With people working from home and traveling less due to the Covid pandemic, some have questioned whether digital signage is still the best communication medium for large and small businesses. We believe that not only does digital signage have a place in a post-Covid world; it's arguably more important than ever.

“What kind of screens should I buy?” This is one of the most common questions that we hear at XOGO. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer, but don't worry. In this blog post we'll cover all of the main things to consider when choosing your digital signage displays.

Most tasks related to digital signage (i.e., managing your players and content) can be accomplished via our easy-to-use XOGO Manager application. For other tasks, however, we offer a handy administrator portal that you can access from any web browser. Here are some of the things you can accomplish using the admin portal at admin.xogo.io

XOGO users can now customize the playback duration for each graphic in their playlists. In addition to the standard 15, 30, 45 and 60-second durations, users can set a custom duration (in seconds) of anywhere between 1 second and 60 minutes (3600 seconds). This allows users the ultimate flexibility, whether their content consists of advertisements, digital menu boards or even infotainment feeds.

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.

Digital signage is an ideal tool for small businesses. It’s easy to deploy, cheaper and more eco-friendly than printing, and keeps your viewers engaged. Read on for more information about digital signage and how to deploy it in your small business!

In addition to our award-winning XOGO Mini players, we are now offering enterprise-level hardware in conjunction with our technology partner Arrow. The XOGO Enterprise, Enterprise Dual and Enterprise Quad players all run Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC and are designed to play content across 2-4 screens at once. This allows you to set up multi-display video walls with ease, or run 4k content at high frame rates.

We’re happy to announce the release of a powerful new feature called advanced scheduling. XOGO users are now able to schedule items within any playlist so they will appear on-screen automatically at specific times, and on specific days of the week.

Keeping your digital content fresh doesn’t need to be a challenge. For a small monthly fee, any business can have access to 300 channels of the industry's most beautiful, curated content, specifically formatted for 16:9 screens and video walls. Choose from news, sports, weather, stocks, traffic information, trivia and more, in either landscape or portrait orientation. . Read more here and sign up for your free 14-day trial.

Our objective at XOGO is to make digital signage elegant, fun, and above all, easy to use. That's why we built our XOGO Manager app to run on devices that you already use everyday, like your PC, smart phone and tablet. But we didn't stop there.

Retailing at just $99 USD, the XOGO Mini is one of the most affordable digital signage players on the market. But what if your organization already has existing hardware or needs to use a specific operating system? Our XOGO Player app is available for Windows 10, Chrome, Android and now Fire TV devices, so there are literally hundreds of compatible computers, tablets and TVs on the market that can be transformed into digital signs simply by installing our app.

In the past two years, manufacturers around the world have begun building Internet-connected smart TVs that run on the Android operating system and even more recently, Amazon has partnered with Toshiba, Insignia and Best Buy in order to offer Fire TV-powered televisions. These devices make it easy to watch your favorite movies and shows, check social media feeds and play video games. But they also make incredible digital signs!

Major cities around the world are turning to digital signage as a method of communicating with residents and visitors. No longer just an advertising tool, digital signs are used to share news and weather info, upcoming events, public transit information and even emergency messages.

XOGO makes it incredibly easy to get your own graphics and videos playing on screens. But what if you could keep your content fresh without having to hire a designer or agency?  Dynamic content allows you to put your content on autopilot, and pull over 300 beautiful infotainment and social feeds into your XOGO playlists.

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. 

XOGO Decision Signage allows businesses of all sizes to quickly and easily put their messaging on the big screen. Check out our new ad spot to watch XOGO bring a business to life in just 60 seconds. 

It’s been a very exciting week for our engineering team. It is definitely not the first time we are taking the stage at a conference, but Build is different. Microsoft Build is THE developer conference for all engineers working with Microsoft technologies, and building products and services on top of various Microsoft platforms. It's an annual conference that we have been attending for a long time. 

Microsoft and XOGO unveiled the first Surface Premium retail experience over the weekend, at a Sundan store in Beijing’s renowned Sanlitun shopping district. A continuation of the popular Surface Table retail fixture, Surface Premium is a Microsoft “store-within-a-store” that allows consumers to test drive the latest Surface Pro and Surface Book hardware, along with the all-new Surface Studio, Surface Laptop and related software. 

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.