Ian Dallimore On Growing Digital Inside Lamar Advertising June 12, 2019 by Super User In the out of home space, Lamar Advertising is huge. The Baton Rouge-based media company is in 160 metro areas in the US, and has more than 3,300 roadside digital billboards. The company is steadily adding more digital, notably in environments like airports. Lamar just lit up an impressive and expensive network inside the baggage …
Orlando-Bound: InfoComm 2019’s Halls Opens Wednesday, And 16:9 Is There June 10, 2019 by Super User It is InfoComm week, and this year the show is in Orlando once again, as it is every second year. The weather forecast says high 80s, high humidity and thunderstorms – so if you venture outdoors you are going to be soaked either by perspiration or passing storms. Always fun! I am heading down first …
DSF Toronto’s Breakfast Event Pulls Some 60 Attendees For Digital In Dining June 6, 2019 by Super User The Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation had its second breakfast event this morning, focused on Digital In Dining. Here’s the word from organizer and fellow DSF board member Kelly Smith: We had a fantastic attendance (more than 60 people in the room), and the feedback I received afterwards was overwhelmingly positive. The topic, …
Mall Campaign Uses Video, Mobile Analytics To Optimize Messages, Boost Foot Traffic To Stores June 5, 2019 by Super User This is an effective video from Cineplex Digital Media that shows how using video and mobile analytics, as well as machine learning tech, helped increase foot traffic into the outlets of a couple of beauty brands operating at Toronto’s big, busy and ritzy Yorkdale mall. The video explains it all, but briefly, a two-week test …
Broadsign CEO Burr Smith Provides Thinking And Back-Story Behind Recent M&A Moves June 5, 2019 by Super User I’m kinda breaking my own podcast rule here by interviewing someone for a second time, but Burr Smith has been a busy guy lately – buying companies and fighting patent trolls. I spoke with the CEO and owner of Broadsign a couple of years ago, but it was more than time for an update chat …
SEGD Toronto Plans June 27th Micro-Conference About Digital Design June 4, 2019 by Super User The Toronto chapter of theSociety for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) is running a micro-conference in that city on June 27th – talking about digital applications in physical spaces. The speakers: Alexandre Simionescu Principal at Float4, Montreal Bryan Meszaros CEO & Founder of Open Eye Global / SEGD President, New York Laurence Roberts Principal / Creative Director / Head …
First Look: Giant New LED Board At One Times Square In NYC May 31, 2019 by Super User Here’s a shot of the just completed, and by the way massive, LED board at One Times Square – the NYC building that is home on its top to the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop. The sections way up high are 16mm Prismview (Samsung) LED cabinets while the lower and largest face is 8mm. …
How Five Big Business Trends Apply To Digital Signage May 31, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Derek DeWitt, Visix Back in December, Senior Business Consultant for Microsoft and co-founder of Techincon, Rashan Dixon, wrote an article for Entrepreneur listing five business trends he thought would continue to rise in 2019. Coming up on the midpoint of the year, we can see that his predictions were pretty spot on. In this article, we look …
Digital OOH Start-Up That Puts Screens On Uber Cars Adds $30M Series A Raise May 30, 2019 by Super User A San Francisco start-up called Firefly that puts digital OOH media screens on the tops of rideshare cars has announced a $30 million series A funding round, which is on top of a $21 million round late last year. Firefly offers a supplemental revenue stream to rideshare drivers in return for affixing a hyper-local, geo-fenced digital sign …
Skykit’s Parent Company Announces $6.5M Raise To Speed Growth May 30, 2019 by Super User The company behind the Google Chrome OS-centric digital signage solution Skykit has announced a $6.5 million funding round intended to drive what it calls an aggressive growth plan. Minneapolis-based Agosto Holdings, which describes itself as a cloud services and development company, secured funds from Bridge Bank and SG Credit Partners. Agosto’s core business is selling and supporting Google Cloud products for …
