Fed up of using a costly and complicated program to manage your commercials?  Are you fudging your music scheduler to help get your adverts scheduled?  Perhaps you've been using a spreadsheet to plan and log adverts...  All that can change if you switch to AdMan.

AdMan allows you to manage your commercial schedules with ease: Input new customers, add audio/liner copy and create schedules based upon a simple set of scheduling rules.  This program started out as a small pet-project but after some initial interest was shown, it became major project for us and thanks to the generosity of a certain broadcaster, the price of AdMan is within everybody's reach!

Flexible Scheduling
Need to schedule a customer's advert to run 8 times on a Monday between 7am-10am, 3 times on a Wednesday between 6am-6pm and 10 times on a Sunday between 9am-3pm?  AdMan lets you do that using the Day/Hour Grid combined with the Max Play settings that determine how many plays are possible on a given day.  This method is ideal for scheduling advertisers who want either peak-time or daytime exposure: food establishments would obviously favour daytime/late-afternoon plays on a Friday/Saturday etc.  Orders also permit multiple adverts/copy so that a customer can have date/time-critical commercials air between the correct times, eg: "sale ends Monday" / "sale ends tomorrow" and so on.

Keep Track of Orders/Earnings
AdMan offers you an easy-to-follow report of which adverts/customers are on-air and how much they are spending.  When viewing an Advert/Copy, you can see at a glance the orders for that particular item.  Same goes for viewing Customers: a 2nd tab shows the Orders (both past and present) along with the earnings for that customer.

Collisions / Like-for-Like Adverts
You will probably want to keep competing advertisers away from each other in the same advert-break - AdMan can avoid situations where 2 competing taxicab adverts run in a row, or even in the same break!  Adverts also have a "Repeat Interval" setting which prevents the advert from being scheduled too often.

Days/Hours and "Cost per Play"
Each advert can be limited by Days, Hours and/or the amount of plays each day that it can theoretically have.  This makes it easy to set "kill dates" for special promotions and also helps your client get maximum exposure, eg: their half-price pizza commercial can run 4-9pm Friday+Saturday when people are thinking about food!  Similarly, you can prevent "offer ends Friday 13th" being played on Saturday 14th...

Manage Multiple Stations
Although you can open and use different Station Databases within AdMan, you may wish to run an advert on both your FM "CHR" station and also your AM "Oldies" station.  With the Commercial licence of AdMan, this is possible!  When entering the order, you are given a list of "Stations" on which the advert can run - these stations can then have the advert schedules sent to their respective playout systems.  This is great if you wish to manage a group of stations that share some/all of your adverts.

Export to Playout Systems
A variety of popular playout systems are supported: Dalet, EncoDAD, Myriad, Simian, StationPlaylist and more - with the "non-profit" licence you can export to 1 system but with the "commercial" licence you can export to all available playout templates.

More details will be added in due course...