Free tool

wTRP → budget calculator

Turn a duration-weighted TRP target into a TV budget — or a budget back into the ratings it buys. CPP, seasonal index and a discount ladder that multiplies, because that is how sellers count it.

Inputs

Duration-weighted TRP for the flight (30″ base).
The rate-card price of one rating point at 30 seconds.
e.g. 0.85 in summer, 1.25 in November.
First ladder step (agency / volume).
Second step — multiplies, never adds.
Optional third step.

Result

Budget for 500 wTRP

This is the simplified model: one CPP, one seasonal index, a fixed ladder. The full mechanics — per-channel rate cards, prime/off-prime money shares, duration mixes and budget-dependent discount tiers resolved by iteration — run inside TV Budgeting, with measured <0.01% deviation from the reference model — how that deviation is measured is written out in the methodology.

Methodology·How the numbers are verified

How this is calculated

The arithmetic behind the product, explained step by step.

The terms behind it

When the ladder starts moving the tier

The moment the discount depends on the budget it changes, a calculator is not enough — the boundary needs an iteration rule. That is exactly what the TV Budgeting core does, in both directions; what the flight then actually delivered against that budget is read from the Nielsen feed in TV Planner.

Product·Delivery on Nielsen data