U.S. OoH Advertising Hits Record $1.98B in Q1 June 5, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger The Out of Home industry in the U.S. has had its best start to a year ever. According to the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), OoH network operators generated $1.98 billion in sales in the first quarter of the year. This follows a strong performance last year, when the industry reported $1.96 …
That’s It For Me Folks … But Not For Sixteen:Nine! May 23, 2025 by Super User This is my last regular post on Sixteen:Nine, more than 11,000 posts and 400+ podcasts after I started doing this thing, on a lark, back in early 2006. It’s time to slow down, so I’m now riding off into the sunset … albeit on a lawn mower. The pic is AI’d. I couldn’t prompt it …
Day 2 DSSE – Lightning Impressions, Inc. Color E-paper And Making Smart Displays Do More May 23, 2025 by Super User Very busy second day at Digital Signage Summit Europe in Munich, and I got into my room at 1:42 AM. It is encouraging that I recall the time, cuz wine and weisse beer. A lot of people at this event, with the numbers amplified by how people can fly in to the city, walk out …
Tech Companies Team Up For OpenAV Cloud Initiative Aimed At Encouraging Interoperability May 21, 2025 by Super User A “coalition” of six fairly hefty AV manufacturers and tech providers have announced something called OpenAV Cloud, an industry initiative its founding members say was put together to make everything from flat panels and media players to microphones more interoperable. The founding members include Sony Electronics, Panasonic, Legrand, Shure, BrightSign, and Xyte. Planar and AUO …
MicroLED Tech Start-up Brings On Ex-Daktronics CEO Kurtenbach As Interim CEO May 20, 2025 by Super User Longtime Daktronics CEO Reece Kurtenbach has resurfaced as the interim CEO of a small US-Irish company that is focused on the technology for mass transferring microLEDs and then driving visuals with micro integrated circuits and what X Display calls a Pixel Engine. Kurtenbach was President, CEO, and Chair of Daktronics from 2013 to 2025, but …
Scala Gets Beyond Just Populating Menu Displays With New Quintet QSR Automation Solution May 20, 2025 by Super User It seems obvious, but I remain surprised how many CMS software companies continue down the path of developing and marketing general solutions, when in most cases they should really be trying to zero in on solution and sector, and go deep with it. If your solution meets every or most needs, it’s probably broad but …
German Pump Systems Company Invests Big In LED Displays Around Corporate Campus May 16, 2025 by Super User If the planets align, I will have stumbled off an overnight flight to Munich this morning (no upgrade, dammit!) as this scheduled post goes up about a very impressive and extensive use of LED display for a corporate campus about six hours drive away in Dortmund. The pump and pump systems company Wilo Group put …
Premier League’s Brighton Switches On UK’s First Transparent LED Glass Balustrade System May 14, 2025 by Super User There is a lot of building-grade glass out there, and as LED technology has improved and matured, it makes sense that glass surfaces will start doubling up as screens. There are not all that many reference cases outside of China, but here’s a high profile one in the UK – at the home grounds of …
Amsterdam’s Giant Schiphol Airport Switches On Programmatic For Its Internally-Run DOOH Media Network May 14, 2025 by Super User Advertising is present in pretty much every airport a traveler might come across, but the ad faces – static or digital – tend to be put in, managed and sold by third-party out of home media companies. But the company that runs Amsterdam’s sprawling airport, as well as two other Dutch airfields, does things differently. …
Sony Drops 8K Display Manufacturing, At Least For Now, Waiting For Market Demand To Emerge May 13, 2025 by Super User I missed this when it slipped out, and just came across a post about Sony quietly dropping its 8K Bravia TV line-up, effectively stopping any marketing of 8K. That pretty much leaves Samsung as the only major display manufacturer touting the super high resolution product. LG sells them but hasn’t launched a new one in …
