Guides for running great screens.
What digital signage is, what it costs, how to set one up — and how CastWize compares to the rest of the field.
What Is Digital Signage?
What digital signage actually is, how it differs from a TV playing a slideshow, and what it takes to run one.
Read the guideGuides
Practical, no-jargon help for your first screen and beyond.
Digital Signage Pricing Guide
What a digital signage screen really costs — software, hardware and setup — with first-year examples for 1 to 100 screens.
Set Up a Digital Signage Screen for Under $200
The real hardware shopping list for a first digital signage screen — TV, player, mount — and what to skip.
Digital Signage Buyer's Checklist
The questions worth asking before you commit to a digital signage platform, from pricing model to player hardware.
How to Make a Digital Menu Board
Design, hardware, scheduling and publishing: the whole process from a blank slide to a menu board on the wall.
How to Play a Slideshow on a TV (and Keep It Running)
The USB-stick way, the Chromecast way, and the way that lets you change the slides from your phone without touching the TV.
How to Show Google Slides or PowerPoint on a TV
Three ways to get a slide deck onto a TV screen, and how to make it loop, update itself, and survive a reboot.
By business
What a screen does in a café, a bakery, a pharmacy or a salon, and how to set it up.
Café Menu Board on a TV: How to Set One Up
Turn the TV behind the counter into a café menu board that switches from breakfast to lunch on its own.
Digital Signage for Bakeries
A counter screen for today's bakes, prices that change when the tray does, and a sold-out slide that takes two taps.
Digital Menu Boards for Pizzerias
Sizes, toppings and deals on a screen you update from your phone, with a lunch-slice board that appears at noon.
Happy Hour Boards: Digital Signage for Bars and Pubs
A happy-hour board that shows up at 5 and disappears at 7, plus match schedules and events on the same screen.
Digital Menu for Food Trucks and Kiosks
A menu screen that runs on a tablet or a small TV, works offline, and changes with the location and the day.
Digital Signage for Convenience Stores
Window offers, checkout promotions and a lottery or coffee board, on the TV you already have by the till.
Digital Signage for Grocery Stores and Supermarkets
Weekly deals at the entrance, deli queue numbers, and aisle screens that change when the price does.
Digital Signage for Pharmacies
A now-serving queue, health campaigns by season, and over-the-counter promotions on the screen above the counter.
Digital Signage for Salons and Barbershops
A price list that is always current, a style gallery on loop, and promotions for the slow afternoons.
Comparisons
Honest side-by-sides with the signage tools you're probably looking at.
ScreenCloud Alternative
A flat-rate, no-annual-commitment alternative to ScreenCloud.
Yodeck Alternative
A simpler, flat-rate alternative to Yodeck for teams that don't need a free-screen-count tier.
NoviSign Alternative
A flat-rate alternative to NoviSign with the same core layout and scheduling tools.
Xibo Alternative
A hosted alternative to Xibo for teams that want signage software without running a server.
OptiSigns Alternative
One flat price with every feature included, instead of choosing the OptiSigns tier that unlocks what you need.
Rise Vision Alternative
A general-purpose alternative to Rise Vision for shops, restaurants, clinics and offices.
Screenly Alternative
A hosted alternative to Screenly that runs on Raspberry Pi, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux.