Help · Step by step

Guides

Step-by-step help for everything in Commercial Cue: connecting Google Drive and OBS, running breaks, building campaigns and pods, and showing sponsors what aired.

Getting started

What Commercial Cue does and what you needHow a break works from start to finish, and the four things you need before your first show.Sign in and set up your workspaceContinue with Google, name your workspace, and understand who the admin is.A tour of Commercial CueEvery page in the sidebar and what it's for, in one place.GlossaryPlain definitions of the words you'll see across Commercial Cue.

Set up

Connect Google DriveGive Commercial Cue read-only access to the Drive that holds your spots.Map your break folders and rescanOne Drive folder per spot length, and when to press Rescan Drive.Prepare your spot filesExport MP4s, match each spot to its folder's length, and name files so the advertiser is clear.Connect OBSTurn on OBS's WebSocket server and connect from the same computer.Create the scenes and media sourceOne click adds the two scenes and the media source breaks need. Then put your show in LIVE.Add the Commercial Cue dock to OBSPut the break buttons inside OBS as a Custom Browser Dock.Choose a slate and how long it holdsThe video that fills gaps and covers emergencies, and how long it may stay on air.Fix OBS connection problemsEach connection message, what it means, and what to do.