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Use Case

First impressions, managed centrally

Welcome screens that look designed rather than improvised: branded layouts with weather, clock and news widgets, birthday and anniversary greetings generated from a spreadsheet, and a live Instagram wall, published to every lobby from one place.

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A lobby welcome screen is a display in a reception or entrance area that greets visitors, sets the tone for the brand, and shares useful context, announcements, news, weather and social proof, before anyone says hello.

How it works

Setting up lobby welcome screens with Digisigns

  1. 1

    Pair the lobby screen

    Install the free player on the lobby display, eight platforms are supported, plus a browser player, and pair it with the on-screen code.

  2. 2

    Design the welcome layout

    Start from a template in Studio and add zones: a greeting, your logo, weather, a clock and a news ticker, in portrait or landscape.

  3. 3

    Automate the personal touch

    Upload a spreadsheet of birthdays and anniversaries with photos, and the Events widget generates the greeting layouts for you.

  4. 4

    Publish to every lobby

    Group screens by site and publish once, with schedules switching content through the day.

Features that matter here

What makes Digisigns good at lobby welcome screens

Greetings from a spreadsheet

The Events widget builds birthday and anniversary greeting layouts from an uploaded XLSX plus photos, no design work per person.

Templates and brand fonts

A searchable template library, drag-and-drop editing and custom brand fonts keep every lobby on brand without a designer on call.

Weather, clocks and news

Themed weather, analog or digital clocks with worldwide timezones, and RSS news feeds fill the screen with genuinely useful ambience.

Live social proof

The Instagram widget shows posts, reels and hashtag feeds from your connected account, and YouTube video embeds with autoplay and loop.

Different content by daypart

Schedules switch the screen from a morning welcome to afternoon events to an evening wind-down automatically.

Hotels: lobby to in-room

Hospitality mode adds TV source switching and an in-room feed, so the same platform runs the lobby and the guest rooms.

The lobby is a screen you already own

Most receptions have a TV playing a muted news channel, someone else’s content, someone else’s ads. A welcome screen flips that: your brand, your announcements, your social feed, arranged in a designed layout with weather, clocks and news for genuine usefulness. Studio’s templates and brand fonts keep it looking intentional, and the Events widget handles the human touch, generating birthday and anniversary greetings from a simple spreadsheet.

Publishing is central: one dashboard runs every lobby, schedules rotate content through the day, and instant push means a VIP welcome goes live in seconds.

From office lobbies to hotel front desks

The same setup stretches across industries. Offices pair the lobby screen with internal communications deeper in the building; venues add a social media wall beside the entrance; large sites add wayfinding kiosks so the welcome extends to directions. Hotels go further with Hospitality mode, TV source switching and an in-room feed, running reception and guest rooms from one platform. See what’s included, then start a 14-day free trial on the screen at your own front desk.

Lobby Welcome Screens FAQs

What should a lobby welcome screen display?
A visitor greeting, your brand, and content that rewards a glance: announcements, weather, a clock, news headlines and social feeds. The strongest lobby screens rotate a small set of well-designed layouts rather than a long slideshow.
Can we greet a specific visitor by name?
For recurring occasions, yes, the Events widget generates birthday and anniversary greetings from a spreadsheet. For an ad-hoc VIP visit, edit a greeting template and publish; instant cloud push puts it on the lobby screen in seconds.
Can the same screen show different content through the day?
Yes. Time-slot and day-of-week schedules switch layouts automatically, welcome content at opening, event promotion at lunch, and a quiet branded loop after hours.
We have several offices, can each reception manage its own lobby?
Yes. Screens sit in nested groups per site, and reception staff can be given sub-user roles scoped to just their location's screens.

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Social Media Walls

Show a live social media wall on any screen, Instagram posts, reels and hashtag feeds plus YouTube, with an approval queue for public displays. Free trial.

Wayfinding

Guide visitors with interactive 3D wayfinding kiosks, step-free routes, multilingual search and kiosk-to-mobile QR handoff for malls, airports and hospitals.

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