National Media Delivery offers a variety of services to marketing agencies and advertisers in the print and broadcast media arenas. Our focus is providing a dedicated team committed to saving you the most time possible at a price point below any of our competitors. Our mission is integrate seamlessly with your company, providing an external dedicated team which will provide unparalleled service in the trafficking and distribution segment of the marketing industry.
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NMD delivers files according to each station or cable network’s preference.
- Downloads - For stations that prefer to download their spots, we provide a custom download link for their specific spots, eliminating incorrect file download errors.
- Web Portals - If a station has a portal for uploading spots we deliver them there, dropping them directly into the correct location in their system.
- FTP - If they prefer an FTP upload, the spots are delivered to the station’s FTP site, directly into the folder specified by the station.
In summation: We customize spot delivery to meet the needs of each individual station, not the way that is most convenient for us.
- Your NMD team inputs all traffic orders for you, ensuring each market and station receive the correct instructions and assets.
- Our system confirms that each station receives their individual spots in the correct language for their broadcast.
- Traffic sheets are available online in both XLS (if provided) and PDF format for your later reference, download, review or printing. NMD will also, edit the sheets, send them to the stations, and provide you a copy of the revision.
- Traffic instructions, station lists and confirmations are all available to you at your convenience through the Client Portal providing a real-time record on-line or to the email of your choice as preferred.
On time, accurate delivery of spots is critical, but actual confirmations from each station verifying your assets will be on air is the most important aspect of any delivery. At NMD we remove this burden of this from you and your coordinator, freeing you for more important (revenue generating) tasks.
- Confirmations are accepted via email or fax as each station prefers
- All confirmations are available online for later review at your convenience
- Second and third requests are sent as needed, and followed with phone calls, to ensure confirmation by all stations whenever possible
- Expedited confirmations are available on specific runs as required
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- NMD can take your base create and create customized versions to the required specification of your various vendors.
- Our multi-step process consolidates the information from your agency and pairs it with your buys to ensure all necessary versions are available.
- By acting as the hub for communication, you have a single source your vendors and your team can contact for up to date information at every step of the process.
You have your versions, but now you need to get them all to the correct vendors right away in order to get the drop on time.
- NMD will compare all buy information with the original data and version list to ensure every piece is correct (and extra QC never hurts)
- We will send the versions with the correct buy orders attached to each vendor and verify receipt by deadline.
- When the vendors prepare the RTPs, we will cross-check them for accuracy and provide them to you for a final review prior to approving.
- As with all our services, we will handle the day-to-day communications so you and your team have a single source to contact for any updates.
Industry standard mandates that files are transcoded to the appropriate format for each station and error checked. NMD goes beyond this standard in many ways:
- Asset information is loaded into the portal from your CNL (Creative Needs List). This includes all information we receive: advertiser, Ad ID, length of ad, price point, offers, language, production company, and even production notes.
- All spots are reviewed by a real live person (not a computer program), who compares the information from the CNL to the slate on the spot itself for accuracy, as well as verifying that the language and offers (text and audio) in the spot all match with the CNL.
- Finally, each spot is watched by a team member to determine that there are no “glitches” (pixelated video, sound out of sync, etc.). This is in addition to the standard quality control points run by standard software programs.
National Media Delivery’s Client Portal has been designed with an intuitive, user friendly interface. MP4 or MP3 previews of all spots are accessible by you as needed. This portal is in constant development and is your asset. If there is anything you would like, let us know and we will do our best to integrate it!
Your library of spots is always available to you, and is searchable by:
- Ad ID
- Advertiser
- Market
- Air Date
- Radio/TV
- Title
- Price Point
- Language
- Offer
- All assets are archived for the duration of your relationship with NMD
- Large preview MP4 files are available online from the time an asset is received by NMD
- Additional assets from runs prior to our relationship can be uploaded to provide you with a centralized storage library
Sometimes small edits are required for specific markets or media outlets (YouTube, mobile, etc). This can require custom conversions or addition of information to an asset prior to it being delivered. Returning to the production house can be not only time consuming but often expensive for these small but necessary edits.
We do not consider the formatting for station requirements an edit, this is part of our service, but custom edit and conversions we can and do provide. .
EDITING SERVICES OFFERED
- Audio Conversion
- Video Conversion
- Piggybacking (with or without slate)
- Crawls
- Text on Screen (Stills)
- Slate/Title Insert
After our agency secured a new media and traffic delivery client last fall, we selected National Media Delivery upon high recommendation from another agency. Having worked with them for the past 16 months has been a great experience all around. Amidst constant retail traffic scope changes, they have flawlessly delivered spots and traffic for our large National client - providing nationwide regional delivery, digital conversions, and excellent follow up on station confirmations. Processes are extremely organized. No details have been missed no matter how minor. They are highly responsive and always go above and beyond contractual obligations. They make our agency feel like we are their only client, even though we know we are not. I highly recommend all of National Media Delivery’s services and greatly appreciate and value our ongoing partnership.
I used National Media Delivery with a pizza client that had multiple markets with multiple promotional offers and NMD always came through getting us on air. I was extremely pleased with their service and happy to recommend them!
I have worked with NMD through two agencies and many clients. I love having a dedicated team to contact for delivery needs. I have contact with my team at all times via email, phone or text so I always have answers to urgent questions within minutes. Being able to reach them at night and on the weekends when the need arises ensures that my national QSR client's needs are always met in a timely manner. NMD's team gives me peace of mind, knowing that all details are handled, leaving me able to focus on other priorities for my clients.