About
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!
Get Started
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
With an hourly cycle frequency, showings are counted per hour: if you sell 20 showings to a customer, the ad plays 20 times every hour. With a daily cycle frequency, everything is counted per day instead.
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 (slides), keep an eye on the grey bar above the slide overview. It shows the total duration of the playlist without filler slides. With an hourly cycle, if the duration is 1 minute, viewers see your filler slides for 59 minutes an hour; if the duration is 59 minutes, they see only 1 minute of filler slides.
Options
Options when creating an Ad Cycle playlist:
Ad Cycle
Toggle the Ad Cycle feature on or off.
Cycle Frequency
Choose hourly or daily cycles. If you choose hourly, each cycle is 1 hour.
Options in the playlist:
Total duration
The total time occupied in the playlist by ads.
Cycle Count
How many times this ad (slide) is shown per cycle. If you set it to 10 and the cycle is hourly, the ad is shown 10 times per hour.
Filler Slide
Toggle this on to mark a slide as a filler slide. A filler slide will be shown between ad showings.
FAQ
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.
