I'm starting a business and I will be running scrolling advertisements of local businesses on iPads. Can somehow tell me how to do this?

Question

I'm starting a business and I will be running scrolling advertisements of local businesses on iPads. Can somehow tell me how to do this? I haven't purchased the iPads yet but I will need to run the ads simultaneously on between 8 and 30 iPads.

Answer 1

You can paste images in all the common formats (PDF JPEG GIF PNG etc.) straight onto Keynote slides.  Presumably one slide per image.  However, you will want to impose size restrictions on the images you get sent: a certain number of pixels high and wide.  Otherwise you will have to shrink them to fit them onto the iPad screen, and your customers may complain that small details (small print ?) can't be seen.
To start off, expect to create your presentations manually until you are familiar with how Keynote works, and have decided how to set the whole thing up.  Once you have figured out a workflow, and learned how to cope with anything unusual your customers send you it will probably be possible to have Automator on a Macintosh look at incoming files and create a Keynote presentation for you.
From what you write I suppose you either need to be willing to learn a lot about iPads in a short time, or to hire someone who is.