August 2024 – FREE Digital Signage Resources for Your Arreya Content

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Hot pink background with an overlayed pattern of witch hats, pumpkins, bats, lightning bolts, stars, and dots. Illustrated spooky objects make letters that read 'Halloween' in the center of the image. Zombie bones make the 'H' and 'N'. Witch hat 'A', candle 'L's, moon 'O', bat 'W', and pumpkin 'E's. Two white spider webs flank black letters in a shaky font spell trick or treat.

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A solid white background with a drawing of a beer can with a light blue label. To the right a large yellow circle sits with the words 'International Beer Day' crossing the middle of it. The words are light blue with a black outline in a rounded, playful, sans font. At the top of the circle reads 'AUG. 2' in small white letters. Below the circle reads 'Please Celebrate Responsibly' in small black letters.

A white background with gold circles sporadically spotting it. Coming from the bottom edge, a large clipart illustration of two beer mugs overflowing with lots of foam clink together. Above in large, bold letters says, 'INTERNATIONAL BEER DAY' in gold sans letters outlined in brown to match the beer. Center on the bottom edge over the mugs is 'AUGUST 2' in small, brown letters outlined in off white.

A line art pattern hops on leaves and vines drawn in blue fill the image on top of a solid beige background.

Wavy sections of different shades of solid light green colors fill the image background. In the center of the image is a half circle slice of a clipart watermelon. Above the fruit is the words 'National Watermelon Day' in bold, black, sans letters with a light yellow outline and a bright yellow drop shadow. In the same font, below the watermelon, reads 'August 3rd' centered in the image.

A solid green rectangle horizontally spans across the bottom edge of the image with a thin, light green rectangle on top of it. A red background fills the rest of the image. Three horizontal rows of small, black, teardrop shapes are right above the green rectangles against the red background.

A light blue background with an illustration of a whole watermelon with a half circle watermelon slice sitting in front of it is repeated over and over creating a grid filling the entire image. The center of the image is a large circle, the same color of the background, cutting out the pattern. In the circle 'Happy National Watermelon Day!' is written in large, all-caps, geometric sans letters. The word 'watermelon' is the same pink red color of the watermelon slices. The rest of the words are in the dark green color. At the bottom of the circle says 'August 3' in small green letters.

A digital illustration of a diverse crowd of happy people fill the left side of the image in a circle. The right side is solid black with 'National Friendship Day', a thin, horizontal, white line, 'Near or far, old or new, friends come in many different ways. August 4'. The words are in a white, thin, handwritten, all-caps, serif font. Framing the illustration against the solid black are two arched lines each appearing to be apart of a circle. The leftmost line is orange, and then a yellow line is next to it with a little sliver of black in between them.

Two geometric shaped people digital drawings coming from each side of the image, and are high-fiving each other in the center of the image. Below the hands and arms of the people reads 'Happy National Friendship Day!' in bold, red, serif letters. Behind the words is a white outline heart shape. The person to the left is hot pink wearing a white beaded necklace, light pink t-shirt, and dark green pants. On their high-five arm is a red wrist watch. The right person is brown, with a red cardigan and a light pink dress on. Both people have gray hair. In the top right corner is a hot pink circle with 'AUG 4' in the center typed on bold white, serif letters. The background of the image appears to be a doorway. The left side of the wall is solid white, the right side is hot pink. The open doorway is a pale, beige. pink color.

An ai image of a cat made out of paper cuttings sits on the right side of the image. The cat is looking straight forward with bright yellow eyes. It hs made out of lots of colors, for example shades of pink orange, white, and blue. The cat is also sitting on flowers of the same colors. On the left reads 'International Cat Day August 8th' in cursive sans blue letters with a faint pink drop shadow.

A birds-eye image of a black and white tuxedo cat looking up ant to the right on top of a solid yellow background. To the right of the cat reads 'Happy International Cat Day' in large, bold, black, round capped, sans letters. Below in smaller and thinner black letters reads 'We hope you have a PURR-FECT day'.

