--- name: campaign-qa-checker description: "Runs a pre-launch quality assurance review of a paid campaign setup across 8 checkpoints — objective alignment, targeting, tracking and pixels, naming conventions, budget and bidding, creative and links, scheduling, and compliance — flagging each issue as Blocker, Warning, or Note with the exact fix. Use when reviewing a campaign before launch, catching setup errors, or building a repeatable pre-flight QA process for paid social." argument-hint: "[platform] [campaign-setup]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Campaign QA Checker ## Purpose Catch the setup errors that quietly waste budget, break attribution, or violate policy — before a campaign goes live. Produces a prioritized pre-launch punch list where every flagged issue is labeled by severity and paired with the exact correction, so a specialist can approve or fix in one pass. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - QA or review a campaign before hitting launch - Check ad setup for targeting, tracking, or budget errors - Verify UTM parameters, pixels, or conversion tracking are correct - Confirm campaign naming follows the team's convention - Build a pre-flight checklist or approval process for paid media - Get a second set of eyes on a campaign someone else built ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Platform(s)**: Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, or other — QA rules differ by platform - **Campaign objective**: The selected objective and the actual business goal (they should match) - **Targeting setup**: Audiences, geos, ages, placements, exclusions, and any lookalikes/custom audiences - **Tracking setup**: Pixel/conversion event selected, UTM parameters, destination URLs - **Budget and bidding**: Daily/lifetime budget, bid strategy, and CPA/ROAS target if any - **Naming convention**: The team's naming standard (or a note that none exists) - **Creative and copy details**: Ad formats, headlines, primary text, CTAs, landing page URLs If a naming convention isn't provided, flag naming as a Note and recommend a standard format rather than skipping the check. ## Instructions Review the campaign against all 8 checkpoints below. For every issue found, assign a severity and a fix: - **🔴 Blocker** — will waste spend, break tracking, or get the campaign rejected. Must fix before launch. - **🟡 Warning** — likely to hurt performance or reporting; fix strongly recommended. - **🔵 Note** — best-practice improvement or a check the reviewer should confirm. If a checkpoint passes cleanly, mark it ✅ Pass with a one-line confirmation. ### Checkpoint 1: Objective Alignment Confirm the selected objective matches the business goal. - Awareness goal → Reach/Awareness objective (not Traffic) - Lead goal → Leads or Conversions optimizing for a lead event (not Traffic or Engagement) - Sales goal → Conversions/Sales optimizing for purchase (not Add-to-Cart unless intentional) - Flag any objective optimizing for a cheap proxy metric (clicks, landing page views) when the real goal is downstream conversion. ### Checkpoint 2: Targeting - **Geo**: Confirm countries/regions are correct and that "people living in" vs "recently in" is intentional. - **Exclusions**: Existing customers or converters excluded from prospecting? Prospecting audiences excluded from retargeting overlap? - **Audience size**: Too narrow (learning phase risk) or too broad for the budget? - **Placements**: Manual placements intentional, or is broad/automatic placements silently including low-quality inventory (Audience Network, Search Partners)? - **Overlap**: Multiple ad sets targeting the same audience competing against each other? - **Age/gender/language**: Match the intended customer and the ad's language? ### Checkpoint 3: Tracking & Pixels - **Conversion event**: Correct event selected and confirmed firing (not a stale or test event)? - **Attribution window**: Intentional (e.g., 7-day click) and consistent with reporting expectations? - **UTM parameters**: Present, correctly structured, and matching the team's UTM taxonomy? Check for spaces, uppercase inconsistencies, and missing source/medium/campaign values. - **Destination URL**: Loads, is HTTPS, matches the ad promise, and carries UTMs correctly. - **Pixel/tag presence**: Tracking installed on the landing page and thank-you/conversion page. ### Checkpoint 4: Naming Conventions - Campaign, ad set, and ad names follow the team's standard. - Names encode the fields the team reports on (objective, audience, geo, funnel stage, date/version). - No default names left in place (e.g., "New Campaign," "Ad Set 1," "Untitled"). - Consistent delimiters and casing across all levels. ### Checkpoint 5: Budget & Bidding - **Budget level**: Set at the intended level (campaign budget optimization vs ad-set budgets) — not doubled or misplaced. - **Budget vs audience/goal**: Enough daily budget to exit the learning phase (roughly enough for ~50 optimization events/week)? - **Bid strategy**: Matches maturity — automated/lowest-cost when data is thin; target CPA/ROAS only with sufficient conversion history (~30–50 conversions/month). - **Caps**: Any bid or cost cap set that's unrealistically low and will throttle delivery? - **Schedule vs lifetime budget**: Lifetime budget paired with a defined end date; daily budget not accidentally set as lifetime (or vice versa). ### Checkpoint 6: Creative & Links - Every ad has creative, headline, primary text, and a CTA — no empty or placeholder fields. - Creative meets platform spec (aspect ratio, resolution, text-in-image, length limits). - Links in each ad point to the correct, live URL — no broken, staging, or mismatched links. - CTA button matches the offer (Shop Now vs Learn More vs Sign Up). - Copy is free of typos, correct pricing/claims, and no leftover bracket placeholders. ### Checkpoint 7: Scheduling - Start/end dates and day-parting correct and in the intended time zone. - No unintended immediate launch if a scheduled start was expected. - Time zone of the ad account matches reporting/team expectations. - For time-sensitive promos, confirm end date is set so the campaign doesn't run past the offer. ### Checkpoint 8: Compliance & Policy - No restricted-category issues (health claims, financial promises, before/after, personal attributes targeting where prohibited). - Special ad category set correctly if applicable (housing, employment, credit, social/political). - Landing page matches ad claims and has required disclosures/privacy policy. - No policy-violating language (guarantees, "you," discriminatory framing) for the platform. ### Final: Launch Verdict Summarize counts of Blockers / Warnings / Notes and give a clear verdict: - **Do not launch** — one or more Blockers present. - **Launch after quick fixes** — Warnings only. - **Cleared to launch** — no Blockers or Warnings. ## Output Format - **Structure**: 8 checkpoint sections in order, each showing Pass or a list of flagged issues; issues formatted as `[Severity] Issue — Fix`. Ends with a Launch Verdict summary. - **Length**: 700–1,100 words depending on issue count - **Format**: Scannable structured list with severity icons; verdict as a short summary block with counts - **Sections**: Objective Alignment → Targeting → Tracking & Pixels → Naming Conventions → Budget & Bidding → Creative & Links → Scheduling → Compliance & Policy → Launch Verdict - **Tone**: Direct pre-flight reviewer — terse, specific, no hedging; every flag has an actionable fix ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] All 8 checkpoints are addressed — each is either ✅ Pass or has flagged issues - [ ] Every flagged issue has a severity label (Blocker / Warning / Note) and a specific fix - [ ] Tracking check covers UTM structure, conversion event, and destination URL — not just "check tracking" - [ ] Launch Verdict includes exact counts of Blockers, Warnings, and Notes - [ ] No issue is flagged without a corresponding correction - [ ] Platform-specific rules are applied to the platform(s) provided (e.g., special ad category, placement inventory) ## Notes - The most expensive errors are silent: wrong conversion event, broken UTMs, and accidentally-broad placements rarely trigger warnings inside the ad platform — check these hardest. - Only flag a Blocker when the issue genuinely wastes spend, breaks attribution, or risks rejection. Overusing Blockers erodes trust in the review. - If details for a checkpoint weren't provided, mark it as a Note with "confirm before launch" rather than assuming it's fine. - Recommended workflow: run this QA on every campaign at build-complete, then again after any bulk edit — bulk edits are a common source of reintroduced errors. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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