Challenge

Can you reserve inventory in ADvendio for your planned Broadsign campaigns and set them live later?

Solution

You can resolve this issue and gain more flexibility in managing your Broadsign Campaigns within ADvendio by using our feature “Update Ad-Status in AdServer”.

By default, when Items are pushed to Broadsign, they are in the saved or draft status. This means they are not actively running or booked yet.

This gives you the opportunity to make any necessary modifications and changes before finalizing and activating them.

ADvendio Ad Server statuses:

You have the option to choose one of three statuses for a Proposal Item: Active, Paused, and Reserved.

Active status means that the Proposal Item is booked in Broadsign and the assigned Screens are reserved and actively running.
Paused status for Proposal Item temporarily removes the reserved status and brings it back to its previous draft state.
Reserved status means that the Proposal Item is on hold and the assigned Screens are reserved and blocked for other bookings.

ADvendio Ad Server Status	Broadsign Proposal Line Status
Active	submitted
Paused	saved but is on hold and not active
Reserved	on hold and not active

There is a predefined flow of actions in the system that you can take with your items:

For a Paused item, you have the option to set it as active or reserved.

For a Reserved item, you can choose to set it as paused or active.

Once an item is set as Active, its status cannot be changed anymore.

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Setup

Check page 7.3.4 How to Configure "Update Ad-Status in AdServer" for Campaign Items