16:9 DSE Mixer Booked; Sponsors Committed; Ticketing Starts After ISE January 9, 2019 by Super User Just signed the paperwork for the 2019 16:9 Mixer at Digital Signage Expo – the long-running unofficial kickoff event for the annual trade show in Las Vegas. It ain’t broke, so I haven’t fixed it. The venue, timing, and format are all the same. We have room, again, for 400, and if past years are …
LED Billboard Barge Cruising NYC’s Waters Predictably Upsetting Residents January 3, 2019 by Super User It should surprise exactly no one that at least some of the good residents of New York are not all that thrilled that a barge with big-ass LED screens on it is working as a floating billboard on the Hudson River. This Gothamist post lays out the public upset and civic position on Ballyhoo Media, …
Digital Signage-Focused Vending Machine Operator Vengo Does $7 Million Raise January 3, 2019 by Super User Via TechCrunch The NYC-area startup Vengo has done a $7 million raise of funds for its unique network of micro-vending machines, topped with interactive digital signage screens. TechCrunch reports that the six-year-old company has raised $7 million in new equity funding, roughly doubling the capital it has raised over the years. The company got attention …
DSE Extends Apex Awards Entries To Jan. 16th January 2, 2019 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo folks have extended the nominations deadline for its annual APEX Awards – which recognize excellence in digital signage creative and execution. To qualify, nominees must have a new or current digital signage or interactive technology program installed between Nov. 1, 2017, and Oct. 31, 2018. Updated content for existing digital signage installations that began …
New Digital OOH Screens On London Tube Seem To Miss Creative Opportunity January 2, 2019 by Super User The media people have to sell it, and the content creatives have to develop it. Which is maybe why the new digital screens in the escalator wells of London’s famed subway system seem to be missing an opportunity. The old display panels were replications of posters that stair-stepped up and down the escalator side walls, …
ISE 16:9 Mixer Tickets Just About Gone January 2, 2019 by Super User Hello 2019! I hope, like me, you took at least a little time off to re-charge, as this year looks busy. My To Do List includes work related to a pair of 16:9 mixers – the first happening in about five weeks (Feb. 6th) in Amsterdam. The ticketing engine lets me know when there are …
16:9’s 2018 Year In Review For Digital Signage, And A Look Ahead December 31, 2018 by Super User Here are the most heavily-read posts on 16:9 in 2018, as well as (later) my observations on the major trends in 2018 for digital signage, and what may be coming in 2019. As you will notice right away, readers like free or cheap, and they definitely like lists and headlines that promise 3 or 5 …
STRATACACHE Owner And CEO Riegel Buys Office Tower In Dayton December 21, 2018 by Super User The dollar goes a bit further in Dayton, Ohio, the head office city of the digital signage solutions company STRATACACHE. The company’s owner and CEO Chris Riegel has purchased a 12-storey office block in the city’s downtown – the Courthouse Plaza building at 10 N. Ludlow Street – for $1.67 million. Riegel confirmed the purchase …
Kim Sarubbi On The Opportunity And Challenge Of Lighting Up Screens In Cannabis Clinics December 19, 2018 by Super User Screens in medical waiting rooms is one of the most well established kinds of digital OOH media, and there’s been no end of companies that developed networks built around advertising-supported content. That’s now happening in the United States with medical cannabis clinics, through a pair of signage industry vets who have applied what they learned …
16:9 Mixer At ISE: Register Now December 14, 2018 by Super User It’s official – there will be 16:9 Mixers at DSE AND at ISE in Amsterdam in 2019. The DSE Vegas details are still being sorted (but same place, format, etc as is past) but the inaugural ISE event is ready to go. It will be Wednesday, Feb. 6th from 4 to 6 pm, at the …