An image on the s'mores close up are located on the left side of the image against a solid white background. The words 'National S'mores Day 08/10' are in the bottom right corner. They are typed in a bold, brown, sans font.

A birds eye view of a wooden plate with s'mores stacked on it in the bottom right corner. Skewers uncooked marshmallows sit the the left of the plate. In the top left corner is a wooden platter with chocolate, marshmallows, crackers, and more unused skewers. The bottom left corner also has chocolate and crackers. Everything is against a green background. Along the bottom edge the words 'National S'mores Day' is overtop the image. In the top right corner says '08/10'. The font used for the words is a handwritten, all-caps and tan with a with outline, with each letters varying in height.

A peach background with a drawing of a left hand holding a wooden pencils comes from the bottom left edge of the image. The had appears to have written the words 'Happy International Left Handers Day August 13th' to the right of it. The words are typed in a black, looped, round, cursive, sans font.

A solid off-white background with a drawing of a left hand coming from the bottom edge of the image. The hand is making a heart shape with its thumb and pointer fingers. Floating above the fingers is a red heart. To the right are the words 'August 13th is' in small, thin, white letters in a red rectangle. 'International Left Handers Day!' is below in large, bold, black, sans letters with a faint white drop shadow.

Light green background with drawings of solid green or blue colored circles or circles that are only outlines in the bottom right and top left corners. 'Happy National Nonprofit Day August 17' is left aligned between the circles in the center of the image. The font used is all-caps, bold, blue sans.

A light beige background with a digital, watercolor drawing of of a brown bear standing on its back legs and hugging a white heart in its arms. The bear blushes and little pink hearts are floating up around it. To the left says 'August 17th is National Nonprofit Day Thank you for the differences you help make possible.' The words are a bold, brown, sans font, and the words 'Nonprofit Day' are bigger in size with a thick white outline around them.

A brown background with the heads and necks of two dog illustrations coming from the bottom left corner and bottom edge. The left dog is light brown with a light pink tongue hanging out of its smiling mouth. It has a dark brown spot around its left eye. The smaller dog to the right is white with a gray spot. It's winking and it's hot pink tongue also hangs out. On the right side of the image is the words 'International Dog Day' in bold, white, all-caps letters with a light brown drop shadow. A horizontal, white line below the words. Then below that line, in smaller letters reads 'AUG. 26'.

A digital illustration of a tan dog catching an orange frisbee in the middle of the pink, purple, and green forest. Overlayed on the right side of the image are two transparent, white rectangles stacked on top of eachother. Inside the rectangles reads 'Happy International Dog Day' in large bold letters. Below 'Warm wishes & slobbery kisses to our four legged friends today.' is typed in smaller less bold letters. The words are all in a dark purple, all-caps, organic, serif font.

A pale, blurry rainbow background with organic dots spotting the top left, right, and bottom right corners. An illustration of a happy, spotted teal and orange belly, t-rex dinosaur wearing a rainbow hat is on the left side of the image. On the right are the words 'This year is going to be' in red, then 'DINO-MITE!' each letter a different color, and lastly 'Welcome Back' in navy.

Blue background with white cloud shape crossing the entire middle of the image horizontally. Textbooks, pencils, stars, and paper airplanes, surround the cloud shape. The school supplies are in the colors red, orange, brown, purple, or green.

A dark navy background with ai illustrations of stars, planets and rockets spotted across the edges of the image. In the center are the words 'This year is going to be a blast, Welcome Back!'. The words are in a white, sans font. 'Welcome Back!' has a red drop shadow, and the rest of the words have a light blue drop shadow.

A dark teal, green background with illustrations or leaves, pink asterisk, leaves, and mushrooms fill the edges of the image. The center is left blank. The mushrooms have red with white spots on their tops. The leaves come on either pink, gold, or black.

An ai image of a meadow in the perspective from the ground with white daisies with yellow centers growing around you. The blue sky is visible along the top edge of the image, and a bee is flying in the top left corner. A faint, transparent, white rectangle is inset in the center of the image.

