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Approval & sign-off

Review rounds, client sign-off and the audit trail: how decisions get made, recorded, and found again months later.

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Four versions of a promotional email in a row: v3 and v4 superseded with changes requested, v5 approved by the client at 14:22, and v6 as the current version with no decision recorded
Approval & sign-off14 min read

How do you know which campaign version was approved?

An approval that does not name a version is not a sign-off. How to keep every comment, revision and decision attached to the version it actually describes.

August 10, 2026
Eight sticky notes carrying campaign feedback from Slack, email, WhatsApp, a PDF markup and call notes, scattered around a card naming the email file they all refer to
Approval & sign-off13 min read

How do you centralize campaign feedback from email, Slack and other tools?

Comments in Slack, decisions in email, markup on a PDF nobody has opened since Tuesday. How to keep feedback, versions and sign-off in one place.

August 10, 2026
Shelves of labeled ring binders holding years of archived records
Approval & sign-off10 min read

What belongs in a campaign approval audit trail?

Who approved which version, when, and on what basis. The six fields a campaign approval audit trail must contain, and the four habits that quietly break it.

August 3, 2026
A person in a blazer reviewing an analytics dashboard on a laptop at a wooden desk by a window
Approval & sign-off9 min read

What is campaign-level approval (and why asset-level isn't enough)?

One sign-off on the whole campaign: journey, timing and every asset, after each one is already approved. What asset-level review misses, and when it is enough.

August 3, 2026
Close-up of a hand marking up a printed page with a red pen
Approval & sign-off9 min read

How do you cut campaign review rounds from 4 to 1?

Review rounds multiply when feedback is sequential, anonymous, and split across channels. Here is how to consolidate four rounds into one.

July 29, 2026
An hourglass with the sand running low, sitting on a wooden desk
Approval & sign-off9 min read

How do you set a client approval SLA?

Silence is not sign-off. Define approvers, response windows, escalation, and what counts as approval, in writing, before production starts.

June 16, 2026
Two colleagues at a desk going through a printed document together, one of them pointing at a line on the page
Approval & sign-off14 min read

How do you manage legal, brand and marketing approvals?

Legal approved v4, brand changed v5, the director signed v6. How to give each role a defined decision, a defined scope, and a version it actually applies to.

April 14, 2026
Close-up of a hand signing a printed document with a pen
Approval & sign-off8 min read

How do agencies get client approvals that hold up?

A verbal 'yes' isn't an approval. A signed PDF isn't much better. Here's what a defensible approval process actually looks like.

January 13, 2026
An append-only approval log for one email: the client approves v5, design creates v6 with a new CTA, the client sign-off stage reopens, and the client approves v6, with the v5 decision left untouched
Approval & sign-off14 min read

What should happen when a campaign changes after approval?

Somebody edits the email two hours after the client approved it. What to do with the old sign-off, which stages to reopen, and what to leave alone.

October 7, 2025

Stop reconstructing approvals from email threads.

Book a 30-minute walkthrough and see the full campaign production workflow, from brief to sign-off, with the record attached.