Poppulo alternative. $6 a screen.
Poppulo is built for Fortune 100 internal-comms teams running email, mobile apps, signage, and journeys across 50,000 employees. If your need is screens that show content, that platform is overpriced and overscaled. Brix is $6/screen/month billed annually, no contract.
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Poppulo prices for Fortune 100. Brix prices for the rest of us.
$6/screen vs Fortune 100 enterprise contracts
Poppulo serves 40+ Fortune 100 companies — that's their ICP, that's how they price. SMB operators, single-location restaurants, mid-market retailers — none of you are getting the Fortune 100 number. Brix is $6/screen, the same for every customer.
You're paying for the Employee Engagement Platform
Poppulo bundles employee email, mobile apps, signage, and 'employee journeys' into one suite. If you just need screens showing menus or promotions, you're absorbing the cost of three channels you'll never use.
21-day trial, then 'talk to sales' forever
Poppulo's free trial is 21 days of Email Pro+ — not signage, not the full platform. After that everything is custom-quoted. Brix is $6/screen, public, posted, no sales conversation required.
Poppulo pricing: by quote only.
Poppulo does not publish its prices. You get a quote from sales.
Brix is $6 per screen per month billed annually ($8 month to month), with every feature included. Book a Demo.
Brix vs Poppulo, feature by feature.
68 features. A badge shows the Poppulo plan that a feature needs.
| Feature | Brix · $6 billed annually |
|---|---|
| Content & media | |
| Image upload & playback | ✓ |
| Video upload & playback | ✓ |
| Document upload & display (PDF, Word, PowerPoint) | PDF + PowerPoint (no Word) |
| Web pages / HTML / web URL | ✓ |
| YouTube / live streaming | ✓ |
| Authenticated / secured web pages | Public + basic auth |
| Layout & design | |
| Multi-zone / split-screen layouts | ✓ |
| Drag-and-drop layout editor | ✓ |
| Pre-built templates (count) | Curated set |
| Auto-size text / responsive templates | ✓ |
| Lockable layouts | ✓ |
| Ticker / scrolling text overlay | ✓ |
| Scheduling & playlists | |
| Build playlists | ✓ |
| Day-parting / time-of-day scheduling | ✓ |
| Working hours / screen schedules | ✓ |
| Tag-based playlists / sub-playlists | ✓ |
| Advanced media scheduling rules | ✓ |
| Per-asset expiry | ✓ |
| Apps & integrations | |
| App count | 40+ |
| Custom-built apps on request | ✓ |
| RSS / news / weather feeds | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams / Viva integration | Teams alerts; Viva Engage feed (beta) |
| Slack integration | Generic webhooks |
| Power BI dashboards | Public embed links |
| Interactive & kiosk | |
| Interactive kiosk app | Touch on Windows/Android TV |
| Storage & limits | |
| Cloud storage | Unlimited |
| Screen count limit | Unlimited |
| Per-file upload size limit | 2 GB video / 250 MB image / 100 MB document |
| Vendor logo on screen (free of) | ✓ |
| Users, roles & workflow | |
| Multi-user accounts | Unlimited |
| Team workspaces / channels | ✓ |
| Role-based access control | ✓ |
| Approval workflow / collaboration | ✓ |
| Folders for presentations / schedules / displays | ✓ |
| Multi-language UI | Screen content in any language; console in English |
| Analytics & reporting | |
| Proof-of-play / impression reporting | ✓ |
| Time-segment / date-range reports | ✓ |
| Email notifications on display online/offline | ✓ |
| Live snapshot / channel preview | ✓ |
| Remote management (RDM) | |
| Manage screens from web / mobile | ✓ |
| Remote reboot | ✓ |
| Power schedule (auto on/off) | ✓ |
| Remote troubleshooting / diagnostics | ✓ |
| Remote software updates / MDM-driven | ✓ |
| Zero-touch player provisioning | Code-free pairing on the same network |
| Security & compliance | |
| Single sign-on (SAML / OIDC) | OIDC + SCIM (no SAML) |
| Multi-factor authentication (MFA / passkeys) | ✓ |
| Audit logs | ✓ |
| Custom data residency | US, EU, Australia, Asia-Pacific |
| Data encryption (at rest + in transit) | ✓ |
| Player lockdown (kiosk mode / secure registration) | ✓ |
| Hardware compatibility | |
| Amazon Signage Stick (Fire OS) | Default device |
| Android TV / Google TV | ✓ |
| Windows PC | ✓ |
| Apple TV / iPad | iPad via browser; no Apple TV |
| Raspberry Pi | Browser player (unmanaged) |
| Open hardware (no vendor lock-in) | ✓ |
| Support | |
| Knowledge base / docs | ✓ |
| Email support | ✓ |
| Phone support | ✓ |
| Video / scheduled remote support | ✓ |
| Same-business-hour SLA | Sev2 within 4 business hours |
| Free migration assistance | ✓ |
| Deployment options | |
| Cloud / SaaS | ✓ |
| On-premise install | On-prem render agent only |
| Billing | |
| Free trial duration | 7 days |
| Month-to-month billing | ✓ |
| Minimum screen count | None |
Moving from Poppulo to Brix.
