Industry Pros Share Their Favorite AI Tools: Jon Sidwick’s Picks July 10, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger For mere mortals like me, the sheer number of reportedly excellent AI tools can give off a heavy dose of FOMO. Having somebody vet them and explain which workflows each tool can support is incredibly valuable. Fortunately, the digital signage industry is full of AI-enthusiastic individuals who are finding meaningful ways to integrate AI into …
AI in Digital Signage: Jason Cremins on What CMS Companies Shouldn’t Sleep On July 9, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger The idea that digital signage could exist without AI has faded quickly in the past couple of years. The question is no longer if AI should be integrated but where to start. Generative AI, in particular, has made its way into nearly every part of an organization – from back-office operations to marketing and product …
Infocomm 25: AI in Digital Signage – Context is King June 16, 2025 by Florian Rotberg At this year’s Infocomm, AI was just about everywhere – or at least, the term was. But beneath marketing slogans or big-picture visions, actual meaningful AI integration was harder to find. That said, there were standouts – especially among companies focused on workplace solutions and interactivity. Some of the companies going beyond the hype were …
LG’s Hidden Booth at Infocomm Features AI Avatar June 12, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger There’s been a lot of curiosity leading up to Infocomm this year around whether we’d finally see AI solutions that truly bring something new to the table for digital signage. Earlier in the year, at ISE in February, many were expecting a bigger AI splash. What we mostly got were early beta versions of generative …
Poppulo Doubles Down on AI With Agents and Web Composer June 10, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Following Korbyt’s launch of a new AI agent suite, Poppulo has made a simlilar announcement. The Denver-based CMS company has developed what it calls “Analyze Agent,” which is dubbed as a foundational model for a future set of task-driven agents. Once launched, these agents will then relieve users of a lot of the manual work …
We Tried Google Beam – the Closest Thing to In-Person Conversation Yet June 4, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger In late 2024, my colleagues and I were lucky enough to experience a technology that Google still kept shrouded in mystery at the time: Google’s Project Starline. Hidden in two demo rooms at the ChromeOS Experience Center in San José, this early glimpse into what is now officially known as Google Beam left us stunned. …
Korbyt Introduces AI Agents to Automate Content Creation and Delivery June 4, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger At DSS Europe in Munich a couple of weeks ago, one of the most talked-about topics was how digital signage software vendors can harness the power of AI. Many conversations centered on the potential for CMS providers to train AI models with their own data to create tailored, signage-specific tools – especially autonomous AI agents …
Retail Media: Advertima and Publicis Media Collaborate June 3, 2025 by Florian Rotberg Accurate and ideally real-time audience data is crucial for programmatic media buying. In the Gulf region, in particular, obtaining reliable data remains a challenge. Publicis, the world’s largest advertising group, has formed a partnership with Advertima, instore data experts from Switzerland, for the Middle East. Their newly devloped joint offering aims to enable media buyers …
Impressions From InfoComm China 2025 – AI Stitched Into Many Aspects Of LED Display Tech April 23, 2025 by Florian Rotberg I was chatting this morning with Florian Rotberg of Sixteen:Nine content partner invidis, who who was in Beijing last week for InfoComm China, a sister show to InfoComm (US) and ISE in Barcelona. It runs every April and attracts the same kind of vendors and attendees seen at the related shows. What was interesting was …
MoodyCanvas Launches One-Time-Buy Digital Art Library For Video Walls April 7, 2025 by Super User One of the wake-up calls that integrators and their end-user customers often get is when they plan out a video wall, and then find out how much good creative can cost. Custom work can easily cost five and six figures. In recent years – and particularly with the rise of data visualization tools and generative …