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Overview
BrightSign, LLC is an American privately held company that manufactures digital media players for commercial digital signage applications. The company is based in Los Gatos, California.[6]with offices in Cambridge, UK and Odessa, Ukraine and warehouses in California, the Netherlands and Hong Kong. BrightSign manufactures a variety of digital media players that take in data (HTML, audio and video files) in a form of an integrated signage presentation and sends it to a display via an audio cable, video cable or HDMI cable. BrightSign also produces Digital Signage Module solutions (DSM) which can be embedded into other display products. BrightSign also offers BrightAuthor, a free digital signage authoring software and BrightSign Network, a cloud-based networking solution for digital signage networks.

History
BrightSign was originally a product and a business unit within the company Roku. Jeff Hastings, BrightSign CEO, was hired by Anthony Wood to run the BrightSign business at Roku in 2009. BrightSign was subsequently spun out of Roku as an independent limited liability company (LLC), in 2010.

In its quarterly Global Market for Digital Signage research report, IHS named BrightSign the global market leader in digital signage media players every single quarter from 2012 to present. This research study reports market share of all media players and PC-based signage solutions. Presently, BrightSign has a market share more than double it’s nearest competitor named in this report.

BrightSign announced the shipment of it’s one-millionth media player in August, 2017.

Digital Signage Media Player
BrightSign media players are designed to deliver digital signage content to HD and 4K displays and LED panels. BrightSign models range from an entry-level player supporting simple looping videos, to enterprise-level players offering advanced interactivity, built-in wired or wireless networking for remote content updates, HTML5, the ability to play Live HDTV, and true 4K HDR content playback. 4K product line delivers true 4K H.265 encoded video at 60 frames per second and HDR (High Dynamic Range) color via the HDMI 2.0a standard.

BrightSign media players are solid-state and fanless. BrightSign media players run a proprietary OS specifically designed for digital signage, with open API’s for enabling many types of third party integrations.

BrightAuthor
BrightAuthor software is a free PC software application for creating and publishing presentations. Some of the things users can do:
 * Design full-screen or multi-zone layouts from scratch or using preset templates.
 * Build looping playlists with drag and drop functionality.
 * Make interactive playlists by linking media files together with triggers.
 * Add day-parting and scheduling instructions.
 * Use BrightWall to easily create video walls and achieve frame-accurate synchronization.
 * Add synchronization across multiple displays or between zones.
 * Tailor playlists with slide transitions, display intervals, live video and more.
 * Include Live Feeds such as Live Data, Live Media, MRSS, Twitter, Flickr feeds and more in a signage presentation that automatically update without republishing the presentation.
 * Add HTML5 content to BrightSign presentations.
 * Add animating, streaming social media feeds to a signage presentation

BrightSign Network
BrightSign Network is an affordable, subscription-based, hosted cloud service that provides a complete, secure and scalable infrastructure to serve and support any sized digital signage network. BrightSign Network enables users to deliver content to a network of displays, monitor the activity and status of displays, perform maintenance tasks, run diagnostics, and generate reports based on player tag queries. In addition, users can: BrightSign also offers an on-premise enterprise version of BrightSign Network called BrightSign Network Enterprise Edition (BSNEE).
 * Perform geo–tagging to map the locations of players and cross-reference with playback logs
 * Create groups to manage networked players
 * Perform network administrator functions
 * Create and manage user accounts
 * Assign user roles and permissions

Digital Signage Benchmark
BrightSign developed a device-agnostic testing platform (www.digitalsignagebenchmark.com) as a free resource for systems integrators and Pro AV specifiers who need to validate whether a particular digital signage hardware solution can deliver the performance necessary to support the type of content that will be displayed. Follow the instructions on the “Tests” page to simulate hardware/content compatibility prior to actual content delivery and installation.