What your approval rounds cost a month
Every round of review takes the time of everyone in it and adds days of waiting. Set your numbers and see the bill.
A month of approvals
- reviewer hours
- 180
- of paid time
- $9,000
- days a piece waits
- 7.5
One round fewer saves 60 hours and $3,000 a month, and each piece ships 2.5 days sooner.
What others report
Approval takes 8 days and 3 or more versions on average: 10 days at brands, 4 for freelancers.
Filestage, survey of 366 marketers, 2023. Run by a review software vendor.
84% say there are too many creative review rounds.
Hightail and Digiday, 2019. Run by a review software vendor.
Pharma medical, legal and regulatory review: 21 days to approval on average (Veeva, 2021), 24 days (EY, 2024).
Cited by Klick. Veeva sells review software; Klick is a health marketing agency.
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