Everhour turns campaign time into reporting-ready records for agencies that bill, budget, and review advertising work.
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Advertising teams use time tracking to show where hours went across campaigns, clients, and deliverables. A useful record separates strategy, copywriting, design, media buying, reporting, account management, and internal review instead of leaving the week as one generic marketing total. That detail helps you explain invoices, compare actual work against retainers, and see which campaign stages consume the most time.
The same records also support payroll and workload review. For U.S. employers covered by the FLSA, records for covered nonexempt employees must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA does not require a specific timekeeping system, but the method must be complete and accurate.
Advertising work mixes client-facing production with internal coordination. Billable time usually belongs to approved client work, such as campaign setup, creative revisions, ad trafficking, reporting, and meetings tied to a specific account. Non-billable time belongs to sales, training, internal planning, rejected speculative work, or administrative cleanup unless the client agreement says otherwise.
A clean weekly entry names the client, campaign, task, date, duration, and billable status. For example, a designer can log 2.25 hours to a paid social campaign under creative production, while an account manager logs 0.75 hours to the same campaign under client reporting. That structure gives the invoice and the budget report the same source record.
Advertising budgets fail when teams track only media spend and ignore labor. A campaign can look profitable in the ad platform while account strategy, creative revisions, and reporting hours exceed the retainer. Time tracking closes that gap by connecting human effort to each campaign, channel, and client deliverable.
The biggest mistake is using one broad client bucket for every hour. That hides whether search, social, creative, or reporting consumed the budget. Use task categories that match the way the team prices work. Fixed-fee retainers need remaining-hours visibility, while time-and-materials work needs billable entries that support a clear USD invoice.
A simple weekly record is enough when you need to total recent advertising hours, clean up a small invoice, or review one campaign after launch. It works for freelancers and small teams with a short client list, clear scope, and few handoffs. The record still needs daily entries if it supports covered nonexempt employee time under the FLSA.
A managed workflow matters when multiple people touch the same client budget. Everhour connects tracked time to reporting, grouping, filters, exports, and scheduled delivery, so campaign hours can become client reports, budget checks, and billing review without rebuilding spreadsheets every week. That structure gives managers a durable record across campaigns and clients.
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Advertising teams should track client, campaign, task type, date, duration, billable status, and notes that explain the work performed. Useful task types include strategy, creative production, media setup, optimization, reporting, and account management. The goal is a record that supports client billing, budget review, and staffing decisions without forcing managers to interpret vague weekly totals.
Billable advertising time should be tied to an approved client, campaign, and task. The entry should show the date, time spent, worker, and billing status. Use USD rates for U.S. billing unless the client contract sets another currency. Internal sales work, training, and agency administration should stay separate unless the agreement makes those hours billable.
Advertising time records can support overtime review when they cover employees subject to wage-and-hour rules. Under the FLSA federal baseline, covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate. Hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime.
Weekend campaign work is billed according to the client contract, rate card, or statement of work. The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely because covered nonexempt work happens on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. The federal overtime rule applies when hours worked exceed 40 in the workweek, unless another law or agreement adds a premium.
Advertising time tracking can involve personal information about employees or contractors. U.S. privacy duties depend on sector and state law, and businesses must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. California's CCPA covers California employees and job applicants for covered businesses, so employee time-tracking data may fall under California privacy obligations.
Everhour Reporting lets advertising teams build reports with 45+ columns, filters, grouping, date ranges, and export options. Managers can group hours by client, campaign, member, billable time, labor cost, budget metric, or invoice status, then schedule reports for recurring delivery.
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