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Paid Media Report · August 2026

528 reservations, $15,626.

Over August 2026, paid media drove 1,564 booking starts and 528 completed reservations worth $15,626. Reservations complete off-domain (Wayleadr) and are tracked in GA4.

528
Reservations
up 105% vs prior month
$15,626
Booking revenue
up 72% vs prior month
$7,923
Ad spend
down 1% vs prior month
$15
Cost / reservation
down 52% vs prior month
Reservations tracked in GA4 where Wayleadr fires booking events. All-traffic; paid media is the primary driver of new visitors to the booking page. Comparisons are against the prior month (Jul 1 - Jul 31), the same number of days immediately before this window.
The story

Where the bookings come from.

Reservations complete off-domain, so we read them in GA4, not in Meta. Here is the funnel.

01
1,564

Booking starts

People who reached the booking page from all sources; 1,147 unique visitors started a reservation. Up 22% vs prior month.

02
528

Reservations completed

Completed bookings worth $15,626 over the period. Up 105% vs prior month.

03
34%

Checkout completion

34% of started bookings are completed. Cutting the 66% drop-off is the biggest lever. Was 20% in the prior month.

Booking funnel

Where drivers leave the checkout.

The reservation checkout runs on Wayleadr, and every screen of it has its own web address, so we can count how many drivers reach each one and see exactly where they leave. Counts are unique drivers, all traffic.

Checkout screenDrivers (August 2026)Carried onStep drop
1 · Choose time & duration (price shows)1,149start
2 · Name & email54948%-52%
3 · Phone & text alerts30255%-45%
4 · License plate29397%-3%
5 · Review & terms27694%-6%
6 · Payment26797%-3%
7 · Receipt (booked on this path)15257%-43%
Reservations completed, all paths528$15,626 in booking revenue
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Most of the drop-off is on one screen. 1,149 drivers reach choose time & duration (price shows) and 549 carry on to name & email, so 600 leave right there. The ladder tracks the standard booking path, so its last screen (152) sits below the 528 reservations GA4 records for the same period. Read the table for where drivers leave, not for the final total.

How the drop-off is moving.

Each percentage is the share of drivers who carry on from the screen above it, so a period with more traffic can be compared with one that had less. The short window comes first because a 30-day average takes weeks to show a change.

Checkout screenDrivers, last 7 daysCarried on, last 7 daysCarried on, prior 7 daysCarried on, august 2026Carried on, prior month
2 · Name & email13049%51%48%45%
3 · Phone & text alerts7961%65%55%50%
4 · License plate7899%99%97%97%
5 · Review & terms6988%98%94%93%
6 · Payment6797%100%97%87%
7 · Receipt (booked on this path)4872%48%57%61%
Completed, of everyone who started34%35%34%20%
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The payment screen is where the ladder moved most. 97% of drivers carried on to payment, against 87% in the prior month, the largest change on the ladder. Over the august 2026, 48% of drivers carried on from choose time & duration (price shows), up from 45% in the prior month. Week to week it eased from 51%. The last 7 days sit at 49%, above that average, so the current level is better than the 30-day average shows.
Meta Ads

Traffic to the booking page.

Meta drives visitors to the site and the booking flow. Reservations complete off-domain, so they are counted in the funnel above, not here.

PeriodSpendImpressionsClicksCTRCPC
August 2026$3,176320,26615,3894.81%$0.21
Prior month$3,204301,44613,7224.55%$0.23

The ads doing the work

Ranked by clicks sent to the booking page. The booking completes off-domain, so an ad is judged on the traffic it sends, not on a conversion Meta cannot see.

Hook rate is the share of people shown the ad who stayed past 3 seconds. Hold rate is the share of those who kept watching to ThruPlay, 15 seconds or the end. 21 creatives carried spend this period and none of them were new.

Google Ads

Conversions over the month.

Daily conversions against daily spend across the month.

Conversions & spend per day

Conversions Daily spend
Window total 126 conv.Shaded band = the current period, the bars before it are the previous oneLast 3 days still filling in
Campaign split

Where the budget worked.

Spend and conversions by campaign. Brand search is separated so the true acquisition cost stays visible.

$2,170
NZ - Search - Driver…
28 conv · $77 CPA
$1,141
NZ - Search - Business
16 conv · $74 CPA
$1,006
NZ - PMax - Website
28 conv · $36 CPA
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Active campaigns
Search + PMax
NZ - Search - Driver Booking 28 conv · $77 CPA
$2,170
NZ - Search - Business 16 conv · $74 CPA
$1,141
NZ - PMax - Website 28 conv · $36 CPA
$1,006
NZ - Search - Brand 55 conv · $4.04 CPA
$220
NZ - Demand Gen - Remarketing 0 conv
$141
NZ - Store Visits 0 conv
$69
CampaignStatusSpendConv.Cost / conv.CTR
NZ - Search - Driver BookingActive$2,17028$776.6%
NZ - Search - BusinessActive$1,14116$747.8%
NZ - PMax - WebsiteActive$1,00628$362.1%
NZ - Search - BrandActive$22055$4.0438.0%
NZ - Demand Gen - RemarketingPaused$1410n/a1.9%
NZ - Store VisitsPaused$690n/a3.1%
Total$4,747126$38-
What's next

Where we take it from here.

Each move ties back to what this window proved.

Operating plan

The next window.

  • Retarget the drivers who start a booking and leave on the price screen.
  • Scale placements that send the most booking starts, not just clicks.
  • Hold Google on Purchase so bidding chases completed reservations, not checkout starts.
The next chapter

Now we grow the bookings.

We drive more booking-page traffic and work the checkout drop-off so more starts become reservations.

Talk through the plan