Best SEM report templates for marketing teams and agencies (2024)

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ROAS Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Track PPC performance with this PPC ROAS report template. Measure CTR, CPA, and conversion rates. Analyze ad placement, audience, and creative formats. Integrate data from Facebook Ads and Paid Media. Segment by time and demographics for actionable insights. Ideal for marketing teams aiming to optimize their strategy and achieve specific goals.

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Twitter Ads Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Analyze key metrics like CTR, conversion rate, and social actions with this Twitter Ads report template. Track performance by campaign objective, ad format, and audience targeting. Segment data by time, location, gender, and age. Perfect for PPC specialists to consolidate Twitter Ads and Paid Media strategies for actionable insights.

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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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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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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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Inbound marketing Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize your strategy with this Inbound marketing report template. Track KPIs like conversion rates and social media engagement. Analyze data from CRM, E-commerce, Facebook Ads, Google Analytics 4, and LinkedIn Ads. Segment by demographics and timeframes. Ideal for B2B and e-commerce teams to measure performance and achieve marketing goals.

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ROAS Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Track PPC performance with this PPC ROAS report template. Measure CTR, CPA, and conversion rates. Analyze ad placement, audience, and creative formats. Integrate data from Facebook Ads and Paid Media. Segment by time and demographics for actionable insights. Ideal for marketing teams aiming to optimize their strategy and achieve specific goals.

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Demand generation Report template for Marketing teams and agencies

Optimize B2B demand generation with this report template. Track conversion rates, cost per conversion, and click-through rates. Analyze social media shares and impressions. Integrate data from CRM, E-commerce, Facebook Ads, Google Analytics 4, and LinkedIn Ads. Segment by demographics and time for strategic insights. Ideal for marketing teams focused on performance.

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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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What is an SEM report?

An SEM report is a document that consolidates data from multiple sources (e.g., Google Ads, Bing Ads, SEMrush) to track and display key performance indicators (KPIs) (e.g., CTR, CPC, conversions), enabling teams and agencies to monitor campaign and channel performance and create presentations for clients and executives. 

SEM 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 an SEM report?

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

Executive SEM reports

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

  • SEM ROI analysis: by channel, using attribution (MMM, lift analysis, multi-touch) for large budgets (≈100k/mo).
  • Unit economics analysis: CAC, LTV, payback, ARPU from SEM-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.

SEM 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
  • Keyword and audience research

Operational SEM 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
  • Keyword performance: rankings, impressions, clicks, CPC
  • Ad performance: ad copy effectiveness, quality score, ad extensions

Operational SEM 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 an SEM report?

To build an SEM 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 Bing Ads for PPC performance, SEMrush for keyword data, and CRM or E-commerce for sales data.

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 SEM 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 SEM 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, Sessions, 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 SEM reports truly white-label you can add logos, colors, fonts, and styling to mirror your brand. 

Follow these tutorials to design your SEM reports:

Share

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

KPIs to include in an SEM report?

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

SEM funnel KPIs measure the buying process (from the marketer perspective), regardless of the channel: 

  • Visibility metrics: impressions, reach, ad views
  • Engagement metrics: clicks, CTR, ad interactions
  • Conversion metrics: custom conversions, leads, purchases, key events

Efficiency KPIs compare your SEM 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 SEM performance:

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

To analyze these SEM KPIs, segment them by:

  • Channel: paid, search, Google Ads vs Bing Ads
  • Time: Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly
  • Campaign: funnel stage, objective
  • Business: client, branch, region
  • Audience: geo, tech, demographics, interests, behavior, placement
  • Content: ad copy, format, keyword