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What is Ambicast?

The pieces: screens, playlists, slides, and how they fit together.

Ambicast is cloud digital-signage software. You design in the browser; that design plays on any number of TVs, monitors, or kiosks. One dashboard controls everything — no USB sticks, no proprietary player to buy.

The hierarchy is simple: you design slides from layers, group slides into a playlist, and assign that playlist to a screen. Publish, and every affected display updates in seconds.

The pieces

PieceWhat it is
ScreenA physical display running the Ambicast player
PlaylistAn ordered sequence of slides that loops on a screen
SlideOne full-screen moment in a playlist
LayerOne element on a slide — text, image, video, shape, live data
CampaignA schedule pushed to many screens at once (Pro)

If you would rather start from a finished design, open the public template gallery — you can play every template before you sign up.

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Create an account and go livePair a screenPlaylists and the editorUse a template
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