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Agency media-buying guides

Real setup mistakes and pacing issues we've seen running an agency and building the agents that audit for them — not generic advice.

September 27, 2026

How to reduce risk, error and head hours running client ad accounts in 2026

Eight practical ways agencies cut risk and manual hours across client ad accounts in 2026 — automated pacing checks, scheduled health checks and anomaly alerts.

September 27, 2026

21 PlanPulse features that replace your agency's spreadsheet stack

Every PlanPulse feature explained — agency dashboard, media plan builder, pacing analysis, anomaly detection, action points, AI briefings, reporting and invoicing.

September 27, 2026

Introducing PlanPulse: health checking software for marketing agencies

What PlanPulse is, how it works, and who it's for — from Cam Brewitt of OneOneThree Digital, after years of watching media plans drift out of sync with live ad accounts.

September 27, 2026

7 best Bionic alternatives for marketing agencies in 2026

Bionic Advertising Systems alternatives compared for 2026 — PlanPulse, Pegasus, Camphouse, Basis and Marmind — with pricing and which agency each one suits.

September 15, 2026

5 Google Ads & Meta setup mistakes that quietly break campaign pacing

The setup errors that most often push a campaign off-pace — wrong geotargeting, broken destination URLs, budget-type mix-ups, dayparting conflicts, and attribution mismatches — and how to catch them before a client does.

September 15, 2026

How to build a multi-channel media plan agencies can actually stick to

A practical structure for a multi-channel media plan — channels, budgets, flight dates, and the tracking that keeps a plan honest once campaigns actually go live.

September 15, 2026

Daily vs. lifetime budgets: how agencies accidentally overspend client accounts

The difference between daily and lifetime budgets in Google Ads and Meta, why mixing them up is the most common cause of campaign overpacing, and how to check which one a live campaign is actually using.

September 15, 2026

Catching CPA and spend anomalies before your client does

Why CPA spikes get noticed too late in most agency workflows, and how a rolling baseline — instead of a single target number — catches spend anomalies while there's still time to act.