PromptSharp › Prompt Library › Marketing › Pre-launch media QA: the twenty-minute disaster check
Pre-launch media QA: the twenty-minute disaster check
The campaign goes live tomorrow. Run the QA that catches the tracking gap, the budget typo, and the missing exclusion before spend starts — not after.
The prompt — copy and run it
You are a media operations lead running pre-launch QA. I will describe the campaign setup and you will produce: A) A NUMBERED QA CHECKLIST customized to my setup — each item with a pass/fail criterion and what a failure would cost. Cover at least: conversion tracking fires end-to-end and UTMs match convention; budget and bid units are sane (daily vs lifetime, currency); audience exclusions applied (existing customers, overlapping campaigns); frequency caps set; creative-to-placement fit (aspect ratios, character limits); and the conversion window matching how results will be reported. B) ORDER the checklist by blast radius — the failure that wastes the most money first. C) A DAY-2 CHECK: the five things to verify in the first 24-48 hours of live delivery data — delivery skew toward one placement or segment, CPM anomalies, and the zero-conversion silence that means tracking is broken. My setup: [DESCRIBE: channels, budgets and how entered, flighting, audiences and exclusions, creative count and formats, tracking setup] Rules: Do not invent, estimate, or fabricate any statistic, benchmark, or performance figure — if a number is not in the material I give you, write "not provided" and flag it. Mark every claim I should verify in my analytics or source systems before it is published or presented. Never include customer personally identifiable information or client-confidential terms.
How to use this prompt
- Copy the full prompt above with the Copy button.
- Add your context. This prompt runs as-is — paste it, then add the specific details, data, or files it should reason over.
- Paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and run. Read the reality guardrail below before you act on the output.
Why this prompt works
The most expensive paid-media errors are clerical: a lifetime budget entered as daily, a pixel that never fired, retargeting without a customer exclusion. A blast-radius-ordered checklist takes twenty minutes and is reliably the cheapest ROAS improvement available to any account.
Get a prompt like this every day
The PromptSharp Marketing Brief ships one desk-ready prompt every weekday — free on the web today. Free forever. Today's Marketing issue is live on the web right now — subscribe and we email you the sample issue immediately, then the Marketing daily every weekday as its email edition ships. Unsubscribe anytime.
Subscribe free → Read a sample issueFrequently asked
When should I use this prompt?
The campaign goes live tomorrow. Run the QA that catches the tracking gap, the budget typo, and the missing exclusion before spend starts — not after.
Why does this prompt work?
The most expensive paid-media errors are clerical: a lifetime budget entered as daily, a pixel that never fired, retargeting without a customer exclusion. A blast-radius-ordered checklist takes twenty minutes and is reliably the cheapest ROAS improvement available to any account.
Related Marketing prompts
Segment hypotheses from the data you already have
Everyone wants personas; you have a CRM export and campaign history. Build evidence-based segment hypotheses before anyone invents…
Channel plan red-team: find the failure before the spend does
The channel plan is drafted and everyone likes it — which is exactly when it should be red-teamed. Run the adversarial pass before…
Competitor campaign teardown: counter, exploit, or ignore
A competitor just launched loudly and leadership wants a reaction. Decompose what they are doing and whether it deserves one — bef…
Anomaly runbook: the metric moved — check in this order
A KPI spiked or cratered and the channel wants answers now. Work the ordered runbook before anyone ships a theory that sticks.…
Weekly performance read: verdict first, story second
Monday morning, accounts are live, and someone will ask 'how's it going?' by 10am. Turn the exports into a verdict-first read that…
Budget reallocation: the marginal-dollar argument
There is pressure to move budget into the 'winning' channel. Build the reallocation case that respects diminishing returns and att…
Creative test post-mortem: did the winner really win?
The test 'has a winner' and everyone wants to scale it. Interrogate the result before it becomes the new control.…
All Marketing free prompts
The PromptSharp Marketing Brief page — five full free prompts plus today's issue.
PromptSharp Daily — free
The cross-vertical sampler: one sharp, copy-paste prompt each day, rotating across the roster. Two things in one brief: you get better at AI and prompting, and you see the sharpest prompts from across the network.
Double-opt-in. Unsubscribe anytime. No spam, ever.
Even a sharp prompt starts from zero unless your AI knows you. Brainfile is persistent context — your work, voice, and priorities loaded into every session. Brainfile is the memory; PromptSharp is the playbook. Together they compound — the same prompt gets sharper because it runs on YOUR context.
Set up your brainfile →Want both? The All-Access + Brainfile annual bundle covers the pair.
Home · Daily Issues · Prompt Library · Glossary · Pricing · For Teams & Universities · Archive · Newsletter · Privacy · Terms · Refunds
Marketing · Sales · Dev & Engineering · Finance · Product Management · Vibe Coding · C-suite · Consulting & Strategy · Law · CPG · Personal Finance · Career & Job Search · Trading · Health & Fitness · Students · Focus & Productivity · Learning · Travel Planning