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RO Planner

The RO Planner is an operational planning tool for broadcasters to determine how the spots requested by advertisers should be allocated to programs or day-parts; it ensures that revenues are maximized while all business requirements are met.

 
Process
INPUT OUTPUT
  • Booked ROs
  • FPC Details
  • FCT information
  • Deal details
  • User inputs
  • List of ads allocated to programs & day-parts
  • Dropped ads
  • Suggested make-goods

Benefits
  • Revenue gain
  • Substantial reduction in manual effort
  • Minimizes unnecessary ‘Make Goods’ and improves client service level
Features
  • Flexible planning horizon
    • Can be used to allocate ROs for any number of days in the future
  • Allows users to define key clients and reserve a percentage of inventory for them
  • Allows users to prioritize ROs
    • By clients, deals and program/time band
    • For whole or part of deal duration
  • Ads from important advertisers can be set for assured telecast
  • Allows users to modify allocations either before or after running the RO Planner
 

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