If the first time you hear how an activation is going is the wrap report, you've had no chance to fix anything mid-campaign. Reporting should be a live, ongoing signal — daily or near-daily — not a postmortem.
A verbal summary with no photos, no unit counts, and no region-by-region breakdown isn't a report, it's an opinion. Ask what evidence backs the claim, every time.
Brand ambassadors are supposed to be in specific stores, on specific days. If there's no photo, GPS stamp, or supervisor sign-off tied to each visit, there's no way to actually confirm the activation happened as planned.
A single combined total across five regions hides exactly the information you need — which region is underperforming. Reporting should always be broken down by region, not rolled into one headline figure.
Units sampled, stores visited, and reach figures are only useful if they're tied back to what was actually budgeted for. If the report can't answer "was this worth what we spent," it's not finished.
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