Kitcast Research · State of Digital Signage 2026

How many digital signage screens are there in the world?

A sourced, show-your-work estimate — signage against the full universe of TVs and monitors.
Updated June 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · From the State of Digital Signage 2026 dataset (KITCAST-DSR-2026-V1)

There are an estimated 100–110 million connected digital signage displays in active use worldwide — a small but premium slice of roughly 3.6 billion screens overall. public

~105M
connected signage displays worldwide (central estimate)
~3.6B
screens of all kinds (TVs + monitors + signage)
10.3%
annual growth of the connected signage base
$45.9B
projected market size by 2030 (from $28.8B in 2024)

Start with the denominator. The world runs on roughly 3.6 billion screens: about 2.5 billion of them televisions, another billion desktop monitors. The TV figure comes from two independent methods — households × TVs-per-household, and shipments × lifespan — which land within rounding distance of Omdia's count of ~1 billion UHD sets in use. Connected signage is the smallest slice by a wide margin: Berg Insight counted 91.5 million displays in 2023, which interpolates to roughly 100–110 million today.

Televisions
2500M
Monitors
1000M
Connected signage
105M

Active installed base, millions of units (2024–25). public

CategoryCentral estimateRange
Televisions~2.5B2.3–3.0B
Computer monitors~1.0B0.8–1.2B
Connected digital signage~100–110M90–120M
Total screens~3.6B3.2–4.3B

Small, yes. Also the only one of the three growing fast. The connected installed base is compounding at 10.3% per year — to 149.4 million by 2028 on Berg Insight's curve — and the software-and-services market at 8.1%: from $28.8 billion in 2024 to a projected $45.9 billion by 2030 (Grand View Research). Few screens, premium dollars.

One definitional note that explains most disagreements between sources: Berg Insight counts connected (networked) signage displays. Add unconnected screens playing from USB sticks and the true number of "screens used as signage" is higher — but unmeasurable, which is why this page sticks to the connected figure.

Sources: Berg Insight (installed base & shipments), Grand View Research (market size), Omdia, Digital TV Research, TrendForce, IDC (TVs and monitors). Third-party figures, cited for context.

Frequently asked questions

How many digital signage screens are there in the world?

An estimated 100–110 million connected digital signage displays are in active use worldwide (Berg Insight counted 91.5 million in 2023, growing ~10% a year), out of roughly 3.6 billion screens overall.

How many TVs are there in the world?

Approximately 2.5 billion active televisions (range 2.3–3.0B), based on two converging methods — households × TVs-per-household and shipments × lifespan — cross-checked against Omdia's ~1 billion UHD sets in use.

How big is the digital signage market?

The global digital signage market was $28.8 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $45.9 billion by 2030 — an 8.1% annual growth rate (Grand View Research).

How fast is digital signage growing?

The connected installed base is growing about 10.3% per year — from 91.5 million displays in 2023 to a projected 149.4 million by 2028 (Berg Insight) — making signage the fastest-growing screen category, ahead of TVs and monitors.

Behind each of those ~100 million displays sits a software platform managing it — see how the major platforms compare in the top-10 digital signage software breakdown.

Source & reuse. From the State of Digital Signage 2026 report by Kitcast — first-party telemetry across tens of thousands of screens plus a 515-operator survey. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. Data: CSV · JSON · Methodology.