Digital Signage
Turn any browser-capable screen into a workplace digital signage display — alerts, news posts, recognitions, and events on a token-authenticated portal feed. No partner hardware required.
MangoApps
Overview
Digital Signage runs as a token-authenticated web page, not a device agent: register a screen once, then point any Chromium browser at its URL, or drop it into an existing signage platform as one more zone. Because the feed comes from inside MangoApps, a screen can also rotate what's live elsewhere in the account: OKR progress, Live Boards tiles, and Contests leaderboards, alongside alerts, News Feed posts, recognitions, and open shifts — each switchable per screen.
Custom media can move through an approval workflow: a local manager publishes for their site, corporate signs off before it goes live, and every change is logged. Ask AI can tell an admin which screens are offline or what's pending review, and approve a slide with their confirmation. If a screen goes offline, a service worker keeps it rotating its last content, and a daily sweep flags anything dark 24 hours or more.
See how any browser-capable screen becomes a workplace display — scheduled media, an approval workflow, real-time alerts, and impression analytics, with no partner hardware or per-screen license.
Highlights
Capabilities
Deploy on Any Screen
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Token-authenticated portal feed — no partner SDK, no signage server, no device agent
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Runs on any Chromium browser — Fire TV, smart-TV browser, Raspberry Pi, repurposed tablet, Chromecast
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Embed as one zone in any signage platform's "web URL" content slot BrightSign, Scala, Signagelive, Rise Vision, OptiSigns, Yodeck
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Drops into an existing signage layout as a framed web-URL zone (cross-origin framing enabled)
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Per-screen light / dark theme
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Branded header + footer image and footer text per screen
Content on Screens
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Critical alerts pinned to every active screen in real time (ActionCable push)
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News Feed posts — must-read pinned, 14-day recency window
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Employee recognitions (opt-in per tenant)
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Upcoming calendar events (next 7 days)
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Open shifts at the screen's location (opt-in)
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Training / certification expiry reminders (next 30 days, opt-in)
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Company-level OKR progress — current-quarter objectives with traffic-light status Opt-in; requires the OKR Hub app enabled for the tenant
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Live contest leaderboards — top-3 podium for active contests Shown once the Contests app is enabled; Contests' own switch (or a per-screen override) can turn it off
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Live Boards tiles — stat cards, gauges, and sparkline trends from boards flagged "publish to signage" Shown once the Live Boards app is enabled; Live Boards' own switch (or a per-screen override) can turn it off
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Per-screen content rules — choose which streams each screen shows
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Day-part scheduling — turn a content stream on/off by time window per screen
Custom Media Library
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Upload your own images (PNG/JPG/GIF/WebP) and videos (MP4/WebM)
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Schedule media with start / end dates
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Per-image display duration; videos play to their full length
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Scope media to a single facility/location or push org-wide
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Zone tags route a slide only to matching screens (e.g. "cafeteria")
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Manually order slides in the rotation
Governance & Approval
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Approval workflow — local managers author, admins approve before content goes live
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Reject with a reason the author sees; editing an approved slide sends it back for re-review
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"Who can publish to screens?" picker — everyone, app admins, managers, or specific groups
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Administrative audit log — every screen, settings, and media change, with user, timestamp, and IP
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Business-scoped isolation — every screen and slide hard-scoped to its tenant
Screen Operations & Monitoring
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Register a screen once, then copy its token URL onto any device
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Heartbeat on each screen's refresh interval (30–300s, every minute by default) — online / offline / never-connected status
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Rotate a screen's token on demand (replaced or compromised device)
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Activate / deactivate a screen without deleting it
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Daily offline-alert email to admins when a screen has been dark 24h+
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Offline playback — a service worker keeps the last feed and media rotating through an outage
Analytics & AI
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Impression analytics — views by content type, by screen, and a daily trend
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Screen uptime card plus CSV export of the impression rollup
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Ask AI agent — "which screens are offline?", "show media pending approval", "who changed settings?"
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Approve a pending slide straight from the AI agent (admins only, with confirmation)
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One-click sample data to preview screens and analytics before you register real hardware
Limits & Specs
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Pricing: Pay-as-you-go, billed per registered screen (no per-employee fee)
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License: None required — available to every tenant
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Tier: Platform
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Token format: 32-character URL-safe token, unique per screen
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Refresh interval: 30 – 300 seconds per screen (admin default 60)
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Online status window: Screen shows offline ~5 minutes after a missed heartbeat
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Supported media: Images: PNG / JPG / GIF / WebP · Video: MP4 / WebM
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Analytics range: 7 / 30 / 90 days, up to 180
Use cases
Resources
FAQ
It's pay-as-you-go, billed per registered screen — there's no per-employee fee, no license to buy, and no per-screen software license beyond the platform. The app is available to every tenant with zero setup barrier; you're metered on the number of screens you register, starting from your first one.
No. Any device with a modern browser works — Chromium on a Raspberry Pi, a Fire TV, a smart-TV browser, a repurposed tablet, or a Chromecast. There's no partner SDK, no signage server, and no device agent to install.
Any browser. There's no signage server to stand up and no device agent to install: you register a screen, MangoApps hands you a unique token URL, and opening that URL fullscreen on any browser-capable display starts the feed. You can load built-in sample data to preview screens and analytics before you connect any real hardware, so evaluating it costs nothing but a browser tab.
Every signage platform supports a "web URL" content source. Register a screen in MangoApps, copy the token URL, and paste it into your platform's admin as one content slot. Your platform handles the scheduling, multi-zone layout, and branded chrome; MangoApps delivers fresh content into that URL zone.
Yes. Each screen has its own content rules — pick which streams to show (custom media, alerts, news posts, recognitions, events, open shifts, training reminders, OKR progress, Live Boards tiles, and contest leaderboards), a per-screen light/dark theme, refresh interval, rotation speed, and branded header/footer. You can also day-part a stream on or off by time window per screen.
Yes. The custom media library lets admins and authorized managers upload images (PNG/JPG/GIF/WebP) and videos (MP4/WebM) straight to screens. Each item can be scheduled with a start/end date, scoped to a specific facility, tagged to zones, ordered manually, and given a display duration. Videos play to their full length; images rotate on the interval you set.
Yes. Turn on "Require approval before media goes live." Local managers can then compose media for their facility, but it stays Pending until an admin approves it. Approve, reject (with a reason the author sees), or unpublish from the review queue. Editing an already-approved item automatically sends it back for re-review, so a swapped image can't bypass sign-off. A configurable "who can publish to screens?" picker controls who may author at all.
The dashboard flags a screen offline about five minutes after its last heartbeat. If the network drops, a service worker keeps the screen rotating its last-known feed and media (not a frozen single frame) and catches up when connectivity returns. A daily sweep also emails admins when any screen has been offline for more than 24 hours, so a kiosk that lost power overnight doesn't silently stay dark for weeks.
Yes. An admin analytics dashboard shows impressions by content type, by screen, and as a daily trend, plus a screen-uptime card and a CSV export. There's also an Ask AI admin agent you can ask things like "which screens are offline?", "show me media pending approval," or "who changed signage settings recently?" — and admins can approve a pending slide directly through it, with a confirmation step.
Digital Signage drives unattended, always-on screens that rotate a content feed for whoever walks by — a lobby TV, a break-room display, a factory-floor monitor. Broadcasts & Alerts push a message to employees' own devices and inboxes (those same critical alerts can also pin onto your signage screens). Livestreaming is a live video event people tune into. Use Digital Signage when the goal is a shared physical display, not a message delivered to individuals.
