Frost & Sullivan 2025 Frost Radar
The Stratacache Alternative That Runs on the Players You Already Own
One enterprise cloud platform, audited to SOC 2 Type II, that runs on the Windows, Linux, Android and BrightSign players in your network today. Switching is simple, with remote support from our in-house team and, on Enterprise, AI assistance.
No cost, no obligation. We review your players, content and integrations and send you a written report.
SOC 2 Type II, no exceptions · 25 years in digital signage · Built and supported in-house
Trusted by leading enterprises, banks, airports and universities
Why MediaTile
A Stratacache alternative every stakeholder can sign off on
MediaTile is one platform on one codebase, designed, built and supported by our own in-house team for 25 years. Because we build everything ourselves, we can rapidly develop the integration a large enterprise network needs.
For IT and Security
- Pull-only architecture. Every connection, including real-time commands, is initiated by the player. No inbound firewall ports.
- SOC 2 Type II, no exceptions, and independent penetration testing with no critical or high-risk findings.
- SAML 2.0 single sign-on, enforced MFA with passkeys, and permissions down to individual player commands.
- Full audit trail you can export or feed to your SIEM.
For Communications
- Optional approval before playlists go live. Changed playlists automatically return for re-approval.
- Unlimited playlists, targeted your way. Target by location, tag or schedule, or use Player Location-Based Playlists (Enterprise) so one playlist with location placeholders serves many locations.
- Emergency alerts from official CAP feeds, targeted by location and translated into 22+ languages (Enterprise).
- English and French interface, with AI tools for writing, translation and images (Enterprise).
For Operations
- Keep your existing players and migrate them remotely wherever you grant access.
- Tile AI flags problems early: disk space, version drift, sync errors and offline patterns (Enterprise).
- Player status in your dashboard and email alerts to your own technicians.
- Nothing to host. Cloud software on AWS, with every new release included.
Playlists Your Way
The right content at every location
Create as many playlists as you need and group your players by location or any criteria you choose. Target content by tag with tag-based playlists or by time with Smart Scheduling. For campaigns that run across many locations, Player Location-Based Playlists (Enterprise) add a convenient option: one playlist with location placeholders.
- Unlimited playlists. Create and schedule as many as your network needs.
- Targeting your way by location, tag, player group or schedule.
- Optional Player Location-Based Playlists (Enterprise). Location placeholders let one playlist carry shared content everywhere, plus content that plays only at the locations you assign.
Option: a Player Location-Based Playlist with placeholders
Playlist: Spring campaign
- Brand videoAll locations
- Seasonal promotionAll locations
- Placeholder: local offerDowntown only
- Placeholder: gate informationAirport only
What each location plays
Downtown
Brand video
Seasonal promotion
Local offerAirport
Brand video
Seasonal promotion
Gate informationMall
Brand video
Seasonal promotion
Switching Made Simple
How to switch from Stratacache to MediaTile
Three simple steps, with our team helping at every one.
01
Free migration assessment
Tell us about your screens and content. We send you a written plan and timeline, at no cost.
02
We help you set up
Unlimited training is included, and Enterprise includes remote support. On Enterprise, Tile AI also builds your groups and playlists from a prompt, an image or a document.
03
Switch your screens
Where you grant remote access, we switch your existing players to MediaTile remotely, in groups at your pace. Your screens keep playing until they switch.
All you need to start: a list of your screens and remote access to them.
Free and no obligation.
Protect Your Hardware Investment
Keep the players you already own
Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Frost Radar noted that MediaTile's hardware-agnostic approach lets organizations "retrofit existing deployments, preserving prior investments in hardware." For a network of a thousand screens or more, that is the difference between a software project and a capital project.
- Enterprise networks typically run Windows, Linux or Android players. MediaTile supports all three, including Windows 10 and 11.
- Where you grant remote access, our team migrates your existing players remotely.
- BrightSign players (OS 9.0 or later) switch to MediaTile without a hardware change.
- Also supports Samsung Tizen and LG webOS displays, Raspberry Pi and Amazon Fire Stick.
- No proprietary player required.
