Quarterly cadence

Brand health quarterly review

Brand awareness, sentiment, share-of-voice, and creative performance. For creative + brand agencies whose work is harder to measure with last-click attribution.

  • 50 min setup
  • 7 sections
  • 3 data sources
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Northway Coffee · Brand Q2Q2 2026 · brand review
Quarterly cadence

Branded search · 12 weeks

FebApr

Direct traffic

+15%

Sentiment

+0.32

Share of voice

28%

Sentiment mix · April

Positive · 62%Neutral · 30%Negative · 8%

Top brand content

  • "Slow coffee" video

  • Origin story longread

  • Roaster interview

Signed off · Brand director
v7 · audit log

Best for

  • Creative & brand agencies
  • Studios with brand-stewardship retainers
  • Brand campaigns where awareness lift is the goal
  • Clients investing in long-arc brand work

Pulls from

  • HubSpot (form-fill + lead source)
  • GA4 (direct + organic-branded traffic)
  • Webhook (social listening data)

Sections

What’s inside.

Every section is editable. Reorder, remove, or duplicate them per client.

  1. 01

    Branded search volume (this quarter vs. last)

  2. 02

    Direct-traffic baseline (proxy for brand awareness)

  3. 03

    Sentiment summary (from social-listening data)

  4. 04

    Share-of-voice vs. named competitors

  5. 05

    Top brand content this quarter

  6. 06

    Creative learnings + asset library status

  7. 07

    Brand-health hypothesis for next quarter

Why this template#

Brand work is the hardest agency discipline to report on, because the most meaningful metrics (awareness, sentiment, perception) move slowly and resist last-click attribution. Most agencies under-report brand work, and most clients under-invest in it as a result.

This template makes the brand case structured and quarterly — long enough to see real signal, short enough to keep the conversation alive.

What makes it work#

Three structural choices specific to brand reporting:

  1. Branded search volume as the headline. It's the cleanest available proxy for awareness, it pulls from GSC automatically, and the trend over 4-8 quarters tells a real story about whether the brand is gaining or losing mindshare.
  2. Direct traffic as a sanity check. When branded search lifts but direct doesn't, it's either bot traffic or a paid campaign driving short-term curiosity. When both lift together, it's real brand growth.
  3. Share-of-voice vs. NAMED competitors. Not the universe; the 3-5 competitors the client cares about. Reduces the noise of generic category-level data.

What you'll customize#

  • Competitor list: which 3-5 brands the client benchmarks against
  • Social-listening source: which tool provides the sentiment + share-of-voice data (Sprinklr, Brandwatch, custom)
  • Sentiment depth: simple positive/negative split, or topic-level breakdown
  • Creative section format: asset gallery, campaign timeline, or both