🎪 Event Digital Signage

Digital Signage for Events

Your screens do not depend on the venue Wi-Fi. The boards are loaded onto the players before you leave, so an outage an hour before doors is a non-event. On site everything runs from a browser: publish, reshuffle the running order, push it to the screens that need it.

Load the content before you start

Images and video live on the player itself, so a board does not go dark when the venue network does.

Update the running order centrally

Move a session to another room: one publish, and every screen carrying that board follows.

One account for every hall and city

Screen groups keep each venue, stage or tour stop on its own playlist and schedule.
Digital signage for events displayed on a large screen inside a theater with empty red seats.
  • No credit card required. From $6 per screen/month with volume pricing.

  • Runs on Android, Windows, Linux, Tizen, webOS, Raspberry Pi and more.

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Run every screen at the event from one account

Event digital signage lets organizers manage session schedules, wayfinding, exhibitor and sponsor content, check-in instructions and live social feeds across every screen at a venue from one centralized platform.
There is no need to reprint materials when a keynote runs long. Agenda boards follow the running order, hall directories follow the floor plan and sponsor loops start and stop on their contracted dates.

Sound familiar?

    • A red cross inside a black circle

      Agendas printed Monday, wrong by session two

    • A red cross inside a black circle

      Foam boards back at the printer at 11pm

    • A red cross inside a black circle

      A runner with tape and paper notices at every door

    • A red cross inside a black circle

      Sponsors asking you what actually played

Generic stock video file playing over a Music Fest line-up promotion Black USB flash drive with 4 GB storage capacity

What you get with Look

    • Every board edited in one browser

    • Content already on the players before doors open

    • Schedules that track the running order

    • A playback report to hand each sponsor

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From an empty hall to a live screen network

Connect a player, build a playlist, publish. One registration screen or a hundred displays across an expo floor — the steps do not change.
  • Schedule

    Connect your screens

    Install the Look App on a compatible display, or plug in the Look HDMI Player. Each screen shows a 6-digit device code; pair it with that.
  • Content

    Build and schedule your content

    Group agendas, wayfinding and sponsor content into playlists, then let Smart Scheduling switch them by session time, day and hall.
  • Playlists

    Publish to the screens you choose

    Publish from any browser to one screen, one hall or every venue on the tour. Screen tags decide which area gets which playlist.
Event Agency social post over a live concert crowd Friday schedule with icebreaker and workshop agenda Laptop with the Look content editor building an Endless Fun party promotion

Digital signage for every area of the event

A registration desk, a session room door and an expo aisle each catch an attendee at a different moment. Look runs them from one account, so every area keeps its own content, its own schedule and its own publishing rights.

Entrance and registration

Get attendees through the door without them asking.
Door screens answer what everyone asks on arrival — which desk to join, where badges are picked up for their ticket type, a QR code straight to the check-in page, coat check, Wi-Fi, and what time the first session starts.
Split the screen into zones and the welcome message, a doors countdown and the day's notices all sit there together, so nobody leaves the queue to go and ask.
Best for: Check-in instructions, badge pickup, QR to the check-in page, coat check and Wi-Fi, doors countdown

Session rooms and stages

Keep every room on the right session.
A screen outside each room shows what is on now, what follows and when the doors open. Inside, stage displays carry holding slides, speaker names and house notices between talks.
Keynote overruns? Edit the schedule in the CMS and republish. The door screens concerned pick up the new times, and room information stays right across the venue.
Best for: Now and next, speaker names, room changes, holding slides, house notices

Exhibition floor and booths

Let exhibitors fill their screen from their own office.
Product loops, demo videos and pricing come off the same CMS, so exhibitors ship files rather than freight. Each stand gets a screen tag and a playlist of its own.
Aisle screens carry the exhibitor directory, booth numbers and the demo schedule, and can be republished as the floor plan shifts during setup.
Best for: Exhibitor directory, booth numbers, product loops, demo schedules, booth branding

Concourses and wayfinding

Move a crowd without printing another arrow.
Concourse and corridor screens carry the floor directory and directional signage — which way to hall two, the keynote room, registration, the coat check, the exit — plus the transport and weather panel people check on the way out.
Cached images and video hold those boards up, even with a full hall hammering the venue network.
Best for: Floor directories, directional signage, hall maps, transport and weather, exit routing

Catering, lounges and networking

Fill the dead time between sessions.
In the catering hall and the lounges, screens carry serving times, menus with dietary notes and the networking schedule — plus the social wall that turns a coffee break into the bit of the day people post about.
Put a Wi-Fi QR code beside the coffee line and people connect on the spot, instead of queueing at the help desk to ask.
Best for: Serving times, menus and dietary notes, social walls, Wi-Fi QR, networking schedule

Sponsor and outdoor screens

Sell the slot, then show what ran.
Sponsor loops, headline partner branding and paid ad slots run on large-format and outdoor displays on the dates that were sold, because the start and end date sit on the content item itself.
When the campaign closes, playback statistics show how often each sponsor's content played, on which screens and for how long.
Best for: Sponsor loops, partner branding, dated ad slots, outdoor and large-format, playback reports

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We tried many different solutions for our platform. After many trials and errors, we found Look Digital Signage to be an amazing tool for our purposes.
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Key features

What should you look for in event digital signage software?

