Field Guide

Practical guides, incident reports and benchmarks about marketing monitoring — ad spend, anomaly detection, conversion tracking and agency operations. Written for performance marketers and agencies running Google Ads, Meta, GA4 and Shopify at scale.

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Google Ads can spend 2x your daily budget. Here's what that means.

Google Ads can spend up to twice your daily budget on any single day. Instead of a hard daily cap, it caps the month at your daily budget times 30.4 and redistr…

Aug 5, 2026 · 6 min read
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How to send GA4 reports to Slack

Google Analytics 4 has no native Slack integration and no built-in report scheduling. To get GA4 data into Slack you need a third-party tool. You can build it y…

Aug 5, 2026 · 11 min read
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How to send Google Ads reports to Slack

Google Ads has no built-in Slack integration. To send Google Ads performance reports to Slack you need a third-party tool. You can build it with the Google Ads …

Aug 5, 2026 · 9 min read
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Ad spend pacing: what it is and how to stay on budget

Ad spend pacing is the rate at which your advertising budget is consumed over a given period. If you have a $10,000 monthly budget and you are 15 days into the …

Apr 22, 2026 · 9 min read
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How to detect broken conversion tracking

Broken conversion tracking means your ad platforms are spending money without knowing what works. When a pixel stops firing or a conversion event disappears, Sm…

Apr 22, 2026 · 9 min read
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Google Ads monitoring: the complete guide

Google Ads monitoring means continuously watching spend, conversions, and performance metrics so you catch problems before they waste budget. At its simplest, t…

Apr 22, 2026 · 7 min read
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What is marketing anomaly detection?

Marketing anomaly detection is the automatic identification of unusual patterns in marketing data. Instead of a human reviewing dashboards, a system compares li…

Apr 22, 2026 · 7 min read
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