Timeline - New section

New to Broadcast is a unique Interactive section with beautiful animation to engage your customers:

Animated lines connect to timeline points as the customer scrolls down the page. Easy to build, add a timeline block for each entry. Use the section settings to customize the design:

Improved mobile layout for header

We've improved the header elements in the mobile navigation:

Content from the header is now placed in the lower section of mobile navigation.

An image aspect ratio for mobile has been added in Broadcast 5.0. This will help provide more flexibility when designing complex layouts. In the example below, two Multicolumn sections are used to build a mosaic. The second has wider images. With the new settings, the mobile aspect ratio can be adjusted to make the images consistent with the section above:

Example of wider desktop images showing with 1:2:1 aspect ratio for mobile which matches the section image sizes of the previous section:

Shop the look - Option for 2 per row

We've added the ability to show 2 product grid items per row. Ideal for showing more on desktop screens:

Collection list - New mobile layout styles

Broadcast now includes mobile layout styles for the Collection list section. You can choose to display 1 or 2 collections per row or the mobile slider:

Layout examples for mobile:

Upsell functionality updated to work with one product and metafields

Now you can easily add one product right from the Theme Editor as your Upsell item which will instantly appear for all products using the same Product template.

This method is a simple way to use the upsell feature without the complexity of using metafields. It will add the chosen product to all products using the same template. If you use multiple product templates, you can customize which product is selected for each template.

The section includes settings for desktop and mobile images and heights. Choose from scrolling text, text, or button blocks to build the content. Buttons will be placed inline horizontally.

Image with product section

With Broadcast, you can now embed a product card right into an image banner-styled section:

Designed to be quick and easy to set up, this new section has incorporated the image and product settings into the section settings. Content blocks, including heading, text, button, and custom code, can be added to build the overlaying information on the left while the product card is shown on the right:

On mobile, the product card is placed below the image. The content can be positioned on top, in the middle, or at the bottom for the stacked view:

Superscript indicators

Broadcast can display the number of products that are in collections. The feature shows a numerical value next to the collection name in the dropdown navigation:

A theme-wide optional "Superscript" design option has been added, showing the number of products in a collection for multiple sections.

Learn more:

Blog posts with product cards

Broadcast makes adding product cards to your blog posts even more effortless. Choose products from a list and add them to the sidebar:

Customize the heading and select products from the product list:

• Note: Since Shopify's templating system will reuse these choices on other articles, you can create a new blog post template and then assign that to different posts.

• Another option for a unique selection of products is to use metafields for the product list:

Second image on hover and Quick Add improvements

• Broadcast has a new interface to support touchscreen laptops and devices. When a touch screen is detected, the "second image on hover" feature becomes a slideshow in the product grid. Now, the customer can see additional product images without requiring a hover action. This works for mobile devices and larger touchscreens.

To adjust how many images appear in the slideshow, use the new setting in the Theme settings -> Product grid:

Quick Add

• For larger touchscreen devices, the full "Quick Add" button is displayed below the product image. Mobile devices will use the icon-style button.

Release Notes

View the release notes for a complete listing of changes:

Quantity selector

In our newer versions, we introduced a more modern quantity selector which uses a drop-down. After the phenomenal feedback from our merchants, we have now added an option to toggle between a more basic quantity picker and our theme's more modern look.

Product badge

With this update, you can now change the position of the badges on your collection pages.

New icon - "Check"

A small touch added to the icon drop-down selectors in our theme. The new "Check" icon.

A dynamic new section designed to visually engage your shoppers and seamlessly guide them to your top product collections.

The collection image changes when you hover over the collection links with an animated transition. For desktop shoppers, clicking on the link will direct them to the collection page.

On mobile, tapping on the collection name changes the image. A call-to-action button is placed over the image:

This new section is all about creating a smoother, more visual path to purchase:

• Elevated Browsing: The instant image change provides a richer, more interactive browsing experience that has been proven to capture attention more effectively than static links alone.

• Clearer Path to Purchase: By visually connecting your collections to their best imagery, you make it immediately clear what a shopper will find when they click, reducing friction and encouraging exploration.

• Feature Your Best: Use the prominent image placement to highlight your must-have products, best sellers, or seasonal collections.

Social video

We've introduced the Social video section—a powerful, dedicated space for you to showcase engaging, real-life product videos. Hover over the video to instantly play the video. The badge button lets you control the playback and display a social profile address:

This section is designed to integrate the powerful social proof of video directly into your shop, helping customers feel more confident in their purchase decisions:

• Boost Shopper Confidence: By featuring authentic videos. Demonstrate to potential buyers how your products look and perform in real-life settings. This transparency helps build user confidence and trust in your brand, often leading to better conversion rates.

