Network Connect
Media companies that air network/barter spots spend a tremendous amount of time and effort processing network orders, tracking creative media, managing revisions, providing performance affidavits and more. Network Connect, a Mediascape Service, fully automates this process, enabling stations to receive orders, copy instructions and revisions electronically. This eliminates discrepancies, reduces manual labor and increases compliance rates. Performance affidavit information is returned to the network automatically.
Key Benefits
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Eliminate the massive administrative burden associated with network orders. The number of network spots aired on a station frequently amounts to hundreds per week. Manually entering each network spot in the traffic system and then reconciling each commercial back to the network is a tedious chore, consuming valuable time to complete. With Network Connect a process that once took hours now has been streamlined down to seconds, freeing station personnel to focus on more strategic business activities.
- Reduce order errors and discrepancies. Through Network Connect, spot schedules are directly imported from each network, dramatically reducing the possibility of human error. As a result, network spots are more likely to air at the right time with the correct copy, increasing network contract compliance and limiting the need for makegoods.
Key Services
- Automate the process of entering network spots into your traffic system. It’s no longer necessary for you to log into multiple network websites to get next week’s spot schedules. With Network Connect, networks send the spot schedules to you electronically for you to review and import into your traffic system.
- Electronically import network schedules and copy into your traffic system. Network Connect creates orders and can even assign media numbers and network copy automatically. Network Connect offers you the ability to fully automate the process, importing network spots complete and ready to air without manual intervention
- Electronically handle revisions to network orders, even if the schedule changes mid-flight. Network Connect can identify the order changes to active orders and automatically apply updates.
- Ability to use pre-existing copy by extending aired spots versus creating new ones. Network Connect automatically extends the end date on pre-existing copy versus creating a duplicate. If the network reuses previously aired copy, Network Connect will recognize this during the import process and lengthen the date range, reducing the likelihood of duplicate copy in the traffic system.
- Automated email notifications. Email notifications can be sent to you and others at your group, letting you know when new or revised orders have arrived. If you choose to automatically import the orders, you will receive an email notifying you that new or revised orders have been imported.

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- Automatically create electronic affidavits to reconcile spots back to the networks. With Network Connect, you are no longer required to log back into the network’s website to enter the date and time each individual spot aired. Network Connect communicates directly with the network, eliminating another tedious, time-consuming task.