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Why does it take time for my content to appear on screen after publishing?
Why does it take time for my content to appear on screen after publishing?
Ian Maison avatar
Written by Ian Maison
Updated over 9 months ago

Immediately after being published in Signagelive, your content (along with any configuration like validity or conditional tagging) needs to undergo back-end checks and processes before it can be sent to your player/s for them to process the update and ultimately show the content on screen.

The overall time taken for content to appear on your screens depends on a few key factors:

  • The type of content you are publishing - some content takes longer to process, e.g. widgets.

  • The number of players you are publishing content to - the higher the number the more verification is required, e.g. does each player support the type of content being published.

  • Whether you're updating existing content (content already published) or publishing brand new content

  • The overall publication requests being processed at any given time across all customer networks globally

  • The content check frequency set on your player/s

  • The local network performance in which the player/s reside

What this all means is that it will take a bit of time for your content to be checked, verified and delivered to your players. After which time a player would need to check-in to Signagelive to pick up this request and subsequently begin processing it; typically this means purging and/or downloading content. Once complete you can expect the updated content to appear on screen.

For more detail on this topic please refer to this article.

Please Note

  • The speed at which your players download content depends on the local network in which they reside.

  • If you're experiencing a prolonged delay with content appearing on screen (20-30 minutes plus), it's worth checking the network queues. Please refer to this article for more information on this.

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