Digital Sign Standards & Templates

MSUM’s on-campus digital sign advertising promotes on-campus activities, events and opportunities for university organizations and departments, including student organizations. We may also promote university-sponsored events and activities that are not being held on campus. We do not accept ads from off-campus organizations and businesses or use campus resources to promote non-university related events.

Campus Monitor Locations

Submitting an Ad for Campus Monitors

You can create your own ad by using one of the templates below. Please make sure to save your ad in JPG format at the required orientation. Submit your ad via email to marketingteam@mnstate.edu at least two business days before you would like it to appear on campus monitors. Submitted ads are uploaded within 48 hours, Monday through Friday.

  • We will promote events two weeks prior to the event date.
  • Generic promotion of an ongoing event may be posted for a semester
  • Required size: 16:9 ratio, horizontal orientation
  • Lowest resolution should be 1920 x 1080 pixels
  • JPG format
  • If submitting an animated ad or video, use MP4, and no sound is allowed. Please limit the video length to 15 seconds or less.

Requesting Creation of an Ad for Campus Monitors

If you wish to have the Marketing Office create an ad for you, please submit a project request and expect it to take up to two weeks to complete the work.

Digital Sign Ad PowerPoint Templates

What can I use to create a digital ad?

  • JPG
    • PowerPoint (templates above)
      • Change slide size to widescreen (16:9)
      • Save as jpg
    • Adobe Express
      • Resize to widescreen (16:9)
      • Download/save as jpg
    • Adobe Photoshop
      • Use 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels
      • Save as jpg
    • Word document
      • Change orientation to landscape
      • Change page size to 8 ½ x 14 (legal)
      • Save as jpg
  • MP4 (video or animation)
    • PowerPoint
      • Change slide size to widescreen (16:9)
      • Save as MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)
    • There are many other programs you can use to make videos the key is to have a 16:9 aspect ratio and the file format mp4.