Advert Scheduling
PLEASE NOTE:
Advert scheduling is a premium feature of PlayIt Live and requires a valid Advanced Scheduling module applied to the PlayIt Live licence to enable full functionality. Without a valid Advanced Scheduling module applied it is not possible to schedule the advert log or play advert blocks. To use advert scheduling in PlayIt Live, purchase the Advanced Scheduling module and refresh your PlayIt Live licence. You can try out the module by going to Help > Licencing Information and clicking Start Trial.
Advert scheduling allows the scheduling of adverts (also called spots, commercials or traffic). This is accomplished by setting up Advert Campaigns with Adverts, then adding an Advert Block to the Playout Log and scheduling the Advert Log for that hour.
Advert Campaign
An advert campaign represents an advert sales order, a request from a customer to play a set of adverts a specified number of times, during certain times of the day for a period of time. Advert campaigns in the same category will never be scheduled in the same block.
Advert
An advert represents a cut of audio to play as part of an advert campaign. An Advert also stores at what times of the day the audio will play up to a maximum number of plays. Adverts feature a 'duration' field which is used to schedule the advert. This is best kept to a multiple of 5, e.g. 10, 15, 30 seconds, to ensure that adverts can be fitted into advert blocks of 1 minute, 2 minutes, etc.
Advert Block
An advert block is a sequence of adverts that are played together as part of the advert log.
Advert Log
The historical log and future log of the adverts that have played and will play.
Advert Block Item
An Advert Block item can be added to a Clock or the Playout Log in order to actually play out the adverts.
Adding an Advert Block item to the playout log instructs the playout engine to look up the adverts from the Advert Log for the specified hour and start time and load them into a player. Despite being multiple tracks, advert block items only take up one player - the same player is reused for each advert track.
Adding an Advert Block item to a clock will add the equivalent item to Playout Log for any hour the clock is scheduled into.
When Advert Blocks are used in Live Assist you will be warned when no adverts have been scheduled in the Advert Log for that block. If you switch Log Scheduler ON then advert blocks will automatically be scheduled for the upcoming hour.
Advert Play Report
When adverts have been played it is possible to produce a report of when the adverts were played. This report can be presented to the customer to prove that the adverts were played.