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A fully integrated, web based system for network broadcast
television, national cable and syndication
[ Overview ][ Key Features ][ Reports ]
| Research Analysis |
- Create, save, and share custom report formats to analyze Nielsen historical data and estimate future performance
- Comprehensive Nielsen research data - NTI, NSS, NHI, NAD, SNAD, CNAD, Hispanic
- Produce ranked listings of programs and networks by demo statistic
- Compare time period averages for a quarter across different years
- Automated import of Nielsen program data including demo statistic averages for new program profiles
- Create custom reports to report agency program estimates
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| Negotiation Tools |
- Create client plans before estimates and packages are created
- Users can view and change plans online without upload or download
- Analyze multiple plans/packages in Negotiator to compare alternate offerings or to view totals for a client across dayparts, networks and quarters
- Flexible management of "what if" scenarios
- Program estimates automatically flow into plans or the user can key estimates into the plan directly
- View estimates equivalized or non-equivalized
- Many views of totals are available. Plan detail and totals can be exported
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| Place, Monitor & Maintain Orders |
- Estimate codes can be alpha or numeric and are not limited to a year
- Estimates can have up to 50 products assigned. Each product can have its own targets, independent of the estimate
- Estimates can contain multiple packages per network - by daypart, upfront and scatter
- Ability to view equivalized or non-equivalized estimates.
- Management of upfront and scatter activity
- National cable contracts can be requested via email and contract buys can be imported via EDI to save keying time and errors
- Quickly add high volumes of units using Quick Entry
- Campaign duration determined by Buyer
- Many functions available to save time in buy maintenance including mass changes, copy, statistic recalculation, makegoods, pre-empts, bonus, ADUs, matching, split and combine units.
- All buy demos can be displayed side by side in the buy worksheet and in the totals. Detail and summary buy data can be exported
- Statistic estimates can be viewed equivalized or non-equivalized
- Statistical changes will result in optional auto-calculation of related statistics (change impressions and universe is used to recalculate rating)
- Buyers can select the columns in the worksheet and the types of totals shown for buys and save preferences
- Create custom views of buy information and export to Excel®
- Automated brand allocation within the buy worksheet
- Compare current buys to the package cost and guarantees for up to four demos
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| Bill Clients |
- Draft billing option prior to live bill release
- Multiple bill formulas and billing formats supported
- Multi office or centralized bill/pay capabilities.
- Special amount billing in advance of regular bills
- Billing by Calendar, Broadcast Calendar or Bill Date Ranges available
- Online inquiry of client payment status
- Reprint bills on demand.
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| Match Invoices/Pay Vendors |
- Electronic (EDI) import of national cable invoices
- Customized matching profiles by client and media used for initial matching
- Easy discrepancy reconciliation features allow user to:
- Match and update the buy in one step
- Create makegoods and bonus or ADU units as you match
- Confirmation pay feature restricts payment until cash has been received from client
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| Post Analysis |
- Post using Nielsen program summary or time period data
- Ability to auto-post
- Post using commercial minute average statistics
- Auto-post with commercial date and time during affidavit matching
- Comprehensive posting reports, with ability to save as PDF or Excel files
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| Ad Hoc Reporting |
- Simple easy to use interface to create and modify reports
- English language data objects; no need to learn system code
- Comprehensive reporting, with ability to save to PDF and Excel
- Conditional formatting and filtering capability as well as easy to create calculations
- User and Agency wide report libraries
- PDF customization with ability to insert picture files
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