Side by Side
MediaTile vs Stratacache: the enterprise checklist
Twenty-one questions enterprise teams ask when evaluating a signage platform, with MediaTile's answers. Put the same questions to Stratacache, or to any vendor on your shortlist.
| Requirement | MediaTile | Ask Stratacache |
|---|---|---|
| Security | ||
| Independent security audit | SOC 2 Type II (Security), unqualified opinion, no exceptions. Report and bridge letter available under NDA | May we see the current SOC 2 Type II report? |
| Penetration testing and encryption | Independently tested; no critical or high-risk findings. AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 or higher in transit | When was the last test, and what did it find? |
| Single sign-on and MFA | SAML 2.0 single sign-on on Enterprise. MFA with authenticator apps or passkeys, which admins can require for every user. Inactive accounts lock after 90 days | Which identity providers, and can MFA be enforced? |
| Permissions | Granular by location, player command, playlist, template and feature, including each AI capability | Can regional admins be limited to their own sites? |
| Audit trail and logs | Every change logged by user and time, exportable to CSV, AI actions labelled. Security events kept one year; logs can feed your SIEM | Is the audit log exportable, and for how long is it kept? |
| AI governance | AI acts only within each user's permissions, every action is logged, and admins can switch it off. Customer data is never used to train models. AI features are part of the Enterprise plan | Is our data used to train AI models? |
| Network and players | ||
| Existing hardware | Runs on Windows, Linux, Android, BrightSign, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Raspberry Pi and Amazon Fire Stick. Remote migration of players you give us access to | Which of our current players can run another platform? |
| Network architecture | Pull-only: every connection, including real-time commands, is initiated by the player. No inbound firewall ports | Does the platform ever push to players or need inbound ports? |
| Offline resilience | Players keep playing from local storage if the network drops | What do screens show during an outage? |
| Deployment | Cloud software on AWS, multiple availability zones. Nothing for you to host | Are content servers hosted by us, a partner or the vendor? |
| Data residency | Content stored in the AWS region that matches your organization (Canada or the US) | Where exactly is our content stored? |
| Operations | ||
| Player health | Player status in your dashboard, email alerts to your own technicians, and, on the Enterprise plan, Tile AI flags anomalies such as disk space, version drift and offline patterns | How do our technicians learn a screen is down? |
| Bulk rollout | Management API to approve players and assign playlists to players or groups; groups of groups; location- and tag-based playlists | Can we provision hundreds of players without touching each one? |
| Location-specific content | Unlimited playlists targeted by location, tag, player group or schedule. Optional Player Location-Based Playlists (Enterprise) let one playlist carry location-specific content through placeholders | How is location-specific content handled, and how many playlists will we maintain? |
| Content approval | Playlist approval workflow; changed playlists automatically return for re-approval, and manual publishes are recorded in the audit log | Can changes be held until an approver signs off? |
| Recovery from mistakes | Version history and rollback for layouts and AI widgets; deleted items can be restored within a configurable window | How do we undo a bad change across many screens? |
| Emergency alerting | Built-in CAP feeds from the US National Weather Service and Environment Canada, targeted to screens by location (Enterprise) | Is alerting native or a third-party add-on? |
| Commercial and support | ||
| Availability and backups | Contractual availability commitment with service credits. Daily backups with mirrored databases | What is the SLA, and what is the remedy if it is missed? |
| Integrations | REST API, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Excel, CSV, SFTP, Canva, Hivestack and Vistar. Custom integrations built in-house for enterprise networks | Who builds a new integration, and how quickly? |
| Product momentum | 15 MediaTile V9 releases between May and September 2026, with published release notes | How often do you release, and where are the release notes? |
| Support | In-house team; Enterprise customers reach a live agent. Remote support and unlimited training included with your subscription. English and French interface | Who answers the phone, and is migration support extra? |
MediaTile information from Corum Digital documentation as of October 2026. Some capabilities are specific to the Enterprise plan.
Get these answers for your network
Your free migration assessment maps every requirement above to your players, sites and integrations.
New in MediaTile V9
Enterprise controls built into MediaTile V9
MediaTile V9 has shipped 15 releases since May 2026, with general availability in June. These are the capabilities enterprise teams ask about most.
