Digital Signage Awards Night Pushed Off By UK COVID-19 Restrictions February 1, 2021 by Super User Almost all of the emails I get from industry awards that involve shifting dates have to do with extending submission deadlines, but in the case of the global Digital Signage Awards, the date for handing out the prizes has been necessarily shifted because of COVID-19. The prizes were originally intended to be handed out this …
MicroTouch Interactive Display Brand Back; TES America Revives After Buying From 3M February 1, 2021 by Super User If you were somebody who bought or specified 3M interactive touch products, the familiar MicroTouch line of touch monitors sold for many years by that Minnesota tech giant has been re-launched via a separate company, TES America. TES, in PR, says it has outfitted MicroTouch with an all-new look and is expanding the line of …
SF-based CMS Firm Raydiant Closes $13M Series A Raise February 1, 2021 by Super User There have been a few acquisitions lately, like Screenscape being picked up by Spectrio, but there is also investor money for backing existing companies in growth mode. San Francisco-based cloud CMS software firm Raydiant announced it has closed $13 Million in Series A financing co-led by 8VC and Atomic, and also backed by actor Mark …
How the Digital Signage Industry Can Benefit from Servitization February 1, 2021 by Super User Guest Post: Thomas Fraser-Bacon, Allsee Technologies When a company adopts a servitization model, it’s shifting from a product-based business model to a services-based one. The term was first coined in the late 1980s to describe how manufacturers needed to offer more than just goods if they were to survive in spite of the manufacturing declines …
LCD Display Prices Continue To Rise. Here’s Why … January 29, 2021 by Super User Graphic: LCD TV Panel Prices January 2020 – June 2021 – Source: DSCC I’m hearing from some industry friends that LCD display panel prices are rising – which on the surface likely seems incongruous, given the economic slowdown and widespread indications that a lot of 2020 and 2021 display projects went on hold because of …
Vertical Impression Puts Its Elevator Screens In Roger’s Canadian DOOH Network January 29, 2021 by Super User The Canadian telecoms and media company Rogers appears to be making a push into digital OOH media sales, with a new deal rolling elevator displays in Canadian cities into its omnichannel ad sales offer. Edmonton-based Vertical Impression, which puts screens in the cabs of elevators in residential and office towers, has signed an exclusive sales …
Firefly Wants To Generate Buzz By Putting Its Taxi-Top Screens On Tesla 3s In NYC January 27, 2021 by Super User The VC-funded DOOH media start-up Firefly is looking to generate some buzz by putting its taxi-top ad displays on a new fleet of Tesla 3 electric vehicles that have been approved for use in New York City. The EVs are run by a taxi concession licensee called Drive Sally. The company says it is the …
ISE Show Director Blackman Says 4 of 5 Top Vendors Still Set For Early June In-Person Event January 26, 2021 by Super User This a quick but interesting interview with Integrated Systems Europe show director Mike Blackman, where he suggests the intention remains to hold an in-person ISE in Barcelona, come the start of June. Speaking with Florian Rotberg of invidis, Blackman says of the top 100 exhibitor brands that turn up year on year, more than 80% …
Netflix Adds Crystal LED Video Wall For Special Screening Room At LA HQ January 26, 2021 by Super User Netflix was one of the first companies to make direct view LED the key visual feature of a headquarters lobby, and now the streaming media giant is using microLED as its primary display in a special screening room. The company, according to Hollywood Reporter, has activated a 17 foot wide by 9 foot high Sony …
Panasonic Bows Out Of InfoComm 2021, Citing Health Safety Concerns January 25, 2021 by Super User It is late January, and InfoComm in June seems like way, way, way off – but exhibitors need to plan their presence well in advance, or with the special circumstances of the moment, decide whether or not to exhibit. In the case of Panasonic, it doesn’t see health safety conditions being at a level that …
