Some clients just want a clear answer to “Is this working?” and they don’t care about likes, reach, or even impressions.
Over time, I’ve had to rethink how I present reports to non-technical stakeholders. I now structure them in a way that helps guide the conversation instead of defending numbers they don’t understand.
I put together a short breakdown of the 4 key elements I include in every social media report now from the executive summary to paid vs organic splits.
I’d love to hear how you organize your reports, especially for clients who:
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Tune out when engagement is mentioned
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Focus only on ROI or budget
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Don’t see the value in monthly reporting (until it’s framed right)
Drop your wins, mistakes, or favorite formats. I’m genuinely curious how others handle this.
I’ll drop a quick video version of my framework in the first comment.
How do you handle reporting social media analytics?
Can someone tell me the easiest way to create social media reports?
AI tool for social media reporting : SocialMediaMarketing
Social media reporting and analytics (tools?)
What's the difference between social media analytics and social media reporting?
What is a social media report?
- Performance metrics: Engagement rates, reach, conversions and other KPIs
- Audience insights: Follower growth, demographics and behavior patterns
- Strategic recommendations: Data-driven next steps to improve results
How long does it take to create a social media report?
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I work in comms but I have to create content for & manage two social media accounts (FB & IG). I noticed that Meta Business Suite is pretty unhelpful for reporting because there’s a lot of missing data (especially from collab posts), so my team has a spreadsheet where we manually input analytics. This is what we did to report on analytics for FY25 last month as it gave us the most accurate results. It did, however, take me several hours to do this manually with a looming deadline.
This year, I’d like to periodically add to that spreadsheet instead of doing it all at once in October. One question how long would it make sense to wait to report on the results of a post? They’re constantly changing, although they plateau after a while. Right now, I’m inputting analytics from October and I’ll probably input November’s results in January.
Any other insights would be appreciated. I don’t consider myself a social media professional and have never wanted to be, but… 🤷🏾♂️
So recently I got multiple accounts to handle, all are creator base. Till I'd been covering only 2 social media platforms (Insta & FB) so it was easier for me to create a report in a sheet and give an overview of the report through the chart. But now I have YouTube and LinkedIn as well so I'm not able to incorporate everything at one place. Yes, I don't wanna use any other platforms for it, like metricool, buffer, social sprout, etc. And also do not want to use Canva.
So please help me in this.