An event goes up and comes down inside a week, usually in a venue nobody on the team has worked before, on a network they do not control. So the software has to be ready before the trucks arrive, and quick to react when plans change in a full hall.
What conferences, expos, festivals and touring shows lean on hardest:

Free templates

Free event templates for agendas, stages and sponsors

Load your brand colors, fonts and logo once and every template picks them up. The event collection covers what venue screens really show — welcome and check-in boards, session agendas, speaker cards, exhibitor directories, sponsor slots, countdowns. Drop in the running order, schedule it, publish. Nothing goes to a printer, and nothing gets reprinted when a session moves.
Concert social post template next to a hot air balloon festival photoUnforgettable night of music social post template with a concert crowd photoUpcoming Event exhibition template with a company booth at a world expo
Unforgettable night of music social post template with a concert crowd photoUpcoming Event exhibition template with a company booth at a world expoFriday party schedule template with a Dance Again neon bar sign
Upcoming Event exhibition template with a company booth at a world expoFriday party schedule template with a Dance Again neon bar signFire alarm safety notice template with an evacuation instruction
Friday party schedule template with a Dance Again neon bar signFire alarm safety notice template with an evacuation instructionStadium entry template with a QR code and ticket price over a packed arena
Fire alarm safety notice template with an evacuation instructionStadium entry template with a QR code and ticket price over a packed arenaCountdown timer template showing days, hours and minutes until an event
Stadium entry template with a QR code and ticket price over a packed arenaCountdown timer template showing days, hours and minutes until an eventPoolside Bar promotion template with an underwater pool party photo
Countdown timer template showing days, hours and minutes until an eventPoolside Bar promotion template with an underwater pool party photoConcert social post template next to a hot air balloon festival photo
Poolside Bar promotion template with an underwater pool party photoConcert social post template next to a hot air balloon festival photoUnforgettable night of music social post template with a concert crowd photo

Built-in apps

Apps that keep the event screens current

Drop an app into a playlist like any other item and it refreshes on its own, so countdowns and hashtag walls look after themselves. Cached images and videos keep playing through an outage, and the apps resume once the venue is back online.

Frequently asked questions about event digital signage

What is digital signage for events?

Digital signage for events runs on a network of screens tied to one CMS, showing schedules, wayfinding, sponsor content, check-in steps, social feeds, and last-minute updates. Nothing needs reprinting or swapping out physical boards - the content updates on its own schedule, whenever it needs to.

What should I display on screens at a conference?

Say a keynote runs long and the next session slips by twenty minutes - that is the kind of update a conference screen exists to carry, alongside room changes, speaker details, sponsor messages, the QR code for check-in, and anything safety-related. Look supports multi-zone displays, so the agenda, a live social feed, and a sponsor slot can share one screen, switching automatically as the day moves from session to session or room to room.

How much does digital signage for events cost?

Look Digital Signage costs $13.50 per screen, per month, on annual billing, or $15 per month if paid monthly; annual billing works out about 10% cheaper. Screens, mounts, installation, and rentals are billed separately, so the total is lower if you already own the hardware. A 14-day trial covers up to 2 screens.

Can I rent screens, or do I need to buy them?

Renting is an option, as long as the rented display can run the Look app or take a media player over HDMI. For a short conference, exhibition, or pop-up lasting two or three days, that is usually simpler than buying. Teams that run events often tend to save money in the long run with their own screens and media players instead of paying setup and rental fees each time.

Will the screens keep playing if the venue Wi-Fi drops?

If venue Wi-Fi drops, the screens keep going. Content lives on the playback device already, so scheduled videos, images, layouts, and wayfinding do not depend on a live signal to play. What does depend on one, a social feed, a last-minute push, simply pauses until the network is back. Because of that, teams usually load the must-have material onto each player before the doors open rather than counting on the venue's network.

How fast can I set up screens the day before an event?

Playlists, schedules, layouts, and screen groups can all be built before reaching the venue; once on site, each display just needs to be connected and paired. From there, publishing content across the whole network takes one click. The physical setup itself, including mounts, cabling, power, and network access, still takes as long as the amount of hardware demands.

Can I sell sponsor slots and prove the impressions?

Sponsor slots are easy to sell once the delivery data backs up the claim: Look tracks the screen, the timestamp, and how many times a sponsor's content played. Screen time is not attention, though. A play count tells a sponsor their message showed up on schedule; it says nothing about how many people actually looked up to see it.

Can I show a live social media wall from the event hashtag?

Yes. Look can pull in social feeds and other live event data alongside schedules, announcements, or sponsor content, and connects to other tools through its API and Zapier. The social wall itself can sit in just one zone of a multi-zone screen. Because live feeds need a connection, it is worth having a cached playlist on standby for venues with unreliable networks.

Can one dashboard run screens across several venues or a tour?

Yes - a single Look dashboard handles screen groups across halls, venues, cities, or tour stops, and each group can keep its own playlists and schedule. More than 60,000 screens in over 120 countries already run on Look. For a tour specifically, media can be preloaded before the trip, and schedule changes go out from one place the moment each player finds a signal again.