• Broadcast uses Shopify-supported .MOV and .MP4 formats directly to this section. Note: Videos are uploaded to your Shopify store and are not streamed from external social platforms.

This section offers the best of both worlds. Upload high-quality, branded videos that are specifically designed to look and feel like popular social reels. By pairing your own professional content with the familiar video format and an optional social handle in the Badge text, you effectively leverage social trends while maintaining full control over your brand messaging.

Section settings

Customize the overall presentation using Broadcast's many section options, including:

• Text size and alignment for any introductory text.

• Layout settings, including full-width padding.

• Video aspect ratio to match your video content style, suitable for both wide and tall videos.

• Display style on desktop and mobile, letting you choose between a classic Grid or a swipeable Slider.

• SEO heading tag setting for the optional section heading.

Banner with video (overlay)

A visual way to show off the brand's personality. This new banner section lets you place a video over top of your main banner to add some animation without occupying the entire banner space:

A modern design element to showcase your brand. Use the section settings to completely customize the section layout and elements.

Add common blocks to include optional messaging or call-to-action buttons:

Product pages

In this release (Version 8.0), Broadcast now fully supports Shopify's new API changes for handling products with a high number of variants (e.g., more than 250 variants or combined listings).

High variants

Historically, themes would attempt to load all product variants at once, which caused significant slowdowns, especially on product pages for merchants with a large inventory of options.

Broadcast 8.0 directly addresses those performance issues:

• Faster Product Pages: By adopting Shopify’s new, optimized variant APIs, Broadcast no longer requires loading every single variant at once. This results in significantly faster load times for product pages that have many color, size, or material combinations.

• This enhancement ensures that your store is prepared for Shopify’s increased variant limits, allowing you to confidently scale your inventory and product complexity without sacrificing site speed or the shopper experience.

• Seamless Shopping: Your customers will enjoy a smoother browsing experience, especially with complex products, resulting in reduced customer frustration and higher conversion rates.

For Developers & Agencies: We have audited and updated all theme code that previously relied on loading a complete list of variants via the legacy product.variants Liquid object, ensuring full compatibility with the new, performant API structure.

Quick Add

We've added the Mini-button back as an option for mobile devices in Broadcast 8.0. Now, you can choose between a mini-button and a regular, full-sized button.

• The "Mini-button" displays a smaller, shopping bag icon:

• The "Button" option will display a full-sized button in the product card:

In the Broadcast 8.0 Theme Settings, you can toggle between the two choices under "Mobile style".

Theme settings → Product grid → Quick add

Try Broadcast 8.0

For additional examples and to try Broadcast for free, visit our demo stores and download the latest version of Broadcast:

Shopify Theme Store - Broadcast

Existing customers can update for free. To preserve your live published theme, use the Shopify Update tool. The update tool will download an additional theme to your theme library and only copy the settings from your live theme. This is the safest and easiest method of updating your theme.

• Mobile settings allow the stacked content to be left-aligned or centred.

Mobile footer accordion options

Display blocks inside an accordion for the mobile footer:

In the footer blocks, you can use the new checkbox to enable the accordion feature for mobile devices:

The accordion option is available on the following footer block types:

• Link list

• Text

• Page

• Social

The newsletter and divider blocks do not contain the option.

Hide tag for products

We've added the ability to hide products from searches and collections. Simply add the hide tag to your product:

After adding the hide tag, the product won't appear on collections and search results:

You can still view the product page by using the product URL:

Sold out badge

Items that are sold out can now display a badge on the product grid or collection listings. The price is now also shown with the product information:

In the Theme settings -> Product grid, you can toggle the badge option:

Before and after block updates

We've added additional size and spacing options to the blocks in the "Before and After" section:

Remove link repositioned in the cart

We've improved the placement of the "Remove" items from the cart. The link is now below the quantity selector and left-aligned to match the other elements:

Release notes

View the release notes for a complete listing of changes:

How to configure:

Theme settings > Product grid, the Quick add section contains the settings:

Cart and Cart drawer enhancements

Version 6.2 enhances the Cart Drawer with flexibility and refinement, focusing on providing you with greater control over typography and visual presentation.

Expanded typography controls: A key update is the addition of Text size settings across multiple elements within the Cart Drawer. You can now fine-tune the text size for:

• Products block (item details)

• Title

• Cart message

• Free shipping bar

Each of these settings pulls from your theme's established Body text size options, making it easier to maintain visual consistency throughout your store.

• Cart Message Alignment: Alongside the new text size option, the Cart message now also includes Text alignment settings. You can choose between left and center alignment to best match your design preferences.