Tile AI fleet triage
Continuous anomaly triage across every player, watching disk space, version drift, playable content, sync errors, offline patterns and recovery state. When you ask Tile AI to take an action, its reply ends with an Action Ledger of what actually happened. Enterprise plan.
Management API for bulk rollout
Approve waiting players and assign playlists to individual players or whole groups through the API, so large deployments do not mean clicking through hundreds of screens.
Approval workflow
Playlists are flagged for re-approval whenever their content changes. Unpublished changes are clearly marked, and manual publishes are recorded in the audit log.
Version history and rollback
Compare and roll back versions in the Layout Designer, Smart Lists and AI widgets.
Soft delete and restore
Deleted items stop playing immediately but can be restored within a configurable retention window, 30 days by default.
Event triggers
Run actions automatically when data conditions change, an API check fires or an alert arrives, with optional date, time and weekday windows.
Emergency alerts
Official CAP feeds, per-location targeting with on/off controls, automatic translation into 22+ languages, and the most severe active alert takes priority. Enterprise plan.
Account security
SAML 2.0 single sign-on, passkeys, MFA you can require account-wide, password policies and automatic lockout of inactive accounts.
Network connectivity test
Check ping, WebRTC, upload and download performance against player devices from a web browser, for pre-deployment validation and remote-site triage.
AI Widgets
AI Content, AI Weather, AI Data and AI Embed. Describe what you need and AI Content creates it, ready to place in your layouts, with version history built in. Enterprise plan.
Layout Designer with animation
Build layouts, including multi-zone layouts, and bring them to life with a range of animations, using assets from your MediaTile library.
Bring your own assets
Create assets in the design tools your team already uses, or in Canva, and bring them into the MediaTile library for use in any layout.
Also included: Smart Scheduling and calendar scheduling, Express View for quick assignments and temporary overrides, Quick Broadcast, no-content detection, synced displays and video walls, live data from Sheets, Excel, CSV and SFTP, programmatic advertising with Hivestack and Vistar, two years of proof of play and WayMapper wayfinding (WCAG 2.2 Level AA).
Recognized. Audited. Proven.
Credentials enterprise IT can verify
A Simpler Commercial Model
One subscription per display. Everything else included.
No servers to buy and no perpetual licence plus annual maintenance. Tell us about your network and we will build a quote around it.
MediaTile Enterprise
Enterprise Digital Signage Platform
One annual subscription per display
- Cloud hosting and every new release included
- Remote support and unlimited training included
- Unlimited users and unlimited storage
- Two years of play records
- No data transfer limits and no setup fees
- Free migration assessment
If you run an on-premises model today
Licences, servers and services
Costs spread across several line items
- Perpetual licences plus annual maintenance
- Content servers to host, patch and replace
- Professional services for changes and upgrades
- Upgrades scheduled as separate projects
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions: MediaTile as a Stratacache alternative
Why do enterprises choose MediaTile as a Stratacache alternative?
MediaTile is one cloud platform, built and supported in-house for 25 years. It runs on the players enterprises already own, uses a pull-only architecture that needs no inbound firewall ports, and is independently audited to SOC 2 Type II with no exceptions. Migration starts with a free assessment and is AI-assisted, with remote support included.
Can we keep our existing Stratacache media players?
Often, yes. Enterprise networks typically run Windows, Linux or Android players, and MediaTile supports all three, along with BrightSign, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Raspberry Pi and Amazon Fire Stick. Where you grant remote access, we migrate your players remotely. Your free migration assessment confirms which models carry over.
Can MediaTile import our Stratacache content?
Your images and videos move across. Proprietary scripts and templates do not transfer between platforms, so your structure is rebuilt in MediaTile, and that is where Tile AI helps on the Enterprise plan: it can build groups and playlists from a prompt, an image or a document such as an exported player list or schedule.
How do you migrate a network of 1,000 screens or more?
Simply, and at your pace. Start with a free migration assessment and written plan, we help you set up with remote support (and Tile AI on the Enterprise plan), and then we switch your players remotely in groups wherever you grant access. Your screens keep playing until they switch.
