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

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A/B testing Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your campaigns with this A/B testing report template. Measure conversion rates, ROI, and click-through rates. Analyze target audience, demographics, and campaign messages. Consolidate data from Email Marketing and Copy for actionable insights. Ideal for marketing teams to track performance and refine strategies.

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Dropshipping Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your marketing strategy with this Dropshipping report template. Measure conversion rates, average order value, and customer lifetime value. Segment by demographics, interests, and time. Consolidate data from E-commerce, Google Analytics 4, Shopify, Google Ads, and Facebook Ads. Perfect for tracking key metrics and enhancing performance in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

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Shopify Store performance Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Measure key metrics with the Store performance report template. Analyze total revenue, conversion rates, and traffic sources. Segment by audience, marketing channels, and campaign objectives. Consolidate data from E-commerce, Google Analytics 4, Shopify, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and SEO. Perfect for marketing teams to track performance and optimize strategies.

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DTC Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your strategy with this DTC report template. Track revenue, conversion rates, and cost per acquisition. Blend data from E-commerce, Google Analytics 4, Shopify, Google Ads, and Facebook Ads. Segment by demographics, behavior, and time. Perfect for marketing teams to measure key metrics and enhance E-commerce performance.

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Frequency Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Frequency report template consolidates metrics like conversion rate, ROI, and CTR from Facebook Ads, TikTok Ads, and Google Ads. Analyze audience targeting and campaign duration. Track performance by time period. Designed for marketing teams to measure PPC strategies and optimize paid media efforts efficiently.

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Local SEO Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your local SEO strategy with this Local SEO report template. Track CTR, conversion rate, and cost per conversion. Analyze keyword ranking, organic traffic, and local pack visibility. Segment data by demographics, location, and behavior over time. Perfect for marketing teams aiming to achieve specific goals and improve performance.

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Acquisition Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

This Acquisition report template helps marketing teams track key metrics like conversion rate, ROI, and CTR. Analyze dimensions such as target audience and campaign goals. Integrate data from Google Analytics 4, Copy, and PPC. Ideal for measuring performance and refining strategies to meet specific objectives.

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Social Media Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your strategy with this Social Media report template. Analyze conversion rates, ROAS, and engagement metrics from Instagram Insights and LinkedIn Pages. Track key metrics like likes, comments, and shares. Segment by audience, age, and location. Perfect for marketing teams to measure performance and achieve specific goals.

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ActiveCampaign Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Track and measure key metrics with the ActiveCampaign automation report template. Analyze conversion rates, ROI, and click-through rates across demographics and psychographics. Integrate CRM and email marketing data for actionable insights. Ideal for B2B marketing teams to optimize performance and achieve specific goals.

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E-commerce Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your strategy with this E-commerce report template. Track metrics like conversion rate, average order value, and CPA. Analyze dimensions by audience, channel, and time. Integrate data from E-commerce, Paid Media, and SEO. Ideal for marketing teams to measure performance and achieve goals effectively.

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HubSpot Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize B2B marketing with this HubSpot report template. Track metrics like conversion rate, ROI, and average deal size. Analyze CRM contacts and campaign performance by demographic and psychographic breakdowns. Ideal for inbound marketing teams to measure and refine email marketing and funnel strategies across different timeframes.

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LTV Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Analyze key metrics such as conversion rate, CPA, and CLTV with this LTV report template. Ideal for e-commerce and Shopify, it helps marketing teams track customer segmentation and channel attribution. Gain insights by age, location, and income to refine your strategy and boost sales performance.

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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