Built In today announced that ScreenCloud, an industry leading digital signage provider, was honored in its 2023 Best Places To Work Awards for the 100 Best Midsize Places to Work in Los Angeles. The annual awards program includes companies of all sizes, from startups to those in the enterprise, and honors both remote-first employers as well as companies in large tech markets across the U.S. 

Founded in 2015 and with 9,000 customers around the globe, ScreenCloud is a scaling cloud-based SaaS company committed to supercharging the way organizations display, interact with, and action key news to get the right information, to the right people, at the right time via digital signage. As the company continues its rapid growth journey, its L.A. office – made up of talented sales, marketing, and customer support experts – are dedicated to solving interesting challenges and creating meaningful impact for customers worldwide every day. 

“While we’re incredibly proud of the technology and services we provide, we’d be absolutely nowhere without the people behind our work,” said Anna Thomas, Head of Recruitment & Onboarding for ScreenCloud. “It’s our ‘ScreenClouders’ and the culture they nurture that has and will continue to take us where other companies just can’t go. We embody transparency, flexibility, and integrity, celebrate all wins whether big or small and across all levels, encourage collaboration and creativity, and ultimately just have fun with each other. It’s fantastic to kick off 2023 with Built In’s acknowledgement and an honor to be recognized for the ‘home away from home’ we’ve established for our team here.” 

Built In determines the winners of Best Places to Work based on an algorithm, using company data about compensation and benefits. To reflect the benefits candidates are searching for more frequently on Built In, the program also weighs criteria like remote and flexible work opportunities, programs for DEI, and other people-first cultural offerings.  

“It’s my honor to congratulate this year’s Best Places to Work winners,” says Sheridan Orr, Chief Marketing Officer, Built In. “These exemplary companies understand their people are their most valuable asset, and they’ve stepped up to meet the modern professional’s new expectations, including the desire to work for companies that deliver purpose, growth and inclusion. These winners set the stage for a human-centered future of work, and we can’t wait to see that future unfold.”  

Built In is creating the largest platform for technology professionals globally. Monthly, millions of the industry’s most in-demand professionals visit the site from across the world. They rely on our platform to stay ahead of tech trends and news, learn skills to accelerate their careers and find opportunities at companies whose values they share. Built In also serves 2,000 customers, innovative companies ranging from startups to those in the Fortune 500. By putting their stories in front of our uniquely engaged audience, we help them hire otherwise hard-to-reach tech professionals.

About Built In’s Best Places to Work  
Awards, now in its fifth year, honor companies across numerous categories: 100 Best Places to Work, 50 Best Startup Places to Work, 100 Best Midsize Places to Work, 100 Best Large Places to Work and Editor’s Choice: 100 Best Hybrid Places to Work. The program honors companies – remote, hybrid and in-office – with the best total rewards packages across the U.S. and in the following tech hubs: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Colorado, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC. 

ScreenCloud is a software-as-a-service company that creates connected workforces across 9000+ organizations. In an era of crowded and 'always-on' communication, screens can help companies simplify and broadcast information through a visually compelling, easy-to-use tool. Our company is committed to supercharging the way they display, interact with, and action on key news and information to do this – and use our digital signage and hardware solutions to get the right information, to the right people, at the right time. 

ScreenCloud joins the list of top 100 Best Midsize Places to Work in Los Angeles list for its remarkable culture and people-first offerings.

Built In Honors ScreenCloud in Its Esteemed 2023 Best Places To Work Awards 

Maya leads product marketing for ScreenCloud out of Los Angeles. Between driving meaningful customer impacts she can be found chasing her toddler, drinking too much coffee and considering going to the beach more often. 

“Just get stuff on screens.” How deceptively complex this is. Orchestrating impactful content across a screen network too often involves frustrating and unseen battles. 

Well, we see those battles. We see the fragmented procurement processes that force customers into separate purchases from disconnected hardware and software vendors. We see the time-consuming deployment and troubleshooting demands that steal focus and time from network managers. We see the makeshift systems and consumer devices increasingly less fit to power professional screen networks.

The primary barrier to true digital signage impact is...

