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# Require New Content to Send

When creating your automated campaign, a checkbox for **Require new content to send** can be found in the **Schedule** tab on the left sidebar within your selected campaign.

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The **Require New Content to Send** setting determines whether Feedotter should generate an email only when new content is available.

**You can turn this off by unchecking the box.** Turning this off will cause your automated email to send on schedule, every time, regardless of content.

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By default, this option is turned **on,** so FeedOtter will only send when new content is found.
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Again, New content is determined by two things:

1. The **published date** in your RSS feed.
2. The **last send date** of your FeedOtter campaign.

For your campaign's initial send, all content will be considered *new*, and FeedOtter will default to sending the maximum number of posts set in your campaign.

Once your campaign has been sent, FeedOtter will check the **published date** in your RSS feed and only send when there is content with a published date ***more recent*** than the campaign's last send date. You can find the last send date on the campaign block.

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If you **uncheck** the **Publish Date Filter** option in an automated campaign, the behavior described above does not apply. Previously sent content may reappear in emails, and older articles can be re-used regardless of when they were published. This setting is useful when you want to re-feature content.
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