Export near-live proof-of-play data from Broadsign Control to an external analytics system via the Real-Time POP API
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Steps
In Broadsign Control Administrator, create a Configuration and a Player Configuration Profile for the target players
Open the profile's Integrations > POP tab, enable External POP reporting, and set the External URL that will receive HTTP POST data
Configure reporting cadence — immediate per-playback submission, or buffered every X seconds (1-65535s, with ~10% jitter) — plus Max POPs per request (default 1000)
Optionally set an API Key, sent as both a Broadsign-Api-Key header and the payload's api_key field on every POST
Implement the external endpoint to accept a JSON body containing player_id and an array of pop records (display_unit_id, frame_id, ad_copy_id, campaign_id, schedule_id, impressions, end_time, duration), returning a 2xx status to acknowledge
Optionally enable verbose mode to receive pop records as dictionaries instead of positional arrays for easier downstream parsing
Known gotchas
Real-Time POP submits to a different URL than the main Broadsign Server, so POP can keep flowing normally into Broadsign's own database while an external endpoint silently stops receiving data, with no error surfaced on the server side
Non-2xx responses cause a retry and log an External Incident, but External Incidents are hidden by default in the incident report UI unless 'Show External Incidents' is explicitly enabled
Failed/undelivered records are retried for about 30 days or up to 300,000 buffered records per player before being dropped, so a long external outage can silently lose data once that cap is hit
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