A promotion that never arrived
The campaign went out on Monday. Store 17 is still showing last quarter's offer, and every customer walking past it is reading the wrong price.
Displayer runs the screens you already own, from one panel, and sends back evidence of what each one showed.
You scheduled a promotion for 40 locations. Somewhere in the middle of that network, one screen never took the update, and nobody told you.
The campaign went out on Monday. Store 17 is still showing last quarter's offer, and every customer walking past it is reading the wrong price.
The player lost its connection, rebooted into an update dialog and stopped. The panel still shows the screen as part of the group.
Nothing comes back from the screen, so the only report is somebody standing in front of it. That report arrives weeks late, if it arrives at all.
Screens, playlists and schedules for the whole network live in one workspace. You tag a screen by region, brand or venue and schedule against the tag, so 40 locations take one action.
A weekly grid plus dated campaigns and dayparts. Breakfast, lunch and evening run different playlists on the same screen without anyone touching it.
Every player reports what it rendered and when, and returns a periodic screenshot. The record shows what was on the wall, not what was intended.
A screen that goes offline, freezes or wakes up at the wrong resolution raises an email alert within the minute, with the location and the last frame it reported.
Use the browser on the TV, a Chromecast, an Android stick, a Windows mini PC or a Chrome device. There is no dedicated hardware to buy and nothing to install.
The screen shows six digits. Type them in the panel, give the screen a name and a location, and it joins the network.
Build a playlist, set the duration of each item, and place it on the weekly grid. The screen picks it up and starts reporting what it plays.
Pick a venue, an orientation and a layout, write three lines, and watch a real screen render and start its loop. The playlist advances on its own durations, the ticker scrolls, the clock is live, and the tally strip counts down the item that is on air.
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Orientation
Layout
The schedule strip underneath shows the same playlist placed on a weekly grid, which is exactly what the schedule view does inside the product.
The people who upload a picture and the people who sign the invoice want different things. This part is for the second group.
The promotion you paid for is on the wall in every location, not most of them. A dead screen is found in minutes instead of at the next site visit. One person runs a hundred screens instead of one person per site.
| What you are comparing | Displayer | Cheap per screen tools | Self hosted open source | Hardware locked vendors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works on hardware you already own | Yes, any browser, Android, Chrome or Windows device | Usually, sometimes with their own stick | Yes, often a small computer per screen | No, their player or their panel |
| Evidence of what actually played | Play records plus periodic screenshots | A status dot that says online | Logs, if you collect and keep them | Varies by product, usually a report you request |
| Roles and approvals | Viewer, editor, approver and admin, with approval before publish | Thin, often one shared login | Whatever you build | Yes, in the enterprise tier |
| Single sign-on with SAML | Yes, on the Network plan | Rarely | Whatever you build | Yes, in the enterprise tier |
| Someone has to run a server | No, the platform is hosted | No | Yes, yours to patch and back up | No, but the hardware is yours to replace |
| Price shape | Per active screen, monthly or yearly | Per screen, low headline rate | No licence fee, plus servers, storage and staff time | A quote, plus a player or a panel for every screen |
This table describes shapes of product, not a scoreboard. Pick the row that matters where you work and the choice usually makes itself.
You pay for each screen that is active in the month. Invite the whole team at no extra cost. Monthly or yearly, and yearly is the lower rate.
19 USD per screen15 USD per screen
One venue getting its screens under control: playlists, weekly schedules, templates, email alerts
29 USD per screen23 USD per screen
Built for multi-site: groups and locations, dayparts and campaigns, proof of play with screenshots, roles and approvals, 4K video
49 USD per screen39 USD per screen
Large networks: SSO and SAML, audit log, SLA, data residency, priority support, API and webhooks
Talk to sales
Custom deployments, procurement, invoicing and purchase orders, dedicated onboarding
Talk to salesProfessional is built for multi-site, because groups, dayparts and proof of play are what make more than one address manageable.
No. A screen pairs by opening one URL in a browser, so a smart TV, a Chromecast, an Android stick, a Windows mini PC or a Chrome device all work. Buy hardware when a screen has no usable browser, and buy the cheapest thing that runs one.
The player keeps the current schedule and its downloaded media on the device and carries on playing. When the connection returns it catches up on changes and sends the play records it stored while it was offline, so the gap is visible in the report rather than lost.
Only if you let them. Roles are viewer, editor, approver and admin, and a group can require approval before anything published reaches it. A store manager can be limited to the screens at their own location.
Each player reports the item it rendered and the time it rendered it, and sends a periodic screenshot. The proof of play report shows both, by screen and by day, and you can export it.
Yes, through the built-in browser on most recent models, and through a small Android or Chrome device on older ones. Both routes use the same pairing code and land in the same panel.
Portrait is a setting on the screen, not a separate product. Layouts, templates and the schedule grid all work at 9:16, and the screen builder renders portrait so you can see it before you commit.
Per active screen. A location with three screens counts as three. A screen you deactivate stops counting in the next billing period, and team members are never charged for.
Yes, from the billing page, and the account stays open until the end of the period you paid for. Yearly plans run to the end of the year you bought.
The people you invite to your workspace. Media is stored for your account only, access is scoped by role and location, and the security page describes how the platform handles it.
Yes, SAML single sign-on is part of the Network plan, along with the audit log and data residency. On Enterprise it comes with a dedicated onboarding.
Every screen plays what you scheduled, and the report proves it. Start with one screen and add the rest of the network when you are ready.