# Digital signage templates and content ideas

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Digital signage templates in screenRIG are 200+ ready-made apps that your AI agent fills in with your words and numbers: menus, schedules, announcements, scoreboards, dashboards and more. They come in nine themes, they draw their own text on the screen, and a changed word reaches every screen without a new picture.

Updated November 6, 2026.

## Live card previews

- [Welcome board](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/welcome.md): A lobby welcome: a time-of-day greeting and today's named visitors with their companies, set with a spotlight that moves down the list.
- [Announcement](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/announcement.md): Rotating messages with an icon, a headline and a line or two of body text, in sync on every screen.
- [Countdown](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/countdown.md): Shows the time until or since a moment as a duration in the clock's numerals, such as '78 d 10 h 54 min'.

> **You:** Put a welcome on the lobby screen for today's visitors: Maya Chen from Harbor Bank and Luis Ortega from Brightline Dental. Make it easy to read from the door.
>
> **Agent:** Done. The lobby screen shows a greeting for the time of day, then Maya Chen of Harbor Bank and Luis Ortega of Brightline Dental, in large type. I checked a screenshot to be sure. Give me tomorrow's names and I will swap them.

## How templates work in screenRIG

There is no template to download and fit. Your agent starts from one of three kinds of starting point:

- **A ready-made app.** A designed screen that draws its own text: a menu, a room sign, a ticker, a spotlight, a countdown. Your agent fills in the words, and the app is already laid out for a TV. See the [apps gallery](https://screenrig.ai/apps.md). A changed price or name updates every screen that shows it.
- **A playlist template.** A playlist with named fields, such as a headline. Your agent fills the fields and makes a new playlist (`playlist create --from-template`). A built-in Urgent notice template, a headline and a message, is there for quick announcements. Playlist templates come with Plus and above, see [pricing](https://screenrig.ai/pricing.md).
- **A finished poster.** Your agent writes the copy and the look into a prompt and generates a finished picture, in 16:9 for a landscape screen or 9:16 for an upright one, or you give it your own art and it puts text over it.

All of them play on every Player, and the ready-made apps keep their own text editable. The design side is the theme: the apps come in nine themes you can switch between.

## What is a digital poster?

A digital poster is a poster on a screen: a picture or an app, often upright, that says one thing to the people who pass it. It can change by the hour, play with others in a loop, show a countdown or take a schedule. An electronic poster does what a printed one does without a print run. A portrait screen is 1080 by 1920 in the units your agent designs in, and a landscape one is 1920 by 1080.

Your agent can make a poster in two ways. **A generated poster** is one picture with the artwork and the type laid out together, so all the copy goes in the request. **An app** keeps its text editable, so a changed name or date needs no new picture. Pick a generated poster for a one-off message, and an app for anything that changes.

## Template ideas by place

| Place | Ideas | Apps to start from |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lobby and reception | A welcome board for today's visitors, a directory, arrows to the meeting rooms, the Wi-Fi code | [Welcome board](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/welcome.md), [directory](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/directory.md), [wayfinding](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/wayfinding.md), [Wi-Fi](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/wifi.md) |
| Office and break room | Announcements, birthdays and anniversaries, recognition, a countdown to a launch, team posts | [Announcement](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/announcement.md), [celebrations](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/celebrations.md), [kudos](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/kudos.md), [countdown](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/countdown.md) |
| Restaurant and cafe | The menu, today's specials, a happy hour, a limited-time offer | [Menu](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/menu.md), [daily specials](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/daily-specials.md), [happy hour](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/happy-hour.md), [promo](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/promo.md) |
| Retail | A sale price tag, a product grid, opening hours, loyalty points | [Offer](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/offer.md), [product grid](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/product-grid.md), [opening hours](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/opening-hours.md), [loyalty](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/loyalty.md) |
| School | Announcements, bell schedule, lunch, house points, a word of the day | [Announcement](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/announcement.md), [bell schedule](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/bell-schedule.md), [school lunch](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/school-lunch.md), [house points](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/house-points.md), and the [schools page](https://screenrig.ai/use-cases/schools.md) |
| Clinic and hospital | Wait times, safety signs, the next appointment | [Wait times](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/wait-times.md), [safety signs](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/safety-signs.md), [next appointment](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/next-appointment.md) |
| Factory | Days without an incident, the daily huddle board | [Safety counter](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/safety-counter.md), [huddle board](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/huddle-board.md) |

## Break room ideas

A break room screen earns a glance, so keep it light and current:

- A [countdown](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/countdown.md) to a launch, a holiday or the end of the quarter.
- [Kudos](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/kudos.md) and [celebrations](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/celebrations.md): who did something good, and whose birthday is today.
- [Workplace posts](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/workplace-posts.md) from a Slack channel, so the team's own words are on the wall.
- A [trivia](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/trivia.md) round, a [quote](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/quote.md) or a [word of the day](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/word-of-the-day.md).
- A [stretch break](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/stretch-break.md) or a [breathe](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/breathe.md) reminder at the time you choose.
- Build and service status for a team that likes to know. See [Show a dashboard on a TV](https://screenrig.ai/guides/dashboard-on-tv.md).

