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Simpleshow

By Web Pros · Signage people can reply to

Signage that knows
who showed up.

Put something good on a screen, and let the people walking past answer it from their own phones. Simpleshow plays your slides, gathers everyone who stops to say hello, and shows you what caught their eye. It runs on a smart TV's own browser, a Fire TV with our app from the Amazon Appstore, a Fire TV Stick we set up for you, or anything else that can open a web page, and it keeps playing when the venue's Wi-Fi doesn't.

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What it does

Three things, in one place

Every screen can show a picture. Simpleshow also lets the room talk back, and keeps hold of who did.

01

Looks right on every screen

Make your slides once and they fit whatever they play on: a wide TV, a tall lobby panel, a strip above the door. Start from a ready-made show, bring your designs across from Canva, or describe your booth and let AI draft the first version. A live web page can be a slide too, like a dashboard or a menu, a video can be too (yours or YouTube's), a countdown can build a crowd for the prize draw, and any slide can have its own hours and days, so the lunch menu plays only at lunch.

02

Let the room reply

A code on the screen turns every phone in the room into a way to answer. People can enter a draw, grab a spec sheet, vote in a live poll and watch the results move, or be one of the first three to claim a quick giveaway. No phone to hand? They can tap an iPad on the stand instead, or play "Stop it on 100" for a prize, on their phone or the iPad, while the TV shows the leaderboard. Every prize draw shows a fairness code first, and anyone can check afterwards that nobody picked the winner.

03

Keep every conversation

Your team can snap a badge or a business card and it becomes a contact, with a voice note if they like. It works with no signal at all, catches up when there is one, and exports straight into the follow-up you already do.

More than one location

One message, every location

Thirty TVs across three locations, all saying the same thing, changed from a laptop in one save. The kind of signage big chains pay a team for, run by one person in a few minutes.

Lunch special, 11 to 2One channel · 30 TVs at 3 locations
Save and publish

Downtown

12 TVs on air
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Airport

10 TVs on air
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Northside

8 TVs on air
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✓ 30 TVs, about 15 seconds

Change it once

One channel plays on as many as fifty TVs. Save, and every one of them follows in about fifteen seconds.

Slides with their own hours

Breakfast until 11 on weekdays, the lunch special from 11 to 2: each slide plays only then, by the channel's own time zone.

An emergency at one site, or all

A broadcast goes to every channel or just the ones you pick, so with a channel for each location, a storm at one covers only its screens.

See what is on air, and where

Which TVs are playing right now, which slides are on, and who published them.

$179 a monthfor 30 TVs: the Floor plan's 25, plus 5 more at $6 each. See plans

Where it runs

Wherever people gather

A TV, a projector on a wall and a panel in a lobby are all the same to Simpleshow.

The booth

Catch the people who stop, without the pile of business cards to type up afterwards, and see which messages actually got them talking. Exhibitors · trade shows · conferences

The venue

Directions and schedules you can change from your phone, and every screen follows within seconds. Handy when the keynote runs late. Organisers · convention centres · festivals

Shops and branches

Specials, menus and offers on every TV at every location, each slide playing to its own hours, with a code customers can scan. Retail · restaurants · multi-location businesses

The entrance

A friendly welcome and a code to scan at the one spot everybody walks past. Lobbies · shops · event entrances

The plant floor

Safety reminders and shift messages where people actually look, live numbers from the line (anything that can call a web address can put one on a slide, and Relay Bridge sensors do it with no code), and one button that puts an emergency broadcast on every screen at once, or only on one site's screens when you have several. Manufacturing · industrial · warehouses

The hardware

On the TV you already have

On any TV with a web browser, go to simpleshow.app/tv. It shows a short code: type it into your console, or scan it with your phone, and your channel is on air. The TV remembers it from then on, so after a power cut you just open Simpleshow again: no new code. Put one channel on as many TVs as you like: they all change when you save.

Keeps going when the Wi-Fi doesn't

Each screen keeps a copy of its own slides, so a dropped connection doesn't leave a blank wall. Change something and it reaches every screen in about fifteen seconds, with nobody touching the hardware.

Screens that move together

Put two screens side by side, or a whole row of them, and they change slides at the same moment, like one big display. Switch them on in any order and each one finds its place in the show. One click gives them all the same slides.

Plug it in and it plays

Tell us which channel it should play, and we will send you a Fire TV Stick with your channel already on it. Plug it into the TV and into power, and your show starts by itself, already connected, and again after a power cut. If you didn't give us your Wi-Fi details, pick your network with the remote, once. It fits in a jacket pocket, and gear you carry in yourself usually avoids a show's freight-handling charges. Ask us for a kit. Already have a Fire TV? Get Simpleshow on the Amazon Appstore and pair it with the code it shows (step by step).

What we are working on

Simpleshow on the Amazon Signage Stick. A professional player built for screens that must never go dark, and an email the moment a TV goes quiet. People counting that never identifies anyone. We will say so here when they are ready, not before.

At the booth

An iPad beside the screen

An iPad or an old iPhone on a stand. Scan one code with its camera and it is set up for that screen: no sign-in, nothing to type.

A kiosk anyone can tap

For everybody who will not take their phone out. Visitors tap big buttons to enter the draw, grab the spec sheet or answer the poll, and can hold up their badge to fill in their name and company. They can browse your products and have one emailed to them, and you see what people looked at and who asked for what. It forgets each person the moment they finish, and the badge picture is never kept.

A remote for your team

Jump the TV to the demo slide when someone asks, and keep it there while you talk. Fire a quick giveaway when the aisle is busy, or draw the prize winner from the booth. The screen changes within a few seconds, and the remote always shows what is on the TV right now.

Switch its job any time

The same iPad can be the kiosk in the morning and the team's remote in the afternoon. Change it from your laptop and the iPad follows on its own, and you can switch one off from there if it goes missing.

Where the line is

What it will not do

Some promises are worth making in writing before anybody has to ask.

It will not recognise faces

Simpleshow uses no cameras today. When people counting arrives it will count people and nothing more: no face matching and no face geometry, by design and not by a setting. If a screen greets somebody by name, it is because they scanned a code and told it.

Footage will not leave the building

When counting arrives, frames will be read on site and thrown away, and only the numbers kept. That is cheaper to run as well as easier to trust.

It will not make things up

The AI that drafts your slides only uses facts you gave it or that are on your own website, and tells you what it left out. Ready-made shows put every fact in [brackets] for you to fill in.

It will not always be the right answer

Some rooms need a printed sign and a friendly person standing next to it. If that is the case, we would rather tell you than sell you a screen you have to keep feeding.

Getting started

Tell us about the next one

A show, a lobby, a plant floor or an entrance: whatever is coming up, we are happy to help you work out whether a screen would help.

simpleshow.app → See one show on every screen

You can sign up and set up your first screen yourself, or talk to us first. Either is fine.