Are the paid media planners free?
Yes. The current PaidMediaKit planning tools can be used without an account.
PaidMediaKit · Planners
Plan forecasts, budget splits, Meta creative and audience tests, scaling scenarios and Google Ads RSA assets before the campaign change goes live.
8 tools
Planning tools help answer whether the budget, signal, structure and expected outcome make sense before you launch or change a campaign.
Model budget scaling, diminishing returns and alternative paid media scenarios.
Cross-platformPlan Meta creative tests around budget, target CPA, creative volume and testing approach.
Meta AdsModel Meta budget changes, CPA sensitivity, conversion volume and gradual scaling schedules.
Meta AdsPlan Meta audience tests around budget, expected CPA, audience count and signal capacity.
Meta AdsPlan and QA responsive search ad headlines, descriptions, keyword coverage, message diversity and pinning structure.
Google AdsAllocate marketing budgets using percentage or weighted priorities.
Cross-platformPlan Performance Max asset coverage, creative formats and search themes before launch.
Google AdsPrioritize Google Ads budget changes using efficiency, Lost Impression Share and business priority.
Google AdsPlanning guide
Start with the outcome, allowable economics and real constraints, then use scenarios to show what has to be true for the plan to work.
Practical paid media work
Forecasting gives a campaign change a range of possible outcomes before spend moves. It is especially useful when a budget increase may create diminishing returns rather than a proportional increase in conversions.
Testing plans are about signal capacity as much as creativity. Meta creative and audience tests need enough budget and expected conversion volume to produce useful learning; otherwise a larger test matrix can simply fragment delivery.
Budget allocation is a prioritization problem. A split calculator makes the allocation transparent, while the Meta Budget Scaling Simulator lets you model how efficiency could deteriorate as spend increases.
For Google Ads Search, planning also applies to creative structure. The RSA Asset Planner helps organize headlines and descriptions around relevance, benefits, proof, calls to action and pinning decisions before the assets are uploaded.
Questions
Yes. The current PaidMediaKit planning tools can be used without an account.
No. They are scenario and structure tools. Forecasts and test plans depend on the assumptions you enter and should be updated with real campaign data.
Use the Creative Testing Planner or Audience Testing Planner for experiments, and the Budget Scaling Simulator when the question is how aggressively to increase spend.
Use the RSA Asset Planner for responsive search ad structure, or the cross-platform Forecasting Planner and Budget Split Calculator for media planning.