• Simplified Free Shipping Bar Styling: We've streamlined the styling options for the Free Shipping Bar. The previous gradient background option has been replaced with a straightforward solid Color setting for easier customization. The Text size control mentioned above has also been added here.

Button block updates: Side-by-Side layout & full-width option

We've introduced more intuitive and flexible ways to add and manage button layouts within the Image banner and Slideshow sections, moving away from workarounds and towards dedicated controls.

New: 'Side-by-Side Buttons' Block - We've added a new block specifically for creating horizontal double-button layouts. Previously, achieving this look required adding and configuring two separate 'Button' blocks. This dedicated block simplifies the setup and provides a single place to manage two buttons displayed side by side.

'Single button' Block - Now has a full-width option. With the introduction of the 'Side by Side buttons' block, we have enhanced the standard button block. The original Button block is now named Single Button and features a Full-width setting, making it easy to have a single button span the entire available width of its container:

Image banner & Slideshow: The new "Side by side buttons" block and changes to the "Single button" block are available in the "Image banner" and the two "Slideshow" sections.

New video block for Slideshow (Nested)

You can now add MP4/MOV videos directly to your Slideshow section in Broadcast 6.2. We've added a video block to display looping videos from your Shopify content storage. This update brings more dynamic content capabilities to your storefront, offering a powerful new way to engage visitors right from the homepage.

Add a "Video" slide to your slideshow alongside "Image" slides. The Video slide has customization options to help the text and call-to-action buttons stand out.

The new video slide is available in the 'Slideshow (Nested)' section and not in the legacy version.

Button size settings

We've added global button size settings to the Theme settings in Broadcast 6.2:

You can now set the size for all Small, Medium, and Large buttons throughout your store with these global settings.

Add to cart button - Show price in button

The Add to cart button on the Product detail page can now show the price inside the button:

This is a global setting that applies to all products.

How to configure:

Theme settings > Product form. The Add to cart toggle can be found there.

Rich text columns section - New divider option

To enhance the visual organization and readability of multi-column text layouts, version 6.2 introduces a simple yet effective display option for handling rich text columns in sections.

Improved Separation: We noticed that, depending on screen size and content length, text in adjacent columns can sometimes appear too close together, which affects readability. To address this, we have included a vertical divider with width and line settings.

This option adds an optional, subtle vertical line between the columns, providing clear visual separation. This ensures your columns remain distinct and your content is neatly organized and easy to read.

Product form: Display variant color descriptions

Add more context and detail to your color options directly on the product page! Broadcast 6.2 introduces the ability to display unique text descriptions associated with specific product color variants using Shopify's metafield system. This helps customers understand the nuances, materials, or special features associated with each color choice.

How It Works:

This feature utilizes a standard Shopify variant metafield. When a customer selects a product variant on the storefront, the theme automatically checks if that specific variant has a text metafield defined with the exact namespace and key: theme.color_description. If this metafield exists and contains text, its content will be displayed dynamically on the product form, typically near the variant selectors, providing context for the chosen color.

Video walk-through

Watch this video walk-through on how to create the required custom variant metafield:

Setup steps:

1. Define the Metafield: In your Shopify Admin, go to Settings > Custom data > Variants. Add a new definition.

2. Set the Namespace to theme.

3. Set the Key to color_description.

4. Choose a Content type of Single-line text . Give it a clear name, such as "Color Description," and a description for your reference. Save the definition.

5. Add Content to Variants: Go to the specific products in your Shopify Admin. Edit the variants and locate the "Metafields" section at the bottom. Add your desired descriptive text into the "Theme Color Description" metafield for each relevant variant. Save the product.

Additional information:

This metafield is checked on a per-variant basis. If your product has multiple options (e.g., Color and Size), you must add the appropriate color description text to every combination that should display it. For example, if you have 'Red' in 'Small', 'Medium', and 'Large', you need to add the Red description text to the theme.color_description metafield for the Red-Small variant, the Red-Medium variant, AND the Red-Large variant.

Siblings: This color description feature integrates seamlessly and works correctly with the theme's Siblings display logic for variants.

Example Use Cases: You can use this field to specify things like "Vibrant, non-toxic dye," "Limited edition Spring color," "slightly metallic finish," or "Matches our Cerulean Blue bag collection."

This feature offers a great way to provide valuable, targeted information about color options right where customers are making their decisions.

Variant selection: Enhanced visual clarity

We've refined the visual styling for variant selectors in Broadcast 6.2 to provide a more prominent hover state over variants to help make the selection process more intuitive for your customers:

Text color setting

This refreshed design dynamically uses your theme's existing Text color setting (configured under Theme Settings > Colors, Color scheme) to style the key indicators for these selected and hovered states. This helps maintain visual consistency with your overall brand typography settings.

