Show settings & bulk actions – Springcast Pro

Show settings define what new episodes get by default; the Shows page bulk actions are how you apply those same defaults (or remove them) across your existing back-catalogue.

These two surfaces work as a pair. Settings is the template; the Shows page is where you apply it. Operators spend most of their time here once Dynamic Content is set up.

Show settings - per-show defaults

Found under Dynamic Content → Show settings → [your show]. Each show has its own settings page; nothing here is shared across shows.

You configure three blocks: pre-roll, post-roll, and mid-roll defaults.

Default pre-roll / post-roll

A toggle plus the fields it controls:

Default pre-roll (toggle) - turn on to auto-spawn a pre-roll marker on every new episode of this show.
Default name - optional label that shows in the marker's tooltip on the Shows page.
Default tags - the tags the marker will carry. Sorted by priority (highest first) in the picker so you can see the waterfall order at a glance. See Tags & the waterfall.
Default asset (override) - pin a specific asset to the marker, skipping campaign matching. Useful for house ads. See Easy mode.

Post-roll works identically with its own toggle and fields.

Important: these defaults only fire when an episode is created. Toggling default pre-roll off does not retroactively remove pre-rolls from existing episodes - it just stops new episodes from getting one. Use the Shows page bulk actions (below) to clean up existing episodes.

Mid-roll defaults

Mid-rolls need per-episode timestamps (a mid-roll marker says "play at 4:32"), so a show-wide "always-on" mid-roll isn't meaningful. Instead, mid-roll defaults are a template the bulk action on the Shows page can write onto markers that already exist.

You configure slots:

Slot 1 - name, default asset, default tags.
Slot 2 - same shape.
Slot 3, 4, ... - add as many as you typically use.

A slot doesn't have a timestamp; it just defines "what should fill the Nth mid-roll on each episode".

When you run Apply mid-roll defaults on the Shows page, Springcast goes through each selected episode, sorts its existing mid-roll markers by timestamp (ascending), and writes slot 1's contents to the first marker, slot 2's to the second, and so on. Markers beyond your configured slots are left alone. Slots beyond the marker count on a given episode are silently skipped.

Min mid-roll spacing (also configured here) - the minimum number of seconds between two mid-roll markers on the same episode. Used by the marker editor to flag operator mistakes ("you placed two mids 12 seconds apart - is that intentional?").

The Shows page - bulk actions

Found under Dynamic Content → Shows → [your show]. Sorted most-recent published first.

Each episode row shows:

Episode name and publication date.
Marker counts (e.g. "3 markers - 1 pre, 2 mid").
Source audio status (uploaded yes/no).
Assembled-with-DC status (whether DC has produced a stitched mp3 for this episode).
Pending status (is an assembly job queued for it).
Per-row actions: open episode, regenerate (manually re-trigger assembly).

The selection bar

Tick the checkboxes on the rows you want to act on. The bulk action bar appears at the top of the table:

[6] selected - count chip.
Clear - clear the selection.
Reset all episodes - the destructive bulk action (see below).
Three cards - one each for Pre-roll, Mid-roll, Post-roll.

If you want to act on every episode in the show, tick the header checkbox to "select all on this page" then click the "select all N episodes in this show" upsell that appears.

The three position cards

Each card has the same shape: a small icon, a one-line description, and two action buttons.

Pre-roll card

Apply - writes the Show settings default pre-roll onto each selected episode. Overwrites if a pre-roll marker already exists. Disabled if Show settings has no default pre-roll configured (with a tooltip telling you to configure it first).
Remove - deletes the pre-roll marker entirely from each selected episode.

Mid-roll card

Apply - runs "Apply mid-roll defaults" (the template-to-existing-markers operation described above).
Remove - clears the contents of every mid-roll marker on each selected episode (nulls the asset, name, and tags), but keeps the marker itself in place so the timing survives. This is intentional: timestamps are usually the expensive part to recreate. If you genuinely want to delete a mid-roll marker, open the episode and do it from the Markers tab.

Post-roll card

Apply / Remove - same as pre-roll, applied to post-roll.

Reset all episodes

The "Reset all episodes" button strips the selected episodes back to a near-blank-slate DC state:

Pre-roll markers - deleted entirely.
Post-roll markers - deleted entirely.
Mid-roll markers - kept in place with their timestamps, but contents (asset, name, tags) cleared.

A confirmation modal asks you to confirm before running. Useful when you've been experimenting on a handful of episodes and want a clean slate before configuring them properly.

What happens after a bulk action

Selected episodes are marked dirty for re-assembly.
The scheduler picks them up within ~5 minutes and queues assembly jobs.
The Job log surfaces what's queued and what's running.
Once assembled, the new audio rolls out to listeners on their next download.

Episodes that get skipped

Some episodes can't be safely bulk-edited at a given moment:

Episodes with an in-flight assembly job are skipped (a job that's already queued or processing can't have its inputs changed mid-flight). The flash message tells you how many were skipped this way; they'll be available for bulk-editing again as soon as the job completes.
Episodes with no source audio uploaded yet can have their markers changed, but nothing will assemble - the episode needs source audio first.

You sign a sponsor for the rest of the year. They get the pre-roll slot on every episode of "In de wandelgangen", including back-catalogue.

Upload the sponsor's audio under Assets.
Create a campaign in Campaigns with the sponsor as the advertiser, the audio as the creative, tag = Premium (or whatever tier they bought), shows = ["In de wandelgangen"], window dates set.
Verify the show's pre-roll markers carry the Premium tag - go to Show settings → In de wandelgangen → Pre-roll and confirm the default tags include Premium. If yes, future episodes are covered.
For the back-catalogue: go to Shows → In de wandelgangen, tick all the episodes, click Apply on the Pre-roll card. Confirmation flash tells you how many got updated.
Within ~5 minutes the assembly pipeline drains; listeners get the sponsor's audio on their next download of any of those episodes.

Common questions

"My Apply button is greyed out" - the position isn't configured in Show settings yet. The tooltip on the button tells you exactly where to go.
"I clicked Remove but the bar still says 'selected'" - the selection is cleared after the action, but the action bar may flash briefly during the request. Wait for the page to settle; the new state will reflect on next render.
"I want to delete all mid-roll markers, not just clear them" - the bulk action deliberately doesn't do this. Open the affected episodes individually and remove the markers from the Markers tab.
"Will the bulk actions overwrite manually-set markers?" - Apply overwrites the targeted position with the show defaults (you'll lose any custom values you'd manually set). Remove deletes the markers. Reset clears mid-roll contents (preserving timing) and deletes pre/post markers. None of them touch markers in other positions.

Tags & the waterfall - what the default tags mean.
Easy mode - direct-insertion via show defaults or per-marker override.
Assets - the library the default asset is picked from.
Publishing changes - what happens after the bulk action triggers re-assembly.