SignageTube
PowerPoint player
A PowerPoint player is whatever sits behind the TV and runs your slides on a loop. Here are the three ways to do it, what each one asks of you, and when a managed player is worth it.
You can loop a deck on a TV three ways. A PC running PowerPoint in kiosk mode costs nothing extra but you update it at the PC. A signage platform that converts slides to images or video runs on cheap players but can drop animations and custom fonts. A managed Windows player, like SignageTube Professional, plays the real file and lets you change every screen from your browser.
| PC with PowerPoint in kiosk mode | Converted slides on a signage player | Managed Windows player (SignageTube Professional) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What plays | The real file | Images or a video made from your slides | The real file |
| Animations and brand fonts | Yes | Often lost, or only if you export to video first | Yes |
| Change the deck | At the PC | From a browser | From a browser |
| Schedule by day and time | No | Yes | Yes |
| Several screens in step | No | Depends on the platform | Yes, slides change at the same moment |
| Know what played | No | Depends on the platform | Yes, Proof of Play |
| Cost | A PC and PowerPoint | A player and a subscription | A Windows PC with PowerPoint, plus €25 a month per screen (€22 billed yearly) |
PowerPoint has a setting made for this. Under Slide Show, Set Up Slide Show, choose “Browsed at a kiosk (full screen)”, set your slide timings, and the show loops until someone presses Esc. Microsoft explains the steps.
It’s a good fit for one screen in one place, run by the person who sits next to it. It gets hard when the deck changes often, when nobody is near the PC, or when there’s more than one screen.
Most signage platforms turn a PowerPoint into images or a video on their servers, then play that on a small player. It’s simple and the players are cheap. The cost is the deck itself: several vendors say in their own help pages that animations, transitions or custom fonts don’t come through, and suggest exporting to MP4 first.
By default, uploaded PowerPoint presentation will be played without transition or animation effect.OptiSigns help center, own page, read 11 November 2026.
If your slides are static, or a weekly video export is fine, this works. SignageTube Starter does the same, from €10 a month per screen billed yearly.
A Windows PC behind each screen, with Microsoft PowerPoint, managed from the cloud. That’s how SignageTube Professional works. It plays the real presentation, keeps animations, fonts and layout, changes slides at the same moment on every screen, and reports what played.
Which PC? Any Windows PC that runs a compatible version of Microsoft PowerPoint and connects to the TV. Not sure about yours? Book a 15 minute call and show us your screens.
Pick Professional. 15 days, no credit card.
Install the SignageTube player on the PC behind the TV, next to Microsoft PowerPoint.
Link the PC to your SignageTube account, then name it and give it a site.
Upload the .pptx and add it to a playlist.
Pick the screens and the times. The deck plays as built.
Read more on the PowerPoint digital signage page, or try it now.
Pick the edition you want to try for 15 days. No credit card, just your name and email.
Images, video, web pages, PowerPoint and Live Pages on any TV. The easiest place to start.
Start Starter trial →Real PowerPoint on Windows, a report of what played (Proof of Play) and a Control Room for all your screens.
Start Professional trial →Live data from Excel, databases and 20+ sources, screen health alerts and switching screens on and off.
Start Enterprise trial →Not sure? Start with Starter. You can move up any time.
Both come with a 15 day free trial. No credit card, just your name and email.