Ad Cycle
The Ad Cycle feature lets you schedule ads in playlists with hourly or daily cycles, set specific showings, and use filler slides to fill unused time, perfect for ad sellers and content managers.
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The Ad Cycle feature simplifies managing ads in your playlists by letting you decide how often each ad plays within a set time, like an hour or a day. Instead of just setting how long an ad lasts, you can choose how many times it shows up (e.g., 20 times per hour for 20 seconds each). To keep your screen active all the time, you can add filler slides—regular content like messages or images—that fill the gaps when ads aren’t playing.
Example:- Ad A: 30 seconds, shown 40 times = 20 minutes
- Ad B: 10 seconds, shown 30 times = 5 minutes
- Ad C: 15 seconds, shown 60 times = 15 minutes
Total ad time: 40 minutes per hour. The remaining 20 minutes will show your filler slides.
This means your ads play exactly as planned, filler slides keep the screen engaging, and everything runs smoothly on its own, hour after hour or day after day!
Add an Ad Cycle Playlist
- Go to Playlists
- Click Create Playlist
- Give the playlist a name
- Choose the correct aspect ratio
- Click Advanced
- Toggle ON Ad Cycle
- Choose between hourly or daily cycles
- Click Create
Hourly Cycle Frequency means showing the add's are based on hours of the day, also meaning, if you sell 20 showings to a customer, it's 20 showings per hour. Daily Cycle Frequency naturally means everything is based on days and not hours.
Adding ads to an Ad Cycle playlist
- Go to Playlists
- Find and open the Ad Cycle playlist
- Click New Slide, Clone Slide or From Template
- Edit the slide or add an ad from your library
- Click the pencil icon on the slide
- Set the duration
- Set the cycle count
- Click Save
When you add ads (Aka slides) pay attention to the grey bar above the slide overview, here you see the total duration of the playlist without filler slides. If the duration is 1 minute viewers will see your filler slides for 59 minutes in a hour, and if your duration is 59 minutes, they will only see 1 minute of filler slides.
Options when creating an Ad Cycle playlist;
- Ad Cycle - Toggle the Ad Cycle feature on or off.
- Cycle Frequency - Choose either hourly or daily cycles; if you choose hourly, the cycle will be 1 hour.
Options in playlist;
- Total duration - The total time occupied in the playlist by ads.
- Cycle Count - This is how many showings this ad (Slide) has in a cycle. Set this to 10; it will be showing 10 times per hour if the cycle is set to hourly.
- Filler Slide - Toggle this on to mark a slide as a filler slide. A filler slide will be shown between ad showings.
I am getting an error: Your Ad Cycle playlist exceeds the time limit
Check the total duration on the bar between the canvas and your slide overview. Here, you see the total duration of all your ads. If you have chosen an hourly cycle, the duration should not exceed 60 minutes.
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