By Kelly Parisi
— December 3rd, 2025
In a world where attention is fleeting and information moves fast, the ability to communicate with clarity and impact has never been more essential. Across offices, campuses, hotels, and venues, digital signage is no longer just a medium for messages—it’s the heartbeat of how organizations connect people to what matters most.
At Poppulo, we believe the future of communication is intelligent, integrated, and effortless. That belief drives every innovation we bring to life—and in 2025, it inspired a powerful wave of new capabilities designed to make digital signage more adaptive, data-driven, and effective.
This year’s advancements go far beyond visual refreshes or performance upgrades. They represent a bold step toward a smarter communication ecosystem—one that helps businesses not only share information, but truly shape experiences.
Let’s take a closer look at the top innovations that are redefining what’s possible with Poppulo Digital Signage right now.
Create Smarter, Design Faster, Deliver Better
The way teams create and manage content is changing fast—and in 2025, Poppulo made it easier than ever to keep up. From smarter workflows to AI-driven creativity, these new tools put power and simplicity right at your fingertips.
Meet the next-gen Poppulo Designer
Meet Poppulo Designer, our new web-based creative playground for digital signage, now in limited release. Built with simplicity and freedom in mind, it lets anyone craft stunning, dynamic layouts with intuitive drag-and-drop tools—and coming soon, smart AI layout suggestions to help your content look its best. It’s a whole new way to bring ideas to life on screen.
Lightning Templates: Fast, custom design—done for you
Sometimes, you just need great content now. With Lightning Templates, our creative services team designs beautiful, branded templates tailored to your organization—quickly. Whether you need an urgent campaign refresh or a full suite of ready-to-use layouts, our experts deliver high-quality, on-brand designs that help your messages shine across every display.
Simplify content management at scale with labels enhancements
Keeping content organized across a growing network of screens can be a challenge. Our new bulk management tools make it easy to label, tag, and update multiple assets in seconds—keeping your library clean, campaigns consistent, and your team focused on creating, not maintaining.
Keep every screen running smoothly
Every great communication strategy depends on reliable screens—and now keeping them healthy is easier than ever. Our upgraded Device Health Management tools give IT teams and signage admins sharper visibility, smarter insights, and faster paths to resolution.
With improved status and timestamp separation, teams can filter by device status and sort by timestamp to spot issues quickly. A new Device Grid View toggle helps users focus on devices only, while customizable views let admins reorder columns, adjust layouts, and auto-save their preferred setup.
To speed troubleshooting, the enhanced Device Status Tracker displays real-time percentages of online, offline, and pending devices with quick drill-down. And coming next, the Device Insights Tile will offer 7-day trends—like average offline duration and planned vs. unplanned events—so teams can stay proactive and keep networks running smoothly.
Surface proof-of-play and performance data
You’ve spent time creating great content—now it’s time to see how it performs. With Content Playback Reporting, you can finally track what’s playing, where, and how often. Validate compliance and make data-backed decisions about what to run next.
Turn data into decisions with AI
Data is great. Insights are better. Our first AI Agent, Analyze does the heavy lifting for you—scanning playback patterns and device data to spot trends and surface recommendations. Think of it as your built-in data analyst, helping you make smarter communication decisions in minutes, not days.
Integrate, Automate, Extend
From real-time data dashboards to interactive experiences and secure system connections, we’ve made it easier than ever to turn your screens into living, breathing parts of your business ecosystem.
Bring data to life on every screen
Data is more powerful when everyone can see it. With new integrations for Tableau, Grafana, and ServiceNow, you can visualize live dashboards, KPIs, and operational metrics directly on your digital signage—no logins, no browser tabs. Whether it’s tracking service requests, performance goals, or business outcomes, your data is now front and center where it drives action.
Create seamless guest and staff experiences
For hotels, resorts, and casinos, timing is everything. Our integration with OHIP (Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform) connects Poppulo Digital Signage directly to your property management system, so information flows effortlessly between staff and guests. Think real-time event updates, personalized welcomes, and property-wide coordination that feels as smooth as your guest experience.