Export your Poppulo digital signage content. Poppulo's admin lets you download media and channel definitions; we'll rebuild your screens, layouts, and schedules for free.
We move your content for free. Your screens pair with a code on the hardware you already have.
Talk to us about your moveWhat Poppulo gets right. And where the math breaks.
What Poppulo gets right
Poppulo is one of the strongest internal-comms platforms in the world. Their email engagement metrics are genuinely best-in-class, the mobile Employee App is polished, and the integration across email + mobile + signage + 'employee journeys' is unmatched if you're running corporate comms at scale. ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, and a 24/7 global support footprint match the Fortune 100 buyer profile perfectly.
If you're a Director of Internal Communications at a 30,000-employee company running multi-channel campaigns across email, mobile, and signage, Poppulo is purpose-built for you. The platform consolidation is real value at that scale.
Where the pricing math breaks
Poppulo doesn't publish pricing: its pricing page scales the price by network size, services and hardware, and sends you to sales. Signage is typically one line inside a larger employee-engagement deal, so the per-screen number is buried in the email and mobile spend.
Strip out the bundle and you are paying for a multi-channel platform to run screens that, in isolation, Brix runs for $6 per screen per month billed annually.
The pricing model only works if you actually use the multi-channel orchestration. For signage-only deployments, it's the most expensive path in the category.
When Poppulo is the right choice
Poppulo is the right call when you're an internal-comms team at a 10,000+ employee company running coordinated multi-channel campaigns across email, mobile, signage, and 'employee journeys.' The orchestration value, the engagement analytics, and the SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance footprint are all genuine Fortune 100 strengths.
For SMBs, mid-market retailers, healthcare clinics, single-location operators, and any business that doesn't have a dedicated internal-comms function — Brix is signage-only, priced for that buyer, and doesn't require you to absorb the cost of three communication channels you'll never use.
Questions about Poppulo.
We're not Fortune 100. Will Poppulo even quote us?
Probably not seriously. Their entire go-to-market is built around enterprise sales cycles and multi-channel deals. Mid-market and below get 'priority' for a Brix-style competitor — that's us. $6/screen, no quote needed.
We use Poppulo for email. Can we keep that and just switch signage?
Yes — Brix is signage-only and doesn't touch email. Run Poppulo for email, Brix for screens. Splitting these is usually cheaper than the bundled deal and you keep best-in-class email tooling.
Does Brix integrate with Poppulo email or campaigns?
Not natively. If you're orchestrating coordinated email-and-signage campaigns, that's exactly what Poppulo bundles. Brix runs signage in isolation. For most SMB and mid-market operators, isolated signage is what you actually need.
What about SOC 2 / ISO 27001?
Brix has security controls in place; SOC 2 attestation is on the roadmap, not in hand today. If your procurement requires SOC 2 + ISO 27001 + 24/7 global support, Poppulo has that. Most operators don't actually need it; if you do, that's a legitimate Poppulo strength.
Free migration?
Yes — send us your Poppulo signage export, we rebuild your screens and schedules for free. Most migrations live the same day.
Try Brix before you renew Poppulo.
7-day free trial, no credit card. We move your Poppulo content for free.