Try Broadcast 6.2

For additional examples and to try Broadcast for free, visit our demo stores and download the latest version of Broadcast:

Existing customers can update for free. To preserve your live published theme, use the Shopify Update tool. The update tool will download an additional theme to your theme library and only copy the settings from your live theme. This is the safest and easiest method of updating your theme.

Now with Broadcast, you can set pre-orders at the variant level. Previously, we supported product metafields that assigned a pre-order button to the entire product. You can now create a variant metafield and assign a pre-order button to any variant in your product catalog. Both options, the product as a whole and the new variant-level pre-orders, are available for you to choose from and customize pre-order products.

Full details

Learn all about pre-order variants in Broadcast and how to set up the variant metafield here:

Bundle and Save

Promote product bundles on product pages and the cart drawer with automatic discounts and precise product matching with metafields. Broadcast will display bundle promotions alongside the upsell block, giving you two promotional options.

Cart drawer promotions

Customers can add a bundled item right from the Cart drawer. A new block called 'Bundle products' has been added to the Overlay > Cart drawer to display bundle promotions.

• When using a list of products in the cart drawer, the promotions will be displayed in a slider carousel.

Full details

Learn all about the 'Bundle and save' feature in Broadcast:

Accordion drawer

A new option has been added to the Accordion block in the product form. You can now choose to display the accordion details in a drawer:

Use the block settings to toggle between Colapsible and Drawer:

Popup block now uses a drawer

The Popup block in the product form will now display the content in a slide-out drawer, similar to the drawer option for the accordion block:

Previously, the Popup block was displayed as a modal. The new design helps improve the user experience.

Estimate delivery block

A new block you can use to display the estimated delivery or shipping date to help customers know how quickly products are sent out or expected for delivery:

• Use the Label and Slider to specify your shipping or expected delivery date. Broadcast will convert the days into a date value.

• Use a metafield to customize each product.

Settings

Here's what's new with the Theme settings in Broadcast:

Badges

You'll now find all the badge settings in a new category in the Theme settings under Badges:

You can customize and configure all the badges included in Broadcast here, including badges for the PDP and Product Card.

Color opacity

Shopify has introduced a new opacity slider in the color picker. Broadcast now uses this slider to adjust transparency, including overlays:

Pagination

An infinite scroll option has been added to Pagination in the Theme settings. Now, you can enable continuous scrolling or toggle it off for regular page-style pagination.

Shopping Cart

Here's what's new with the Cart and Cart drawer in Broadcast:

Discount code

Shoppers can now add a discount code directly in the Cart before proceeding to checkout, greatly enhancing the user experience for adding more items and encouraging impulse purchases.

The discount amount is shown, and the subtotal is updated right in the cart. Add the new 'Discount code' block in the Overlay section under the Cart drawer:

Bundle and save promotions

Use the new 'Bundle products' block in the Overlay section under Cart drawer to display bundle promotions right in the cart. View additional information here:

Payment icons

We've added a grayscale option to the payment icons block in Broadcast. The payment icons block is found in the cart, cart drawer, and footer.

Sections

Here's what's new with theme sections and section blocks in Broadcast v7.1:

Product section

We've brought back the original clean Product section in Broadcast, now called 'Product'.

In addition to the 'Featured product', which has a modern design, the new classic 'Product' section can be used to build product promotions throughout your shop quickly:

To add the 'Product' section, choose it from the Products group:

You can now choose from two different section styles:

1. Featured product - Modern design section.

2. Product - The original simple section, ideal for quick promotions.

Image with text overlay

A new block type has been added to the Multicolumn and Collection list sections called 'Image with text overlay'.

Now you can overlay text and call-to-action buttons over an image in various positions:

Use the new 'Image with text overlay' block when you want to position content over your images, or use the 'Image' block to place text outside of the image.

Press logos - Mobile

The press logo slides will now auto-rotate for mobile devices:

Section categories

Shopify now groups sections in the Theme Customizer. When you add a new section, you'll find the sections in Broadcast grouped in these new categories. Here's a breakdown on where to find our sections:

Try Broadcast 7.1

For additional examples and to try Broadcast for free, visit our demo stores and download the latest version of Broadcast:

Shopify Theme Store - Broadcast

Existing customers can update for free. To preserve your live published theme, use the Shopify Update tool. The update tool will download an additional theme to your theme library and only copy the settings from your live theme. This is the safest and easiest method of updating your theme.

• For a full breakdown of how we've set up the header and toolbar on the Bold demo store:

• Learn how we set up our About page on the Modern demo store:

Add, arrange, and configure any of these cart blocks for a fully customized cart experience: