Unlike dedicated players, express players are licensed in bulk so they can deliver your content efficiently to entire school districts, college student bodies, or multinational corporations using devices that you likely already have in your inventory.
Express players give you the ability to reach your Carousel Cloud audience regardless of their physical location on a variety of commonly used devices, such as:
Tablets
Screen Savers
Other Android-based devices
Most web-based devices
Directly embedded on your website
Please Note:
Express players are an add-on feature that may not be included with your subscription. Please contact your Customer Success Manager for more information.
Additional information regarding express player behavior and comparison to a typical dedicated player in Carousel Cloud is posted in this article
Create an Express Player Feed
Log in to Carousel Cloud
Click on the gear in the upper-right corner
Click on Configure
Select Players
Choose Express Player Feeds
Click on Create a New Express Player Feed
Create a name for the Express Player Feed
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Choose a Carousel Cloud channel to display on the Express Player Feed
As shown below, a preview of the Express Player Feed will be ‘playable’ from the generated preview after selecting the Carousel Cloud channel you want to display
You are now ready to share this one Express Player Feed on as many devices as you want to!
Create an Express Player
Using the How to Share button, as shown below, you can now create express players that will display your newly created Express Player Feed
Additional Express Player Setup Directions
Express Player Setup for Tablets
Express Player Setup for Windows Screen Saver
Express Player Setup for Web Devices and Websites
There are additional setup guides on this support page for other supported Carousel Cloud devices that can be used as express players
What constitutes a Unique Endpoint?
As shown below, you can view the number of configured express players, the monthly count of unique endpoints, and a breakdown of the types of express players in use within the Carousel Player Dashboard
When setting up an express player Carousel Cloud generates a unique token, which is saved in the device’s local storage. Each unique device (and its associated token) will count as one endpoint license in Carousel, no matter how many times that device actually loads the Express player. If using multiple different web browsers on the same device, each browser activated as an express player will count as one endpoint.
Express players do not use cookies or store token info in the main web browser cache, so deleting your main web browser cache will not destroy your express player token.
However, if you forcibly clear your device's local storage, the token will need to be regenerated and will count as a new endpoint.