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The landing page of an app is organized in shelves that highlight the most relevant videos to a user.

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Landing page of an app

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Each shelf is a subset of the app content organized by popularity or publication date:

  • New Action Movies

  • What's Trending

  • Award Winners

  • Recently Added

You can also use sort and filter features to construct the content on these shelves.

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## Add content

Use the following steps to add content to the landing page:

  1. From the <a href="https://dashboard.jwplayer.com/p/apps" target="_blank"><strong>Apps</strong></a> page, click the name of the app config. The settings for the app config appear.

  2. On the **Landing Page** tab, from the dropdown menu, choose a playlist.

  3. Click **Add**. The playlist appears on a shelf below the dropdown menu. Each shelf inherits the name of the and displays a poster image for several media items in the playlist.

  4. Drag and drop a playlist shelf to re-order it in the list.

  5. Set the [Featured shelf](🔗) to the landing page of the app.

  6. Enable a [Favorites shelf](🔗).

  7. Enable a [Continue Watching shelf](🔗).

  8. Enable [Search](🔗).

  9. Enable [Recommend Related Content](🔗).

  10. (Optional) Click **Preview**. A new browser tab opens displaying an interactive preview of the app.

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### Set the Featured shelf

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In a new app config, the first playlist added is set as the Featured shelf. The Featured shelf highlights unique videos and is typically manually curated. You can always choose a different playlist to feature.

  1. On the **Landing Page** tab, hover over the row of a playlist. The row changes to black and reveals a star next to the playlist's name.

  2. Click the star icon. The playlist appears at the top of the list on the **Landing Page** tab.

    

    Multiple shelves can be denoted to a featured playlist. When multiple featured playlists exist, they can be reordered.

  3. Hover over the **Featured** row, the **Show title and description** checkbox appears.

  4. Click the **Show title and description** checkbox to display the title and description beneath the poster image in the app.

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### Enable Favorites

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The **Favorites** shelf displays all the videos that a viewer has starred to watch later. When a registered viewer is logged in, the Favorites shelf can be accessed across all your apps.

Use the following steps to enable the Favorites shelf:

  1. On the **Landing Page** tab in the **FAVORITES LIST** row, click the toggle to **ON**. The **Favorites** list settings appear.

  2. Click **Create new Watchlist**. The **Create Watchlist** popup window appears.

  3. Enter a **Watchlist Name**.

  4. Click **Confirm**.

  5. (Optional) In the **Name** field, rename the **Favorites** list. By default, _Favorites_ is the name given to this shelf.

  6. Click **Close**.

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### Enable Continue Watching

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You can display a Continue Watching shelf on the landing page and list recent partially-watched videos for viewers with a viewing history. When registered viewers log in, they can access the **Continue Watching** shelf across all your apps.

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Continue Watching shelf

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Use the following steps to enable the **Continue Watching** shelf:

  1. On the **Landing Page** tab in the **CONTINUE WATCHING LIST** row, click the toggle to **ON**. The **Continue Watching** list settings appear.

  2. Click **Create new Watchlist**. The **Create Watchlist** popup window appears.

  3. Enter a **Watchlist Name**.

  4. Click **Confirm**.

  5. (Optional) In the **Name** field, enter a name for the **Continue Watching** list. By default, _Continue Watching_ is the name given to this shelf.

  6. Click **Close**.

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### Enable Search

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When enabled, this feature allows viewers to use a search box to explore your content library.

Use the following steps to enable this feature:

  1. In the **Search** section, click the toggle to **ON**.

  2. From the dropdown menu, select a search playlist from the dropdown menu.

    

    If no playlist is listed, create a new <a href="/platform/docs/vdh-create-a-search-playlist" target="_blank">search playlist</a>.

  3. Click **Save**.

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### Enable Recommended Related Content

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When enabled, this feature displays a **Related Videos** shelf below the video being watched to promote new content to the viewer.



Recommendations playlists only use data from web app viewers.

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Use the following steps to enable this feature:

  1. In the **Recommend Related Content** section, click the toggle **ON**.

  2. From the dropdown menu, select a Recommendations playlist.

    

    You can select the **Default Recommendations Feed** or create a new <a href="/platform/docs/vdh-create-a-recommendations-playlist" target="_blank">Recommendations playlist</a>.

  3. Click **Save**.

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