...hardware. We see our customers fighting hardware battles every day just to have the opportunity to “get stuff on screens.” It’s no wonder so many turn to cheap and widely available consumer devices like the Amazon Fire TV Stick to power their screens despite being meant for things like streaming Netflix at home – not for scaling a professional screen network. There simply haven’t  been accessible and high-quality options. Until now.

After two years of research and development, we’ve launched ScreenCloud OS to remove the digital signage barriers we see our 8,500+ customers across the world facing every day: Procuring and deploying media player devices, implementing compatible software, and scaling their professional networks without fear of costly service interruptions. 

ScreenCloud OS is a custom operating system that powers a high-performance Station P1 device, purpose-built to tackle digital signage barriers with laser focus, and far more powerful and secure than consumer devices like the Fire TV Stick. But we go further.

Device power, performance and security can be bought today… at a price too steep for most businesses to justify. At ScreenCloud, we know the connective power of screens and believe it should be accessible to all business owners, large and small. 

Our hybrid development approach to ScreenCloud OS gives us a unique cost advantage that we’re passing onto our customers as part of our mission to make top performance, tight security and smooth deployment finally accessible to all businesses so they can focus on what matters: building connections with their employees and customers at scale.

For a detailed review of how ScreenCloud OS stacks up against the Amazon Fire TV Stick, watch the video below:

ScreenCloud OS VS Amazon Fire TV Sticks

A majority of our customers use the Amazon Fire TV Stick to power their screen networks, a trend also reflected in the larger digital signage market. In fact, we’ve told them to! Our technical and selling philosophies have always been rooted in the universal success of our customers – nearly any screen and device you already have or that you might purchase is compatible with ScreenCloud software. But compatibility doesn’t equate to a consistently quality experience, as our customers’ hardware pain points confirmed. 

With ScreenCloud OS, we’re thrilled to address the pain points associated with using consumer devices to power professional screen networks that are simply not purpose-built for the job. Specifically screen interruptions and delays, and security risks. 

Professional digital signage networks today run demanding content around the clock, such as 4K videos and advanced web applications, and quickly cycle through content types to keep pace with decreasing audience attention spans. Unfortunately, these networks aren’t often powered by the professional devices they deserve. Instead, they're commonly powered by consumer devices like the Fire TV Stick whose limited processing power and storage space can prevent seamless content delivery and cause costly service interruptions.

These consumer devices also typically run apps and services in addition to digital signage. Great for switching between Netflix and Hulu at home. Not great for your digital signage needs that are left to compete for the device’s limited power and storage. 

These apps and services outside the scope of digital signage are also unnecessary network exposure points, increasing security risk. Additionally, consumer devices like the Amazon Fire TV Stick require unsecure consumer logins to access and set up the devices. At scale, you’ll need multiple accounts because device numbers are limited per account, and sharing those logins is a security expert’s worst nightmare. 

This risk and uncertainty isn’t scalable, especially for enterprise businesses looking to expand the impact of their screens across locations and teams. Simply put, professional screen networks deserve more than consumer devices, they deserve technology that is purpose-built for the job, like ScreenCloud OS.

ScreenCloud OS is now available directly from us. Purchase your hardware and software in one place from a single, secure and trusted vendor with a vested interest in your digital signage success.

ScreenCloud OS powers a Station P1 device that has up to 2X more CPU performance than the Amazon Fire TV Stick, and up to 4X as much total device RAM and storage, ensuring seamless and reliable content delivery. 

Slash deployment time by more than half. Set up a ScreenCloud OS device in three minutes versus eight minutes per Amazon Fire TV Stick. Set up multiple devices with the same provisioning flash drive for exponential savings at scale. Get to content impact faster with ScreenCloud software preinstalled. 

Secure by design, ScreenCloud OS is built exclusively to run digital signage. No distractions, competition for power or unnecessary network exposure. With enterprise-grade security – including logs and reporting – ScreenCloud OS supports secure network configurations, proxies and custom room CAs. Scale your network without security concerns. 

We built ScreenCloud to work on any screen, TV or device. Our commitment to hardware flexibility continues with ScreenCloud OS’s universal compatibility. Plug it to any screen currently on your walls or that you might purchase.

