With 2025 just around the corner, it’s time for businesses to start planning ahead in order to stay on top of the latest developments in digital signage. Here’s a strategic guide you can use to plan your digital signage approach, taking the latest trends, technologies and customer expectations into account:

Understand Emerging Trends

Begin by immersing yourself into the best of current digital signage, from artificial intelligence-driven content to touch screens, from kiosks to mobile engagement. These trends are transforming how business dwellers interact, and provide the perfect opportunity to elevate your digital signage game.

Paraphrased: AI-personalized content – leverage AI to personalize content from real-time data and customer behavior, which can boost conversions and engagement.

Interactive Displays: Add touchscreen capability or gesture-based control to engage your audience.

Mobile integration: QR codes, apps and beacon technology help customers to connect their mobile device to the digital signage to create a more connected interaction.

Assess Your Current Infrastructure

Assess your existing digital signage infrastructure to determine where upgrades can be made. This includes the quality of the displays, the content management systems and the ability to work with one another and be integrated with other systems. If your current infrastructure doesn’t allow for the latest technology trends you may need to rethink your approach.

Upgrade Displays: High-resolution, energy-efficient displays – yours may need to be replaced, and yours are almost certainly outdated. Splurge on the higher end of what you can afford. This will make your content look much sharper and more professional.

Improve Content Management: Use expanded content management systems for dynamic content and integration with other digital solutions.

Define Your Goals and Objectives

Be clear about the outcomes you want to achieve with your digital signage strategy – be it improving customer engagement, promoting specific products or enhancing internal communication – so that you can inform your decisions and know when you get to where you want to be.

Customer Engagement: Establish goals for how digital signage will improve the customer experience, for example, with offers that are tailored to the individual, or interactive features.

Internal Communication: For corporate environments, talk about how to enhance employee communication and productivity through digital signage.

Plan for Integration and Interactivity

Think about how your digital signage can work with other technologies and systems including a CRM platform, mobile app or social media, and build a plan to identify the most engaging interactive features you can add to boost engagement, as well as to provide valuable data insights.

Integration: Can your digital signage system connect with your other business systems to deliver the right content on time to the right people?

Interactivity: Design interactive elements that encourage audience participation and provide instant feedback.

Focus on Sustainability

Adopt sustainable practices for all your digital signage – set targets to reduce your carbon footprint and meet your environmental goals. Include energy-efficient displays in your strategy, and consider recycling programs for old equipment.

Energy efficiency: By using displays that take less energy and have a higher lifetime you reduce power consumption and thus maintenance costs.

Pilot Program: Set up pilot programs to showcase the effectiveness and benefits of digital signage solutions. Training and Certification Program: Provide training and certification programs for staff to enhance their skills in digital signage. Recycling Program: Set up a program for disposal and recycling of old digital signage equipment.

Monitor and Adapt

Finally, keep iterating: check the effectiveness of your digital signage, and make adjustments based on data and feedback. Use analytics tools to see how the content is performing and make adjustments to get better results.

Analytics: Utilize data analytics to assess engagement levels, content effectiveness, and ROI.

Adaption: As your success is measured in more granular terms and your customers’ habits change, be prepared to evolve your practice.