Korbyt Joins Growing List Of CMS Solutions Supporting Amazon’s $100 Signage Stick April 30, 2025 by Super User Amazon has signed on another CMS software firm that has developed support for the $100 Amazon Signage HDMI stick, with Dallas, TX-based Korbyt bringing the total to 22 companies. While some of the early adopters were small companies that might raise questions like “Sorry, who???”, the online retailing giant has also signed up some pretty …
Tariffs Mean No End Of Uncertainty These Days For LED Display Companies April 29, 2025 by Super User I’ve spoken to or corresponded with numerous display manufacturers in recent days to get a sense of how they are trying to navigate the pinballing tariffs situation, and the words that best describe their viewpoints are perplexed, nervous and hopeful – the latter related to a sense that this will all calm down, maybe even …
This Big LED Billboard Goes Where Its Needed – Towed By Chopper April 28, 2025 by Super User Hat top Nick Coston, who had this on his Substack page … This hits me as slightly nuts, but a new digital OOH media play is using a helicopter to lift and tow around, by wire, a big, rigid two-sided LED display that is readily visible to people on the ground. This is a little …
In Dubai, A 500-Meter LED Wall Takes Place Of Construction Hoardings And Some “Pardon Our Dust!” Signs April 25, 2025 by Super User Things are done differently in budget-indifferent places like Dubai. So it is interesting, but not all that surprising, that the communications solution to turning off the Las Vegas Bellagio-style fountains that front the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa is not plywood hoardings and a Pardon Our Dust sign, but a 500 meter long LED screen …
Industry Golf Tourney Set For Just Ahead Of InfoComm April 24, 2025 by Super User If you are going to InfoComm in June, and play golf, an increasingly formalized outing is back on for people in the digital signage ecosystem. Industry veteran Kevin Cosbey is again organizing a golf day just head of a big trade show or industry event – with the 2nd Annual Velasea + Snap Install, Inc. …
Sad News: Cardiac Arrest Takes PPDS Exec Martijn van der Woude April 24, 2025 by Super User More sad news about someone in our industry: Martijn van der Woude, VP Global Business Development and Marketing of PPDS, passed away Monday due to a cardiac arrest. PPDS, aka Philips, says in a statement that van der Woude was: A colleague, a dear friend, and a true business leader, Martijn has been an intrinsic, …
E Ink’s Premium, Richer-Color Spectra 6 Displays Coming By End Of Year As 75-Inch Poster Replacements April 22, 2025 by Super User E-paper manufacturer E Ink has now formally announced a large form-factor version of its premium color digital poster product – a 75-inch Spectra 6 display module that will be available as test samples to its third-party partners before the end of 2025. The Taiwan-based manufacturer had started showing, through partners like DynaScan, a 75-inch Kaleido …
Fuel Retailer DOOH Network GSTV Has New Private Equity Owners April 21, 2025 by Super User Fuel retailer-focused DOOH network GSTV has changed owners, with MidOcean Partners picking up control from another PE firm, Rockbridge Growth Equity, which will hag on to a minority stake in the Detroit company. GSTV is one of the larger DOOH networks out there, with screens at pumps at some 29,000 fuel retailers in the U.S. …
SID Making Its Annual Display Nerd Fest More Visit-Friendly For Less Technical Attendees April 21, 2025 by Super User The Society For Information Display’s annual DisplayWeek conference and exhibit hall is really good event for anyone interested in seeing what’s in the works for pro display in three to five years, or longer, but it can be a bit bewildering for people who don’t have degrees in electrical engineering. The display nerd fest – …
That Canadian QSR’s Menu Displays Were Compromised, Taken Over, Using Phishing April 17, 2025 by Super User I’ve not seen anything formally from the operator or its suppliers about that system-wide hack last week of digital menu displays at a Canadian QSR chain, but Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner invidis got some in-bound clarity about what happened. About this time last week the order counter and drive-thru displays at Mary Brown’s Chicken …