Animated Gifs

A gif of the words 'Happy Friendship Day' growing larger to smaller, and up and down. The words are pink with little shapes surrounding them. All overtop a solid white shape outlining all the wods and shapes. Examples of the shapes are red hearts, yellow sparkles, multi colored and sized circles, and multi colored raindrop shapes. Swirl lines grow out form some of the letters as they get bigger, and then disappear when the letters get smaller. The background is a solid, bright blue color.

A gif showing different illustrated cats in each frame. Starting with a black cat on a pink background walking in, and then arching it's back before walking out of the frame. Next a calico cat sitting next to a basket of yellow pears on a gold background. A light pink background with a small black cat eating from a red bowl appears, and then a red background and table top with a back vase on it appears. A calico cat peaks up over the table ledge. Next a birds eye view of a gold table top with one key sittin on it. Cat paws appear, and bat at the keys. Another red background shows with a orange tabby cat by a broken black vase. The black arching cat, and the cat next to the pears appear again. Lastly a white cat laying down gets suprised by a red ball bouncing in front of it on a light blue background.

A gif with a dusty, light blue background and a large darker blue spot in the center of it. In the spot is a drawing of a s'more, but the marshmallow is a white cat sitting on the chocolate and the top cracker laying on top of the cat. The cat is tilting its head left to right. The bottom edge of the gif has the words 'National S'mores Day | Aug. 10' in small, white, sans letters.

A gif of pencil drawing of a left hand, palm up, opening and closing its fingers against a solid white background.

A gif with a solid navy background and a white circle with a zigzag edge rotates clockwise. In the center of the circle says 'Donate Now!' in bold, navy, serif letters slightly tilted to the left. The words do not move.

A gif of the end of an unused yellow, wood pencil that turns and becomes sharpened to a tip. Above the pencil the black, sans words 'Back to School' is sit on writing lines with a yellow drop shadow.

July 2024 – FREE Digital Signage Resources for Your Arreya Channel

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The orange background with a gold triangle crossing through the center horizontally. In the bottom left corner are the words 'July 1st is' in small letters in a navy rectangle. Below, in large letters, read 'National Postal Worker Day'. The font used is a white, typewriter serif. On the right is an illustration of a postal worker wearing a blue uniform with a red tie, brown shoes, and a blue hat. They are riding a red bike and are holding up an envelope in their right hand. A brown bag is over their left shoulder filled with mail and is blowing behind them. A gray good wearing a blue hat is flying in front of the postal worker holding an envelope in its feet.

A light blue background with a drawing of a white envelope with a black outline on the right bottom side. The envelope is open and red, bright blue, and dark blue hearts are coming out of it. To the left says 'Happy National Postal Worker Day' in large letters. Below, smaller, reads 'Thank you for hard work and dedication to deliver our mail.' The words are in a black, sans, handwritten font.

A blue background covered in five pointed stars of various sizes. In the center a pointed edge circle filled with red and white stripes. The words 'Happy Fourth of July!' are in the center. The font used is bold, white, script letters with a thick blue outline.

A photo of a person parachuting in the sky with a large American Flag flowing behind and below them. A small airplane flies away by the bottom right corner of the flag. The sky is mostly a large, fluffy white cloud, with a sliver of bright blue sky showing at the top. On the right the words 'July 4th' are in in navy, bold, sans, all-caps letters with a thick white outline. Below, in a red rectangle, reads 'INDEPENDENCE DAY' in smaller, white, sans letters.

An close up ai image of white and brown round, chocolate pieces that are sitting in the indents of a chocolate bar. A brown, horizontal rectangle crosses the bottom edge. In the center of the rectangle reads 'World Chocolate Day | July 7th' in white, bold, serif letters.

An close-up, ai image of chocolate balls drizzled in chocolate syrup, and lined up in rows. In the center reads 'Happy World Chocolate day' in white, cursive, script letters. A circle outline surrounds the words. Small, at the bottom of the circle, in the same font as the other words, reads 'July 7th'.

A pale yellow background with an illustration of a hot dog walking to the left in red is on the left side of the image. In the bottom right corner reads 'JUL 17' in small, thin, gold, sans letters. Below 'NATIONAL' in gold, HOT DOG' in red, and 'DAY' in gold. The Words are in large, bold, round serif letters.

A solid, bright red background with a thin, white outline rectangle border inset in the image. The bottom left corner reads 'WEDNESDAY' and bottom right reads 'JULY SEVENTEENTH' in small, white, bold, all-caps, sans letters. A photo of a Chicago style hot dog is in the bottom center of the image. Above and behind the hot dog says 'NATIONAL HOT DOG DAY' in the same white letters, just large and bold.

A solid white background with illustrations of ice cream cups, ice cream on a stick, ice cream cones, and candy filling all the edges, but leaving the center empty. The treats are in pink, orange, teal, and purple colors.

A solid black background with the words 'National Ice Cream Day' in large, bold, white, all-caps, sans letters stacked offset in the center of the image. Above the word 'day' is a dark pink square with rounded corners. In the rectangle, in the same white letters reads 'JULY 21'. The words are surrounded with falling ice cream cones.

A pale pink background with a large clipart image of an ice cream cone on the left side. The waffle cone is in in shades of gold. Three various shades of pink ice cream are scooped on top of the cone. The words 'national ice cream day' are in dark pink, round, lower case, sans letters at the bottom left of the image.

A solid, dark green background with an illustration of a orange hand holding a light blue watering can pouring water onto an orange brain. White and blue flowers with green leaves surround the brain. The words 'Happy National Intern Day' are on the left side in white. They are written in a round, geometric, sans font.

The words 'Happy National Intern Day' sit on the left center of the image in bold, black, sans letters. Below reads 'Thank you for choosing us to be par of your career journey.' in small, off-white letters, and in a teal rectangle. To the right is and illustration of four people standing or walking. Fist is a person holding a laptop, wearing a purple sweatshirt,and red pants. Then a woman wearing a hijab, a long sleeve button up, and teal pants. Next a lady wearing a gray suit is walking. Lastly a man wearing blue pants, a white shirt, is walking and holding a laptop in one arm and his phone in the other. The background of the image is peach on the right side, and off-white on the left. The off-white and peach meet in the center in a pointed shape.

On the bottom left is a short, white rectangle with the words 'HAPPY INTERN DAY!' in bold, blue letters. Above that is a light blue rectangle with an illustration of a crowd of peoples' silhouettes facing forward. The people are drawn in color blocks of white, pink, and various shades of blue. The right side is a dark blue rectangle with the message 'We are celebrating our wonderfully talented interns, and we look forward to watching these fantastic individuals grow.' The message is written in small, white letters. The font used for all the words is a bold, sans font.

A green background with an illustration of a large brown bear sitting with its front paws touching its back paws, and smiling. Sitting in the large bears lap is a small, smiling, tan bear. On the left reads 'Happy Parent's Day!' a thin, white, horizontal line below, and then 'You're the Beary Best'. The words made out of are white, rounded, sans letters outlined in black.

A pale pink background with an illustration of three hands stacked on top of eachother to the bottom left side. A horizontal, peach colored, wavy line crosses the image behind the hands. To the left of the hands the line makes a heart shape. On the right above the line, reads 'Happy National Parent's Day' in the same peach color. In the top left corner is 'July 28' in small letters. The font used of the words is a round, cursive script.

A transparent, white rectangle with rounded corners sits on top of a color blocked background. The colors are a blue circle in the top left corner, then a yellow wave, green wave in the center with half a black circle in the bottom left corner, and large red circle covering the right side.

A light blue background covered in overlapping red, blue, and white circles creating a chain pattern. A horizontal, slightly transparent, white, rectangle with blurred edges crosses the center of the image.

