What’s on screen

• Project showcase: a large panel on the left that cycles through project photos with a slow zoom. Each slide shows the location, a headline with one gold italic word, a short description and a progress bar.

• Live Dubai clock with today’s date in both the Gregorian and Hijri calendars.

• Live weather for Dubai: the current temperature, the day’s high and low, humidity and wind. It updates every 15 minutes.

• Prayer times using the Dubai calculation method, with the next prayer highlighted and a countdown to it.

• QR code that sends visitors to your consultation page.

• News ticker along the bottom for studio announcements.

• The page reloads itself once a night so the player keeps running smoothly.

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New Feature

• Salesforce Sales Dashboard App

  • Turn your Salesforce data into a ready-made sales dashboard, with nothing to build in Salesforce first.

  • Connect your account, choose a pipeline and set a revenue target. Yodeck creates four views: Performance, Pipeline, Leaderboard and Efficiency.

  • Already have dashboards in Salesforce? The existing Salesforce app is still available to display them.

  • Available on Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus plans.

  • Learn more in the Salesforce Sales Dashboard guide.

• Google Reviews App

  • Show reviews from your Google Business Profile directly on your screens.

  • Filter by star rating and timeframe, choose from three display themes. Reviews refresh automatically.

  • Available on all plans.

  • Learn more in the Google Reviews app guide.

• Sign In App

  • Display live check-in data from your Sign In App account, including expected visitors and people signed in by site and group.

  • One connection covers multiple sites. Filter by group, such as employees, visitors or deliveries, to show only what matters on each screen.

  • Available on Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus plans.

  • Learn more in the Sign In App guide.

Improvement

• Apps Permissions

  • Decide exactly who manages Apps. In Custom Roles, Media and Apps permissions are now set separately, each with its own view, create, edit and delete access.

  • Your content team can manage media files without touching the apps that power live data on screen. Existing roles stay as they are.

  • Find it under Account settings > Custom Roles. Available on Enterprise and Enterprise Plus plans.

  • Learn more in the user roles guide.

• Create Apps via the Yodeck API

  • Create, configure and assign App Gallery apps to screens through the API.

  • Supports Ticker, QR Code, Date and Time, Custom RSS and Weather (daily, hourly and current).

  • Read the API documentation.

It makes sense. What you want to see from a screen often depends on where you are, what you’re doing, and even what time it is. That’s a useful way to think about your own screens, too.

Share the information people actually need

Some of the best screen content is also the simplest. 

In an office, that could be company news, an upcoming event, or a reminder everyone needs to see. In a hotel, guests might appreciate breakfast hours, Wi-Fi information, or tomorrow’s weather. In a school, it could be a schedule change or a reminder about an upcoming activity.

A good place to start is with the questions people already ask you. If visitors regularly need directions or customers keep asking about opening hours, why not put the answer where they can easily see it?

Show what matters right now

One of the advantages of digital signage is that your screens don’t need to show the same content from morning to night.

A café can switch from breakfast to lunch specials around noon. A gym might highlight an evening class as the workday ends, while a store could give more space to a new arrival or a weekend offer.

There’s no need to fit everything onto one screen. A few relevant messages are much easier to notice and understand.

Give people a reason to look again

When people walk past the same screen every day, they’ll eventually stop noticing it if nothing ever changes.

Keeping things fresh doesn’t mean creating something new every morning. You can mix in customer reviews, social posts, upcoming events, company milestones, weather, traffic, or a countdown to something everyone’s looking forward to.

And don’t feel that everything needs to look like a campaign. A photo from yesterday’s team lunch might get more attention in the office than a polished announcement, simply because people recognize the faces on the screen.

Make waiting time a little more useful

We all spend time waiting: at reception, in a clinic, in a hotel lobby, or standing in a queue. So why not make that time a little more useful?

A clinic could answer common questions before an appointment. A university could show what’s happening around campus that week, while a car dealership might share a few simple car maintenance tips.

Not every message has to sell something. Sometimes helping someone find an answer, learn something new, or simply pass the time is enough.

Celebrate your people

Your screens can also reflect the people behind your business.

Welcome a new colleague, celebrate a work anniversary, congratulate a team on hitting a goal, or share a customer review that made everyone smile. It’s an easy way to make workplace screens feel more connected to what’s actually happening in the business.

And if someone brings their dog to the office and you get a great photo, we’d say that deserves some screen time too.

Give people a next step

Sometimes you want people to do more than just look. Maybe you want them to book a table, sign up for an event, leave feedback, or see the full menu.

A QR code makes that easy. Just tell people what they’ll get when they scan it: “Scan to book your spot” is much more inviting than “Scan here.”

💬 What’s working on your screens?

There’s no perfect digital signage playlist. What works in a coffee shop might not work in an office, hotel, school, or warehouse.

So try things out. See what people notice, and change things when they start to feel stale. 

And if you’ve found something that really works, share it in the Yodeck Community.

We’d love to see what’s on your screens, and your idea might be exactly what another Yodeck user has been looking for!

The need: Clients walk into our Biscayne Boulevard lobby and need a clear place to check in. I wanted one TV screen that tells them to have a seat, what to bring, our hours, and how to reach us, without a stack of flyers at the front desk.

What I made: A landscape waiting-room screen with a "Check in. We'll take it from here." welcome, a short list of what to bring (photo ID, recent credit reports if they have them, and the accounts they want reviewed), office hours, a note that walk-ins are welcome and appointments are seen first, a QR code to thewolfofcreditrepair.com, and our address and phone in the footer. I built it in Yodeck for our lobby TV and used Magic Layout earlier to explore layouts before landing on this final check-in design.

How we'll use it: It will run on the TV in our waiting area at 2125 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 204 during business hours so every visitor knows what to do the moment they walk in.

Thanks, Yodeck team!

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