Worked example, illustrative figures · Thursday 30 July 2026, 08:30 GST · eleven days after the final
Paid Search · Football
Ruling: amend
Signal. Search demand on Football terms is sliding back toward baseline; CPCs are still at tournament peak.
Machine draft. Cut Football search budgets to pre-tournament baseline across EMC, today.
My ruling. Taper over two weeks instead. Replica and fan-gear queries still convert, and a cliff cut hands them to marketplace bidders.
Display · Programmatic
Ruling: approve
Signal. The tournament weeks built the largest site and app audience pool of the year.
Machine draft. Shift display prospecting spend into retargeting the tournament-window audiences.
My ruling. Approved with a 14-day window and a frequency cap. This pool is worth more right now than any prospecting impression.
App Marketing
Ruling: refuse
Signal. Cost per install has risen since the final.
Machine draft. Pause app-install campaigns until CPI normalizes.
My ruling. Refused. These two weeks are when a football visitor becomes an adiClub member, and an install now compounds through CRM for years. The spend holds.
The week, as ruled
- Football search
- Tapering, minus 20% this week; converting fan-gear terms protected.
- Tournament-pool retargeting
- Funded from prospecting; 14-day window, frequency capped.
- App installs
- Holding through the adiClub window.
Cost of sale this week: up 0.3 pts. Consumer and CRM acquisition: protected. Illustrative.