Homepage & banners #

Your channel homepage is the first thing fans see when they arrive. You shape it in two places under Fan centre in the sidebar: Manage your page for the rows of content, and Banners for the rotating carousel at the top.

Homepage layout #

Your homepage is built from sections stacked down the page. You decide which playlists and collections appear, and in what order.

How the page is stacked #

In the Homepage manager, two blocks are fixed at the top and cannot be moved:

1. Header
2. Upcoming live

Your own sections follow, in the order you drag them into.

Adding and arranging sections #

Each section shows a playlist or a collection from your on-demand library. Adding one to the homepage does not move or copy the content.

1. Open the Homepage manager

   In the sidebar, go to Fan centre > Manage your page. The page that opens is titled Homepage manager.

2. Add a section

   Select Add new section. Under "Available sections", choose Playlist (an individual playlist) or Collection (a collection with several playlists inside), then pick the one you want to feature. Archived playlists and collections are left out of the list, and hidden ones are tagged Hidden.

3. Drag to reorder

   Drag your sections up or down to set their order below the Header and Upcoming live blocks.

4. Edit or delete

   Each section has an eye icon, Edit and Delete. Deleting asks "Remove section from homepage?" before it goes.

A section tagged Hidden or Archived is not shown to fans. The eye icon hides or shows the playlist or collection itself, so the change applies everywhere it appears. To bring back an archived one, restore it on the Playlists or Collections page (see On Demand).

Banners #

Banners play as a rotating carousel at the top of your homepage. Use them to push the next big match or a piece of content you want every fan to see.

Creating a banner #

There is no create button on the Banners page. You create a banner from the content it promotes:

• A live stream: on the stream's Promotion step, switch on "Promote stream with banner". For a stream that already exists, use Promote in its row menu on the Live Streams page.
• An on-demand item: from the item's details in your media library.

The banner form has:

Banner Image image

The banner picture, which you can crop when you upload it. Keep important detail near the centre.

Select stream information to display on banner checkboxes

Choose what to show on top of the image: Title, Stream start date and time, Countdown timer, Fixture date and time, Team and league, Description.

Availability dates

On-demand banners only: "Set a date range for your banner to be visible." with From date, From time, To date and To time.

The form's buttons are Remove, Cancel and Save.

When a banner shows #

A banner has no active or inactive switch. When it shows depends on what it promotes:

• Live stream banner: no date fields. It shows while the stream is upcoming or live and visible to fans. It stops when the stream ends or you hide the stream.
• On-demand banner: it shows during its Availability window and while the item is visible to fans. Set the To date and time to end it.

To take a banner down for good, open it and select Remove, which deletes the banner.

Ordering banners #

Open Fan centre > Banners to see all your banners in one drag-and-drop list. Current banners are listed before upcoming ones. Drag banners to reorder them; the first in the list shows first as the carousel rotates.

Best practices #