Most screens need far less storage than people think. A loop of eight photos and one short video weighs about 25MB, so it fits into 1GB forty times over. Video is what fills a quota, especially old campaigns nobody deleted.
Good to know The storage and bandwidth calculator turns your photo and video counts into a library size, says which plan it fits, and estimates what each screen downloads.
What fits in 1GB, 5GB and 20GB
Sizes for a Full HD (1920 x 1080) screen, with sensible export settings, not straight off a phone camera.
| What you upload | Typical size | 1GB, easyCMS account | 5GB, PRO account | 20GB, Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full HD photo (JPEG) | 300KB to 800KB | about 2,000 | about 10,000 | about 40,000 |
| 30-second Full HD video | 15MB to 22MB | about 50 | about 250 | about 1,000 |
| 60-second 4K video | 150MB to 190MB | 5 or 6 | 25 to 30 | 100 to 120 |
The easyCMS account is 49€ once and the PRO account 299€ once; Enterprise is 1,290€ a year, our only recurring plan. Full detail is on the pricing page.
Three real screens
| Screen | What plays | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Office reception | 8 photos, one 30-second video, one PDF | about 22MB |
| Café menu board | 12 photos, plus a clock and the weather | about 7MB |
| Shop window, video-led | 11 videos of 30 to 60 seconds, 10 photos | about 280MB |
The first two use a few percent of 1GB, for years. The shop window fits too, but the fourth campaign will not if the first three are still in the Library. A video-led screen with a back catalogue is a 5GB job, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Three ways to stay well under
Compress your videos
Full HD, not 4K, for a Full HD screen: 4K is five times the file for the same picture. MP4 at 4 to 6 Mbps, trimmed before you upload.
Delete what you no longer show
Last spring’s promotion still counts until you remove it. Deleting a file gives the space back straight away; Studio’s Library shows your total.
Photos barely count
A Full HD photo saved as JPEG is under 1MB. Save photos as JPEG, not PNG, and shrink camera files to screen size first.
What does not count at all
Storage is only the files you upload. Designs and schedules are not files, and content fetched live costs nothing: weather, clocks, countdowns, news feeds, web pages, live streams, room bookings, and the lists in Menu & prices, Your info and Rates (a photo attached to a dish does count). The trade-off: live content needs the internet at the moment it plays, while uploaded files are kept on the screen. More in digital signage without internet.
Ten screens cost the same as one
Your Library is one library. Upload a 20MB video once, play it on ten screens, and it counts once. Each screen keeps its own copy on its own storage, not on your quota. Storage grows with how much different content you make, not with how many screens you own.
Watch out A different version of the same video for every branch multiplies again: fifty 30-second clips are most of 1GB on their own. Use one shared video and put the local detail in the words of the design.
When you run out
Uploads stop at the quota. Nothing already playing breaks or disappears; you just cannot add new files until you make room.
- Delete old campaigns. This solves most cases.
- Re-encode your biggest videos at 4 to 6 Mbps. The largest handful of files is usually most of the total.
- Use live content where it fits, such as a price list in Menu & prices instead of twelve exported slides.
- Move up to PRO for 5GB, which also takes you to 25 displays.
- Ask us. There is no published price for extra storage on its own; we quote it case by case, so ask before you buy if that matters to you.
The step-by-step is in storage quota and media uploads, and the right file formats are in screen sizes, resolutions and file formats.
Where others beat us
If you have one screen and a lot of video, Yodeck’s free single-screen plan with unlimited storage (checked September 2026) is a better deal than anything we sell. What our fixed quota buys you is a price paid once, with nothing that recurs; the wider comparison is in free digital signage software and digital signage cost per screen.