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    Free PPC tools,
    calculators &
    paid media guides

    The calculators, tools and guides our paid media team uses on client accounts, free, with no login or email gate. Use the PPC budget calculator, check ad test significance, look up creative specs and plan Google Ads, paid social and programmatic campaigns.

    PPC calculators
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    PPC calculators
    working ad tools
    3
    working ad tools
    guides and reports
    7
    guides and reports
    no login, no email gate
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    01/PPC Budget Calculators & Forecasting Tools

    Four calculators for the money questions that come up on every account: what a budget should return, how to split it across channels, how big a test needs to be, and how much the weather moves demand in your category.

    PPC Budget Calculator forecasting impressions, clicks, leads and sales from a monthly paid media budget

    PPC Budget Calculator

    Calculator · Budget modelling · Updated Jul 2026

    Enter an industry, country, objective and monthly budget to forecast impressions, clicks, leads or sales across Google, Meta and LinkedIn.

    • Budget to expected outcomes in under a minute
    • Industry and geography benchmarks behind every estimate
    Use the calculator
    Agency Media Planner splitting a paid media budget across Google Ads, paid social and programmatic channels

    Agency Media Planner

    Calculator · Channel planning · Updated Feb 2026

    Set a budget, a funnel split and a creative mix, and get a cross-channel plan in one view: CPMs, impressions and clicks for Google Ads, paid social and programmatic.

    • A channel plan built from budget and funnel mix
    • Creative split, CPM, impressions and clicks per channel
    Open the planner
    Ad Test Significance Calculator showing required sample size and expected test duration for an ad experiment

    Ad Test Significance Calculator

    Calculator · Test verdicts · Updated Jul 2026

    Paste impressions and conversions from any ad platform and get a plain-English verdict: call it, keep running, or stop. Plan mode sizes the next test from budget and CPM, and both show your test rerun 1,000 times.

    • Sample size and finish date up front
    • Monte Carlo timing explorer for deeper analysis
    Judge your test
    Weather-based bidding tool mapping a seven-day weather forecast to Google Ads bid and budget adjustments

    Weather-Based Bidding Tool

    Calculator · Forecast response · Updated Mar 2026

    If demand in your category rises and falls with the weather, your bids can too. See suggested bid and budget changes against the coming forecast for selected verticals.

    • Day-by-day forecast explorer for your region
    • Weather-led bid and budget adjustment suggestions
    Check weather adjustments

    If the forecast says the account can’t hit the target the way it is set up now, a free Google Ads account audit shows where the budget is going.

    02/Ad Preview & Creative Spec Tools

    Launches fall over on small things: a headline that truncates, an asset a few pixels off spec, a file the placement will not accept. These two tools help you catch those early.

    Google Ads Preview Tool rendering a responsive search ad in a Google-style results page

    Google Ads Preview Tool

    Tool · Search ad QA · Updated Jul 2026

    Build and compare responsive search ads with headlines, descriptions, display paths, logos and sitelinks in a Google-style result.

    • Compare up to four responsive search ads
    • Check character limits and likely truncation
    Preview your ads
    Platform Ad Spec Library filtering ad creative specs by platform, placement and media type

    Ad Specs Library & Build Sheet

    Tool · Creative specs · Updated Jul 2026

    Ad specs for Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok and more. Tick the placements a campaign runs and get the fewest master assets to brief, each with the strictest limit it has to meet.

    • Dedupes placements into the fewest master assets
    • Sizes, durations and file limits with official sources
    Build the sheet

    If the creative is on-spec but still not converting, see how our paid social team builds and tests ad creative that keeps working past the first week.

    03/Audience & Placement Research Tools

    Display budgets leak into junk placements and the wrong audiences, and the platform interface rarely makes it obvious. These two tools show where your budget is going and who your ads reach.

    GDN placement exclusions tool triaging a Google Display Network placement report into keep and exclude

    GDN Placement Exclusions

    Tool · Placement exclusions · Updated Jun 2026

    Paste a Google Display Network placement report to flag the mobile app, anonymous and made-for-advertising inventory draining your budget, then export a Google Ads exclusion list. Includes a sourced starter kit of the Display exclusions to set first.

