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You already use a lot of tools to schedule your work in advance. You plan events and marketing campaigns months ahead of time so you can thoughtfully put all the details in place. Digital signage is one of those important details—scheduling your content playlists to start and stop at specific times will ensure that your audience is getting the information they need exactly when it’s relevant to them. No earlier and no later.

Consistently relevant content goes a long way toward ensuring that your audience will interact with it. If they know the sales you list are actually current, they’re more likely to shop according to your marketing direction.

If viewers are confident that the schedule of events you’re displaying is for this weekend and not last month, you’re probably going to attract more attendees. If your audience is aware of changes or disruptions to service well ahead of time, they can plan around them accordingly and keep their days operating smoothly.

Let’s start by actually getting your content into Fugo so you have playlists to work with. Whether you need to show your audience a dashboard, a carousel of your own uploaded media, or an interactive application, Fugo can easily display content from a wide variety of sources on a wide variety of devices.

1. Log in to your Fugo account at fugo.ai/app/, click the Playlists tab at the top of the screen, and click Create Playlist.

This will open the Playlist builder.

2. Click Select Screens to ensure that your content will display where you want it to.

3. Choose your desired screen or screen group from the devices you’ve already paired to your Fugo account, then click Select.

Now let’s add some content.

4. At the top of the Playlist builder, give your playlist a name. How about Autumn Campfire Season?

5. Scroll down to the Content section and click Select Content.

In the Content selector pop-up , you can choose from a variety of Apps supplied by Fugo, Media you’ve uploaded, or even create your own Studio Content.

In this case, let’s create some Studio content.

6. Click Create in Studio. This will launch a new canvas in our Design Studio, which is where I'll craft my content. For this tutorial, let’s make a quick announcement about upcoming seasonal rentals.

7. Templates are a great place to start if you've never created any content in Fugo. To choose one, click Templates in the left hand settings panel. I've chosen our "Hello Autumn" template.

Click on any element on the canvas to start editing it - you'll find all the tools & settings you need in the top & left-hand tool bars.

8. Click Save & Close when you’re satisfied with your design. Back in Fugo’s Playlist builder, our seasonal slide is now available as a Content item.

⚡️ If the gear icon next to your content on the Playlist page is orange, no problem! You just need to configure a few details to make the content work for your project. Click the orange gear icon to configure your content.

You could just publish the playlist now, but in this case, you only want it to play for a certain window of time.

1. Scroll down to the Schedule section.

2. Deselect No End Date (selected by default), ensure the dropdown menu is set to On a set date range, and then fill in the Start Date and End Date fields.

Want your content to only display during certain times during your selected date range? Can do!

3. Select Week Schedule. At the bottom of the weekly calendar that appears, click Show entire day…; otherwise the calendar will display hourly windows from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

4. Let’s make sure our prospective campfire renters can see the rental details from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Click the cell for 8 AM, hold, and drag down to 7 PM. You can also drag across the calendar to include consecutive days.

5. When you have your date range and weekly schedule set to your satisfaction, click Publish.

Congrats! Your content is scheduled and ready to publish on time.

If you’d like to see a demo of Fugo’s capabilities, you can book one with us any time. Or if you have more specific questions, reach out to our support team at support@fugo.ai, or via the chat in Fugo’s CMS.

Cheers to keeping your audience informed with timely, relevant content!