Sponsor reporting plan

Report proof after the edition is verified.

Approval-gated sponsor reporting template for Good Morning St Albans. Use this after a verified sent Buttondown edition and approved sponsor placement exist.

Do not send sponsor reports, claim performance, expose subscriber data or publish case studies until Buttondown analytics and UTM evidence have been captured and manually reviewed.

Safe report fields

What can be prepared before analytics are live

Campaign summary

Advertiser name, package slug, placement date, approved copy and destination URL.

Proof links

Buttondown public archive URL, static sponsor page URL if used, and approved landing page URL.

Delivery status

Whether the edition was drafted, sent, archived and checked without duplicate send IDs.

Manual notes

Qualitative notes on placement fit, reader usefulness and any follow-up copy corrections.

Blocked metrics

Do not claim until Buttondown and UTM proof exists

Blocked until verified

Subscriber count

Buttondown active subscriber count captured on the report date.

Blocked until verified

Open rate

Buttondown campaign analytics for the specific sent edition.

Blocked until verified

Click count and click rate

Buttondown click analytics plus UTM landing-page checks for the sponsor URL.

Blocked until verified

Referral conversions

MY-2571 referral attribution wiring and confirmed subscriber metadata.

Report checklist

Evidence gates before any sponsor-facing summary

Report gate

Confirm the sponsor copy, placement date and package slug match the approved booking intake.

Report gate

Capture the public Buttondown archive URL after the edition is verified as sent.

Report gate

Record analytics with capture date, source system and reviewer initials before sharing externally.

Report gate

Remove private emails, raw subscriber identifiers and internal Buttondown admin URLs from any sponsor-facing report.

Report gate

Flag legal, medical, financial, education, housing, employment and prize claims for manual compliance review before case-study reuse.

Template

Reusable sponsor report structure

What ran

Package, date, approved copy, destination URL and local relevance summary.

Verified delivery

Sent status, archive URL and any known delivery caveats.

Reader response

Open, click and referral metrics only after Buttondown and UTM proof is captured.

Next recommendation

One practical follow-up suggestion tied to the sponsor's local offer, not generic upsell copy.