Digital Signage Blog
The XOGO blog is your go-to resource for insights, tips, and trends in the world of smart displays and business communication. We’ll share practical how-to articles, industry updates, customer stories, and best practices to help you get the most out of your digital signage.
Best Practices for Digital Signage Content
Digital signage is a powerful tool that allows users to display advertisements, menus, corporate communications and more. Generally if there’s an issue with digital signage, it’s related to the content that’s being uploaded to the system. To help our users avoid these issues, we’ve put together the following best-practices guide.
How to Play YouTube Videos in XOGO Digital Signage
Your XOGO digital signage players can stream YouTube videos directly from the web, or play back videos that you've downloaded for free in high resolution. Learn how both options work in this quick digital signage blog.
3 Ways to Use Overlays
We recently introduced a new feature called overlays. This feature allows you to place one layer of content on top of another in your XOGO playlists, similar to what you might do in a layer-based image editor like Photoshop. Here are the three most common use cases for overlays, and information on how to set them up.
Creating Content in PowerPoint (Video)
Creating content for your digital signs doesn't need to be difficult. In today's tutorial we show you how to create HD content in Microsoft PowerPoint, export it and load it into XOGO Manager.
Why is this fuzzy? (Understanding screen resolutions.)
The most common questions that we get have to do with screen resolutions and content. Most people are used to seeing content on a single HD screen set up in landscape orientation these days, like the television in your home. You're not limited to that, however. XOGO is capable of displaying content in landscape or portrait orientation, or even across multiple screens. All it takes is some working knowledge of screen resolutions and hardware. Let's start with the basics.
How to Create Engaging Content: 6 Questions to Consider
Digital signage is somewhat like a website. It can be used to display anything digital - from creative elements like branding and artwork, to informative items such as menus and price lists. The best implementations usually include a bit of both. Here are six important questions to ask, which will help determine what kind of content ultimately needs to be on your screens.