# Show different content on weekends only, possible with an audience?

Asked by Renee Duval on 2026-06-15. Tags: cql, audiences.

We run a weekend promotion and right now I publish the banner every Friday
evening and unpublish it Monday morning by hand. Not ideal, I forgot twice last
month. Is there a way to build an audience that only matches on Saturdays and
Sundays so the personalisation handles the switching automatically? Feels like
it should be simple but I could not find a weekend condition anywhere.

## 1 answer

### Accepted answer from Stefan Brandt (2026-06-15)

There is no weekend keyword, but weekday conditions compose with `or`:

```cql
today's weekday is "saturday" or today's weekday is "sunday"
```

Attach that audience to an experience with the promo banner and it will match
only on those days, no manual publishing. The `today` context variable sits
alongside `now`, `yesterday`, and `tomorrow`, plus the usual user, session,
device, and page contexts, so you can layer more rules on top if the promo is
also device- or location-specific.

One distinction worth making: weekday audiences are for recurring patterns
like yours. If instead the promo has a fixed start and end date (say a
two-week sale), use experience scheduling, which activates and deactivates the
experience on the dates you set. Same end result, but scheduling is the
cleaner fit for one-off date-bounded campaigns.

#### Reply from Renee Duval (2026-06-16)

Set it up this morning and the banner switched off exactly as expected.
No more Monday morning panic, thanks!