A solid, light blue background with illustrations of various kinds of green leaves, and white flowers on the left edge.

A digital illustration of a birds eye view of a blue pool. A blue and white striped beach ball floats in at the bottom of the image slightly to the left. In the top right floats a blue, inflatable inner tube. White flowers float in the water, and green leaves edge the image.

A red background with large spots of yellow, orange, and tan around all the edges. On top, transparent, white silhouettes of tropical leaves also come from all edges.

Animated Gifs

A dusty blue background with an illustration of a white mail van at the bottom of the gif. The van has a one red and one blue, thin, horizontal stripes across the center. A red outline drawing of a envelope with three small horizontal lines to the left is on the side of the van above the horizontal lines. The van slightly moving up and down while its wheels are turning counter clockwise. Above the van the words 'Thank You for Your Service' in all-caps, white letters are pop in and out of the gif.

A red background with white and green teardrop shaped fireworks bursting in and out. The word 'Happy' in small, white, script letters sits above 'FOURTH OF JULY' in large, bold, white, sans letters.

A gif of a hand waving a small American Flag in a stick on the right side. To the left reads 'HAPPY 4TH OF JULY' in small, red, bold, sans letters outlined in black. Below in large letters, all outlined in black, are 'U' in blue, 'S' in red' and 'A' in white. In the light blue background appears burst os red, white, and blue fireworks.

GIF with a beige background with a pink, heart, chocolate box wrapped in a yellow bow sits in the center. The box opens showing all the chocolates. Four hands come into the gif from each corner and grab all the chocolates, then pull away. The box closes and the gif starts over.

A gif of a hot dog in a bun wearing an American Flag tank top and sweat headband is standing in a small inflatable, American Flag pool, holding an american flag in one hand, and eating donuts out of a blue bucket with the other. The donut bucket sits on a red sign that reads 'HOTDOG EATING CONTEST' in dripping white letters. Behind everything are red and blue fireworks.

A gif of red and green star shapes outlined in with and black letters and making a pattern, expand into three horizontal rectangles. The top rectangle is red, the middle black, and the bottom green. In the middle, on the black, are white letters in a bold, serif, block, font reading 'Juneteenth' in all-caps.

A navy background with the words 'GO TEAM USA' in shiny gold, sans letters. the words slide revealing three letter outlines behind them. Behind 'GO' are the colors gray, brown and red. Behind 'TEAM' is gray, brown, and white. Behind 'USA' is gray, brown, and blue. As the letters move, yellow, four pointed stars appear and disappear around the words.

A gold background with a white egg in the center and two chickens looking at the egg, backs showing, on either side of the gif. The egg shakes, and the legs and arms pop out of it. A smiling face appears on the egg too. The egg starts dancing and the two chickens' beaks fall open in surprise. The white colored words 'Happy Parents Day!' pop into the gif when the egg grows its legs and arms.

Selecting a Content Management System for Digital Signage

Digital signage is an excellent tool for communicating with employees, customers, or any other stakeholders in your organization. However, writing code to create content requires a high degree of technical expertise, and a great deal of time and effort. Using a content management system (CMS) allows users to create professional digital signage content quickly, without any coding knowledge.

What to Consider for a CMS

When you’re considering which tools to use to create your digital content, you’ll want to determine what kinds of things you want your viewers to see and experience. If you want your digital signage to be interactive, you’ll need to take that into consideration. Some content management systems will easily allow you to make content interactive, whereas others will only allow you to create static content. You’ll also want to consider any automations or integrations you want to use in conjunction with your digital signage. This could mean pulling in data from Excel or Google Sheets, or displaying slides from a PowerPoint presentation. If you’re looking for some examples or ideas of widgets and integrations to use on your digital signage, click here.

Organizing and Scheduling Content

Unless you plan on displaying content that never or rarely changes, you should also consider what tool helps you best organize and schedule your content. Some content management systems are very limited when it comes to scheduling presentations. Others will let you create recurring schedules and let you schedule down to the minute. If you need to make changes to content often, you’ll likely need a more robust CMS. For more information about scheduling digital signage content, click here.

