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Field notes from the Level team
Product updates, performance-marketing playbooks, and the occasional rant about ad-platform APIs.
- automated-reporting-tools
Automated Reporting Tools for DTC Agencies: 6 Compared (2026)
Automated reporting tools promise to kill the Friday-afternoon number-pulling ritual — but most automate deck assembly, which was never where the hours went. Here's where time actually disappears (reconciliation and connector-fixing), six tools compared by automation depth, and the four questions to ask a vendor before you sign.
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Agency Report Template: 21 Items DTC Clients Actually Need
The monthly report structure we use on Marketing Bar client reports, copied here in full: 21 items across six required panels (led by revenue reconciliation), three conditional diagnostics, and the 8 vanity metrics the template deliberately cuts. Editable Sheet / Notion / Looker copy shared on request.
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Cross-Channel Marketing Dashboard for DTC: Tooling Compared
Cross-channel dashboards promise one honest revenue number across paid, email, and commerce — but most just aggregate what the ad platforms self-report. Here's the four-tier landscape (deck builders, aggregators, Looker DIY, enterprise), the five-question test that separates real dedup from a presentation layer, and where Level fits today.
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Agency Dashboard Tools Compared: Whatagraph vs AgencyAnalytics vs Looker (and Where Level Fits)
We compare the agency dashboard tools DTC operators actually run on — Whatagraph, AgencyAnalytics, Looker Studio, and Funnel.io — on cost, data freshness, and the failure modes nobody prices in. Plus where Level fits and six criteria that point you to the right one.
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Why Most Agency Reports Lie (And What To Show Instead)
DTC founders keep handing us 20-slide agency decks built on impressions, blended ROAS, and double-counted revenue. Here are the five lies on almost every report — and the shorter, honest dashboard to demand instead.
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Why we built Level
Most performance teams stitch ad reports together with spreadsheets and prayer. Here's the cleaner path.
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