Bundles

The General Tab

The Duration Tab

No maximum duration

It is possible to specify a maximum run time for a bundle. This is for content such as images and web content, which have no specific end time.

The player can detect when full motion video clips, such as MPEGs have ended and move to the next bundle in the playlist. Specifying a Maximum Bundle Duration for this type of content is, therefore, not necessary.

Override slot duration

If necessary, you can set certain bundles to ignore the duration limit of the slots they occupy. This means if the bundle normally plays for forty seconds, either because it is a forty second video clip or because its maximum bundle duration is set to forty, and is scheduled in a Campaign that is set for thirty seconds, the bundle will play for the full forty seconds and not be cut off at thirty seconds, which would normally be the case.

Allowing bundles to override the slot duration should be used with care. If a bundle is far longer than the intended slot duration, it can cause the total amount of repetitions for the ads in that loop to be less than the expected amount, and thus anger clients expecting more ad exposure. If the content type has no defined ending, such as an image, and the bundle duration is not set, bundle override will cause that particular ad to play endlessly.

The Geometry Tab

Selecting the Fullscreen option allows you to override the other frames in the display unit, and show this bundle's content in full screen mode for the full length of its duration. Once playback is complete, the display unit restores the previous frame layout. Also, contents that were hidden are restarted from the beginning.

The Ad Copies Tab

The Ad Copies tab shows the ad copy resources contained in a bundle. If this list is empty, nothing will be displayed by Broadsign Control Player when the bundle is scheduled. You can also add or remove ad copies.

When adding content to a campaign with restrictions (see Content Scheduling Restriction), you are presented with a message stating that some of the selected display units have restrictions on the type of content that can be played. This information is collected from the loop policies from all active and targeted screens. The message also lists the content types that are acceptable to all loop policies and that can be added to a campaign using this wizard.

• The content list displays the mime type.
• The content list can be filtered by the mime type.

The Separation Tab

If you want to describe the type of product or function that a bundle promotes, you can assign a separation category to it. The player uses this information to perform the Category Separation. For more information, see Loop Policy Transforms.

The Segment Tab

You can use segment categories to distribute weight values in the bundle. For more information, see Loop Policy Transforms.

The Trigger Tab

You can assign a trigger category to Ad Copies. The trigger can come various sources such as the Broadsign Control API, a synchronization set (in that case, the Ad Copies play at the same time), or interactivity. The campaign will play when receiving a trigger, no matter what its source.

The trigger must be of type "All" or "Trigger". For more information on trigger types, see Overview.

This is the default setting that will be applied to all bundles that are added to this campaign, including proposal items from Broadsign Direct that have screen groups.

The Interactivity Tab

You can specify if the bundle is interactive. Interactive bundles will issue a trigger when a use touches the screen.