How to build a media buyer report?

To build a media buyer report, connect your data sources, choose a template on Looker Studio or Sheets, build your queries by selecting metrics and dimensions, choose charts to visualize your data, customize the report, design and share via link, PDF or email. 

Here’s the breakdown: 

Connect data sources

Define and connect the data sources to bring to your report. Common sources are Google Ads and Meta Ads for PPC performance, DSPs for programmatic data, CRM or E-commerce for sales and conversion data, and YouTube or TikTok for video metrics.

To connect your data sources, go to portermetrics.com, choose the data sources to bring to your report. 

You can follow these tutorials on connecting your data:

Choose a template

Choose from dozens of media buyer report templates in Google Sheets or Looker Studio, designed for use cases like PPC monitoring, budget pacing, funnels, and creative performance. 

Learn to copy Looker Studio templates

While templates are the starting point. Make them specific for your business or agency. Map your specific metrics, especially custom conversions, CRM contact data, and all the fields and metrics that you define as "conversions" and "revenue".

Depending on your reporting tool—Google Sheets or Google Looker Studio, pick any of the dozens of templates created by our team and customers to solve your media buying reporting use cases, such as PPC monitoring, budget pacing, funnels, and creative performance. 

Select metrics, dimensions, and charts

Once your report template is downloaded, you may 1)modify it or 2) create a blank page to build it from scratch. Whatever the case, setting up a query always follows these steps: 

  1. Select the data source and the account connected to it
  2. Choose metrics (e.g., Clicks, spend, Impressions, ROAS, etc.). 
  3. Choose breakdowns to segment your data (e.g., by date, campaign name, ad image, etc.)

You can follow these tutorials on adding data to your reports

Design

To make your media buyer reports truly white-label you can add logos, colors, fonts, and styling to mirror your brand. 

Follow these tutorials to design your media buyer reports:

Share

Share your media buyer reports via links, PDF, schedule emails, and control permissions.

KPIs to include in a media buyer report?

Media buyer reports should include a mix of funnel—visibility, engagement, conversion—, efficiency, effectiveness, revenue, and cost metrics and KPIs to fully understand the performance of media buying campaigns towards business goals. They include:

Media buying funnel KPIs measure the buying process (from the media buyer perspective), regardless of the channel: 

  • Visibility metrics: impressions, reach, ad placements
  • Engagement metrics: clicks, interactions, video plays, Sessions, average time
  • Conversion metrics: custom conversions, leads, purchases, key events

Efficiency KPIs compare your media outputs to the cost, including:

  • Visibility: CPM (Cost per Mille)
  • Engagement: CPC (Cost per Click)
  • Conversion: CPA (Cost per Acquisition), CPP (Cost per Purchase) 

Effectiveness KPIs compare the input with the output from one funnel stage to another

  • Visibility: Frequency
  • Engagement: CTR, engagement rate
  • Conversion: Conversion rate

Sales and cost KPIs show the bottom-line impact of your media buying performance:

  • Sales: customers, revenue
  • Cost: ad spend, OPEX, payroll
  • Efficiency: ROI, ROAS, CAC
  • Effectiveness: AOV, ACV

To analyze these media buying KPIs, segment them by:

  • Channel: paid, social, Facebook Ads vs Google Ads
  • Time: Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly
  • Campaign: funnel stage, objective
  • Business: client, branch, region
  • Audience: geo, tech, demographics, interests, behavior, placement
  • Content: creatives, format, topic, keyword