    • Flag app, anonymous and made-for-advertising inventory
    • Export a Google Ads placement exclusion list
    Cut wasted placements

    Running this at scale across programmatic is a bigger job. See how we run programmatic campaigns built to stay out of junk inventory.

    Find the tool for the job

    Each of these tools came out of real client work. Find the situation that sounds like yours and go straight to the one that helps.

    Finance wants next quarter’s paid media budget, with the numbers behind it.

    Forecast the budget

    An ad test has been “almost significant” for three weeks.

    Work out the sample size

    Creative keeps bouncing back from platform review.

    Check the spec first

    Display spend is up and no one can say where the ads actually ran.

    Cut wasted placements

    A tool can show you the problem: leaking spend, an undersized test, placements full of junk. Fixing it often takes someone working in the account. A free ad account audit gets our senior team on it, and the case studies show what that has changed for other clients.

    04/PPC Guides & Paid Media Analysis

    Longer reads on measurement, Shopping, AI search and choosing an agency: the questions clients actually ask us.

    01

    Store GCLIDs in a Google Sheets Document with GTM

    How to capture Google Click IDs in Tag Manager and store them in a Google Sheet, so you can match closed sales back to the keywords that won them.Measurement setup · Apr 2024
    Read the guide
    02

    Using Click Share to Spot Performance Outliers

    How to use click share to find campaigns that are missing available demand, and decide which accounts are worth a deeper optimisation pass.Account diagnosis · May 2024
    Read the guide
    03

    Comparison Shopping Services: What You Need to Know

    How Comparison Shopping Services fit Google Shopping, what changes in the account, and what to check before switching.Shopping strategy · Mar 2024
    Read the guide
    04

    How to Choose the Right Google Ads Agency

    A working checklist for judging any PPC agency on fit, structure, reporting honesty and working style, including this one.Agency selection · Jun 2024
    Read the guide
    05

    How to Get Your Products into ChatGPT Shopping

    AI shopping is turning into a real discovery channel: how product feeds show up in ChatGPT Shopping, and what to fix in yours.Feed visibility · Jun 2024
    Read the guide
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    AI Search Visibility Report

    Review whether AI search surfaces mention your brand, competitors and useful first-party pages, then connect the gaps to priority content and paid search coverage.AI search evidence · Updated Jul 2026
    Review the report scope
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    What ChatGPT Agent Means for Advertisers

    What happens to your ads when an AI agent does the browsing instead of a person: the opportunities and the risks it creates for paid media teams.AI & paid media · Jul 2024
    Read the guide

    New measurement, Google Ads and ecommerce guides land on the Clean Digital blog first, and we work through the live versions in our PPC webinars.

    Questions about these PPC tools

    What free PPC tools are in this library?

    Four calculators for budget forecasting, media planning, ad test significance and weather-led bidding; working tools covering Google Ads previews, creative specs and GDN placements; six guides; and an AI search visibility report. Everything is built and maintained by the Clean Digital paid media team.

    Are the PPC calculators really free?

    Yes. Every calculator, tool and guide here is free to use with no login and no email gate. They exist because we wanted them for our own client work; publishing them costs us nothing extra.

    How accurate are the budget and forecast calculators?

    They are directional by design, built on industry and country benchmarks rather than your own account history. That makes them good for setting a rough budget, sense-checking a target or putting a first number on the table, then you refine it with a forecast built on your own data.

    Should I start with a calculator or a guide?

    Use a calculator or tool when you already know the job: planning a test, modelling a budget, checking a spec. Reach for a guide when the question is still forming: how to measure offline conversions, whether CSS is worth it, or how to compare Google Ads agencies.

    Can these tools replace PPC agency management?

    They take some of the guesswork out of the decisions around an account (budgets, tests, specs, targeting) but they don’t restructure campaigns, fix tracking or handle the week-to-week work. When one of them points to a problem you can’t fix from a spreadsheet, that’s often the point to book a free ad account audit.

    Found something that needs fixing?

    Get in touch and our paid media team will audit your ad account for free, then send you a short, ordered list of what’s wasting money, what isn’t tracked properly, and what’s worth testing.