Repeater and Data Tables: Product Grids in Playable Ads

Build product grids in playable ads with the Repeater: a data table, one card design, layouts and card looks, an arrival animation, and cards the player can choose.

  • Video tutorial
  • 2:32
  • 6 chapters
  • Published Sep 24, 2026

In this video

  • Adding a Repeater, and why it draws nothing yet
  • The data table: rows, columns, {column} tokens
  • The card design: any group
  • Layouts: Grid, Stack, Rail
  • Card looks: None, Plate, Outline, Raised, Edge
  • Arrival: Fade, Rise, Pop
  • Choosable cards, the chosen mark and the Link Parameter
  • Three mistakes to avoid

About this video

The Repeater turns one card design and a small table into a grid of cards - a menu, a plan list, a product range - with a card for every row. Put {column} into any text in the design and each card fills it from its row. This tutorial builds a pizza menu from scratch: the table, the card design, the layouts and looks, a pop-in arrival, and choosable cards that write the pick to a variable and carry it into the click-through.

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Transcript

Four pizzas, one card design, and a table. Tap one, and it's your pick.

That's the repeater. In the next few minutes: the table, the card design, layouts and card looks, the arrival, and making the cards choosable.

Add New Object, Repeater. And it draws nothing at all - it needs a table with rows, and a card to repeat.

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Under Data, New makes a table: a column for name, a column for price, and one empty row. One row per card.

Margherita, nine dollars. Plus Column adds a column - I'll call it note.

I've filled in the other three rows.

The card design is any group. This one is three texts: name, note and price, each written in curly braces. Choose it, and the group stops drawing itself - there's a card for every row.

Grid wraps at a column count. Stack is one per row. Rail runs one row past the edge. Back to a grid of two.

The card look: none, plate, outline, raised, or edge - with a lit surface. Edge it is, in orange.

Arrival brings the cards in: fade, rise, or pop, one after another.

Turn on Cards are choosable. A tap writes the row's name to a text variable, pizza. Tick marks the chosen card - and Link Parameter carries the pick into your click-through.

Press Play.

They pop in. Truffle. Veggie. The text under the grid reads the same variable.

Three mistakes to avoid. One: expecting a placeholder. An empty table, or an empty group, draws nothing at all.

Two: editing one card. Every card is the same design - change the group for all of them, or the table for one.

Three: tapping in edit mode. There, a press moves the repeater. Test the choices in Play.

That's the repeater. See you in the next video!

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