Our mission is to help businesses unlock connections with their employees and customers at scale. Now with ScreenCloud OS as part of our product family, we’re better positioned than ever before to deliver on our mission. Backed by a world-class support and professional services team that now spans our hardware and software offerings, our customers can rely on us as a strategic partner aligned with their business goals. 

What we’ve launched this week is just the beginning. We’re committed to continuous development and growth alongside our customers. Already in development, we’re tackling specific opportunities to improve distributed screen network management at scale. 

ScreenCloud OS - Promo for landing page

ScreenCloud OS is available to both new and existing ScreenCloud users. For ordering enquiries, click here. 

Built by digital signage experts, ScreenCloud OS is the industry's newest purpose-built digital signage operating system and device. Its all-in-one solution makes it one of the most powerful and cost-effective options on the market.

The operating system and device changing the game for those who manage professional screen networks.

LOS ANGELES, CA - February 25, 2021 - ScreenCloud, the digital signage software leader, today announces a new solution built on a fundamentally different approach to data dashboard security. Business intelligence tools have had a profound impact over the past several years, but most employees never see these dashboards. As companies look to maximize productivity and get the most out of their tools, ScreenCloud Dashboards ensures that everyone in an organization can now have access to critical data without compromising security. 

ScreenCloud Dashboards is coming out of a successful beta where customers were able to securely display on their screens data dashboards from tools like Chartio, Grafana, Power BI, SignalFX and Tableau as well as various internal dashboards unique to each customer’s business. 

“Finding a partner to get content on displays securely and efficiently might seem like an easy task, but it’s really not,” said Kyle Wagner, Infrastructure Engineer at Flagger Force and beta participant. “ScreenCloud is unique in its passion to innovate in this area, with a secure solution that’s robust and easy to use for all levels of users. Our call center and marketing department needed multiple types of content including secured data on displays, which was very difficult to accomplish. But with ScreenCloud Dashboards supporting virtually any source whereas so many other vendors are limited, we were able to accomplish exactly what we needed.” 

The main reason why dashboards have not been shared more broadly up until this point is security concerns, leaving this data visualization locked behind logins in departmental silos and hidden from the majority of staff. This is a massive lost opportunity as dashboards are proven to not only monitor performance, but also drive business growth from how teams respond to seeing the data in the moment. 

“This has been the number one requested feature across our 9,000 customers over the past several years,” said Mark McDermott, CEO and Co-Founder of ScreenCloud. “We’ve always been aware of the problem, but the solution wasn’t obvious - until we dug all the way in. ScreenCloud Dashboards needed to be built with security as a core focus in order for it to deliver on its promise of getting critical data in front of more employees so that companies can boost engagement and drive productivity.” 

With ScreenCloud Dashboards, your credentials are never exposed to the screen device. In fact, credentials are stored encrypted, using a unique key and IAM role, and the decrypted value is only accessible to dedicated, private servers that run no other applications and are automatically deleted and rebuilt from a clean template regularly to ensure they are always safe and up to date. This is how we protect your credentials and keep your data safe. 

If you’re interested in learning more about ScreenCloud Dashboards, you can read up and schedule a demo here: https://screencloud.com/dashboards 

ScreenCloud presents a new way to get dashboards securely in front of any team, across screens and locations, with support for tools like Chartio, Grafana, Power BI, SignalFX and Tableau.

Get your data dashboards in front of any team, securely and with the flexibility to scale across screens and locations

ScreenCloud Delivers New Solution for Secure Display of Dashboards

Feb. 19, 2020  – Today we have announced new capabilities to ScreenCloud to the world, based on a completely re-engineered product thatwe have been building in the background since 2017. Based on feedback from our strong customer base (over 8,000+ of you now - wow), ScreenCloud’s new features are in response to the changing needs of those who are looking to communicate better. 

If you joined ScreenCloud at the beginning of 2020, you may already have seen, and be using, these features already.

Smart scheduling: Managers can schedule content in advance and choose expiration dates for automatic content removal to ensure better content governance.

Screen takeovers: Users can now cast content to one screen nearby - or hundreds of screens around the world before returning to a regular program schedule.

Full remote control: Users can now upload, edit and change content directly from their smartphone, as well as their PC, from wherever they are.

Surface more voices: Five levels of granular user permissions and the new Channels/Playlists formula means every team can contribute to content.