## Event signage ideas

- **The schedule.** [Events](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/events.md), a [timeline](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/timeline.md) or a [conference](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/conference.md) board with what is on now and what is next.
- **Find your way.** [Wayfinding](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/wayfinding.md) arrows with walking times, or a [pin map](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/pin-map.md) on your floor plan.
- **Join in.** A [live poll](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/live-poll.md) with a QR code, a [message wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/message-wall.md) of approved messages, a [photo wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/photo-wall.md) and a [social wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/social-wall.md). See [tickers and social walls](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/tickers-social-walls.md).
- **Thank people.** A [logo wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/logo-wall.md) for sponsors in tiers and a [donor wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/donor-wall.md).
- **The occasion.** A [greeting](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/greeting.md) for a holiday or an occasion over a themed scene.

## School hallways and classrooms

A school is one place where screens do several jobs at once. The same ready-made apps cover them:

- **The message of the week.** An [announcement](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/announcement.md) shows one rotating message at a time, the same on every hallway screen, in large type that reads from across the corridor.
- **Recognising people.** A [spotlight](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/spotlight.md) shows one person at a time with a photo or monogram, their role or grade and a line in their own words. Swap the name each month, or loop several.
- **The day's timings.** The [bell schedule](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/bell-schedule.md) and [school lunch](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/school-lunch.md) sit beside the announcements at the door.
- **Who leads.** [House points](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/house-points.md) and a [class challenge](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/class-challenge.md) show standings as they change.
- **A ceremony.** [Commencement names](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/commencement-names.md) shows each name, degree and honours as graduates take the stage.

The [schools page](https://screenrig.ai/use-cases/schools.md) shows a school's screens working together.

## Make it yours

Tell your agent who the screen is for, what it should say and where it hangs. It picks the app or generates the poster, fills it in, publishes it and checks a screenshot. To change it later, say what changed.

> **You:** Make the break room screen cheerful: a countdown to the summer party on July 18, the team's kudos and a stretch break reminder.
>
> **Agent:** Done. The break room loop shows the countdown to July 18, the latest kudos and a stretch break reminder, one page after another. I checked a screenshot of each page.

## Digital signage template questions

### What are digital signage templates?

Ready-made designs you fill in. In screenRIG they are 200+ apps, playlist templates and generated posters. Your AI agent fills them in and puts them on your screens.

### Can I make my own template?

Yes. A playlist template is a playlist with named fields that your agent fills in each time. Playlist templates come with Plus and above. A custom application is another route, when a screen has a job of its own.

### What size is a digital poster?

1920 by 1080 for a landscape screen and 1080 by 1920 for an upright one. Ask your agent to generate a poster in 16:9 or 9:16, or another shape such as 4:3.

### Do templates work on every screen?

The ready-made apps play on every Player, including the Apple TV. Pages that hold a web page or a custom app need a Player that shows web pages.

### What do digital signage templates cost?

screenRIG is free, with unlimited screens. Paid plans add business tools, more people, people to talk to, governance and contract terms. See [pricing](https://screenrig.ai/pricing.md).

**Next:** browse every app in the [apps gallery](https://screenrig.ai/apps.md), or ask your agent what to put on your first screen.

## Sources

- [screenrig.ai/apps](https://screenrig.ai/apps)
- [screenrig.ai/docs/compose](https://screenrig.ai/docs/compose)
- [screenrig.ai/docs/cli](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cli)
- [screenrig.ai/docs/players](https://screenrig.ai/docs/players)

## Related

- [200+ Digital Signage Apps for TV Screens](https://screenrig.ai/apps.md): 200+ ready-made apps: menus, clocks, weather, queues and KPI dashboards your agent fills with live data.
- [Digital Signage App Library: 200+ Built-in Cards](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards.md): Add live components to a playlist: menus, clocks, queues, scores, weather and gauges. Choose a card, set its properties and publish.
- [Digital Bulletin Board and Message Board Ideas](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/message-board.md): Run a digital bulletin board on any TV: your AI agent posts announcements, tickers, recognition and social walls, and takes them down on time.
- [AI Digital Signage Software Run by Your Agent](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/ai.md): AI digital signage where your own AI agent makes the content, puts it on real TVs and checks the screen. Ten example requests and recorded timings.
- [Corporate Digital Signage for Office Screens](https://screenrig.ai/use-cases/office-digital-signage.md): Office screens your AI agent runs: the all-hands, company news, KPIs, a sales board, room signs and a break room loop, each kept current.

## More topics

- [Outdoor Digital Signage Software and DOOH](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/outdoor.md): Software for outdoor digital signs and DOOH: any Player can drive an outdoor display, and you can sell its airtime to advertisers.
- [News Ticker and Social Wall for Digital Signage](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/tickers-social-walls.md): Put a scrolling news ticker or a social wall on any screen. Your AI agent sets the headlines or reads your feed, and posts stay current by themselves.
- [Wayfinding Signs and Digital Directories](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/wayfinding.md): Digital wayfinding for lobbies, campuses and offices: your AI agent builds the directory, arrows, floor map and room boards.
- [Digital Menu Boards and Software for Any TV](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/menu-boards.md): Digital menu board software your AI agent runs: put your menu on any TV, switch breakfast, lunch and dinner by the clock and mark sold-out items.
- [All digital signage](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage.md): Digital signage software your AI agent runs: pair a TV, stick, Raspberry Pi or PC, say what to show and the agent builds and checks it.

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