BrightSign is the global leader of media players (or simply, 

) for digital signage. We also offer tools for player management, content authoring, and content management.

Our products are highly differentiated. Given the unique nature of our products, combined with their extensive functionality and flexibility, it is beneficial for users to have a general, high-level understanding of our product’s capabilities and how they work. 

Most new users to BrightSign will find it very useful to go through this short (8-12 minute) overview.

It is recommended to go through this section serially, either by clicking the link at the bottom of the post or by navigating to the next page via the Page Tree on the left panel.

Welcome!

Start Here

This is our legacy cloud platform. Our latest cloud platform is BSN.Cloud which consists of the free bsn.Control and the paid bsn.Content tiers. Development of BSN has largely ceased and will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BSN.Cloud.

BrightSign_Network_BSN

BrightSign’s *legacy* app for authoring and managing players. The app's actual name is BrightAuthor but is referred to as BrightAuthor Classic to lessen confusion with BrightAuthor:connected, our latest app.

BrightAuthor_Classic

BrightSign’s latest free, all-in-one app for player setup / management, authoring, and content management.

BrightAuthorconnected

The BSN.Cloud record of a player and its Setup. The Default Setup is assigned to the player unless another Setup has been explicitly set.

Provision_Record

The process where a Setup is delivered and applied to a player by BSN.Cloud.

Provision

A set of files containing player settings (player name, description, time zone, Publishing Mode, network settings, etc.) and an autorun.brs file which instructs the player what to do upon bootup.