Each card shows MTD actual vs the pro-rata target for Day 18 (58.1% of the month). The black tick on each bar marks where spend should be today.
MTD Spend
$2,165
Day 1–18
Variance
+$713
49.2% over
Required Daily
$26
vs $120 current
Context: 86.6% of the full August budget is already spent at 58% of the month. Daily run rate is $120.28 vs the $25.76 it would take over the final 13 days to land on the $2,500 plan, projecting ~$1,229 over. Two things make this the portfolio's structural problem rather than a one-month blip. First, it is the third consecutive month over plan: June closed $4,791 vs $4,000, July closed $5,454 vs $3,200 (+70%). Second, it is the only account running ahead of its annual envelope — $22,013 of $30,000 spent through July, leaving $7,987 against an $8,500 Aug–Dec plan. There is no slack left to absorb this. And the extra dollars are not buying availability: all three campaigns show 0% IS lost to budget, with 54–68% lost to rank. Trim daily caps.
MTD Spend
$1,516
Day 1–18
Required Daily
$76
vs $84 current
Context: Effectively on plan and the one account that needs nothing this period. This is a genuine correction, not a continuation — July closed at $3,822 against a $2,500 budget (+53% over), so landing within 4% of pace is the improvement we wanted. MTD CPA is $79.79 against July's $74.94, so the tighter spend has not come at the cost of efficiency. All three campaigns are at 0% IS lost to budget; brand sits at 92.4% impression share while the two General geo campaigns run 22–25% IS with roughly 75% lost to rank, which is a quality problem rather than a budget one. The annual envelope also has room: $13,965 of $30,000 spent through July, leaving $16,035 against a $14,500 Aug–Dec plan. Leave caps alone and keep watching CPL.
MTD Spend
$2,960
Day 1–18
Variance
−$1,395
32.0% under
Required Daily
$349
vs $164 current
Context: This is the account to act on. August is Hall Signs' peak month at $7,500 — the largest single-account budget in the plan — and it is $1,395 behind with 13 days left. Daily run rate is $164.43 vs the $349.26 needed to land on plan. Unlike June, this is not a rank constraint: Brand is losing 32.4% of impressions to budget and Sign Blanks Material 24.5%. Daily caps are throttling the account in the exact month the plan wants the money deployed. This also repeats July, which closed at $4,065 against a $6,000 budget — the same 32% shortfall. Brand is the cheapest conversion in the portfolio at $24.25 CPA on 66.1% IS, so raise it first. Sign Blanks Material is the opposite case: $2,422 spent for 7 conversions ($346 CPA) at 12.3% IS with 63.2% lost to rank — verify efficiency there before pushing more budget into it.