Bringing Custom Media to your Digital Signage

Some content management systems built for digital signage limit the amount of media you can upload . If you want to consistently update your media with new images and videos, select a content management system without upload limits. You’ll also want to be sure you can upload your own content to start. Some digital signage software providers will only allow you to use their content, or stock images. This is more typical of free plans.

Ease of Use

Ease of use is another major consideration when selecting a content management system for digital signage. You don’t have to sacrifice sophisticated and complex features, you just need to find a CMS built with the end user in mind. Some content management systems will provide you with free templates for your digital signage. These templates make it easy to keep up to date with holidays, birthdays, and work anniversaries. For more tips on how to find easy to use content management systems, click here.

Design your Digital Signage Content Exactly how you Want

There are a lot of considerations for you to make when choosing a content management system for your digital signage. You should take into account how easy it is to use, if you can upload your own media, and if there are any creative limitations. While all of these factors can be overwhelming, there is one key question you’ll need to answer: Does this CMS have the tools I need to create and schedule my digital signage content? If the answer is yes, and you’re confident with the customer service, then odds are you’ve found a good tool for the job.

Display Road Conditions for Digital Signage

It’s important for organizations to keep their employees and clients safe and informed. Digital signage software is used by schools, hospitals, and corporations to display announcements, alerts, weather, and even current road conditions. Users can easily bring live road conditions and livestreams to their digital signage by using DOT (department of transportation) public transportation websites.

Livestreaming Road Conditions on Digital Signage

The United States DOT is responsible for maintaining road cameras on major roads all across the country. The live feeds from these cameras are made available publicly, so citizens can view current road conditions and be aware of any accidents or delays. Since these livestreams are publicly available, digital signage users display constant livestreams of roads on their signage by using the m3u8 URLs with no additional cost. Learn more about livestreaming road conditions on your digital signage.

Displaying Multiple Roads at Once

Users can display multiple road livestreams on a single page as well. The remote account access allows for updates from anywhere through the Arreya Creative Studio. Multiple streams of traffic are added on a single page, and resized as necessary. As a result, displaying conditions of multiple major roads on digital signage is versatile and easy. Also, it gives users the freedom to change live feeds to any road cameras the DOT makes available. All they have to do is swap the m3u8 URL in their livestreaming widget.

Traffic Content Feeds for Digital Signage

If you’re looking for a way to display road conditions, but you want something more pre-built and professionally designed, content feeds are a great option. Traffic conditions from content feed providers like Screenfeed and DataCall are excellent for digital signage users, because they display valuable information without any effort from the end user. Content feed providers do the heavy lifting by keeping their feeds up to date, and also by providing professional content design.

Check out our store for more information on traffic content feeds.

City Maps and Current Weather Conditions

In cold-weather states, road conditions can deteriorate quickly, particularly in winter months. Displaying DOT city maps on digital signage is an excellent way to give your viewers a quick overview of road conditions as they change. The DOT will continue to update these conditions on their respective websites. Updates will be displayed on digital signage instantly without any manual input. Maps will look similar to the image to the left.

Visit Iowa’s DOT site here for an example.

Live Road Surface Temperatures and Data

Road temperatures are often a determining factor for dangerous conditions. When the road surfaces get cold enough, even a small amount of rain or blowing snow can make travel dangerous. DOT websites provide users with live road surface temperatures and other data to help them make informed decisions about traveling. Road surface temperatures are displayed on digital signage to give viewers live updates.

Helping Everyone Travel Safely

Whether you’re using digital signage for your business, school, or non-profit organization, displaying road conditions and live data is a great way to help everyone travel safely. Set up is easy, and updates are pulled in automatically. Digital signage widgets like the website and streaming widgets make it possible to pull in critical data just by copying and pasting a link. If you’re looking to get started with your own digital signage, contact our digital signage experts.