Announcements, schedules, photos and stories looping on the lobby, foyer or hallway screen — updated from a phone, with music, and no per-screen signage fee.
Most organisations already own the hardware for a digital announcement board: a television in the waiting room, the break room, the church foyer, the school hallway. What they do not have is a sane way to put announcements on it. So it shows a muted news channel, or a PowerPoint from a laptop someone has to leave logged in, or a USB stick of JPEGs that nobody has updated since spring.
Digital signage software solves this for restaurant menus and airport departures, and prices accordingly — per screen, per month, with a media player to buy and a scheduling console to learn. For a dental office with one TV and a church with two, that is the wrong tool at the wrong price.
A Slide Board is a deck that plays on repeat on any screen you pair with a six-digit code. You choose a template for the kind of room — a lobby, a class schedule, church announcements, school mornings, a donor wall — and it arrives with real starter slides, a theme and background music already in place, so it looks finished the moment it is created.
Each slide uses a fixed layout: a title, a quote, a schedule, a list of points, an announcement, a single big number. You fill in the words and pick a photo or clip; the layout keeps the text large enough to read from across the room, which is the thing a slide built in a presentation tool almost never gets right.
It is not a freeform design canvas. You cannot drag a text box to a corner or set a font to nine points, and that is deliberate: a board read from twenty feet away needs the discipline a canvas does not give. If you need pixel control, a signage suite is the better product.
It is not priced per screen. A Vivida View plan includes a number of boards and a number of paired screens; a second television in the same building does not start a second subscription.
Edit a slide on your phone and the television changes within seconds — it is showing the live board, not a file. Add Thursday’s event on Tuesday, retire it Friday, swap the photo when the season changes. Set how long each slide holds, or switch a board to manual advance for a presentation.
A Slide Board can also stand in for a mission or vision board when a deck is the shape you want, and the same account can run all three kinds on different screens.
Dental and medical waiting rooms. Gyms posting the class timetable. Churches with a foyer loop between services. Schools with hallway screens from first bell to last. Food banks and shelters with a donor-facing impact board. Small businesses with one television at reception and no IT department.
The examples gallery has a live Slide Board for several of these, built from a single sentence each, that you can watch play before you make your own.
A television with a browser from late 2022 or newer, or — the reliable answer — an inexpensive Fire TV stick in a spare HDMI port, which opens the board by itself when the TV turns on. Any computer on an HDMI cable also works. No media player to buy.
No. Plans include a set number of boards and paired screens; the current limits are on the pricing page. Adding a second screen in the same building does not add a second fee.
Not today. You set how long each slide holds and can add or retire slides in seconds from a phone, so a slide for Thursday goes up on Tuesday and comes down on Friday by hand. Scheduling by day or time is not something the product does yet.
Yes. Media layouts take a photo or a short clip, from your own files or a stock library searched inside the editor, with background music under the whole loop.
Business and Nonprofit plans include several users on one account, so the office manager and the pastor can both keep the board current.