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title: "PPC Budget Planning | Forecasts and Reporting | Clean Digital"
description: "Plan PPC budgets with forecasts, pacing and reports that show which campaigns to scale, hold or cut across Google Ads and paid media."
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# PPC budget planning & reporting

Forecasts, budget splits and monthly reporting that show what is working, what to cut, and where more budget would actually help. Plan a budget first with the free [media spend calculator](https://cleandigital.co.uk/tools/media-spend-calculator), then make it defensible as part of your [paid search](https://cleandigital.co.uk/paid-search) programme.

[Plan a budget with the free calculator](https://cleandigital.co.uk/tools/media-spend-calculator)

£160M+ in ad spend managed

Marginal return on spend non-brand search

spend → profit contribution ↑

Fund here. Each extra pound still brings profitable volume.

Diminishing. More spend mostly inflates cost; the budget works harder elsewhere.

Budgets often get set by last year plus a gut feel, and reporting too often arrives as a data dump that celebrates clicks and impressions while the numbers finance cares about stay unanswered. When leadership asks what another £5,000 a month would return, or which campaigns to cut, most accounts cannot say.

We make the budget defensible and the reporting decision-led: forecasts you can take to a finance meeting, splits that follow where money actually works, and monthly reporting that ends with a recommendation, not a dashboard.

## What we deliver

- Budget forecasts and scenarios you can take to finance
- Channel and campaign budget splits by return
- Marginal-return analysis: where the next pound works hardest
- Monthly reporting tied to revenue, leads and bookings
- Brand versus non-brand reporting, separated honestly
- Pacing and seasonality management to avoid under or overspend
- Clear scale, hold and cut recommendations
- Board-ready summaries non-specialists can act on

## How we make a budget defensible

When leadership asks what another £5,000 a month would return, or which campaigns to cut, the answer should already exist. We build the budget so it does.

0 1

### Forecast with scenarios

Roughly what a spend should return, at what cost per lead or sale, with conservative, expected and aggressive cases finance can weigh.

0 2

### Split by marginal return

Fund campaigns where the next pound still brings profitable volume, using lost impression share, demand and conversion economics, not a flat ROAS target.

0 3

### Separate incremental from existing

Tell demand you would have captured anyway apart from genuine growth, so budget funds what moves the business.

0 4

### Pace and revise

Pace spend through the month, plan around seasonality, and revise the forecast as real data comes in rather than setting it once.

## Results we actually manage

[![Dobbies Garden Centres paid search case study](https://cleandigital.co.uk/images/case-studies/dobbies/preview-dobbies-garden-centres-clean-digital.webp) 14:1 ROAS across all paid channels Dobbies Garden Centres Shopping and Search restructured around feed quality and seasonal demand for the “Spring It On” campaign. Read the case study](https://cleandigital.co.uk/case-studies/dobbies-garden-centres)

[![Arden University paid search case study](https://cleandigital.co.uk/images/case-studies/arden-university/preview-arden-university-clean-digital.webp) 127% YoY increase in PPC enrolments Arden University Value-based bidding tied to enrolments rather than enquiries, so spend followed the applicants who actually enrolled. Read the case study](https://cleandigital.co.uk/case-studies/arden-university)

[![Rabbies paid search case study](https://cleandigital.co.uk/images/case-studies/rabbies/preview-rabbies-clean-digital.webp) 236% YoY increase in booking revenue Rabbies Booking revenue scaled with only 17% more PPC spend by moving budget to the tours that sell. Read the case study](https://cleandigital.co.uk/case-studies/rabbies)

From the same team

[49% YoY increase in PPC Revenue (YTD 2025) · The Roof Box Company](https://cleandigital.co.uk/case-studies/the-roof-box-company) [28% YoY increase in lead quality · Arden University](https://cleandigital.co.uk/case-studies/arden-university) [25% Of online purchases from a last-click paid touch point · Dobbies Garden Centres](https://cleandigital.co.uk/case-studies/dobbies-garden-centres)

Get this level of review on your account [Browse all case studies](https://cleandigital.co.uk/case-studies)

## Go deeper

- [Using click share to spot performance outliers Catching campaigns missing available demand.](https://cleandigital.co.uk/blog/using-click-share-to-spot-performance-outliers)
- [Value-based bidding: what it is and why you need it Reporting and bidding on real value, not volume.](https://cleandigital.co.uk/blog/value-based-bidding-what-is-it-and-why-you-need-to-be-using-it-asap)
- [Bidding towards new customer acquisition Funding incremental growth over existing demand.](https://cleandigital.co.uk/blog/bidding-towards-new-customer-acquisition)

## Related services & tools

- [Media spend calculator Forecast what a budget should return.](https://cleandigital.co.uk/tools/media-spend-calculator)
- [Agency media planner Turn a budget into a cross-channel plan.](https://cleandigital.co.uk/agency-media-planner)
- [Paid social advertising Plan and report budget across the full funnel.](https://cleandigital.co.uk/paid-social)
- [Programmatic advertising Where upper-funnel budget is planned and measured.](https://cleandigital.co.uk/programmatic)
- [Data & analytics Deeper dashboards and revenue modelling.](https://cleandigital.co.uk/data-and-analytics)
- [Paid search management The wider PPC programme.](https://cleandigital.co.uk/paid-search)

## Common questions

What teams ask about budget planning & reporting before they hand over an account.

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