Playlist Overview

Where to find it: Content → Playlists

A playlist is an ordered sequence of media that a device plays on a continuous loop. It’s the main way content reaches your screens. Playlists belong to a company and are managed from the Playlists page.

A playlist can hold images, videos, web-based content, and even Canvas designs, played one after another in the order you arrange them. Each playlist has a total running time, which the system recalculates automatically whenever you add, remove, or change items.

Before You Begin

Before creating or editing playlists:

• Make sure you have permission to manage content.

• Upload any media you plan to use, or have it ready on your computer.

• Know which devices the playlist is for, since some settings depend on screen orientation and size.

The Playlists List

The Playlists page lists every playlist you can access. Each row shows its name, total duration, owning company, and whether it contains ad-network content. Clicking a name opens the playlist’s editor.

Each playlist has a menu of actions, which vary depending on its state:

Note A locked playlist is read-only. It can’t be edited, copied, or deleted, and those actions don’t appear in its menu. See Versioning and Locking.

How Playlists Connect to the Rest of the Dashboard

• Devices play one or more playlists. Saving with Save & Update tells every affected device to refresh its content.

• Media library, each playlist item comes from an uploaded file. Removing a file from the media library also removes it from every playlist that used it.

• Canvas designs can be added to a playlist as items, sitting alongside images and videos.