Create branded content: Managers can use the new Canvas app to design screen-ready content like posters and notices inside ScreenCloud, with brand images, logos and colors. 

Security: ScreenCloud now offers the ability to integrate with major identity providers, alongside two-factor authentication and user audit logs. 

You can read more from our Founders on why we re-engineered ScreenCloud in this blog. 

We have focused on innovating and optimizing our core product in response to maturing digital signage use cases, where the need has extended further than just a simple way to send content to screens. One example is where we are helping organizations to engage teams of “deskless workers” who operate outside the traditional confines of a desk, laptop, or smartphone, by surfacing important organizational data in an ambient format. 

“As we learned more about the challenges our customers face while building and running a communications network of screens we knew it was difficult to solve them all in the existing product. With the new ScreenCloud, we've taken a ground up approach to building the most flexible platform possible, one that can bend and morph to fit a whole range of complex enterprise needs, whilst staying true to our values of simplicity and ease of use. We can't wait to see what our customers do next with it, as they unleash their creativity via screens!” 

To access the new ScreenCloud visit: https://screencloud.com/freetrial

At ScreenCloud we made the decision to build a completetly new digital signage product from scratch, even though our existing product was already doing quite well. Here, you can find out why and what that means for the future.

Why we rebuilt ScreenCloud and what the new version will offer our customers, and future category.

You spoke, we listened. Our Apps are at the center of what we do here at ScreenCloud and we want to make sure everyone gets the message on the screen – no matter what language. So starting today we’re adding language support to our apps.

You now have the option to choose between English, Spanish, French, Dutch and German for apps like Weather, Event Calendar, Twitter Timeline , Twitter Search and Currency. This is just the beginning. We’ll be adding more apps and languages so watch this space closely.

For our Twitter, Event Calendar, and Weather Apps, all you have to do is pick the language you prefer.

After you add your apps to the screen, the display will be automatically translated to the language you chose.

Our Currency App has no language restrictions. You can pick your own title in any language you want. 

For example: Taux de change (French), Wisselkoers (Dutch), Wechselkurs (German), Tipo de Cambio (Spanish). You can even pick a title in Greek “Συνάλλαγμα”.

…..and this is just a taster. More apps will be translated. Keep an eye on @ScreenCloud to be up-to-date with our upcoming updates. If your language or your favourite app is not in this list, why don’t you let us know? Just click “send feedback” on any app page within the App Store or send an email to josh@screencloud.io or markella@screencloud.io. Our team are all ears.

Language translations for some of our digital signage apps including Twitter , Event Calendar, Weather and Currency.

Great news - you can now show our Twitter, Weather, Event Calendar and Currency Apps in Spanish, French, German and Dutch! Find out more about our language translations

At ScreenCloud we are committed to protecting our customers’ personal information. We wanted to explain the steps we take to do this within ScreenCloud.

We have a comprehensive Security Policy which everyone who works here has to adhere to. It covers the steps we take to protect physical access to personal data via our computers and devices, as well as the software that we use. The policy makes it clear how and why we collect data and that safeguarding that data is a top priority. It also details the company’s policy around responding to a potential breach of data including reporting breaches as required under the GDPR.

We are not in the business of collecting data that we do not need. Rather, we only collect and store data that is needed to run our business effectively. However, the data we do collect may sometimes be of a personally identifiable nature. In order to operate our business we need to collect three types of data:

1.     Customer contact data. This is normally the person who orders our service or is the contact point for billing queries. We typically need their name, address, email address and phone number. We also collect historical purchasing data. We do not collect credit card details as these are handled directly by our payment handler.

2.     Data that is uploaded to ScreenCloud to be shown on the screens that people are subscribing for. This may or may not contain personal data, depending on what our customers choose to upload to the system. The main point here is that we do not mandate what data is uploaded to our system, but we accept that for some customers they may choose to upload personally identifiable data. For that reason, we treat this data with the same degree of importance that we would for customer contact data.

3.     Employee or potential employee data. People applying to work for us and those that do work for us will have sent us details including Resumés/CVs which will inevitably contain personal data. Employees also provide us with other personally identifiable data that we use to be able to pay them and pay taxes.

