In NYC This Week, And Time-Crunched October 16, 2019 by Super User I am in NYC and on the go to various industry events, hence the lack of posts. I will write about my thoughts on all that once back at HQ, or maybe on the plane tomorrow, when heading from here to San Francisco for a couple of days. Some quick hits for now: The Digital …
ZetaDisplay Acquires Dutch CMS Gauddi In Ongoing Digital Signage Consolidation Effort October 10, 2019 by Super User The Swedish firm ZetaDisplay is continuing to build its digital signage solutions company through acquisition, announcing today that it has paid about $5 million USD, in cash, to acquire the Dutch CMS software company Gauddi. Malmo-based Zeta says the deal, effective today, makes it the primary player in the BeNeLux region. Eindhoven-based NDS might argue …
That LED Barge Has Made Its Last Trip On The Rivers Around Manhattan October 9, 2019 by Super User New York City has reached a settlement with the Florida company that upset many residents by operating a floating LED billboard barge on the East and Hudson Rivers. Under the terms of an agreement announced Tuesday, Ballyhoo Media must pay a $100,000 fine if its barge is seen again along the waterways. The settlement came …
Matt Schmitt On Why Retail-centric Reflect Got Into Advertising Software October 9, 2019 by Super User Reflect is one of the longest running companies in the digital signage sector – operating out of Dallas since 2001. The company built up its CMS software business largely in retail, but in early 2017 did something of a pivot into ad scheduling and targeting. I wondered, when I first got walked through what’s called …
DataVisual’s Tech Tour Makes Stop Near New World HQ October 8, 2019 by Super User I joke with industry people that my new home city of Halifax is a bit of a black hole when it comes to digital signage activity, having moved here in 2018 from Toronto, which has long been an epicenter of the business. The only directly active company in the vicinity is ScreenScape, and those folks …
Geopath Gets OOH Industry Sign-Off To Formally Launch Data-Driven Insights Platform October 3, 2019 by Super User Geopath has received the out of home industry’s sign-off and formally launched its Insights platform, touted as the industry currency for Out Of Home audience measurement. The not-for-profit organization, which is governed by a board representing the entire OOH ecosystem – including advertisers, media agencies, and out-of-home media – first launched Insights as a …
DSF’s Oct. 15th Coffee & Controversy Focused On Privacy And Proof October 2, 2019 by Super User The always popular – even with me involved – Coffee and Controversy event put on by the Digital Signage Federation is coming up fast. It’s less than two weeks from today in New York. This year’s morning event will be Oct. 15th at Microsoft’s Training Facility at 11 Times Square, and the subject is Privacy …
Samsung Brings Prismview’s LED Sales Into Mother Ship October 1, 2019 by Super User Samsung has rolled the sales and marketing teams of Prismview – the LED company that grew up as Yesco – into its overall display sales team. Utah-based Prismview – which got the new name after it was acquired in 2015 by Samsung – had been operating as a subsidiary until this change, announced today. Prismview …
There Are Even Instructions Available For “Hacking” OOH Media Faces October 1, 2019 by Super User Let’s assume the persons who hacked digital screens in Auckland and Detroit this past weekend, replacing advertising with naughty movies, were more pranksters than serious hackers. But there are also organized efforts out there to “hack” backlit posters on transit shelters and street furniture in major cities like London. It is no great stretch to …
Registration Opens For 2020 Version Of ISE In Amsterdam October 1, 2019 by Super User Registration has opened now for 2020 edition of Integrated Systems Europe, set for the RAI Amsterdam on Feb. 11-14. For the unfamiliar, this is the biggest pro AV show on the planet in terms of attendance counts and sheer footprint. The event venue has numerous inter-connected halls and digital signage vendors fill a big one, …
