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ThriveDX

March 2022 - January 2023 · Desktop / Mobile web

Campaign health, creative performance, and execution errors in one product.

WatchDog Creative campaign-performance interface

Overview

Campaign teams did not need another report. They needed to know where money was leaking, which creative was working, and which execution errors needed attention now. WatchDog Creative narrowed the first release to campaign and creative monitoring so the team could ship and learn sooner. After rollout, more than 500 campaigns were monitored through the product, time to fix errors fell 46%, and earlier error detection saved more than $3M in yearly ad spend.

Role
Product Design Lead
My focus
Product ownership, campaign-monitoring scope, and creative-performance data visualization.
Evidence
  • Interviews with campaign and marketing teams during scope definition.
  • Existing campaign-management and reporting workflows reviewed during scope definition.

Process and solution

WatchDog Creative system map

Turn reporting into diagnosis

A shared visualization model put campaign health, budgets, creative performance, and execution errors into one comparable view. Teams could see where to act without first assembling separate reports.

The product needed to support decisions, not simply display analytics. The hierarchy separated health signals, performance trends, and error states so teams could move from diagnosis to action.

WatchDog Creative performance data visualization

Draw a hard product boundary

The first release covered campaign monitoring, creative performance, and execution errors. Broader digital-presence management stayed out of scope.

That boundary made the product easier to explain to users and easier for engineering to normalize across the campaign sources that mattered most.

Centralized campaign health and creative monitoring

Preserve the model on smaller screens

The same information hierarchy adapted to smaller screens without creating a second product to maintain.

Responsive WatchDog Creative mobile views

Key decision

Narrow the first release to campaign and creative-performance monitoring.

The broader suite offered more coverage but would have delayed feedback. A narrower release covered the main monitoring workflow and gave the team a product it could evaluate.

Alternative considered: Attempt to ship the broader digital-presence management suite in the first release.

Outcome

0+

Campaigns monitored

-0%

Time to fix

$0M+

Yearly ad-spend savings

Looking ahead

Track which monitoring surfaces teams use most, so later releases invest in the views that drive the savings.