The Digital Signage Blog


Guides, how-tos and news on running screens well.

Written by the team that builds Signital, for the people who actually run the screens. Hardware and players, scheduling, content that survives being read at six metres, what breaks at a hundred sites, and what we are shipping in the portal.

Meet Signital Assistant and Our MCP Server

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Meet Signital Assistant and Our MCP Server

6 Oct 2026

Every Signital workspace now has two new ways to work with AI. Signital Assistant sits inside the portal: ask it about Signital or about your own displays, and let it make changes for you. And if your team already works in Claude or ChatGPT, you can connect those apps to Signital and manage your screens from there. Bot

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Inside the Redesigned Signital Portal: What Changed and Why

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Inside the Redesigned Signital Portal: What Changed and Why

16 Sept 2026

We have rebuilt the Signital portal from the sign-in page to the display page. The nouns are the same: displays, channels, playlists, media and widgets. What changed is how quickly you can answer the two questions every screen operator asks: is everything online, and what is each screen playing? Here is a walk through

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Displays, Channels and Playlists: Which One Do You Need?

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Displays, Channels and Playlists: Which One Do You Need?

14 Sept 2026

Most questions we get in support come down to one thing: where should this content go? Signital keeps the answer small. There are three containers, each solves a different problem, and once you see the pattern you stop thinking about it. First, the path every item takes. You upload media or configure a widget. You add

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How to Schedule a Menu Board: Time of Day, Weekdays and Take Over

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How to Schedule a Menu Board: Time of Day, Weekdays and Take Over

11 Sept 2026

A menu board is the simplest signage there is, and it is where scheduling earns its keep. Breakfast until 11, lunch until 14, the evening menu after that, and a promotion whenever nothing else is due. Here is how to build exactly that in Signital, and the handful of rules that make schedules behave. Always Show or Sche

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Split Screen Without the Mess: Sixteen Layouts and When to Draw Your Own

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Split Screen Without the Mess: Sixteen Layouts and When to Draw Your Own

9 Sept 2026

A screen that shows one thing at a time is easy to read and easy to run. Sometimes, though, you need the calendar beside the weather, or a scrolling ticker under the video that never goes away. Split screen is how Signital does that, and it follows one rule that keeps it sane: every section has a plan of its own. Pick

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Proof of Play: Knowing What Your Screens Actually Showed

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Proof of Play: Knowing What Your Screens Actually Showed

7 Sept 2026

Publishing content is an act of faith. You press the button, the portal says Successfully published, and somewhere a screen you cannot see starts playing it. Proof of play replaces the faith with a record: what did each display play, for how long, and how long was it online. In Signital it is part of the Business plan,

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What You Will Find Here

Four things we write about, because they are the four things people ask us about once the first screen is on the wall.

Players and hardware

Which player suits which job, what the trade-offs actually are, and how to avoid buying hardware you will want to replace in a year. Includes the Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, BrightSign and Raspberry Pi write-ups.

Content that works on a screen

A screen is not a slide deck and not a web page. Layouts, split screens, dwell time, how much text is too much, and the widgets that keep a loop from going stale.

Running a fleet

Scheduling, channels and playlists, proof of play, and keeping a few hundred screens healthy without visiting any of them. Most of this only becomes a problem after site ten.

Product news

What has shipped in the portal and on the players, and the integrations we have added, written up properly rather than as a changelog line.

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