“When your systems talk to each other, your screens become infinitely more powerful.” —Austen Portz, VP of Product & Technology, Poppulo
Turn passive screens to interactive moments
With Nexmosphere sensor integration, your digital signage can now do more than display—it can respond. Screens can detect motion, light, and proximity to create truly interactive experiences that surprise and delight.
Imagine a screen that wakes up with a dynamic greeting as someone walks by, shifts from brand storytelling to product details when a guest lingers, or changes content the moment an item is picked up from a display. It’s immersive, sensory, and immediate—transforming signage from something you look at into something you interact with.
Stay secure while staying connected
For organizations operating in high-security or government environments, communication can’t come at the cost of compliance. Our new SharePoint integration for GCC High ensures teams can securely access and display internal data, while fully meeting rigorous regulatory standards. It’s the best of both worlds—connected and compliant.
Make every meeting space work smarter
Meeting rooms are the heartbeat of today’s hybrid workplaces—and an essential communication touchpoint. This year, Poppulo continued expanding its conference room signage capabilities to bring real-time communication directly to the places employees move through most. We’re in the final stages of adding Zoom Rooms and Neat to the ecosystem, with other leading platforms like Microsoft Teams Rooms and Cisco following.
With real-time room availability, upcoming schedules, and in-progress meeting details displayed right at the door, every screen becomes an opportunity to keep employees informed and on track. The result is clearer wayfinding, fewer interruptions, and a consistent, branded communication experience across the entire workplace—not just the common areas.
Flexible Hardware for Every Environment
The best digital signage platform should meet you where you are—whether that’s a corporate HQ, manufacturing floor, or hotel lobby. In 2025, Poppulo expanded its ecosystem to make deployment easier and more versatile than ever.
Start fast with plug-and-play simplicity
Sometimes, simple is powerful. With the Amazon Signage Stick and Bluefin Displays, getting started with Poppulo is as easy as plug, connect, and play. These affordable, reliable options deliver professional-grade performance without the complexity—perfect for quick rollouts, pilot projects, or scaling communication across multiple sites.
Go big with compact, all-in-one power
When space is tight but expectations are high, Android Firefly and Philips AIO displays deliver everything you need in one sleek package. These integrated, high-performance players make large-scale deployments faster, cleaner, and easier—ideal for retail, hospitality, and enterprise environments where design meets function.
Stay fully aligned with IT standards
For enterprise teams, compatibility and control are key. With full Windows 11 support, Poppulo ensures a seamless fit into your existing network infrastructure, giving IT teams the security, manageability, and reliability they expect—with the communication impact your people deserve.
Unleash next-level playback performance
Meet the BrightSign Series 6, a true performance powerhouse. This integration brings lightning-fast playback, multi-output support, and enterprise-grade security to your signage network—delivering smooth visuals, rich motion, and rock-solid reliability, even in the most demanding environments.
Boost performance with expanded Samsung SSP support
In 2025, we expanded our support for Samsung’s latest QMC and QMB displays, giving organizations more flexibility and higher performance across their signage network. These next-generation SSP devices now integrate seamlessly with Poppulo—and with enhanced local storage support, they deliver smoother playback, faster load times, and improved reliability across all types of content.
What’s Next: Building the Future of Intelligent Communication
As we look ahead, one thing is clear—the future of digital signage isn’t just about technology. It’s about creating intelligent communication ecosystems that adapt, respond, and connect people in meaningful ways.
At Poppulo, we’re continuing to push that vision forward, combining data, design, and intelligence to help organizations communicate smarter, faster, and more dynamically across every environment. From agentic AI to next-gen creative tools and powerful integrations, 2026 will bring even more ways to make every screen count. Check out our future-focused outlook from Pop Summit 2025 here.
And if you’ll be at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2026, we’d love to meet you there. Stop by the Poppulo booth or book some time in advance to see these innovations come to life—and get a glimpse of what’s next for intelligent digital signage.