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Share a live BBC News feed to your digital signage screens
For an easy way to include the news as part of your digital signage, Fugo’s BBC app provides a way to stay up to date on the latest world headlines without the fuss and distraction of a live broadcast.
Display a rotating feed of auto-updated headlines from the BBC within any playlist. Just install the app, set your preferences, publish and bang - you’ve got the easiest way to inform your audience about the news.
With Fugo’s BBC News app you can:
Select your favorite BBC News topic - World, UK, Top Stories, Health, and more
Set the duration for your app inside a playlist
Set the delay between headlines
Customize the header, summary, and background colors, edit at any time, and watch your changes instantly update on screen!
How to configure the BBC News app in Fugo
There are two ways to add content with Fugo - via our playlist builder and in our Design Studio. We’ll cover the steps for both methods in each section.
Using the playlist builder
1. Log into your Fugo Account. If you don’t have an account yet, you can start your 14-day free trial here.
2. Click Apps in the top navigation bar to get to our app store.
3. Locate the BBC News app (you can search for it to move things along) and click Try App.
4. A window will pop up where you'll be prompted to either create a new playlist for the app or add the app to an existing playlist.
Choose how you'd like to proceed and & click Continue.
5. Now you're ready to configure the app.
First select your preferred news topic.
6. Set the Duration for the app. That is, how long the will run inside of a playlist before transitioning to the next item of content (for example, another slide with a different app, media item, or dashboard.)
7. Set the Next Post Delay for the app. That is, how long each headline displays before transitioning to the next headline.
💡 Note: If your app duration & next post delay are the same, Fugo will only have time to display a single headline before transitioning to the next slide.
We recommend you set the post delay to be shorter than your app duration so that your audience will see at least a few headlines within your content rotation.
8. Next, you can change the look of your app by setting the headline, summary, and background color.
Many users like to use this setting to configure the app in their brand colors. In my example below, I've configured background color to be the Fugo purple:
9. Once you’re happy with how the app looks, click Save Changes in the bottom right corner.
10. Your BBC News app instance will now be listed as a slide in your playlist.
If you want to add more content to this playlist, click Add more content and use the content picker to select the content you want to add (media, apps, dashboards, Studio content, etc.)
💡 By default, apps & other slide content configured in the playlist builder will fill the full dimensions of the screen & play as a standard slideshow - one after the other.
If you want to customize the look and feel of your screen content (by, say, adding a ticker text or local time, etc) to your slide, you can do that in the Design Studio. We'll cover that in the next section: Using the Design Studio.
To continue on to publishing instructions from here, you can skip to section 3: How to publish the app to your screen/s.
Using the Design Studio
1. Click Studio in the top navigation bar. Then click Create in Studio to start a new design.
2. This will open up a blank canvas for you to start adding content to! To add the BBC app, either scroll to find it in the Apps menu to the right or search for it to find it faster.
3. Click the app or drag and drop to add it onto your canvas.
💡 You can drag the sizing handles of the app around to change the size. Make it smaller so you can split your screen and add other content, or make it full screen - that’s totally up to you!
4. Customizing the BBC app settings works the same way in the Design Studio - all settings will be found in the panel to the left. To bring up the panel, click on the app from the canvas.
You have full control over how you integrate BBC News into your digital signage. Here are a few ways you might want to enhance your display:
Add your company logo the slide for consistent branding
Use the BBC news app as a news ticker alongside more important company dashboards, reports, or media carousels
Add text boxes and scrolling ticker texts with important messages, reminders, or requests pertaining to your content or company initiatives
Embed QR codes to encourage employee or customer engagement with calls to action.
Combine with other apps & integrations, such as the World Clock, to create a more dynamic display.
In my example, I've customized my layout to include:
An upcoming meeting reminder with a QR code for RSVPs.
An announcement for a new employee recognition initiative, featuring a QR code for easy participation.
A Weather app widget with a transparent background, cropped to fit neatly into the design.
A BBC News ticker with smooth animation that subtly draws attention while keeping focus on key company messages.
When you’re satisfied with how your content looks, click Save and Close. This will close out the Design Studio. To publish this content, you’ll need to add it to a playlist, which we’ll cover in the next section.
How to publish the app to your screens
Note: If you want to add content you created in the studio to a playlist, you’ll need to navigate to the Playlists page by clicking Playlists in the top navigation bar and Create Playlist to start a new playlist.
That's where we'll pick up our instructions below.
1. Give your playlist a name (we suggest making it something relevant to distinguish it from other playlists later on down the road.)
2. Click Select Screens to choose where to publish your playlist. You can publish this playlist to one, or multiple screens.
3. If you used the playlist builder to configure the app, you'll already see it listed under the Content for your playlist.
If you used the Studio to configure the app, you'll need to click Select Content and select it from the Studio Content tab in content picker.
3. You can also add more content to your playlist by clicking Add More Content and choosing other apps, uploading media, or from the content that you created in the studio.
4. When you've selected all the content items you want to add to this playlist, you're ready to put it on screen or schedule it!
Click Preview it to see what it will look like on screen.
To publish it to screen right away, click Publish. This is will send it to your screen/s right away & play it indefinitely until you unpublish it.
To save it & come back to later, click Finish later.
To get specific about what dates, days, and times this playlist runs, you can use the Schedule. Learn more about scheduling capabilities in our playlists collection.
Need more help?
We're here for you! If you have any questions or run into issues setting up your content, just reach out - we’re happy to help. You can contact us via the chat box in the Fugo CMS or email us at support@fugo.ai, and we’ll get you sorted.