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Muse Spark 1.3: Paid media: H1 2026 allocation

For the CMO and the finance director. The decision it supports: how to allocate the £2.4m paid media budget for H1 2026.

Verdict
Not presentable
Deck rating
811
Slides
6 (brief: 5-8)
Design quality
50%

Why it is not presentable

  • Layout defect: something off the slide, colliding, too small or too faint to read

In detail

  • Slide 1: text 6: 9 pt text.
  • Slide 2: text 4: 11 pt body text.
  • Slide 2: text 5: 8 pt text.
  • Slide 3: text 4: 11 pt body text.
  • Slide 3: text 4: 11 pt body text.
  • Slide 3: text 5: 8 pt text.
  • Slide 4: text 3: 11 pt body text.
  • Slide 4: text 3: 11 pt body text.
  1. Slide 1 of Muse Spark 1.3's deck
    Slide 1Acceptable The title identifies the topic rather than the recommendation; the actual proposal is much smaller and positioned well below it.Proposal text at the bottom is slightly small and hard to read against the green background
  2. Slide 2 of Muse Spark 1.3's deck
    Slide 2Acceptable The table gives every row and value equal emphasis, so the channels supporting the headline do not stand out.Table is plain, with no highlighting of the CRM, search and display rows that the title and takeaway refer to
  3. Slide 3 of Muse Spark 1.3's deck
    Slide 3Acceptable The chart's vertical axis does not identify the metric or unit; viewers must find that context in the adjacent text.The right-hand card is mostly empty; its three bullets fill only the top fifth of a tall box
  4. Slide 4 of Muse Spark 1.3's deck
    Slide 4Acceptable The three cards are much taller than their content, leaving most of each card empty.All three cards are oversized; their text fills only the top quarter, leaving large empty areas
  5. Slide 5 of Muse Spark 1.3's deck
    Slide 5Acceptable The short table and tall chart create an unbalanced layout with substantial unused space below the table.The table and chart show the same numbers, which is redundant
  6. Slide 6 of Muse Spark 1.3's deck
    Slide 6Acceptable The channel allocations are packed into two long bullet lines, making individual amounts harder to scan.Bullets use inline bullet separators within bullets, so the allocation is hard to scan; a short list or table would read better