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Edit a line’s budget type, dates or total budget
Click a cell under What you enter, type the new value, and press Enter.
Before you start
- Who can do this
- Anyone at your agency
- Where in Orbit
- Sidebar › Workspace › Pacing
Steps
Tick a step’s number when it’s done. We’ll remember where you were.
Open Pacing. To change Start or End, switch to Whole flight first; in This month they’re read-only.
Under What you enter, click the cell: Budget type, Start, End or Total budget.
Type or choose the new value. Press Enter to save, Tab to save and move to the next field, or Escape to cancel.
When it worked
The cell shows the new value and pace recalculates. Orbit shows no message when it saves.
If something goes wrong
Orbit showsFailed to save
Check the value, then try again.
Start and End won’t open.
Switch to Whole flight. In This month, they show only the part of the flight inside that month.
The What you enter columns are hidden.
Press What you enter under Columns to show them.
How it works
Explainer: How pacing is calculated
Pace compares what’s been spent with what should have been spent by now. Daily pacing is Spend CTD ÷ Target so far, both counted through yesterday.
| Column | How it’s worked out |
|---|---|
| Spend CTD | Matched spend from the start of the window through yesterday |
| Target so far | Each day’s planned amount, added up through yesterday |
| Daily pacing | Spend CTD ÷ Target so far, as a % |
| Budget left | Budget − Spend CTD |
| Days left | Days from today to the end of the window, including today |
| Adjusted daily | Budget left ÷ Days left: what to spend each remaining day to land on budget |
| Today's target | Today’s planned amount |
| Spend pacing | Spend ÷ budget |
| CPM | Spend ÷ impressions × 1,000 |
- A day’s planned amount is the month’s budget spread evenly over its days, unless you set a daily target or a day plan.
- With a daily target, pace follows the daily target, and Budget left still follows the budget.
- On Daily and Daily (campaign cap) lines, Today's target adds “put this in the platform today”.
- Platform, region and Grand total rows, the Breakdown and the cards at the top add up budget, spend and target first, then work out pace from those totals.
- Totals show pace as how far off it is, such as “-23%” or “+15%”.