What is digital signage?

Digital signage has existed for years. Just consider Times Square with its giant screens showing adverts 24/7 to understand the power of this digital media. However, you don’t need to travel that far to see that it has now become an integral part of our everyday lives. From the village media library for local events, to the drive through order terminal or the production line in a factory sharing real-time production data, this digital content can be made easily using a software solution for centralized and remote management of visual design and broadcast programing across a network of screens.

Digital signage for internal communication

Digital signage can also be used within a company to communicate with its employees or visitors. Positioning signage in a busy location such as a cafeteria or reception area is an additional means of internal communication, supporting your intranet and emails, which are sometimes ignored by your employees. Your communication will be perceived as more inclusive as it will be visible to all.

The tool can also be used more specifically to display live webinars, internal indicators (KPIs) or even an alert regarding your production line. Information just needs to be extracted from your professional databases to be shared in real time.

How does digital signage work?

You don’t need to be an IT expert because simple and intuitive software solutions and applications can be used to deploy this type of system in your organization or store. The main investment will be in hardware to install screens and internal and external players to share visual content.

You can use pre-existing content in a variety of formats, including text, images, videos, PowerPoint and PDFs..

Some digital signage solutions even come with an integrated content design tool.

You can also extract information from your database or professional applications to share them in real time. File compatibility is therefore very varied.

As previously mentioned, special attention should be paid to creating high-quality and varied content. For a digital signage project to work, you shouldn’t loop “meaningless” content, but consider in advance what the company wants to communicate and share. Once again, remember that these messages are seen by large numbers of people so nothing should be left to chance.

Finally, once you have created your multimedia content, you can program it remotely to create a broadcasting sequence across a network of screens. And that’s it!

5 advantages of digital signage

• Digitalized communication
• Supplement existing internal and external communication systems
• Quick and instant response times thanks to real-time communication
• Appeal of attention-grabbing screens
• Improve the customer and employee experience (support the purchase process, improve employer image, onboard new employees, improve perceived wait times, etc.)

The solution to meet all your needs

Move over traditional signage, with its production, printing and installation time constraints.

Digital signage is the solution for sharing your message and images in real time across all communication channels by programming it in a centralized and remote way.