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School Announcement Screens: How to Run Daily Announcements and Bell Schedules on Hallway TVsNovember 6, 2026
Live KPIs on the screens your team already walks past
Display NOW puts Power BI reports on office, sales-floor and factory screens, and rotates them with announcements and safety messages. Business Edge includes an Edge Player for each screen, so there’s no PC hidden behind the 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
Reports live in Power BI, but most people never open them. Putting the numbers on a screen puts them in front of everyone.
KPIs buried in a workspace get checked by a few people. A screen on the floor gets seen by everyone, all day.
Many teams run dashboards off an old PC or laptop that sleeps, updates or logs out. The Edge Player is a signage player built to run all day, and on Business Edge our team can reach it remotely if something goes wrong.
A single static report becomes wallpaper. Display NOW rotates dashboards with announcements, recognition and safety messages.
Logging in on each TV doesn’t scale. Display NOW manages every screen from one dashboard.
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Connect Power BI once, pick the reports, and assign them to the screens that need them.
Connect Power BI. Sign in with Service Principal or Direct Login from the Power BI app in the Media App Store.
Pick the report page. Choose the report and page each screen should show.
Mix in other content. Rotate dashboards with announcements, Google Slides, Sheets and Your Daily Loop.
Assign to screens. Send sales KPIs to the sales floor and production KPIs to the plant.
Some features, including remote device support, are available on specific plans. See the Plans page for what each plan includes.
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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.
Professionally designed templates for every kind of message. 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, describe a design to our AI, or upload your own files.
Publish once and every selected screen updates. Schedule changes sync within 60 seconds, and you can make them from your laptop or phone.
Try Display NOW free for 14 days and put your first Power BI report on a screen today. Rolling out 50+ screens? Talk to us about volume pricing.
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Add the Power BI app from the Media App Store, connect with Service Principal or Direct Login, choose the report, and add it to a playlist for the screens that need it.
Power BI is available on specific paid plans. The Plans page shows which plans include it and current prices, and you can try it free for 14 days.
Any TV or monitor with an HDMI port. The Edge Player, included with Business Edge, is a signage player built to run all day. Display NOW also runs on Amazon Fire TV and Google TV with the Display NOW app, and on other smart TVs and browsers with the web player.
Display NOW connects to Power BI with Service Principal or Direct Login. Your Power BI licensing needs depend on your Microsoft setup, so check with your Power BI admin, or ask our team and we will help you work it out.
Yes. Get 14 days of full access to every feature, with no credit card required. Test it with real screens and real content before you commit, and every paid plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Yes. Manage every screen from one dashboard, wherever it is. Organize screens and content in folders (we recommend one folder per location), share them with local teams through Groups, and send different content to different screens.
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.
Images, videos and PDFs, designs from the Designer or Canva, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Google Sheets, Power BI, YouTube, web pages, weather, news and more from the Media App Store.
No. Describe what you want and our Generative AI designs it, then refine it in the Designer. You can also start from a template, or save designs straight from Canva.
Display NOW shows the screen as offline on your Dashboard, and a notification policy can alert your team by email or SMS (US and Canada) once it has been offline longer than the threshold you set. On the Edge Player, cached images, videos and PDFs keep playing while the connection is down. When the screen reconnects, it picks up any new content and schedule changes.
