Getting Started

Audience makes it possible to create multi-zone television, digital signage and/or web shows. It is a family of tools designed to get you from a blank screen to that huge Digital Sign at Times Square. It helps you make this sort of thing:

Design graphics and text with CorelDraw (included), create content with Audience.foundation or Audience.billboard, then display your show on various devices (television, on the web, on large format displays like LCDs and Projectors, as well as LED displays, Android Tablets or on touch screens) and in various locations (Hospitals, Seniors Residences, Schools, University Campuses, Real Estate office windows, Retail stores, Casinos, Ski hills, and large corporations.)

Audience.foundation is the creation, production and management software for all Audience products. It is used to

• design a playback
• create content
• manage content scheduling

The playbacks created with Audience.foundation can be webcast with Audience.web or Audience.playback.web, broadcast with Audience.playback.tv, displayed on digital signs with Audience.playback.sign, or a mix of all of them.

Design your show (or have us do it for you), distribute it, then lock the computer in a basement closet and throw away the key. Create a Billboard Administrator account and then modify the show's structure or content on the web. Create members who create content based on the permissions you assign (just this template, or that entire Magazine), give them carte-blanche or make sure their posts are approved by you or an Editor in charge. Create groups of users who all have the same permissions and modify the group just like that.

Create a group for the public so that you don't even have to create content ever again!

Say you have an outdoor digital sign and you need to sell advertisements for it. Don't go knocking door-to-door. Don't make cold calls. Don't do anything. Seriously. Nothing. Someone walking by the display will see the web address for adding advertisements. They go to it, login, upload a few pictures to be played consecutively for 30 seconds with voice-over, and pay. Done. And what do you have to do? Check your email.

Read all about it here.

Need to get some weather information on your digital sign? Maybe you want sports scores? Or maybe you want to play a "restocking" page when your inventory system indicates an item is getting low.

Anything you need that is automatic, Audience.data will take care of for you. Heck, it can even work with things we never knew could be automatic!

Read all about it here.

Audience.guardian is an application that helps ensure a distribution network is working correctly. You don't have to drive all the way to the airport just to close the nasty dialog box that popped up on all your Arrival and Departure screens. Stay home and enjoy your movie. Audience.guardian does its best to prevent dialog boxes from opening in the first place, and if something sneaks by it, it will stamp it out asap. It knows you need your down time.

And don't you dare miss out on Thanksgiving dinner to go close the web-based monitors at the University because the internet went down. Audience.guardian, sly devil that it is, cleverly disguises the issue by playing cached files until the net comes back.

It says throughout the help file that Audience.guardian protects your distribution network, and it does, but it's main function is to protect you from having to deal with small irritants out in the field. Sit back, enjoy your meal and let 'The Guard' take care of things for you.

Read all about it here.

A Playback is a device at a location that displays a particular show. The huge display at Dundas Square? There is a computer there somewhere set-up to play the 'DundasSquare" Playback. The large screen behind the cashier at The Gap? That is displaying a playback called "GapToronto" (as opposed to the device in Montreal displaying the "GapMontreal" playback.

When we talk about a playback we mean either the physical device that is doing the displaying or we mean the main folder in Audience.foundation or Audience.billboard that contains all of the content that gets displayed.

Read the official description here.

Audience 4 Android is our latest generation playback software that runs on virtually any android device. We have an assortment stand-alone Android media players, as well as support for Screens with Embedded Android media players from NEC, Panasonic, and Phillips.