Get an urgent message on every screen in seconds

Emergency alert digital signage that anyone on duty can use

Emergencies don't wait for the person who built the lobby playlist. The Broadcasts page is one short form: a message, a style, where to show it and for how long. There is nothing to design and nothing to schedule.

Use it for a fire drill, a building evacuation, a severe weather warning, a system outage notice, a lockdown instruction, or simply "The east entrance is closed today, please use the main door."

• Write the message in plain text
• Pick one of four styles
• Choose all screens, a group or one screen
• Set 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours or until you end it

Four tones for four kinds of message

Not every broadcast is an emergency, and screens shouldn't cry wolf. Each broadcast has one of four styles, so viewers can read its urgency before they read the words:

• Emergency (red) for evacuations, lockdowns and immediate safety instructions.
• Warning (amber) for weather, outages, closures and things people should act on soon.
• Announcement (blue) for important information that isn't urgent.
• Good news (green) for a record month, a big win or an all-hands reminder.

A message, content, or both

A broadcast can be text only, shown full screen in the chosen tone. It can also show content instead: an evacuation map, a prepared safety layout from the templates, a video or a playlist. When you choose content and a message together, the message runs as a banner across the content.

Tip: prepare your emergency layouts in advance, such as an evacuation map for each floor, so the person on duty only has to pick one.

Priority over everything else

Every screen follows the same order when deciding what to show: broadcast, then schedule, then the screen's own content, then its group's content. A live broadcast beats even a highest-priority schedule. Nothing needs to be paused or edited first, and nothing is lost: when the broadcast ends or its time runs out, each screen goes straight back to what it would have been playing.

Target a group, and every screen in it and in its subgroups is covered. Target one screen for a message at a single entrance.

Always clear that a broadcast is live

While a broadcast is running, a red banner appears at the top of every admin page for everyone signed in, so nobody forgets that screens are taken over. The Broadcasts page lists what's showing now, where, and until when, with an End broadcast button. Past broadcasts stay listed with who sent them and when, and every broadcast is recorded in the activity log.

Optional approval for broadcasts

Some organizations want every broadcast checked before it goes out. With approvals turned on, admins can also require approval for broadcasts: an editor's broadcast becomes a request, and it goes live when an admin approves it. Admins and owners can always broadcast straight away, so an urgent message is never stuck in a queue when the right person is on duty.