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Set the rate card details first, then add line items and premium adjustments.

Rate Card ID: Auto-generated on save

Add a line item with base rate and inventory details. Pick the rate card it attaches to, then set the advertiser scope, base offering, and base rate.

Add a new line item or find an existing one to update. Set the rate card, advertiser scope, offering, and base rate.

Line item: New

Add a line item with base rate and inventory details. Pick the rate card it attaches to, then set the advertiser scope, base offering, and base rate.

Add a premium row by choosing a premium category, attaching it to rate card rows, and defining calculation details and conditions.

Add a new premium adjustment or find an existing one to update. Attach it to rate card rows, then set the category, calculation method, value, and conditions.

Premium adjustment: New premium adjustment

Add a premium row by choosing a premium category, attaching it to rate card rows, and defining calculation details and conditions.

Leave blank to inherit the rate card start date.

Leave blank to inherit the rate card end date.

Ad Platforms, Product and Technology

Rate Card Manager

Frances Sun

Sept 2026

A Rate Card tells us the right price for each deal.

It connects the buyer, the deal, the product, and anything that changes the price.

Buyer

Who is buying?

Deal

Which deal applies?

Product

What are they buying?

Price Change

What changes the price?

Right Price

Think of Disney Advertising as a supermarket

Ad Inventory is the shelf space, and Offerings are the products planners can select.

Store

Disney Advertising

Shelf space

Ad Inventory

Product

Ad Offerings

Buyers can purchase through different deal types

The deal type helps determine which Rate Card applies.

Upfront

Reserve Early

Agreed as an advance commitment

Scatter

Purchase Later

Outside the earlier commitment

Same product. Different applicable rate.

The price depends on the buyer and the deal, not only on the product.

A single ad, drawn as one pumpkin

Ad

A full shelf of pumpkins, every placement taken

$20 CPM

FY27 Upfront

Reserved placement

$28 CPM

Scatter

Available placement

*Rates shown are illustrative.

Each line item is priced as the media plan is built.

Core Planning uses ICM and TOM context. RCM returns the rate, and planning continues.

Ad

Buyer Context

$20 CPM

ICM

Provides offering context

TOM

Provides targeting context

RCM

Returns the rate

Core Planning line item showing the applicable rate, 20 dollars CPM

Core Planning

Rate applied to Line Item

Continue with the next line item

RCM organizes pricing into three connected sections

Together, they determine the applicable rate used in planning.

Rate Card
Details

Who is buying, and under which deal?

Buyer / Marketplace / Deal / Timing

Line Items

What are they buying, and at what starting rate?

Offering / Base Rate

Premiums

Does anything change the price?

Condition / Adjustment

Right Price

The price used in planning

Why Pricing Gets Complicated Before Planning

An applicable rate depends on connected negotiation context, base-rate data, and recognized pricing conditions.

RCM

Manages structured rate-card data.

Core Planning

Uses applicable pricing in planning.

Why do line items need to be in the Rate Card?

Because every price must be tied to a specific sellable item.

Rate Card

Line Item

Consistent Pricing

Provides the pricing framework

Defines what is sold and its base rate

Applies the right rate to the right item

Without line items, there is no reliable way to connect Rate Card rules to what is actually being sold.

Turning Rate Cards into Structured Pricing Data

Existing rate-card workbooks are imported into a consistent structure for pricing and future Planning workflows.

Current rate card in a human-authored Excel workbook.
The rate card organized into consistent structured rows.

Existing Rate Card Workbook

Structured RCM Data

Importand structure

Future Rate Card Workflow

Move from disconnected spreadsheets to structured rate-card data that supports automated pricing.

Upload or Create

Import complex rate cards or create simpler ones manually.

Manage Rate-Card Data

Review Rate Card Details, Line Items, and Premiums.

Use in Pricing Workflows

Return the correct base rate and apply recognized premiums.

Pricing decisions change as the deal changes

Users need to revisit connected pricing sections without starting over.

Step Wizard

Assumes each decision is made once.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Connected sections

Details, line items, and premiums can be updated anytime.

Rate Card
Details

Line Items

Premiums

How Rate Cards Will Support Core Planning

RCM manages negotiated rate-card data. Core Planning will use applicable rates in future planning workflows.

RCM

Manage rate-card data

Shared negotiation context
Negotiated base rate
Conditional adjustments

Core Planning

Use applicable pricing

Matches CARD
Comes from LINE
Comes from PREM

RCM manages the rate-card data.
Core Planning will use the applicable rate.