How long does it take to switch from Stratacache?
Your free migration assessment gives you a written plan and timeline for your network. Where you grant remote access, we switch your screens for you, in groups at your pace, and they keep playing until they switch.
Can we keep our ActiVia for Media players?
Often, yes. ActiVia for Media has run on Stratacache Spectra players, which use Windows or Linux, and on BrightSign players. MediaTile runs on Windows 10 and 11, Linux and BrightSign (OS 9.0 or later), and your free assessment confirms which of your players carry over.
What does it cost to switch from Stratacache?
The assessment is free, there are no setup fees, and you keep the players that carry over. MediaTile is one annual subscription per display that includes hosting, updates, remote support and training. Request a quote for your network.
What does the free migration assessment include?
We review your players, content, data feeds, integrations and user structure, and give you a written plan and timeline for moving to MediaTile. There is no cost and no obligation.
How do MediaTile players connect? Do we need to open firewall ports?
No inbound ports are needed. MediaTile's architecture is pull-only: every connection is initiated by the player and nothing is ever pushed from the cloud. Real-time commands travel over a real-time (RTC) connection that the player itself opens. If the network drops, players keep playing from local storage.
Do we need a separate playlist for every location?
Not unless you want one. You can create as many playlists as you need and target them by location, tag, player group or schedule. When one campaign runs across many locations, Player Location-Based Playlists on the Enterprise plan let a single playlist use location placeholders, so shared content plays everywhere and local content plays only where you assign it. That saves maintaining near-identical copies.
Can we use content created in our own design tools?
Yes. Create assets in the tools your team already uses, or in Canva, and bring them into the MediaTile library. From there you can use them in the Layout Designer with a range of animations, or create new content by prompt with AI Widgets on the Enterprise plan.
How do you stop a mistake from reaching thousands of screens?
Several layers work together. Permissions limit who can change what and where. Playlists can require approval, and they return for re-approval whenever their content changes. Version history lets you roll back layouts and AI widgets, and deleted items can be restored within a configurable window. Every change is recorded in the audit trail.
Is MediaTile secure enough for our IT team?
Corum Digital Corporation, MediaTile's parent, holds a SOC 2 Type II report (Security) with an unqualified opinion and no exceptions, available under NDA with a bridge letter. Data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, and independent penetration testing found no critical or high-risk issues.
Where is our data stored?
On AWS. Your content is stored in the region that matches your organization: Canada Central for Canadian customers and US East for US customers. Account management and some metadata may be processed in either region. If you enable optional integrations or AI features, some processing may take place outside your home country, and AI can be switched off.
Does MediaTile support single sign-on and granular permissions?
Yes. The Enterprise plan includes SAML 2.0 single sign-on. All accounts support MFA with authenticator apps or passkeys, and admins can require it for every user. Permissions can be limited by location, player command, playlist, template and feature.
Can MediaTile integrate with our systems?
Yes. MediaTile includes a management REST API and connectors for SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Excel, CSV, SFTP, Canva, Hivestack and Vistar. Because our engineering team is in-house, we can rapidly build the integration a large enterprise network needs.
How is MediaTile priced?
MediaTile Enterprise is one annual subscription per display, with hosting, updates, remote support, unlimited training, unlimited users and unlimited storage included, and no setup fees. Contact us for a quote built around your network.
What support do enterprise customers get?
MediaTile is built and supported by our own in-house team. Enterprise customers reach a live support agent, and remote support and unlimited training are included with your subscription, during migration and after.
Is MediaTile available in French?
Yes. The MediaTile interface is available in English and French.
Ready to move from Stratacache to MediaTile?
Start with a free migration assessment. We will show you which of your players carry over, how your network maps into MediaTile, and how your migration would run.
No cost, no obligation. We review your players, content and integrations and send you a written report.
Sales: 888-342-3010 | sales@mediatile.com
Stratacache is a trademark of its respective owner. MediaTile is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Stratacache. References are for factual comparison only. MediaTile information, including the V9 release count, reflects Corum Digital documentation as of October 2026 and is subject to change.