Vistar Media

This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough on how to configure your ad campaign parameters using your account on the ad-serving platform Vistar Media.

Vistar Media is a third-party web service designed for delivering advertisements. By creating an account, you can set up and manage your own ad campaigns—defining the display order, frequency, and more.

Using NoviSign’s Ad Widget, which supports multiple ad-serving services, you can integrate Vistar Media to display your campaign ads as part of your NoviSign playback content.

Before proceeding, ensure that you have an active Vistar Media account and that your first ad campaign is fully set up within their platform

1. Login to your user account in the online Studio CMS.
2. In the creatives tab let’s create a creative which will use you as an ad replacement for your ad serving campaign. Click the “+ New Creative” button to create a new creative.
3. Choose your template (or “Start Fresh with Blank Page” for empty template) and then you’ll find yourself in the Creative Composer tool.
4. Add any widget you like to the canvas and customize it. Then drag the ad serving widget to the canvas. Probably you’d like to resize it to take more space on the canvas.
   
5. Now, in the left properties pane you will see the properties of the ad widget. In the top dropdown list choose “Vistar Media”. The properties pane will repopulate itself to show settings from your Vistar Media service account.
   
6. Under the “Connection Settings” you will see 2 settings and one toggling button for turning this ad widget to be alive (as long as the “Live” toggling button is set to off, the ad widget won’t be active). The settings are:
   • Network ID – This is an account token unique only to you.
   • API Key – This is the API key you got from Vistar Media.
   • Venue ID – This is the campaign ID. As long as each device runs the very same campaign, it is ok and no need to remember this.
   • Device ID – this is how you named each device which is supposed to run a campaign.
7. After you setup the 4 above settings and turned the “Live” to on, press the “Save” button in order to save your creative (without saving, previewing the vendor’s campaign might not be visible).
8. Press the “Preview” button on top to see how the creative will look like (if you have active campaign that is supposed to run now, you will see it in the ad widget) and to validate the integration.
9. Exit the preview and exit your creative. Now, you’re ready to use this building block in any of your playlists (tip: you can use it more than once in same playlist).