Making sure people know why we collect their data

We need certain data in order to be able to deliver the service that our customers pay us for. But like most companies, we also may use this data to tell our customers more about the service or to survey their opinions about us and our future plans. We have taken steps to make it clear to anyone whose data we intend to hold, why we need the data and what it will be used for. We also give people the option as to whether or not they want us to use the data in this way. 

We only hold onto data for as long as is needed to manage our business, be responsive to customers past and present and adhere to any legal requirements that may arise from time to time.

We work with a range of carefully selected suppliers in order to deliver the service we provide: these range from the people we use to host content to the companies that manage subscription billing on our behalf. Where we identify that any of our suppliers may have access to data we ensure that we have an agreement with them that they also have rigorous protections in place. In most cases, our suppliers are established businesses such as Amazon Web Services or Salesforce who have every other one of their customers asking for the same agreements to be in place, and so they are fully prepared and aware of the requirements that GDPR places on all of us.

At all times, our aim is to be open and transparent with individuals and the data we hold. We regularly review our policies and welcome any feedback or suggestions our customers have. 

If you need to check what data we hold about you, you can make a subject access request by contacting us through the website. 

For more details about how we collect, manage and process data, please see our Privacy Policy .

ScreenCloud is committed to our customers' privacy. In this blog, we outline what we're doing to comply with GDPR in the EU and keep our customer data secure.

ScreenCloud and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The ScreenCloud App Store is at the center of what we do here at ScreenCloud. Why? Because it makes it super simple for you to get the content you want live on your digital screens. Without great content, screens are dull or worse - empty. With apps, we can spend the time crafting designs and making everything look great so that with a few clicks, you have everything you need for a killer display.

With that in mind, our Product Team have been working on the following apps to improve each one and ensure you have access to the most modern designs. We want your content displays to stay fresh and be in line with the latest design trends, so improving our apps is top priority. The changes will roll out over the next couple of weeks and to stay in the know about which app versions are live, follow us on Twitter.

You should also know that when we’re making big changes to the interface of our apps, like on Twitter and News Apps, we’ll leave you with the old version too. This means that you can gradually get used to the new designs at your own convenience. 

Here is a behind the scenes look at just a few of the apps we’re improving:

Our News apps like RSS Feed, Aljazeera News, BBC News and CNN News are going to get a whole lot more visual with a new and improved design.

Our popular Twitter Search and Twitter Timeline apps are going to show off your chosen tweets in a way that makes more of the images, with responsive support dependent on whether the image is landscape or portrait. In line with Twitter’s latest updates we’ll also be supporting Gifs and the new 280-character limit. 

Don’t worry if you’re using the old design, we’ll be leaving both there for you to choose between.

Weather app is getting a new design for the way you showcase multiple locations (which looks great, even if we do say so ourselves). 

We’ve listened to how you use Event Calendar and we’re making a lot of changes to accommodate the feedback. This includes a new layout for showing more events, options to choose between upcoming events and new colors and bigger fonts to personalize your display. 

For our Review apps like TripAdvisor, Foursquare and Yelp we want to focus on the important bit: the review. What your customers say should sing loud and clear, so we’ve adjusted the design to reflect this. 

Facebook Page Likes app is getting an improved design with a primary focus on the company profile. Helping you to stand out and achieve more online engagement. 

…..and this is just a taster of what’s in store. Even more apps are being updated over the next few weeks with lots of exciting changes coming very soon. Social feed for Facebook, Stocks, Currency, Google Traffic, Trello, Slack, Instagram and Clock are up next for a makeover! Keep an eye on @ScreenCloud to be in the know and don’t forget, we want to hear your feedback. Just click “send feedback” on any app page within the App Store. Our team are all ears.

Updates to our digital signage apps including news app, Twitter, Instagram, World Clock, Weather and more to stay up to date with latest designs and trends.

Great news - we’re making our apps even more powerful. Find out all about the changes here.

News

Built In Honors ScreenCloud in Its Esteemed 2023 Best Places To Work Awards

Introducing... ScreenCloud OS

ScreenCloud Delivers New Solution for Secure Display of Dashboards

Unveiling the New ScreenCloud

We’re going multilingual

ScreenCloud and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Our New App Designs