Carousel Cloud now offers Express Players. Unlike media players, Express players are licensed in bulk so they can deliver your content to entire school districts, college student bodies, multinational corporations etc. using devices that you already have. 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, and embedded on your Website. An Express Player configuration can be viewed on tablets, used as macOS Screen Savers, or Embedded on your website. Express players support most Carousel Cloud features with the following exceptions:
Uploaded Video is not supported and will be skipped
Live Streaming Bulletins are not supported and will be skipped
Interactive bulletins are not supported and will be skipped
Web bulletins will display as snapshots as opposed to a live site.
Please note that Express players are an add on feature that may not be included with your subscription. Please contact your Customer Success Manager for more information.
Creating an Express Player
Log into your Carousel Account using an account with the correct privileges, then navigate to Configure > Players > Express Players. From there you will select the option to Create a New Express Player.
Simply name your Express Player and select the channel it will display when used on an endpoint and select Submit.
Now that you have created your Express Player Configuration, you are ready to share it across your organization to keep everyone feeling welcomed, informed, and connected! Select one of the links below to get started using your express player.
What constitutes a “Unique Endpoint”?
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.
Upon the initial use of an Express player, Carousel Cloud generates a unique token which is kept in local storage on the device connecting to the Express Player. Each unique device/token used will count as one endpoint license in Carousel no matter how many times that device actually loads the Express player*. Express Players do not use cookies or store token info in the main browser cache so deleting those items will not destroy your token.
*Should you forcibly clear your devices local storage, the token will need to be regenerated and will count as a new endpoint. If using multiple different web browsers on the same device, each will count as one endpoint.
Using Your Express Players
Express Player for macOS Screen Saver