Advanced Digital Signage Software

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CampaignManager works with Project files which contain all the elements required to manage a network of any size. These elements are Campaigns, Remote Display Devices (RDDs), Categories and Pools.

Digital Signage Made Simple Through Campaigns

CampaignManager works around the concept of a Campaign.  A Campaign is a collection of information with a related Schedule, Content and Distribution Map. This concept can be thought of as What? Where? When? When creating Campaigns, users are asked three questions:

1. What do you want to show?
2. When do you want to show it?
3. Where do you want to show it?

The Campaign is the discrete unit of work within the system and editing, publishing Campaigns is really not much more complex than sending an email.

Remote Display Devices

RDDs represent the actual physical displays, or computers that make up your network. A useful way to think of how this works is to consider the RDD as the Channel or Frequency on which you broadcast.  A single computer or many computers can ‘tune in’ to that particular frequency or channel.

Categories

CampaignManager contains a rich and powerful categorization engine. This enables the categorization of all play-back computers in your network. For example, you may wish to record the location, physical size, cost per impression, demographic, customer, position or any other combination of business data you are interested in. Once categorized, campaigns can then be targeted by using filtering. For example, you may wish to publish certain content to end points that are for Customer A, in City B where the cost per impression is X.

Pools

Media Pools are collections of related content. You can create an unlimited amount of pools, from which the Campaign may draw at random. Pooling presents a very powerful and abstracted way of managing content. For example, a pool might consist of a collection of trivia you wish to have played once an hour.You can create a time slot for the pool to play and each time that time slot is arrived at, a particular item is drawn at random from the pool. Pools provide a sophisticated content programming tool that will cater for the most complex of content scheduling/programming scenarios. Preview this in the Pooling Video Tutorial.

Managing Content in Digital Signage Advertising

CampaignManager makes managing content easy. Each Campaign has a screen designer. A screen can consist of one or more Zones. Each Zone has a play list. 

Once you’ve designed how you want the screen to appear, you can simply drag and drop media items onto the individual zones.  By dragging and dropping items onto the zone, you change the play list for that zone.  There is no limit to the amount of items in a play list and the same items can be repeated if desired in the play list.

What content can you publish?

CampaignManager is not a content creation tool.  Instead, at Ryarc we have focused on ensuring CampaignManager will handle every type of content you wish to play.  You may add the following items to a play list:

• Audio
• Pictures
• Web Pages
• RSS Feeds
• Adobe Flash
• Microsoft SilverLight
• Video
• Live Television
• Web Pages

Managing Remote Digital Signs

Managing a public network of displays requires more from software than getting a piece of media from A to B at the right time. The software must also enable you to effectively manage those signs or displays ensuring maximum up time and minimum site visits.

A lot of products focus solely on getting media from A to B leaving you with a lot of potential problems in managing your network. Here’s what we’ve done to help make your life easier.

Monitoring

CampaignManager monitors all the displays in your network and can send you an email as soon as a failure is detected.

Direct Remote Access

Double click an affected PC in the CM Player Monitor to automatically start a Remote Desktop or VNC session to that PC regardless of whether the PC exists in a static IP network or not.

Universal Serial/RS232 Control for your Hardware

CampaignManager provides tools to create your own serial commands for your hardware.  Whether it’s turning off the screen, adjusting the brightness or changing the source input, you can write libraries of custom serial commands and reuse them across multiple machines.

Remote Commands

CampaignManager allows you to send remote commands to any device. Common commands include rebooting, restarting and turning attached screens On or Off.  Commands can be scheduled to execute immediately, in the future or even at intervals.

Scale Out; Not Up

Because CampaignManager utilises web servers to do the ‘heavy lifting’, it is easy to take advantage of the well established and understood methods of web server load balancing. Networks that frequently publish large media files can take advantage of common load balancing techniques by sharing the load between more than one server. Most Digital Signage Software applications rely on FTP servers or direct communication over TCP, making load balancing a much more difficult task.

NodeServer

CampaignManager comes with a tool for further reducing bandwidth and server stress called NodeServer.  NodeServer acts like a proxy server for a group of locally connected players ensuring that no redundant downloads are made and sharing files from a single request amongst unlimited connected players is possible.

Automatic Profiling of your Digital Signage Network Ecosystem

CampaignManager can automatically gather information such as hard drive space, time zone, last upgrade, CPU usage, machine name and details of the associated operating system.

Try Campaign Manager for free for 30 days! There's no better way to see first-hand how it can help your business.