The Proof of Play feature within Signagelive enables a greater depth of analytics around asset playback and provides the process of recording the start and end time for when a media asset is played, which allows you to know whether your media has been played and how many times. Proof of Play is independent to the Report feature within Signagelive and both can be used concurrently.

Proof of Play works by your Player sending the relevant data from your device as to when each selected media asset starts and stops. The Proof of Play API has been designed specifically for the handling of Proof of Play logs and providing the data to the user interface of your network.

Once Proof of Play has been added to your Network, you (as a User or an Administrator) will see it within the Applications menu when logged in to the Signagelive interface. Follow these steps to access Proof of Play:

Within the Proof of Play application, you will be able to view and export reports based on the following categories:

When Proof of Play is added to your Network, no Player or media will report its Proof of Play data until you enable it.

You can select any of the items above to report its Proof of Play data within the Signagelive application, but media will only ever report when it is played on a Player that has Proof of Play enabled on it.

Important Note: You must enable Proof of Play on at least one Player in order to see any reporting within the Proof of Play application. If you have enabled Proof of Play on one or more pieces of media, you will not see any report until it is enabled against at least one Player.

If a Player is set to be included in Proof of Play, then when items are scheduled to that Player, if those items are set to be included in Proof of Play, the Player will log the requested data.

Whether the items are included is calculated using a hierarchy of the scheduled items.

To keep data transfer between Players and Signagelive low only the minimum of data is sent to and from the Players.

Players upload their Proof of Play Logs at set intervals, this is defined against the Network. It will be set by default to be every 24 hours.

There is also a maximum file size and minimum disk space setting for each Player Type, if either of these are reached, then the Proof of Play Log is uploaded straight away. These are checked every time an impression is logged.

As an example of file size, if a Player is logging impressions every 10 seconds for 24 hours, the CSV file size is roughly 800KB’s.

An ‘Impression’ is every time a particular Asset, Playlist, or Layout plays on a Player. Proof of Play will report each Impression any of those things make across all enabled Players. So, if you enable PoP on 3 Players, enabling PoP on 2 Playlists each with 2 pieces of content and those Playlists play twice a day, you would see 12 impressions made per day within your PoP report.

You can apply references to your media and to your Players when you enable PoP on any of those things, which when viewing the reports from the Proof of Play application, will allow you to view or breakdown your reports by these references. These can then be used to report on any particular advertising campaign or period you wish to show the PoP data for.

In order to report when a piece of media (an Asset) is played, you will first need to have enabled Proof of Play on the Player that you wish to show this ‘Impression’ on. To do this, follow these steps:

You can. You can select Proof of Play within the Global Network Settings, which will then enable the feature across all Players activated on your Signagelive Network.

To do this, follow these steps:

Congratulations! You have now enabled one, multiple or all Players to report Proof of Play data. The next step is to tell them which content to report this data against.

If you wish to report every time an asset plays, regardless of whether that is within a Playlist, a Layout or a Custom RSS feed, you should activate Proof of Play on the Media Asset itself. Follow the steps below to enable this:

This will now report each time this particular asset plays on any of the Players that you have enabled Proof of Play upon. Each time this Asset plays upon any of the enabled Players, it makes an ‘Impression’ and this is shown within the Proof of Play Application and reports.

By enabling Pop on any Playlist Media Asset (or PMA) it will then report each impression made by that single Asset each time the Playlist plays on any PoP enabled Player. You would not then need to also enable PoP on your Playlist or Layout etc if you wish to see just PoP reporting on this particular instance of the Asset playing.

To enable PoP on a Playlist Media Asset, follow these simple steps:

This will enable Pop against the individual Asset within this Playlist. It will only report the impressions made by the Asset each time it plays within this particular Playlist on a PoP enabled Player. If you wish to report every instance an Asset is played generally, you should enable PoP on the Asset before being placed within a Playlist.

You can also enable Proof of Play to repost the impressions made by the Assets within a Playlist. This will report each time a Playlist Media Asset (each piece of media within a Playlist) plays on any Player.

To enable Proof of Play against a Playlist, follow the steps below:

As suggested, this will now report every Impression made within the Playlist. It will not report each time the Playlist itself plays, but each time every Asset within the Playlist plays on any Player with Proof of Play enabled.

If you wish to enable Proof of Play reporting for any content shown within your published Layouts, you should follow the steps below:

Proof of Play will now log each impression made by any content that plays as part of this Layout whilst published.

Not only can you enable PoP for an entire Layout, but you can also enable it to report the overall impressions made by any content within a certain ‘Zone’ of your Layout.

This could be a Static Zone, or a Schedulable Zone, whichever you choose, you should follow the steps below to enable PoP for one of your Layout zones: