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Creating the Perfect Atmosphere with Bar Digital SignageAugust 30, 2024
One dashboard for every branch screen
Display NOW puts story times, classes, hours and community events on every library screen, scheduled from one place. Business Edge includes a commercial Edge Player for each screen, so branch staff never have to troubleshoot a TV.
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Display NOW founder and CEO Chris Dukich understood that firsthand.
“I created Display NOW because I had a basic need for signage to communicate announcements to residents in a condo building. I didn’t want to pay the ridiculous prices that other providers charge. I tried to go the ‘free’ route, but I ended up coming home to blank screens and putting in hours each month just keeping them alive.
Business owners and managers face rising costs every year, and ‘free’ looks attractive when you’re trying to keep things lean. But our competitors use ‘free’ plans as glorified trials. Limited screens, watermarked content, missing features, all designed to push you to upgrade. Free often costs more than paying a reasonable price when you add up the downtime, the support tickets, and the hours you spend keeping it running.
We built Display NOW with the goal of being the number one best value on the market. We have a free plan for people who genuinely need a basic solution, with real features, not a trial. And for everyone else, we built the Edge Player so you never have to worry about hardware again.”
Founder & CEO, Display NOW
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say signage improves staff engagement
With 43% reporting a significant uplift. Source: ScreenCloud / Google Chrome OS, State of Digital Signage 2023–2024 (n=2,400)
message recall rate
Nearly half of employees and visitors who passed a digital sign were able to recall the specific message it displayed. Source: Arbitron Digital Video Display Study
of workers
say information on digital screens enhances their productivity at work. Source: ScreenCloud / Google Chrome OS, State of Digital Signage 2023–2024
Flyers on a corkboard and a calendar on the website reach some patrons. Screens at the entrance and service desks reach everyone who walks in.
Story times, classes and author visits get missed when they only live on a flyer. Screens put them in front of every visitor.
When each branch manages its own screens, messaging drifts. Display NOW lets you send system-wide messages and branch-specific content from one dashboard.
Consumer streaming sticks freeze and need someone to walk over and reboot them. The Edge Player is built to run all day and recovers itself if it hangs.
Holiday hours and weather closures need to be right everywhere, fast. Update once and every screen changes in seconds.
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Display NOW gives your communications team and branch staff one simple dashboard for entrance, desk and meeting-room screens.
Promote programs at every branch. Show each branch’s own events, or push system-wide campaigns to all of them.
Schedule content by branch and time of day. Morning story time slides in the morning, evening classes at night.
Show hours and closures instantly. Update holiday hours or a weather closure once, and every screen follows.
Keep screens fresh with Your Daily Loop. Done-for-you content fills the gaps between announcements.
Some features, including remote device access and BI dashboard integrations, are available on specific plans. See pricing for what’s included at each tier.
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Your Daily Loop: done-for-you content, refreshed every day
Common-area screens are the hardest to keep fresh. Nobody owns them, so nothing gets updated, and the screen ends up showing the same slide from six months ago.
Your Daily Loop fills that gap. Professionally curated programming updates automatically every day. Your team sets it once and doesn't touch it again.
Available as an add-on. See pricing for details.
Hundreds of professionally designed templates. Swap in your logo, update colors and copy, and publish to every screen. No designer needed.
Announcements
Events and Calendars
Seasonal Campaigns
Welcome Screens
Wayfinding and Navigation
Already designing in Canva? You can easily save media right to Display NOW with our integration.
Save from Canva to Manager
Plug the Edge Player into any TV or display with an HDMI port, connect it to Wi‑Fi, and enter the pairing code.
Sign in with Google or Microsoft. Start from a template, save from Canva, or upload your own. Most teams have their first screen live in under ten minutes.
Publish once and every selected screen updates in seconds. Change it from your laptop or phone, wherever you are.
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Try Display NOW free for 14 days on the TVs you already have, then move to Edge Players for screens that run all day without staff attention.
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It’s using screens at entrances, service desks and meeting rooms to show programs, hours and events, managed from one online dashboard for every branch.
Yes. Group screens by branch and give staff access to the screens they manage, while your central team can still push system-wide messages.
Any TV or monitor with an HDMI port. The Edge Player, included with Business Edge, is a commercial signage player built to run 24/7. Already have a supported device? Display NOW’s other plans run on it with the free Display NOW app.
Yes. Schedule programs to appear before they happen and disappear when they’re over, by branch, day and time.
Yes. Get 14 days of full access to the entire digital signage platform, no credit card required. Test it with real screens and real content so you know exactly what you're getting before committing. Need more time? We almost always extend the trial on request. Just reach out.
Yes. Display NOW lets you manage unlimited digital signage screens from a single dashboard, regardless of their location. Group your displays by site, department, or content type, and push different content to different screens simultaneously, all from one cloud-based digital signage CMS without switching between accounts or tools.
Yes. Schedule content by time of day, day of week, or a custom date range, so the right message shows at the right time without anyone touching a screen.
Display NOW supports images, videos, slideshows, live weather, news feeds, social media walls, Google Slides, Canva designs, YouTube, Vimeo, web pages, and more. If you can view it on a screen, there's a good chance our digital signage software can display it.
No. Display NOW includes an AI-powered design tool and a library of ready-made digital signage templates built for specific industries. If you already use Canva, we have a full Canva integration that makes saving designs to Display NOW as easy as a few clicks. Your team can have professional-looking content ready in minutes — no design experience, no agency, no extra budget required.
Your screens keep playing. DisplayNow caches images, videos, and PDFs locally on the device, so if your internet connection drops, that content types continue running without interruption. Live web content, social feeds, and other internet-dependent sources will pause until connectivity is restored, as they require an active connection by nature. Once you're back online, your digital signage displays sync automatically with any new content or schedule changes with no manual action needed.
