Provision to create tags for the latest list of Sponsors for a given Programme/Episode No/ Repeat No
Tags for Promos
Provision to create tags that must be attached to Promos of programmes
Specify programme based promo tags with effective dates and kill dates
Ad Sales
Rate Card
Annual Contracts and Monthly Contracts Maintenance with dynamic tracking of utilization
Booking Orders
Entry of Material Information Sheet, Form1, Booking Order for Spots, Sponsors and Tickers, Cancellation and MG and Copy Advice
Release Order Maintenance
Confirmation of Booking Orders
View Sponsors, Co-Sponsors, Branding Order Booking
Options to track Free Commercial Time allotted against Sponsorship bookings
Tight Integration with FPC to track bookings that are invalidated by programming changes
View Spot Order Booking
Entry and Generation provision for Programme Based Orders and Time-Based Orders (RODP)
Order Reconciliation
Spot Order Reconciliation
Provision to list bookings that do not have a related programme due to programming changes after bookingAn easy drag and drop reconciliation process
Retain the spot in the same time banc
Move the spot along with the programme if the programme has been rescheduled
Cancel the spot
Sponsor Reconciliation
An easy drag and drop reconciliation process
Make Goods Tracking
Traffic
Commercial Log
Easy Drag and Drop facility to create a log
The source list from where commercials can be dragged contain only valid commercials for a given programme and thus improves accuracy of schedule
Important Validations
Restricts users from exceeding the limit of commercial time allotted in every programme and optionally allows certain users to override the same
Prevents spots from being scheduled beyond the RODP time-band specified in the Release Order
Prevents Back-to-Back scheduling of same product category commercials
A user-definable color-coding system to easily identify type of entries. E.g.: Programme based spots, RODP spots, Promos etc.
A dynamic summary of inventory consumed in that programme break-wise for easy reference while scheduling
A built-in workflow to specify if the commercial log is complete.
Provision to recall confirmed logs to add last minute commercials
Provision to view programme-wise schedules and a whole day’s schedule
Billing
A Click and Generate Telecast Certificate Process.
A Click and Generate Invoice Process
Ad Revenue Optimizer and Scheduler
Optimizer
Generate revenue optimized schedules
Control multi spotting at Client, Product, Brand and Caption levels
Control minimum service assurance levels
Ad position control for First 3 and Last 3 spots
A What-If-Analysis screen that lets you compare yields with different optimization parameters
Auto Scheduler
This is an independent process that takes care of scheduling spots as and when the Release Orders are entered
Provides a better status of Inventory since RODP spots will also be accounted for in the Inventory calculations
Sequence of Schedule
The Auto-Scheduler schedules one channel at a time
For each Channel it schedules all pending Programme based spots in chronological order
Then the RODP spots are scheduled
RODP spots are scheduled to be distributed evenly across the break available in the range of the RODP time band
Preference is given to breaks where the same commercial, same client and same product category are not present in that sequence
Programme based spots get preference over RODP spots. If a programme break is full of spots and a programme based spot is to be scheduled, the auto scheduler attempts to unscheduled any RODP spots in the programme and replace it with the new programme based spot. The RODP spot is then rescheduled in other available breaks
Presentation
This is very similar to the Commercial logs. Helps in scheduling all break items apart from commercials and Tags
Provisions to schedule Promos, Break Bumpers, Fillers, Channel IDs etc.
Important Validations
Prevents from exceeding the total break duration for a programme
Validates the versions of Promos played against its location on the FPC. For e.g., a NEXT version of a promo cannot be played in a programme unless the next programme on the FPC matches the programme of the promo
Color coding features to identify entries visually
Optionally, attach promo tags automatically when the promo is dropped into the schedule
Dynamic Inventory Summary break-wise is displayed
As-Run Reconciliation
Import of As-Run Logs from the Video Server (Custom Development)
Auto Reconcile by showing Missed Spots and Additional Spots separately break-wise
Manual Reconciliation with As-Run log
Mark items as Aired, Missed or Additional
Change Actual Tx time Segment-wise. The rest of the times will be auto calculated for that programme
Built-In workflow to send the monitored items for Billing
Provision to Link unplanned spots that have been aired to existing Release Orders before billing