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Ask Sellforte MCP: How do our own campaign groups perform?

Written by Juha Nuutinen | Nov 12, 2026, 10:10:54 AM

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Brand, prospecting, retargeting: grouping campaigns your own way

Most teams have their own way of slicing media: brand versus tactical, prospecting versus retargeting, or campaign families coded into the campaign name. The model and the dashboard don't know about those groups, so a marketing or media manager ends up exporting campaign rows and rebuilding the split in a spreadsheet every time someone asks.

What you ask

Treat campaigns whose names contain "Brand", "Prospecting" or "Retargeting" as three groups, and everything else as Other. Compare spend, incremental sales and ROI per group by year for 2025 and 2026 so far, and list the campaigns in each group.

Which campaigns ended up in Other that look like they belong to one of the groups?

What Sellforte MCP does

We ran this on our demo account, where campaign names follow a platform_campaign_market pattern, such as Meta Ads_Meta Prospecting_DE. All figures are illustrative demo data in USD.

Reads the campaign list first

Before grouping anything, the assistant pulled every campaign with spend between 2025-01-01 and 2026-10-31. That's 77 campaigns. Seeing the real names up front matters, because your rules are only as good as your naming.

Turns each rule into a name filter

Instead of downloading every row and adding them up itself, the assistant passed each rule to Sellforte as a "name contains" filter, so the query layer did the sums and worked out ROI. It also reported exactly which campaigns each rule caught:

  • Brand (5 campaigns): Google and Bing brand search in both markets, plus a Performance Max brand campaign in the US.
  • Prospecting (6 campaigns): Meta, TikTok and Pinterest prospecting in both markets.
  • Retargeting (6 campaigns): Meta, TikTok and Pinterest retargeting in both markets.
  • Other: everything else, queried as "all campaigns except those 17".

Returns the table by year

2026 covers 2026-01-01 to 2026-11-01 only, so its spend and sales aren't comparable to a full year. ROI is.

GroupSpend 2025Incr. sales 2025ROI 2025Spend 2026 (partial)Incr. sales 2026 (partial)ROI 2026
Brand1 024 0122 031 8741.98536 3141 247 8702.33
Prospecting1 269 0014 676 8093.69583 6123 069 1625.26
Retargeting559 1541 102 5591.97235 051444 0791.89
Other15 008 59651 415 8933.4311 808 27045 168 2773.83
Total17 860 76359 227 1353.3213 163 24649 929 3873.79

 

The four groups add up to the total, which is a quick sanity check that nothing fell through the cracks or got counted twice.

The story is pretty clear. Prospecting is the strongest of the three named groups and got better: ROI went from 3.69 in 2025 to 5.26 so far in 2026. Brand improved a little, from 1.98 to 2.33, but still sits well below the total. Retargeting is flat at around 1.9 and is the weakest group in both years.

Flags what the rules missed

The follow-up is where this gets useful. Looking back at the campaign list, the assistant spotted Meta Remarketing and Pinterest Remarketing campaigns in Other. They do the same job as retargeting, but the word in the name is different, so the rule didn't catch them. On demo data they're small, but in a real account a naming slip like that can quietly skew a group.

The fix is just a tighter rule: add "Remarketing" to the retargeting group and rerun.

Why it matters

Your groupings are how your team actually makes decisions. If the budget debate is "brand versus everything else" or "how much do we put into prospecting", you need the numbers in those terms, not in whatever dimensions the model happens to have.

It's the same idea as rebuilding a funnel role from campaign names before comparing years: the classification has to be right before any trend means anything. Here, a few lines of rules turn 77 campaigns into four groups, and the matched-campaign list lets you check the rules did what you meant.

One thing to keep in mind: the groups only exist for that conversation. If you want the same split every month, keep the rules in a saved prompt and reuse it.

Try these follow-ups

  • Add "Remarketing" to the retargeting group and redo the table.
  • Show the same groups by quarter, with ROI for each group as a trend next to the total.
  • Split the Brand group by country. Is the US brand ROI different from Germany's?
  • Within Other, which ten campaigns have the most spend?
  • Treat everything except brand campaigns as tactical, and compare the two by month this year.

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Try it yourself

Curious how your own campaign families stack up? Book a demo, or if you already use Sellforte, here's how to connect Sellforte MCP to your LLM client. We add new use cases to this library regularly.