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Frequency Documentation

ANALYZE User Guide

Overview

The ANALYZE tool allows you to look at the traffic and advertising usage data of your linear channel. The ANALYZE tool is consist of three main dashboards:

  • Content

  • Advertising

  • Delivery

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The default dashboard being load in ANALYZE tool is Content.

Dashboards
Content

This dashboard allows you to look at the performance of your linear channel and programs. It contains the following two tabs and tables:

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  • Performance

    • Minutes Watched by Day and Channel

    • Top 50 Programs by Minutes Watched

    • Minutes Watched by Channel

    • Minutes Watched by Distributor

*Controls (filter report by): Report time period, Channel, Distributor

  • Attribution

    • Top Programming by Month (includes duration of program, minutes watched, Ads filled, and Ads opportunities)

*Controls (filter report by): Report time period, Program title, Channel, Distributor

Table 1. Values

Value Title

Definition

Channel

Linear channel title.

Program Name/Linear Program

Program title as it is displayed in the schedule.

Duration (Minutes)

Total duration of the scheduled program.

Count/Occurence

How many times this program has aired in the selected timeframe.

Minutes Watched (Estimated)

The minutes of streams delivered to end users when Frequency is providing end user CDN for HLS streams. In cases where the distributor is handling CDN, Frequency will not have accurate data. It is also possible a user exits a channel before consuming every second of the data delivered, causing in a small over-estimation of consumption.

Watched Ratio

The number of active streams for any given minute of scheduled time for the program for the period selected. A metric that helps normalize watch minutes for total minutes a program aired in the range. The formula for this is: Minutes watched / (Duration * Count)

Ads Filled (Minutes)

Ad minutes successfully filled, when Frequency is handling SSAI.

Ads Opportunited (Minutes)

Ad minutes in programs that failed to fill with advertising, when Frequency is handling SSAI.

Ads Render Rate (%)

Ratio of ad minutes successfully filled when Frequency is handling SSAI.

Video Title

Title of the actual video asset playing (this can differ from the actual program name, and is asset specific).

Video Description

Description of the video playing out.

Brand

Brand that the video is displayed in, viewable in Manage. This is separate from the linear channel title.

External ID

The ID ingested from the partner, if included in delivery. Can be used to cross reference content provider metrics.

Frequency ID

Frequency's internal video id for the record.

Percentage of Timeframe

The total percentage of time a specific program has used within the filtered time range for the report.



Advertising

This dashboard allows you to look at the advertising usage data of your linear channel. It contains the following four tabs and tables:

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  • Ad Usage

    • Ad Requests by Day and Channel

    • Advertising Opportunities by Channel (in Seconds)

    • Ad Pods by Day and Channel

    • Ad Fill Rate by Channel

    • Ads Served by Day and Channel

    • Total Ads Served by Channel

    • Ad Error by Type

    • Error Rate by Channel

*Controls (filter report by): Report time period, Channel, Distributor

  • Unique Ad Users & Ad Sessions by Month

    • Unique Ad Users by Month

    • Unique Ad Sessions by Month

*Controls (filter report by): Report time period, Channel, Distributor

Note: Drilling down to day or minute level will result in inaccurate result.

  • Unique Ad Users & Ad Sessions by Day

    • Unique Ad Users by Day

    • Unique Ad Sessions by Day

*Controls (filter report by): Report time period, Channel, Distributor

Note: Drilling up to month or down to hour level will result in inaccurate result.

  • Unique Ad Users & Ad Sessions by Hour

    • Unique Ad Users by Hour

    • Unique Ad Sessions by Hour

*Controls (filter report by): Report time period, Channel, Distributor

Note: Drilling up to day or month level will result in inaccurate result.

Distribution

This dashboard allows you to look at the traffic data of your linear channel. It contains the following tab and tables:

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  • Distribution

    • Requests by Channel and Day

    • Requests by Channel and Month

    • Bandwidth (GB) by Channel and Day

    • Bandwidth (GB) by Distributors

    • Channel Starts in USA by City and Channel

    • Top 10 Channel Starts in USA by City

    • Channel Starts by Channel and Distributor

    • Channel Starts by Channel and Day

    • Average Concurrent Users by Channel and Hour

    • Percentage of Video Resolution by Day

*Controls (filter report by): Report time period, Channel, Distributor, Country (in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code), Continent, Region/State(in ISO 3166-2 subdivisions assigned codes), and City

Basic Usage

Controls

Click on the double down arrows on the right side of the screen to open the ANALYZE control panel

Note: When loading after updating the controls, the dashboard will turn dark. It will turn light again once the data is loaded.

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Time Range
  1. Click on Report Start/Report End control.

  2. A calendar will drop down.

  3. Set the report start/end date and time.

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Note: You can reset time range by clicking the "..." on the top right corner of the control

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Other Filters

Most of the controls can select multiple

  1. Click on the control you want to filter.

  2. A drop down will appear.

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  3. You can select a few by unchecking "[ALL]" and then checking the ones you wish to see.

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  4. Or You can filter a few by unchecking the ones you wish to filter out.

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  5. You can also search specific value by typing in the "Search value" field and press enter to show you the list that matches your search value string.

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Graphs
  • Hovering on top of the graph will show you a tooltip displaying the respective items and their values (You can hover to a specific area of the graph to show only that item and value in the tooltip).

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Tables
  • Click on the column header will allow you to sort the table by that column's value

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Additional Features

Export to CSV

This allows you to export to CSV for each section of the report.

  1. Click on upper right corner of the report section to activate a down arrow.

  2. Click on the down arrow, and this should open the opportunity to Export report data to CSV

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Support

For questions or issues for any Frequency tools, email support@frequency.com