---
title: "Digital Signage Channels"
description: "Discover how to create, manage, and optimize playlists for your digital signage channels. Step-by-step guides to enhance your content delivery!"
url: https://easysignage.com/help/playlists/digital-signage-channels/
---

# 9 - Channels

A Channel is a collection of playlists thats allows you to group and reuse multiple playlists to create a single content stream for your digital signage screens. This makes it easy to manage, update, and deploy consistent content across multiple displays without duplicating playlists.

## How to Create a Channel

![Channels](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/channels/channel1.png)

-   Go to the Playlists page
-   Click on **Channels** Tab
-   Click on **Add Channel**

![Add Channel](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/channels/add-channel.png)

-   In the “Add Channel” box, click on “Name” field and write the name of the channel you want to create.
-   Choose the Screen Orientation from the drop down list.
-   Select a “Team” you want to restrict the access to.
    (Teams must be created before adding a Channel. To add Teams and give access to channels, check [Teams](https://easysignage.com/help/user_mgmt/teams) in **User Management** )
-   Click on “ADD”.
-   Once you click ADD, another screen will open to assign playlists to the channel you created.
    ([Playlists](https://easysignage.com/help/playlists) must be created before adding Channels)

![Add Playlists](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/channels/add-playlists.png)

-   Available Playlists will be shown on the right side of the screen.
    (If you choose Horizontal as a channel screen orientation, only horizontal playlists will appear. If you choose Vertical as a channel screen orientation, only vertical playlists will appear).
-   Click on the **+** sign to add playlists to the channel.
-   The assigned playlists will appear on the left side of the screen.

![Add Playlists](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/channels/add-playlists2.png)

-   To delete an assigned playlist, Click on “delete” next to the playlist.
-   In the Assigned Playlists List, you can change the Playlist position by Drag and Drop. Just click-hold the playlist and move it upwards or downwards to the desired place.
-   Once you finish assigning playlists to the channel, click on **Close**.
-   To edit Playlists in the Channel, click on the “PLAYLISTS” column next to the channels name.

![Add Playlists](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/channels/add-playlists3.png)

## How to Add a Channel to a Screen

-   Go to the “SCREENS” page.
-   Click on Media Source(Source Type).

![Add Channel to Screen](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/channels/add-screen1.png)

-   “Choose Source” screen will open.

![Add Channel to Screen](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/channels/add-screen2.png)

-   Click on “CHANGE SOURCE TYPE”.
-   From the “Choose Source Type” screen, select “**Channels**”.

![Add Channel to Screen](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/channels/add-screen3.png)

-   Choose the Channel Name you want to display on the screen.

![Add Channel to Screen](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/channels/add-screen4.png)

-   Click on **Publish**.
-   Your Channel will download and play on your screen.

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