Monarch now includes preemption dollars in your forecast! Know what advertiser's business needs you need to meet with our new alert and then decide how you wish to proceed. Give them a call? Move the spot to the next opening in traffic? The choice is yours, but rest assured you will not have to leave your desk or pick up the phone to call the traffic manager in order to figure out whose advertising did not run recently!
Preemptions are viewable in 4 locations within Monarch. Sales Outlook, Forecast Report, Pacing Report and Alerts.
Sales Outlook
To view preemption dollars on the Sales Outlook, please follow the below instruction:
1. Click Home on the left navigation pane.
2. Click the Sales Outlook Data card. Note: if you don't see Sales Outlook on one of your data cards, please add Sales Outlook as your data card. Click here for the instruction.
4. check the box next to Include % of preemptions in my forecast. You may change the percentage by clicking the dropdown arrow in the % field.
Notice a PREEMPTED$ column is added when preemptions has been selected. Your Forecast will now be totaled as (TY + Pending + Preempted = Forecast).
Forecast Report
To view preemption dollars on the Forecast report, please follow the below instruction:
1. Click Reports on the left navigation pane.
2. Click Forecast & Deals tab.
3. Click Forecast report link.
4. On the Options tab, click the Percent of preemption to include in forecast and select the percentage number. Please also set up Hierarchy before clicking Run button to pull out the report.
After the report is pulled out, you will notice that a PREEMPTED$ column is added with the selected percentage number.
If you would like to learn more about Forecast report, please check this link: Monarch - Forecast Report Overview
Pacing Report
To view preemption dollars on the Pacing Report, please follow the below instruction:
1. Click Reports on the left navigation pane.
2. Click Revenue tab.
3. Click Pacing Report link.
4. On the Options tab, click the Percent of preemption to include in forecast and select the percentage number. Please also set up Hierarchy before clicking Run button to pull out the report.
After the report is pulled out, you will notice that a PREEMPTED$ column is added with the selected percentage number.
If you would like to learn more about Pacing Report, please check this link: Monarch - Pacing Report Overview
Alert
Matrix also provides unresolved preemptions in the form of a Alert, named Current Preemptions.
To Create the Current Preemptions Alert, please view this article for the instruction: Monarch - Alerts - Current Preemptions (Pains)