# Media Auditor: Every Ad Change Checked Before and After It Goes Live > The Media Auditor is the AI PPC audit agent in the Ai1 platform by MyZone AI: it tests each proposed ad change against the brief, budget and platform checklist before launch, then reads the live account afterwards and flags any difference, while changing nothing itself. Canonical page: https://myzone.ai/pages/agents/ai-media-auditor-agent Part of Ai1, by MyZone AI. Book a Media Auditor walkthrough: https://calendly.com/d/ct6h-tcy-8qf/ai1-demo?a1=Media%20Auditor&utm_source=myzone.ai&utm_medium=agent-page&utm_content=ai-media-auditor-agent-final Last updated: 2026-10-30. Reviewed by the MyZone AI team. A second pair of eyes on every ad change, before launch and after. ## At a glance - **Before your review:** Each proposal is tested against the brief, the approved plan and the platform checklist - **Paused launches:** Checked end to end before anyone can approve switching them on - **After a push:** Its own view-only read of the account, compared with what was approved - **Daily drift pass:** Settings that changed without approval, such as a platform's auto-applied suggestions - **Verdicts:** Pass, fail or unknown, and unknown whenever it cannot read the account - **Policy flags:** Its own reading of the platform's rules; each ad platform makes its own review decision - **What it never does:** Build, fix, pause, approve or switch on anything ## What the Media Auditor does - **Checks proposals first:** Before a change reaches your review, it is tested against the brief, the approved plan and the platform checklist. - **Gates new launches:** A paused campaign is checked end to end before anyone can approve switching it on. - **Reads the account after a push:** It compares what is live with what was approved, using its own view-only read rather than the maker's word. - **Looks for settings drift:** A daily pass finds settings that changed without approval, such as a platform's auto-applied suggestions. - **Flags likely policy problems:** Ads and settings that look likely to break the ad platform's policies are flagged before they go out. - **Gives a clear verdict:** Each check ends as pass, fail or unknown. If it cannot read the account, the answer is unknown rather than a pass. ## How the Media Auditor differs from a one-off account audit A one-off audit looks at an account on a single day and leaves the next change unchecked. The Media Auditor sits in the flow of work: every proposal is tested before it reaches your review, every paused launch is checked end to end, and the live account is read again after each push. A daily pass catches settings that drift without approval. It only checks; fixes go back to whoever made the change. How this differs from the Media Buying Director (https://myzone.ai/pages/agents/ai-media-buying-director-agent): To plan your paid ads and get budgets approved, use the Media Buying Director; the Media Auditor checks each ad change before and after it goes live and changes nothing. ## How it works 1. **A change is proposed** (When a change is proposed): A platform manager sends an exact change or a paused build for checking. 2. **Checks run** (As soon as it arrives): Automated checks run first, then it adds findings, each tied to a written rule. 3. **Back to the maker** (When a check fails): Fails go back to the platform manager to fix. If they still disagree after a few rounds, the Media Buying Director decides. 4. **You approve** (you approve) (Once the checks have passed): Only proposals that passed reach your review, and you approve each exact change. 5. **Check after launch** (Straight after each push): Once the change is pushed, it reads the live account and reports any gap straight away. ## When to use it - **A budget edit has an extra zero:** The proposal fails the check before it can reach your review. - **A new campaign is ready to launch:** It runs the launch check on the paused build, so what you approve has already been reviewed. - **A platform applied its own recommendation:** The daily settings pass spots the change and flags it to the Media Buying Director. - **A pushed change landed on the wrong campaign:** The after-launch read shows the difference and you hear about it at once. - **You want a health check on an account:** It runs a view-only audit with its checklist and returns a verdict with findings. ## What you get - A pass, fail or unknown verdict for each proposed change - Launch checks on paused campaigns - After-launch comparisons of live settings with the approval - A daily settings drift report - Findings that each cite the rule they break ## Example: ad change check log Example with a fictional company. Names, people and figures are invented to show the agent's output. Any resemblance to a real company or person is unintended. What it was asked: Check every ad change for our six clinics before and after it goes live, and flag anything off brief, off budget or against policy. This is an illustrative example of the weekly check log Media Auditor is being built to produce: checks before launch, checks after launch and a daily settings check, each with a cited rule. It was written by hand from the agent's design for an invented company with invented figures. No real ad accounts, systems or people were involved, and nothing was sent, posted, paid or changed. Run date: 22 October 2026. ### What it found - Media Auditor ran 23 checks this week: 17 PASS, 3 CAUTION and 3 FAIL, each tied to a rule from the brief, the plan or the policy checklist. - Two changes were stopped before launch: a search campaign set at $180 a day against a $120 limit, and a whitening ad with a before-and-after photo. - After launch, a Meta campaign went live with a 25-mile radius instead of the approved 10; the FAIL went out within 40 minutes and the fix re-checked as PASS. ## Guardrails - Your Ai1 team will tell you when the Media Auditor is ready for your account. - It only checks. It never builds, fixes, pauses, approves or switches on anything. - It has view-only access to ad accounts and does not seek more. - Policy flags are its own reading of the platform's rules; each ad platform makes its own review decision. - Differences found after a push are reported straight away, not held back or softened. ## Frequently asked questions ### Why check an ad account again after a change goes live? Because what lands can differ from what was approved: a bulk edit can hit the wrong campaign, a platform can apply its own suggestion or an import can overwrite a setting. Reading the live settings soon after a push catches the gap early. The Media Auditor reads the account itself after each push and raises any difference straight away. ### What should happen when an ad check cannot read the account? The change should wait. Treating a failed read as a pass lets a mistake through without anyone noticing. The Media Auditor marks any check it cannot complete as unknown rather than a pass, and the change waits instead of slipping through to your review. ### Should the person who makes an ad change also check it? It is safer when they do not. A fresh reviewer working from the written brief and budget is more likely to spot a wrong budget, a targeting slip or a missing exclusion. With the Media Auditor, the specialist who made a change is never the one who checks it, and every finding names the rule it breaks. ### What does an AI PPC audit check? Whether each change matches the approved brief and budget, follows the platform checklist and lands in the account as approved. The Media Auditor does that before and after launch and changes nothing itself. ### Does a pass mean the ad platform will accept my ads? No. It flags what looks likely to break the platform's policies, but each ad platform makes its own review decision. ### Can it fix what it finds? No. Findings go back to the platform manager who made the change, and the fix is checked again. ### What if it cannot read the account? The verdict is unknown, not a pass, and the change waits. ### Is the Media Auditor available now? Not yet. Your Ai1 team will tell you when the Media Auditor is ready for your account. You can talk to us today about checking ad changes before and after they go live. ## More on this topic - [Stop Writing Google Ads by Hand. You're Doing It Wrong.](https://myzone.ai/pages/blog/ai-google-ads-generator): Most Google Ads underperform because humans don't read their own website when writing ad copy. AI reads your strategy doc and website to generate better RSAs. ## About Ai1 Ai1 is the AI operations platform by MyZone AI, where each client runs on its own private server. The Media Auditor is not sold on its own: every Ai1 agent, including this one, is included on Developer Pro and every Fully Managed option, with no per-agent charge. 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