DSF Coffee And Controversy Almost Sold Out – Register Now October 23, 2018 by Super User I am told there are limited seats still available for the annual Digital Signage Federation Coffee and Controversy breakfast event – which is a week today in New York, during what has grown into New York Digital Signage Week. The Oct. 30th panel will feature the CEOs of two of the most active and aggressive companies …
SEC Filings Show CRI Raising Money To Fund Allure Acquisition, Pay Down Debt October 23, 2018 by Super User SEC filings by Creative Realities show the solutions provider is buying Allure from Christie Digital out of money it hopes through an offering of common stocks and warrants. I go into rapid eye-blink mode when I read SEC filings (I did not miss my calling as a securities lawyer), so I am quoting this verbatim. …
Spain’s Big Integrator Trison Gets Bigger, Acquiring France’s TMM October 18, 2018 by Super User The big Spanish pro AV integrator TRISON just got bigger, with the closed acquisition of France’s TMM Communication. Based in A Coruña, TRISON has implemented more than 10,000 projects to date globally and has a pile of tier 1 clients like New Balance, Sephora, Ikea, Porsche and so on. The company did 52 million euros in sales last year. …
Free Paper: The Revenue Path For Digital OOH Networks October 17, 2018 by Super User Guest Post: Alan High, ARH Digital Solutions I was deeply saddened by Lyle Bunn’s passing. I was trying to come up with a way to pay tribute to his life and the contributions he made to our industry. Lyle was a friend for many years and I worked with him on some projects. He was …
NYC’s OOH Bus Shelters Taped Off Over Corrosion Worries October 16, 2018 by Super User Out of home media giant JCDecaux is having a rough week in New York, with many of its transit shelters (which exist as ad positions) all wrapped up in yellow police caution tape. The media company has shut down something like 1,400 shelters around the NYC boroughs as a cautionary move, concerned about corrosion in …
Etisalat’s GITEX Booth Went Crazy This Week With Digital October 15, 2018 by Super User I go to a lot of trade shows, of all sizes, but I have never seen anything like what the UAE-based telecoms company Etisalat has up this week at the huge GITEX trade show in Dubai. Think CES, but in a desert city on the other side of the planet from Las Vegas. Like CES, …
For This Video Wall, The Dreaded Blue Screen Really Is A Feature October 15, 2018 by Super User This would have to be the first time I have seen the dreaded Windows Blue Screen Of Death used as a an artistic element … During the recent Paris Fashion Week, the Balenciaga fashion’s show featured a runway that was fully surrounded by LED panels, including curved ones for overhead. Based on the video, the …
Why Digital OOH Will Eventually Require Real-Time Performance Metrics October 12, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Rodolfo Saccoman, AdMobilize I love AdWeek in NYC; it always exudes elevated levels of “thinking collisions per capita” in the advertising industry. Obviously, I am not siloed on being bullish about the growth projections of outdoor advertising and digital signage. Research suggests a global OOH ad spend of $38B for 2018, with 38 …
DSF Toronto’s First Breakfast Event Built Around Cannabis Legalization October 11, 2018 by Super User The Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation has firmed up plans for its first DSF Toronto Breakfast Session, on Nov. 14. They’ll be talking about cannabis – just weeks after Toronto and thew rest of Canada goes legal. Here’s the synopsis of the planned session: Designing in Prohibition :: My life as a Design …
LED Billboard Barge Starts Cruising Up And Down Manhattan’s Surrounding Waterways October 9, 2018 by Super User New York’s Times Square is a 110% assault on your senses, and a massive tourist attraction, so a barge working the Hudson and East Rivers with an LED billboard on it will probably generate not much more than eye-rolls and shrugs from seasoned residents. This past weekend saw what I think was the maiden voyages …
