
Over the past two decades, digital signage has transformed the hospitality industry, becoming an essential tool for elevating guest experiences, improving staff communication, and boosting revenue. From interactive lobby concierge screens and personalized messaging on readerboards, to real-time updates and branded upsell opportunities, digital signage continues to redefine how hotels and resorts connect with guests and employees.
During Poppulo’s Forward ’24 virtual webinar series, Venessa Wiist, Poppulo’s Director of Customer Success, and Sean Rochambeau, Solutions Engineer at Poppulo, explored the innovative trends in digital signage for the hospitality industry, including how top innovators utilize technology to create memorable, customized guest experiences and streamline internal communications. You can watch the full session, Exploring the Latest Digital Signage Trends in Hospitality, on-demand here.
This executive brief explores the key takeaways from the webinar, including how to create personalized and interactive experiences to drive guest satisfaction and loyalty, new digital signage use cases for upselling services, promoting events, and driving onsite purchases, and how digital signage improves communication between staff and guests.

This guide explores how organizations can transform idle conference room screens into valuable employee communication channels. By displaying content between meetings—and automatically returning screens to their primary function when needed—businesses can extend the value of existing technology without disrupting workplace workflows. Idle screen takeovers can reinforce strategic priorities, expand campaign reach, promote time-sensitive information, improve meeting readiness, celebrate employee achievements, and deliver location- or audience-specific messages. The guide recommends keeping each screen focused on one clear message with concise copy, strong visual hierarchy, and an appropriate expiration date. The guide also provides a readiness checklist covering technical compatibility, stakeholder roles, content ownership, targeting capabilities, measurement, and governance. It encourages organizations to begin with a focused, low-risk pilot, evaluate its impact, and then scale the program across additional screens and locations.

This guide explains how digital signage helps modern manufacturing facilities turn real-time information into action. Strategically placed screens give operators, supervisors, and plant leaders immediate visibility into production performance, machine status, schedules, alerts, standard work instructions, and operational milestones. It also highlights applications that support quality, safety, and employee communication. These include inspection and scrap dashboards, environmental monitoring, process-change notifications, safety metrics, hazard and emergency alerts, training reminders, company news, HR updates, and employee recognition. By connecting digital signage with MES, business intelligence, maintenance, quality, equipment, inventory, and logistics systems, manufacturers can bring previously siloed data directly onto the factory floor. The result is stronger situational awareness, faster responses, better coordination, and improved productivity, quality, safety, and workforce alignment.

Over the past two decades, campus communication has shifted from posters and email blasts to a complex web of comms channels that are accessible to students, faculty, and visitors throughout their days. The modern university is both physical and digital, and the speed of communication must meet the needs of a digitally-native generation. In this environment, digital signage has moved from a nice-to-have to a strategic medium—visible, immediate, and flexible—one that connects a dispersed campus. This whitepaper explores how institutions are using digital signage to communicate smarter and faster, and how to build a program that is easy to operate, simple to scale, and resilient in the moments that matter most. Drawing on Poppulo’s expertise in digital signage for college campuses , we’ll share how leading universities are centralizing digital signage management, empowering multiple departments, and using data and design to make every message count. Keep reading to learn how top universities are leveraging digital signage to create more connected, informed, and vibrant campus communities, setting new standards for communication in higher education.